A surprise announcement that revealed Haiti’s new prime minister is threatening to fracture a recently installed transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for the gang-riddled Caribbean country. Four of seven council members with voting powers said Tuesday that they had chosen
Iran has sentenced a former senior defense official to death after convicting him on charges of spying for Britain, state-linked media reported on Wednesday. The judiciary said Ali Reza Akbari, who was deputy defense minister until 2001, was a “key spy” for
KYIV, Ukraine — As the war grinds into its 11th month, the Ukrainian government argues it’s lost too much to meet somewhere in the middle. “It must end with the defeat of the Russian Federation,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Russian President Vladimir Putin demoted the commander leading his troops in Ukraine to a deputy role after serving in the top job for only three months, Russia’s defense ministry said Wednesday. Gen. Valery Gerasimov will take over for Sergei Surovikin after the former
A court convicted the president of the Turkish Medical Association on Wednesday of disseminating “terror organization propaganda” following a trial that human rights groups had denounced as an attempt to silence government critics. The court in Istanbul sentenced Dr. Sebnem Korur Fincanci
Canadian police on Tuesday named the 59-year-old homeless man killed in what authorities deemed a “swarming” attack allegedly carried out by eight teenage girls on a Toronto street last month. Toronto Police Service identified the victim as Ken Lee, 59, of Toronto.
Zimbabwe has brought in a law that bans health workers such as nurses and doctors from prolonged strikes, imposing punishments of up to six months in jail for defiant workers or union leaders, state-run media and a government spokesman said Wednesday. The
An Israeli lawmaker is planning to introduce legislation to annex the Jordan Valley, an eastern strip of the West Bank that is home to roughly 30 Jewish settlements. Knesset Member Amb. Danny Danon is looking to propose the bill, which would make
The Church of England has set aside £100 million in a fund intended “to address past wrongs” related to the institution’s historic links with the transatlantic slave trade. The church said the money, which is not being called “reparations” because it will
A 17-year-old suspected of killing one of his teachers at a vocational school in Germany is said to have had “problems at school” and been suspended for the day hours before the stabbing took place, authorities said Wednesday. Officials say the boy
Brazil’s 11-day old administration braced on Wednesday under the renewed threat of mass protests by supporters of the far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro after they raided the nation’s capital just three days ago. The Sunday attacks were not only an eerie copy