2024

A standoff over control of the bank had destabilized the country’s economy and raised the prospect of fresh fighting between Libya’s eastern and western factions.

World leaders are urging a pause in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel’s prime minister, who will speak Friday at the U.N. General Assembly, has given mixed signals.

Shigeru Ishiba, a former defense minister known for his plainspoken opinions, will replace Fumio Kishida next week.

The gathering in New York is part of a nearly weeklong U.S. visit by the Ukrainian president in which he has made appeals to both Democrats and Republicans.

The Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah bastion in eastern Lebanon, had mostly been spared over 11 months of war. But The New York Times saw widespread devastation there after intense Israeli airstrikes this week.

Park Chae-so was so successful in infiltrating the North that Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic ruler, once gifted him blueberry wine. So why was the celebrated undercover agent later jailed by South Korea?

The Israeli leader was heading to New York for talks. He did not comment on the proposal to pause fighting with Hezbollah, but instructed Israeli forces to battle the Lebanese militia “with full force.”

Iwao Hakamada is believed to be the world’s longest-serving inmate given a death sentence.

Israel said the goal of its strikes on Hezbollah was to allow residents of the north to go home. Some are hopeful that plan will work, but others worry that war may not bring safety.

Russian forces are pressing against an arc of strongholds in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, in a fight as intense as any in the war.