February 19, 2024World As a Son Risks His Life to Topple the King, His Father Guards the Throne A student’s vow to overthrow one of Africa’s last ruling monarchs faces a roadblock: his own father, a soldier sworn to protect […] Read more
February 19, 2024World Middle East Crisis: U.N. Court Hears Arguments on Israeli Occupation Six days of hearings are expected to address Israel’s actions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel does not recognize the […] Read more
February 19, 2024World A Stunned Russian Opposition in Exile Considers a Future Without Navalny The death of Aleksei A. Navalny in a Russian prison has been a blow to an opposition movement in which he was […] Read more
February 19, 2024World Russian Arrests of Navalny Mourners Lead to Fears of Big Crackdown At least 366 people were detained over the weekend, leading to concern that the arrests could signal greater government repression ahead of […] Read more
February 19, 2024World Hungary Snubs U.S. Senators Pushing for Sweden’s Entry Into NATO Officials in Budapest declined to meet with a bipartisan group of American lawmakers who favor expanding the military alliance.Officials in Budapest declined […] Read more
February 19, 2024World Thaksin Shinawatra, Former Thai Prime Minister, Freed on Parole Thaksin Shinawatra, a divisive and compelling figure even in his years of exile, was once hailed as a champion of the common […] Read more
February 19, 2024World Tel Aviv Protesters Show Anger Toward Netanyahu and Israel’s Government The demonstrations took a pause after the Oct. 7 attacks, but the anger at the Israeli leadership never went away.The demonstrations took […] Read more
February 19, 2024World Hundreds of Navalny Mourners Detained Across Russia At least 400 people have been detained across Russia since Aleksei Navalny’s death, a rights group reported. Those who came to lay […] Read more
February 19, 2024World With Prison Certain and Death Likely, Why Did Navalny Return? An activist who thrived on agitation, he feared irrelevancy in exile. Winning new respect as he continued to lambast the Kremlin from […] Read more
February 19, 2024World ‘Dictators Do Not Go on Vacation,’ Zelensky Warns Washington and Europe President Volodymyr Zelensky pushed back against skepticism of a Ukraine victory, calling on world leaders not to ask when the war would […] Read more