The Wall Street Journal
Trump Tells Iran To Strike a Deal Or Be Destroyed
President Trump labeled himself a man of peace while threatening to “annihilate” Iran and wield American power against other nations, in a speech at the United Nations aimed in part at selling skeptical voters on his foreign-policy vision ahead of the...
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As War Rages, Iran’s Delegation Comes to U.S.—Under Tight Rein
When a small Iranian delegation, led by the country’s president, travels to New York this week, its members will be free to attend the United Nations General Assembly—but not to go for a walk in Central Park or shop on Fifth Avenue without permission....
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Ukraine Strikes Moscow in Biggest Drone Blitz
FIERY ATTACK: Smoke rises on Sunday from an oil refinery that was struck by some of the more than 1,000 drones launched by Ukraine at the Russian capital. Two people were killed and 20 injured in the region, Russian authorities said.
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Vote Seeks to Boost Putin and War
Russia’s parliamentary election this weekend will have little bearing on the direction of the country. There is no serious question about which party will prevail: President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia. The vote won’t be a real democratic...
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AI Royalty Comes to King Charles’s Court
LONDON—King Charles III waded into the artificial-intelligence debate on Thursday, gathering top tech executives in Scotland to urge them to hash out guidelines to keep the technology from spinning out of control. The British monarch hosted executives...
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Mexico Celebrates Its Independence Day
¡VIVA, MEXICO! President Claudia Sheinbaum marks the 216th anniversary of the start of the Mexican War of Independence against Spain on Wednesday in Mexico City. Celebrations began with the cry of ‘¡Viva, Mexico!’ three times just after midnight.
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Shepherds Flock to Protests in Romania
BLEAT IT: A shepherd stands near riot police in Bucharest as crowds rallied Tuesday against a European Union ban on live sheep exports meant to prevent the spread of disease. Clashes erupted as some protesters hurled objects and police fired tear gas.
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Yemen’s Houthis Flex Muscle, Rattle Oil Markets
A display of mock drones and missiles, seen Monday in Yemen’s capital San’a, shows the increasing boldness of the Iran-backed Houthis. The group has seized a chokepoint on the Red Sea that imperils global energy supplies.
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Survivors Rescued Nine Days After Nepal Flood
GLIMMER OF HOPE: Nine days after a devastating flood hit, soldiers carry one of two workers pulled from a tunnel Friday at a hydropower project, in a photo from Nepal’s army. The disaster killed more than 1,250 people and over 5,000 remain missing.
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Gloria Steinem, Feminist Trailblazer, Dies at 92
On Jan. 21, 2017, one day into Donald Trump’s tenure as president of the U.S., and roughly five decades into Gloria Steinem’s tenure as its most famous feminist, Steinem arrived on the National Mall to address the Women’s March on Washington—a mass...
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After 286 Days at Sea, Lincoln Sailors Get a Break
Thailand—After 286 days at sea, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier with nearly 5,000 sailors and Marines on board docked in eastern Thailand Wednesday morning for a port call. Carrying backpacks and duffel bags, and wearing civilian clothes,...
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Bond Rout Deepens Around Globe
The global economy has a new challenge to surmount: an unruly bond market that is sending borrowing costs to their highest levels in decades. A rout in bond markets deepened on Tuesday when Japan’s 10-year bond yield touched 3% for the first time...
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Russia Trapped in Strategic Mismatch
Russia faces a fundamental asymmetry as it seeks to beat Ukraine into submission with intensifying airstrikes on shopping malls, power stations, ports and other infrastructure. Kyiv can rely on a secure hinterland beyond its borders—its European...
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Nepal Clings to Hope for the Many Missing in Flood
The number of people dead in catastrophic flooding in Nepal and Tibet rose to nearly 770, as teams from China and India arrived in Nepal to help with rescue efforts for hydropower project workers trapped in tunnels by mud deposited by the...
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Warsh Signals Rate Increase Is on the Table
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.— Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh signaled the central bank hasn’t ruled out fighting inflation with higher interest rates. The remarks were his most substantive since he took over this spring, and investors took them as a sign...
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More Than 1,450 Missing in Himalayan Floods
For tour operator Syed Umar Sadiq, the pilgrimage to Mount Kailash and Lake Mansarovar in China’s Tibet region was meant to be his first journey along a route his father had crisscrossed several times for his travel business. But as Sadiq led his...
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Lethal Walls of Water Hit Himalayas
As a roar grew louder, people at the customs checkpoint that sits at 6,000 feet on the border between China and Nepal started running. In seconds, video shows, a monstrous wave surged over and around the Gyirong Port building, burying everything in...
