Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marked 100 days of the war by vowing that “nobody will stop” Israel’s forces until their “total victory,” while dismissing the case it faces at the International Court of Justice over allegations of genocide. Two U.N. officials said the flow of commercial goods into Gaza must be resumed because aid

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save After ordering his troops to invade Ukraine in February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a solemn promise that young men performing compulsory military duty would not be sent to fight. But the experiences of two young men from opposite ends of western Russia reveal

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save COPENHAGEN — Denmark will be reinventing tradition on Sunday when 83-year-old Queen Margrethe II, Europe’s longest-serving monarch, gives up the throne, and her 55-year-old son becomes King Frederik X. Margrethe is the first Danish monarch to abdicate since Erik III in 1146. So this weekend’s

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s former prime minister, has married her longtime partner, Clarke Gayford, after their original wedding plans in 2022 were scuttled by an outbreak of the omicron coronavirus variant. Ardern, 43, and Gayford, 47 — the host of a

It is famed for a love of singing and a passion for rugby. It has a distinctive Celtic language and is the birthplace of the poet Dylan Thomas. But few would claim that Wales, a nation of three million people outnumbered by sheep, is well known for whiskey, or whisky, as it is known in