BEIJING — The message is the same to China‘s civil servants, party members, employees of state-owned enterprises: show more restraint. With Chinese national debt continuing to rise, the government ...

ROME — It would be a mistake to downplay the progress Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has made on the Palestinian question. The proposed motion to recognize the State of Palestine, albeit tied ...

Until now, Israelis had assumed that they were living under a protective barrier, but are now entering an era similar to the age of fear in the U.S. following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. It’s a given ...

Nine years after her husband’s death, Suha Arafat regrets her marriage to the former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. They married in a secret wedding in Tunisia in 1990 when Suha was 27.

If you’ve been to the UK in recent years, chances are you might have stumbled across a church that had been turned into a pub or a home, and thought to yourself “Oh, how quaint!” And indeed, across ...

In Zurich, Addicts can use drugs they have brought with them in the pressure room under controlled conditions. Boris Roessler/DPA/ZUMA ZURICH — What makes this room remarkable is not what’s present ...

LAS VEGAS — Horse riding is all fine and well, but rodeos are definitely something else. Of course, seen from France, the cowboy is a very exotic character — a rugged stereotype smelling of beast and ...

ZURICH – In the small Pakistani community of Bhati Dilwan, a former village councilor says children are being sickened by filthy water. Who’s to blame? He says it’s bottled water-maker Nestlé, which ...

A Colombian student of Franz Kafka insists works by the 20th century Czech author, like The Trial, are so close to Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment as to be versions of it — creating potential ...

Public support for a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine is growing in Russia, with new polling showing record levels of backing for diplomacy. But the majority still insists on conditions that ...

A view of a gazebo in the town of Berdyansk, Russia on Sept. 1st, 2025 Credit: Alexander Polegenko/TASS/ZUMA Not much news about daily life in the occupied city of Berdyansk has trickled out. Since ...

BERLIN — Even if things are looking up with the return of Donald Trump to the White House, Vladimir Putin actually finds himself in a tough spot. Russian soldiers are making slow but steady gains on ...