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Dolly Parton, Queen of Country Music, Dies at 80
One night in 1973, Dolly Parton had a song on her mind. She was thinking about a bank teller who had been flirting with her spouse. “She got this terrible crush on my husband,” Parton told NPR in 2008. “And he just loved going to the bank because she...
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U.S. Launches New Wave Of Sanctions Against Iran
WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday the U.S. is launching a new campaign to isolate the Iranian regime, warning that countries and companies that do business with Tehran will face the wrath of the Trump administration. “Let...
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Reno on Edge as Fire Spreads in Nevada
A fast-moving wildfire was approaching Reno, Nev., Sunday, with authorities urging nearly 90,000 people to evacuate. The Hawk fire started Saturday near a hiking trail northwest of the city and had burned more than 10,000 acres, authorities said...
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Capital Gridlock Is Suspended for a Weekend
STREET LEGAL: A driver practices for this weekend’s Freedom 250 Grand Prix IndyCar series race in Washington. The cars, which can reach street-course speeds near 200 mph, will make 147 laps. The speed limit is 25 mph on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Russia Pummels Kyiv as Air Defenses Dwindle
DEADLY STRIKE: A rescuer Thursday helped a local woman after a Russian airstrike on a residential area in Kyiv. At least 15 people were killed in and around the capital Wednesday night as Ukraine is running out of Patriot air-defense missiles.
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Challenger Tests Zelensky’s Hold on Power
NEW PRESSURE: Demonstrators backing Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s ousted defense minister, protested Wednesday in Kyiv. Fedorov challenged President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling for elections and warning that democracy is imperiled.
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Iranian Ship Attacks Frustrate Gulf Nations as U.S. Holds Fire
DUBAI—Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz are piling up without a U.S. military response, raising the risks of crossing the strategic waterway and frustrating some Arab allies who worry the U.S. doesn’t have a strategy to wind down the...
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President Pushes Israel to Stop Strikes on Gaza
TEL AVIV—President Trump said Israel shouldn’t be striking targets in Gaza, as his envoy Jared Kushner met Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to salvage the president’s plan to disarm Hamas and end the war in the Palestinian...
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At Least 6 Dead in Indiana Storms, Flooding
At least six people have died in Indiana as a series of storms led to historic flooding in the Midwestern state. Heavy rain over several days caused significant flooding along the White River, which flows through Indianapolis and central and southern...
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Farage Wins Back U.K. Seat, Count Binface Is No. 2
UNUSUAL ELECTION: Trash can-wearing comic Count Binface celebrates his second-place finish Friday after Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-immigration Reform UK party, regained his Parliament seat. Farage skipped the official declaration.
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Israel Sends Troops Amid West Bank Standoff
TEL AVIV—Israeli troops poured into a West Bank village early Thursday amid a standoff with violent settlers who besieged several Palestinian homes earlier this week, effectively putting the area on lockdown as authorities struggled to stem the...
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Eclipse Compels Millions to Turn to the Dark Side
Buse Avci stood in line at a paella counter Wednesday in Valencia on a visit to the coastal Spanish city from her home in Budapest. She had always wanted to see Spain’s Barcelona or Granada. But instead she let the path of the moon determine her...
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Assad Death Sentence Stirs Syria
A Damascus court sentenced former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and other officials from his fallen regime to death after convicting them of murder, torture and crimes against humanity, a symbolic step toward a reckoning with the country’s long and...
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Powerful Quake Kills More Than 100 in Colombia
RUBBLE: People hope for signs of trapped survivors Monday at a collapsed building in Cali after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck. More than 111 people were killed in the disaster, an early challenge to Colombia’s newly inaugurated president.
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Netanyahu Rejects Next Phase Of Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected President Trump’s plan to establish permanent peace in Gaza, a rare public break with the U.S. leader who weeks ago hailed “a historic agreement” to disarm Hamas. The plan calls for the militant group...
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Thai Teen Goes on School Rampage
FRANTIC: Family members reunited with children after a 14-year-old boy opened fire Friday at a school outside Bangkok, killing five staff members and injuring more than 20 people. The attacker, who took his own life, had earlier shot to death his two...
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U.S. Says Putin Willing to Test NATO With Limited Assaults
WASHINGTON—Russian President Vladimir Putin could try to test NATO’s resolve with a limited assault on an allied country in the next few years, according to new U.S. intelligence reports that posit possible scenarios ranging from a cyberattack to a...
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Kyiv Pounded as Antimissile Stockpile Dwindles
DEADLY STRIKE: A warehouse burns in Kyiv on Wednesday after a Russian missile and drone attack killed at least 17 people. Ukraine’s air-defense forces said they were unable to intercept any of the projectiles that targeted a civilian area.
