As Panama’s president laid a wreath to honor those who died protesting the American occupation 60 years ago, the ceremony attendees were resolute. The commemoration this month came just days after President-elect Donald J. Trump falsely claimed China was controlling the Panama Canal and suggested he could use military force to retake the waterway. The […]

Germany’s economic growth shrank for a second straight year in 2024, data released Wednesday showed. How to revive it this year has become a central issue as voters prepare to go to the polls next month to elect a new government. Manufacturing of automobiles and machinery fell sharply last year, as increased competition, especially from […]

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 […]

Decades ago, Mozambique’s liberation party, Frelimo, easily attracted adoring crowds. The promise of salvation from Portuguese colonizers, and a life with jobs and housing for all, was an easy sell in a southern African nation that was suffering under racist rule. But when Daniel Chapo of Frelimo becomes president on Wednesday, he will confront a […]

Investigators have detained South Korea’s impeached leader, Yoon Suk Yeol. This is the first time a sitting South Korean president has been detained on criminal charges. Choe Sang-Hun, the ​Seoul bureau chief for The New York Times​, explains how we got here and what it may mean for South Korea moving forward. Source link

Prime Minister François Bayrou of France said on Tuesday that he was open to changing the country’s unpopular pension law, which raised the retirement age to 64 from 62, as he sought to build support in Parliament and keep his government afloat. The 2023 law was championed by President Emmanuel Macron in the name of […]

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 […]

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 Americans were not happy. The migrant situation at the border was out of control, they said, and Mexico was not doing enough to stop it, according to officials from both countries. In fact, the crisis was worse than Mexican officials had been led to believe by their own immigration chief, Francisco Garduño Yáñez. The […]

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 […]