The U.N. Security Council will reconvene after a vote on a war-related resolution was delayed three times because of opposition from the United States.
About one-third of world’s diamonds come from Russia, earning the Kremlin at least a billion dollars a year as it wages war in Ukraine.
South Korean students spend years and thousands of dollars preparing for the once-a-year, cutthroat Suneung college entrance exams.
Donald Trump said undocumented migrants were “poisoning the blood” of the United States. In Europe, too, fears over migration are boosting right-wing parties.
The 59-year-old Malaysian citizen escaped U.S. custody last year days before he was to be sentenced in the biggest military corruption scandal in the nation’s history.
Ms. Sweeney’s weather data from western Ireland offered the first clues of a major storm, leading to a one-day delay in the D-Day invasion in 1944.
Leonard Francis, who admitted guilt in the largest corruption scandal in U.S. military history, is to be extradited to the United States in a major prisoner swap.
Hamas’s political leader is in Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials, raising hopes of negotiations to halt fighting in Gaza and allow the release of more hostages.
About 300 Americans and their family members are still trapped in Gaza as Israel deepens its invasion after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.
Negotiations continued over a resolution to quell the fighting and help provide humanitarian aid with language acceptable to the United States.