COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — President Biden will join world leaders in Normandy on Thursday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a somber setting where he plans to draw a link between the historic fight to defeat the Nazis and the modern-day battles against authoritarianism. While Biden’s speech Thursday will be directed at a global audience

With starvation gripping Gaza, U.S.-led negotiations to reopen the vital Rafah border crossing for aid deliveries face significant obstacles, including the question of who would control the Palestinian side of the border, officials briefed on the discussions said. The crossing was closed by Israel after it launched a military offensive in southern Gaza early last

Electricity providers in Santiago, Chile’s capital, raced to restore service early Thursday after an outage left hundreds of thousands of customers without power, officials said. Around midnight, a tree fell on a high-voltage transmission tower owned by a private company, Chile’s National Disaster Prevention and Response Service said in a statement. Enel Distribución, the country’s

In India, a powerful leader wins another term but sees his party’s majority vanish. In South Africa, the governing party is humbled by voters for the first time since the end of apartheid. In Britain, a populist insurgent barges into an election that is shaping up to be a crushing defeat for the long-ruling Conservatives.