Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save After a reform-minded professor won the presidency of Guatemala — one of the Western Hemisphere’s most notoriously corrupt countries — governments around the world watched the fallout with alarm. Guatemalan authorities seized ballot boxes on dubious claims of fraud. They tried to dissolve the party […]

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save NAIROBI — The crew of a crashed United Nations helicopter in Somalia waited to be rescued for an hour before being kidnapped, two security officials in Mogadishu said, raising the question whether a faster response could have prevented their seizure. The U.N. helicopter was on

Many in the Middle East, including some U.S. allies, condemned the American-led airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen on Friday and warned that they risked causing a broader conflict in the region. The strikes came after a series of Houthi attacks against ships in the Red Sea. The Houthis have said they are targeting Israeli

The trailer for “Annapoorani: The Goddess of Food” promised a sunny if melodramatic story of uplift in a south Indian temple town. A priest’s daughter enters a cooking tournament, but social obstacles complicate her inevitable rise to the top. Annapoorani’s father, a Brahmin sitting at the top of Hindu society’s caste ladder, doesn’t want her

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save KYIV — On a visit to Kyiv, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced Friday that the United Kingdom would provide Ukraine with more than $3 billion in additional military aid and he signed documents establishing bilateral security guarantees between London and Kyiv. The bilateral agreement,

Since mid-November, the Houthis, a Yemeni rebel group backed by Iran, have launched dozens of attacks on ships sailing through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, a crucial shipping route through which 12 percent of world trade passes. The United States and a handful of allies, including Britain, struck back, carrying out missile strikes