Category : World
India, Pakistan Agree to Cease-Fire Along Their Disputed Border
ISLAMABAD—Pakistan and India agreed to a cease-fire along their disputed border, long regarded as one of the most dangerous frontiers in the world. The two...
Biden Revokes Trump’s Pause on Green Cards
WASHINGTON — President Biden reopened the country on Wednesday to people seeking green cards, ending a ban on legal immigration that President Donald J. Trump...
Three Found Guilty in Helping Carlos Ghosn Escape to Turkey
Three Turkish nationals were found guilty Wednesday of smuggling Carlos Ghosn into Turkey after he fled Japan inside a musical-equipment box, becoming the first people...
‘Climate Change’ Is Back, ‘Illegal Alien’ Is Out. New Administration Changes the Language of Government.
Now, the Biden administration is explicitly reversing that position. On Feb. 12, officials at Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that handles citizenship, said employees...
Liz Cheney says G.O.P. must ‘make clear that we aren’t the party of white supremacy.’
Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 House Republican, on Tuesday called on her party to “make clear that we aren’t the party of...
Covid-19 Vaccine Success Won’t Eliminate Virus Risk, U.K. Concludes
LONDON—By the middle of this year, all adults in Britain are due to be offered a Covid-19 vaccine in what is on course to be...
Biden Marks Covid Milestone in Emotional White House Ceremony
Andy Slavitt, a senior adviser to Mr. Biden, opened Monday’s Covid-19 briefing with a reminder that the country was about to reach “a grim milestone.”...
U.K. Vaccine Rollout Data Show Substantial Drop in Infections
LONDON—The U.K.’s rapid vaccine rollout contributed to a substantial drop in infections, hospitalizations and deaths from Covid-19, according to data that add to a growing...
Did Washington Just Have an Actual Weekend?
WASHINGTON — President Biden did not do anything this weekend. Well, let’s rephrase: President Biden did not do anything alarming this weekend. There were exactly...
Tough Sanctions, Then a Mysterious Last-Minute Turnabout
WASHINGTON — In early December, an Israeli billionaire named Dan Gertler made an unusual request to the Treasury Department. A mining magnate who had been...