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What’s News
Business & Finance ◆ Elon Musk outlined ambitious targets for SpaceX, including launching data centers in space in 2027 and reaching $1 trillion in revenue, as part of his first address to investors since the company’s IPO. A1 ◆ Major U.S. stock...
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Drought Is Draining Europe’s Rivers
A drought is wreaking havoc along Europe’s rivers. In Romania, authorities set off an explosion beside a river in a bid to divert much-needed water to a power plant. In Bulgaria, 200 vacationers had to be evacuated from a stranded cruise ship. In...
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Greece Fights Wildfires as Europe Crisis Spreads
DIRE BATTLE: Volunteers on Sunday worked to douse a wildfire near Porto Germeno, about 40 miles northwest of Athens. Two Greek firefighting helicopters collided on Sunday while battling a wind-driven fire, killing two crew members.
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Spain Pushes Back After Migrants Rush Enclave
CHAOTIC SCENES: Migrants run back to Morocco after Spanish soldiers moved to secure Ceuta. As many as 60,000 migrants streamed into the Spanish territory in North Africa on Thursday and Friday but authorities said most of them left.
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Massive Strikes Highlight Ukraine Defense Gap
DEADLY BARRAGE: A series of Russian missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on Thursday killed at least eight people and wounded more than 50, Ukrainian authorities said. A child injured in an attack on a building in Lviv is taken away by stretcher.
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Fauci Refuses to Answer Senators’ Covid Queries
TAKES THE FIFTH: Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic, repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights before a Senate committee hearing, which he said he believed was part of a slander campaign against him.
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Graham Praised as ‘American Original’
WASHINGTON—President Trump called the late Sen. Lindsey Graham “a respected statesman, giant of the U.S. Senate and true American original” in a speech eulogizing the influential lawmaker at a funeral at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday...
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Monsoon Floods Death Toll Tops 100 in Pakistan
SWAMPED: People wade through floodwaters Monday after the Ravi River overflowed in Lahore, Pakistan. Flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains has claimed more than 100 lives in the nation in the past month, and more rain is forecast.
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Tour de France Champion Makes History
Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, 27, rolled onto the Champs-Élysées to claim his fifth Tour de France on Sunday, making him one of only five men to win bicycling’s biggest race five times. Pogacar won by six minutes and 26 seconds.
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Fires Turn French Beaches to Holiday Hellscape
HAZY HAZARD: The beach in Lacanau, France, is nearly empty Friday as clouds of smoke from a wildfire can be seen. Tens of thousands of residents and tourists are fleeing as blazes fueled by a summer of heat waves rage in southwestern Europe.
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Ukraine Strikes Blow at Russia’s Online Commerce
NEW FRONT: The ruins of a Moscow area warehouse for Wildberries, Russia’s version of Amazon, and its merchandise Thursday after a strike by a Ukrainian drone. Four company sites have been hit in the last week as Kyiv expands its targeting in Russia.
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Surge of Forces Gives Trump Options to Escalate Iran War
WASHINGTON—The U.S. is surging forces, medics and weaponry to the Middle East to give President Trump more muscular military options as he considers expanding the conflict against Iran, according to people familiar with the matter. In the past week,...
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Bowing to Protests, Zelensky Ousts Army Chief
President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy on Tuesday as head of Ukraine’s armed forces. Protesters have thronged Kyiv in the wake of Zelensky’s removal of Mikhailo Fedorov, the tech-savvy defense minister who criticized Syrskiy for...
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Burnham Becomes U.K.’s 7th Leader In Decade
LONDON—Andy Burnham, the U.K.’s seventh prime minister in a decade, arrived Monday at 10 Downing Street pledging that a bigger, more muscular state can solve the country’s economic woes and restore political stability. Standing in front of the prime...
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Justice Department Pulls Back On Pursuing Corporate Crime
The Trump administration has moved sharply away from charging companies over the wrongdoing of employees, recently closing a string of criminal investigations with lenient resolutions or no charges at all. In matters involving Alibaba, EagleBank and...
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Texas Floods Leave Destruction, Prompt Rescues
More heavy rains in stormweary Texas sent first responders rushing to people trapped in high waters Friday, widening the danger caused by floods that have killed at least two people and left hundreds more in need of rescue. A relentless week of...
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Canadian Fires Cast Pall Over Wide Swath of U.S.
CHICAGO—Acrid haze sat low to the ground Thursday as wildfire smoke from Canada continued to blanket the Midwest and Northeast, creating a strain on visibility and unhealthy air quality that is expected to last at least through Friday night. Winds...
