ROME — It would be a mistake to downplay the progress Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has made on the Palestinian question. The proposed motion to recognize the State of Palestine, albeit tied ...

BEIJING — The message is the same to China‘s civil servants, party members, employees of state-owned enterprises: show more restraint. With Chinese national debt continuing to rise, the government ...

GAZA CITY — The 1967 Arab-Israeli war ended in defeat for “revolutionary” and “progressive” Arab regimes — according to the terms of that time. Despite the great, bitter and surprising defeat that ...

BARCELONA — In 1976, Barcelona’s General Metropolitan Plan (PGM) was approved as a framework for the city’s urban planning. But the city’s issues back then were different than what it faces today: ...

BUENOS AIRES — The “crystal generation,” or young people born since 2000, is often described as fragile and intolerant of setbacks. Also termed Generation Z or Gen Z, the group is also perceived, more ...

ZURICH – In the small Pakistani community of Bhati Dilwan, a former village councilor says children are being sickened by filthy water. Who’s to blame? He says it’s bottled water-maker Nestlé, which ...

PARIS — There is a new bill before the French National Assembly that calls for “reinforcing the respect of the principles of the Republic,” and fight against Islamist “separatism.” We already know ...

In Zurich, Addicts can use drugs they have brought with them in the pressure room under controlled conditions. Boris Roessler/DPA/ZUMA ZURICH — What makes this room remarkable is not what’s present ...

When Hallows Eve was first introduced as a Celtic festival some 2,000 years ago, bonfires and costumes were seen as a legitimate way to ward off ghosts and evil spirits. Today of course, with science ...

A Colombian student of Franz Kafka insists works by the 20th century Czech author, like The Trial, are so close to Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment as to be versions of it — creating potential ...

The last sighting of Vladimir Putin was five days ago, when the Russian President appeared at the inauguration of a giant Ferris wheel in Moscow. Stay up-to-date with the latest on the Russia-Ukraine ...

VATICAN CITY — In the end, everything can be understood from the faces of two cardinals on St. Peter’s balcony waiting for Pope Leo XIV to step outside: there was the glum expression of the cardinal ...