President Biden and President Joko Widodo of Indonesia will announce on Monday a new strategic partnership, though their differences over the war in Gaza are likely to shape the Indonesian leader’s visit to Washington. Mr. Joko, whose country is home to the largest Muslim population in the world, arrives in Washington after attending a summit…
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle of his cabinet on Monday appeared to signal a shift away from the divisive politics that were championed by the hard-right home secretary, Suella Braverman, and had become a feature of his government in recent months. Ms. Braverman was replaced by James Cleverly, a more conciliatory figure who has rarely…
When President Xi Jinping of China made his first state visit to the United States in 2015, he wrapped his demands for respect in reassurances. He courted tech executives, while defending China’s internet controls. He denied that China was militarizing the disputed South China Sea, while asserting its maritime claims there. He spoke hopefully of…
The United States conducted airstrikes against two facilities used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and its proxies in eastern Syria late Sunday, Pentagon officials said, in the latest retaliation for what has become a daily barrage of rocket and drone attacks against American forces in Iraq and Syria. Air Force F-15E fighter jets struck…
Five U.S. Army Special Operations forces have died in a helicopter crash in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, American officials said on Sunday. The troops were crew members of an MH-60 helicopter that was on a refueling training mission early Saturday when the aircraft crashed off the coast of Cyprus, three U.S. officials said, speaking on…
They overcame the trauma of war, language barriers and prejudice to become successful shrimpers. But the decline of the industry in America is forcing them to consider other options. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. Palacios, Texas, is a small town with a rich history of Vietnamese…
Just off Australia’s largest container port lies a sickle-shaped neighborhood with a scent so distinctive that passing taxi drivers will sometimes roll down their windows for a whiff of the rich and unmistakably beery aroma. That smell, officially recognized by the City of Melbourne last year for its “intangible cultural heritage,” emanates from a nondescript,…
On May 31, Florencia Romeo slept in a tent outside Argentina’s largest stadium with her girlfriend and her sister. They had heard rumors that Taylor Swift might be coming to Buenos Aires, and they wanted to be first in line. The rumors were right: Ms. Swift was coming, but it would take a while. Her…
Emma Hayes first met Megan Rapinoe before she was Megan Rapinoe. Or, rather, just as she was becoming Megan Rapinoe. She was not yet a winner of two World Cups, not yet an Olympic champion, not yet captain of her country, not yet a powerful and urgent voice away from the field. Rapinoe was not…
The Gaza Strip has all the harrowing pitfalls soldiers have learned to expect from urban warfare: high-rise ambushes, truncated lines of sight and, everywhere, vulnerable civilians with nowhere to hide. But as Israeli ground forces inch their way forward in Gaza, the bigger danger may prove to be underfoot. The Hamas militants who launched a…