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Blanche Gets Grilled by Senators On Payout Fund, Trump IRS Deal
WASHINGTON—Todd Blanche tried to ease concerns over a settlement between President Trump and the Internal Revenue Service that has become a sticking point for key Republican senators whose support he needs to be confirmed as attorney general. Blanche...
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France Makes Show of EU Might on Bastille Day
ESPRIT DE CORPS: President Emmanuel Macron of France rides in a light reconnaissance vehicle Tuesday on Paris’s Champs-Élysées for a Bastille Day parade that featured soldiers from mainly European nations that support Ukraine’s war effort.
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Thailand Seeks Answers in Deadly Bar Fire
TRAGIC AFTERMATH: Bodies are removed Monday from the Rong Beer Na Ladprao bar in Bangkok, where at least 27 people died in a fire. Most of the victims were found in windowless bathrooms, where they might have sought shelter from flames.
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Sen. Graham, GOP Stalwart, Dies at 71
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a foreign-policy hawk who transformed from a fierce critic of President Trump into one of his closest allies in Congress, has died. He was 71. The Republican senator, who was the chief congressional proponent of...
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Mooove Out of the Way for Famed Bull Run
CHARGE! Bulls barrel through the streets of Pamplona, Spain, on Friday during the annual San Fermín Festival, which draws thousands of visitors. It was featured in Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Sun Also Rises,’ which marks its 100th anniversary this year.
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Deadly Floods Batter South China After Typhoon
WATERLOGGED: Rescuers evacuate students who had been trapped by flooding in Guigang in south China’s Guangxi region on Thursday. The death toll stood at 39 from the effects of a typhoon, most of them in a partial dam collapse, authorities said.
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Trump, in Shift, Backs Ukraine Striking Targets Deep in Russia
President Trump said he supported Ukraine striking targets deep inside Russian territory, calling it an escalation that could help end the war. The comments mark his strongest praise yet of Ukraine’s military strategy and deal a significant blow to...
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Trump Push on Jets for Turkey Sets Up Clash With Congress
ANKARA, Turkey—President Trump said he would consider selling the F-35 jet fighter to Turkey, signaling his embrace of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and setting up a potential showdown with U.S. lawmakers who have long opposed such a...
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Belgium Ends U.S. Run for the World Cup
President Trump confirmed that he called FIFA President Gianni Infantino and asked him to review U.S. striker Folarin Balogun’s one-game suspension, a move that set off an uproar among soccer fans across the world. “All I did, I asked for a review. I...
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Throngs Mourn Iran Leader Killed Early in War
Large crowds gathered in Tehran as Iran began six days of funeral ceremonies for its slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in what the Islamic Republic is framing as a show of defiance against the West. Iranian authorities predicted that as...
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Ready to Ring In America’s 250th Birthday Party
CRACK TEAM: A group of 250 people forms the shape of the Liberty Bell on Independence Mall in Philadelphia on Thursday as the nation prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
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Qatari Gift Makes Maiden Flight as Air Force One
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE— A new paint job. Lie-flat leather seats. And library bookcases. President Trump on Wednesday took his maiden flight on his long-awaited new Air Force One, a Boeing 747-8 luxury jet that was given to the U.S. by the Qatari...
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Russia’s Fuel Shortages Pressure Putin
Fuel shortages across Russia have triggered a new political challenge for President Vladimir Putin, as a relentless Ukrainian drone campaign aimed at the country’s oil refineries has brought the war home for most ordinary Russians. While Ukraine has...
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U.S. Troops Arrive to Aid Venezuela
ON GUARD: U.S. soldiers patrolled Caraballeda, Venezuela, on Monday as part of an extraordinary effort to help the nation’s new U.S.-aligned government respond to twin earthquakes.
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No Relief as Heat Wave Fans Out Across Europe
France saw around 1,000 additional deaths last week at the height of its record-smash- ing heat wave, the country’s public health agency said Sunday, as the head of the World Health Organization warned Europe is the fastest-warming continent and needs...
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Desperate Venezuelans Dig for Quake Survivors
Two devastating earthquakes have plunged Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, into her first crisis, posing a crucial test of the Trump administration’s bet that she can transform the country into a more functional, compliant ally. Hollowed...
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Venezuela ‘All in Shock’ After Quakes
Benito Quivera was in his underwear, about to get in the shower late Wednesday afternoon when his phone emitted a shrill alarm. His Caracas apartment began violently shaking. “I had never heard it before, and then suddenly everything began to move...
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Trump Derails Housing Bill, Fueling Strains
WASHINGTON—President Trump abruptly canceled plans to sign bipartisan housing legislation while again pushing a bill that would impose strict new voter-eligibility rules, and hours later engaged in a fiery clash with one of his top Republican critics...
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