NEW YORK, July 30 — A federal jury yesterday convicted novelist Salman Rushdie’s assailant of “engaging in an act of terrorism” for the bloody August 2022 attack at a New […]

WASHINGTON, July 30 — The former top US infectious disease official yesterday faced adversarial questioning from Republican senators about the origins of Covid-19, and on the advice of lawyers invoked

ATHENS, July 30 — Three firefighters died battling forest blazes in Greece yesterday as several other fires broke out around the country, fed by gale-force winds. The fire department said

WELLINGTON, July 30 — New Zealand’s top diplomat Winston Peters drew the ire of Beijing’s ambassador in Wellington today after telling a lawmaker of Chinese descent to “go back to

WASHINGTON, July 30 — The United States military launched “powerful” retaliatory strikes on Iran yesterday, marking the first attacks on Iranian soil in nearly a week. “The strikes are a

PARIS, July 30 — A specially modified Airbus A350 plane touched down in France Tuesday after a record 24-hour test flight from Australia, ahead of it joining Qantas’s fleet next

WASHINGTON, July 30 — As the most powerful Cuban American inside the United States government, Secretary of State Marco Rubio views the future of the communist island as a deeply

LONDON, July 30 — In a small square in central London, Kevin was hawking copies of the Big Issue, a charitable magazine sold by homeless street vendors. “It keeps me

BENGALURU, July 29 — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s carefully built image of invincibility is facing its toughest test yet, analysts say, after his government backed down in the face

NAVAS DEL REY, July 29 — Returning to her home at the heart of the wildfires near Madrid, Maria Paz Bolanos’s voice trembled as she declared it undamaged, by some