The imprisoned leader of a Kurdish guerrilla movement that has waged a bloody insurgency against the Turkish state called Thursday for his group to lay down its arms and dissolve, a pivotal declaration that could echo in neighboring countries and help end 40 years of deadly conflict. Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ … Read more
Thousands Join Athens Protest as National Strike Halts Country
A court in Vietnam sentenced one of the country’s most influential journalists to two and a half years in prison Thursday for “abusing democratic freedoms” with about a dozen posts on Facebook that criticized or questioned the government. The journalist, Truong Huy San — known to many by his pen name, Huy Duc — was … Read more
As the first phase of the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas winds down this weekend, the future of the truce remains murky. What happens in a key strip of land along the border between Egypt and Gaza in the coming week could provide an indication of how things will move forward. Israel is supposed to … Read more
The mother of a jailed British Egyptian activist has been hospitalized and is at risk of sudden death, a doctor has said, as her hunger strike to demand her son’s release reached 151 days. Laila Soueif, the mother of Alaa Abd El Fattah, one of Egypt’s best-known political prisoners, has survived since late September on … Read more
For more than four decades, Turkey has been fighting an armed insurgency by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., a militant group that says it seeks greater rights for the country’s Kurdish minority. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict, in both P.K.K. attacks on military and civilian targets, and Turkish military … Read more
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia lauded the Trump administration on Thursday for its efforts to mend ties with the Kremlin. Speaking in Moscow at the annual meeting of Russia’s intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service, Mr. Putin praised the new U.S. administration for “pragmatism, a realistic worldview” and “discarding many stereotypes, so-called ‘rules’ and … Read more
King Charles III was not in the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon. But his regal presence loomed over the meeting between President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer, which felt at times less like a big-power showdown over Ukraine than a courtesy call between two Renaissance royal courts. From the moment Mr. Starmer pulled an … Read more
Canada isn’t known for making a fuss, with niceness essentially part of its national brand. Not anymore. Canadians are angry, and they’re showing it. Threats by President Trump to impose 25 percent tariffs on Canadian exports and to annex the country have set off cascades of fury. “Do you know how angry you have to … Read more
The scandal began with a tweet. “The world wants to invest in Argentina,” Javier Milei, Argentina’s president, posted at 7:01 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, offering a code to buy a new cryptocurrency. The digital coin was called $Libra, and it had been created 23 minutes earlier. Over the next few hours, thousands of people invested. … Read more