Four instructors from Cornell College in Iowa were attacked during a teaching trip in China, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry. The American educators, who were teaching at Beihua University in the northeastern city of Jilin, were attacked in a park, the ministry said. The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for […]

When the four Israelis woke up in Gaza on Saturday, they had been held hostage by Hamas for 245 days. The buildings in which they were being kept, two low-rise, concrete apartment blocks, looked much like the other nearby residences in a civilian neighborhood full of Palestinian families. Within a few hours, the captives, three

The U.N. adopted a U.S.-backed cease-fire resolution The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution, brought by the U.S., to call for an immediate truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The move was a sign of the growing frustration with the war among the world’s major powers and their desire to end it. Fourteen of

The first thing Syed Ashraf did when he awoke at 5:45 a.m. last Tuesday in his Ashburn, Va. home was look up the Indian election results. His tension eased and he felt a glimmer of hope as he scrolled the results that trickled out from the subcontinent, he said. After a 47-day election, Prime Minister

A search is underway in Malawi after a plane carrying the country’s vice president and nine others went missing Monday morning amid tumultuous weather. Soldiers have begun combing through a mountainous region in the East African country’s north, Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera said during a televised address Monday, after a Malawi Defense Force aircraft carrying

Four college instructors from Cornell College in Iowa who were teaching in China as part of a partnership with a local university were attacked in a public park in a “serious incident,” college officials said Monday. Jonathan Brand, the president of the private liberal arts college in Mount Vernon, Iowa, said in a statement that

The United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a U.S.-backed cease-fire plan for the Gaza Strip with only Russia abstaining, a sign of the growing frustration among the world’s major powers over the war and the desire to bring it to an end. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told members of

The Biden administration will allow a Ukrainian military unit with a checkered past to use U.S. weaponry, the State Department said Monday, having lifted a ban imposed years ago amid concerns in Washington about the group’s origins. The Azov Brigade, known for its tenacious but ultimately unsuccessful defense of the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol