International

NATO is finished if US moves on Greenland - opinion

Under Trump, America is actively dismantling the global order it erected in the wake of World War II.

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, January 14, 2026.
 UNITED NATIONS headquarters in New York City.

Israel to 'immediately sever ties' with three UN agencies, international organizations, Sa'ar says

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro aboard the USS Iwo Jima after his capture by US forces. January 3, 2026.

Trump’s Venezuela gamble fits his legacy of peace through strength - opinion

 Maersk container is transported by a train near a port of Barcelona, Spain April 26, 2024.

Maersk navigates Red Sea route again as Gaza ceasefire holds


IsraAID tackles humanitarian challenges of Ukrainian dam burst

With settlements facing flood evacuations, IsraAID has faced other major issues, such as contamination and a limited supply of food available.

 Local residents take drinking water, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, in Kherson, Ukraine June 10, 2023.

One man dead after tour boat capsizes in New York cave

The Lockport Cave boat ride is only a small part of the tour of the Erie Canal.

 The Erie Canal in New York's northern region.

North Korean youth group donates rocket launchers to military

It is unclear how the group secured funding for the donation.

 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un poses for a group photo with representatives of the Korean Children's Union (KCU) under North Korea's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea

In a man's world, a woman prevailed: Golda Meir, Israel's 'Iron Lady' - opinion

Despite socialist Zionism’s professed commitment to gender equality, she was nevertheless a woman in a male-dominated political world.

 THEN-US president Richard Nixon and first lady Pat Nixon host then-prime minister Golda Meir at the White House in 1969

Bitter enemies Azerbaijan, Armenia in nascent talks for a peace deal

Unfreezing diplomatic relations could end decades of conflict, but will likely involve the interests of several regional players

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and members of the delegation attend a meeting to defuse tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Moscow, Russia, May 19, 2023.

Deepfaking it: America's 2024 election collides with AI boom

Political consultancies are also seeking to harness AI, further muddying the line between real and unreal.

 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during the Florida Family Policy Council Annual Dinner Gala, in Orlando, Florida, U.S., May 20, 2023.

Japan court rules that a bar on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional

This was the second lower court to find a same-sex marriage as unconstitutional.

 People including plaintiffs' lawyers hold banners and flags, after the lower court ruled that not allowing same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, outside Nagoya district court, in Nagoya, central Japan, May 30, 2023

Peru police seize cocaine marked with Nazi swastikas headed for Belgium

Last year alone, Peruvian authorities seized more than 86 tonnes of drugs and illicit substances, including 28 tonnes of cocaine.

 DRUGS CONFISCATED during Magen Hanegev.

Ukraine says Russia plans to simulate accident at nuclear power plant

The defense ministry's intelligence directorate said Russian forces would soon shell the plant and then announce a radiation leak.

A serviceman with a Russian flag on his uniform stands guard near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict outside the Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 4, 2022.

Russia seeks to extend US reporter's detention by three months, US demands release

Gershkovich is the first US journalist detained in Russia on espionage charges since the end of the Cold War.

 Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was detained in March while on a reporting trip and charged with espionage, stands behind a glass wall of an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing to consider an appeal against his detention, in Moscow, Russia April 18, 2023