The economic scars of China’s real estate crash are evident at the country’s many street markets for construction materials. Proprietors of once-bustling shops that sell everything from lighting fixtures and doors to toilet bowls are aching for customers. At the same time, China’s exports have climbed sharply. Companies are shipping cars, smartphones and many other […]

Disputes delayed an Israeli vote on the cease-fire Israel’s cabinet said yesterday that it was unlikely to meet to ratify a cease-fire agreement that had raised hopes for an end to 15 months of devastating war in Gaza. At the time this briefing was sent, they were not expected to meet until at least today. […]

The star Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was stabbed multiple times in his house in an affluent neighborhood in Mumbai on Thursday, Indian police officials said. Mr. Khan, a prolific actor from a family of prominent celebrities, was injured in the pre-dawn hours in the neighborhood of Bandra by an intruder who managed to flee, […]

Before Marie Kondo captured the world’s attention with her exhortations to rid ourselves of items that did not “spark joy,” there was another Japanese guru of decluttering. Her name is Hideko Yamashita. And while Ms. Yamashita, 70, has never reached Ms. Kondo’s level of Netflix-induced fame, she is widely credited in Japan with spearheading the […]

Hamas and Israel reached a cease-fire agreement Negotiators from Israel and Hamas agreed yesterday to a 42-day cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza, President Biden and other officials announced. The deal would take effect on Sunday, the Qatari prime minister said. Officials in Israel and Qatar said both sides were still hammering out the final […]

A Thai court issued an arrest warrant for an adviser to the Cambodian strongman Hun Sen on Wednesday, charging him with hiring others to commit “premeditated murder” in the brazen killing of a former Cambodian opposition politician in Bangkok last week. The warrant was the strongest indication so far that Lim Kimya, who was gunned […]

Criminal investigators armed with a court-issued warrant prepared a second, much-anticipated operation early Wednesday to detain President Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning in connection with insurrection charges that stem from his short-lived imposition of martial law last month. Police buses began massing before dawn outside the hilltop presidential compound where Mr. Yoon has been holed […]

South Korea plans to alter structures near runways at several airports after last month’s Jeju Air crash, when a plane that landed on its belly skidded into a concrete wall before exploding into a fireball. At seven of South Korea’s 14 domestic and international airports, structures that house antennas and other devices that help pilots […]

Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain suffered a new blow on Tuesday when his anticorruption minister, Tulip Siddiq, quit her post weeks after being named in an embezzlement investigation in Bangladesh. Ms. Siddiq, 42, is the niece of Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister of Bangladesh, who resigned last year after 15 years in power […]

The Constitutional Court of South Korea began formal deliberations on Tuesday to decide whether to unseat President Yoon Suk Yeol. The impeached leader stayed away, holed up in his fortified presidential compound where he is bracing himself for what his aides called a “siege attack” from up to 1,000 criminal investigators planning to detain him […]