Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save A ranking of the world’s most powerful passports released this week shows that the global mobility gap is “wider than ever,” Henley & Partners, the firm behind the list, said in a news release. Passports from the countries topping the list, largely wealthy nations in

U.S. and British forces, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands, struck “a number of targets in Yemen used by Houthi rebels to endanger freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most vital waterways,” President Biden said late Thursday. A Houthi official, Hussein El-Ezzi, said Washington and London would face “dire consequences,”

What’s at stake in Taiwan’s election Voters in Taiwan will elect a new president and legislature tomorrow, a much-watched process that could affect the island’s relations with China and the U.S. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has demanded unification, which the island democracy has rejected. The tensions over Taiwan are one

Nearly four decades ago, a group of lawyers, intellectuals and activists assembled in a hotel ballroom in Taipei to found an illegal political party dedicated to ending authoritarian rule in Taiwan. No longer a scrappy upstart, the Democratic Progressive Party, born in that ballroom, is now seeking an unprecedented third consecutive term. It needs to