WSJ World - 5min
The country of 110 million people headed to the polls in turmoil, with a civil war raging in the northern province of Tigray and ethnic uprisings elsewhere reverberating across the strategic Horn of Africa region.
WSJ World - 2hr
The extraordinary recovery of the U.S. economy is set to make the country the world’s top destination for overseas investment this year and next, with foreign businesses drawn by the prospect of a rapid and sustained rebound in consumer spending.
WSJ World - 3hr
The Summer Olympics in Tokyo will include up to 10,000 Japanese spectators at each event, organizers said, despite advice by leading doctors that the Games would be safer without crowds.
WSJ World - 3hr
A shutdown of Jimmy Lai’s pro-democracy newspaper would mark the biggest blow to press freedom in the city since Beijing imposed a national-security law last year.
WSJ World - 17hr
Afghan battlefield setbacks in recent weeks are beginning to create a perception of inevitability about a Taliban takeover that risks snowballing into a self-fulfilling prophecy, Afghan officials warn.
WSJ World - 17hr
While Ebrahim Raisi is expected to agree to reimposing constraints on Iran’s nuclear program, he is seen as a more confrontational adversary to the West than his predecessor, current President Hassan Rouhani.