A Venezuelan family is calling for a 2-year-old to be returned to her mother after the U.S. authorities deported the mother to Venezuela on Friday without the child. The girl’s father was sent to a prison in El Salvador in March. The toddler, Maikelys Antonella Espinoza Bernal, remains in foster care in the United States,…
A man accused of wounding two women with a crossbow in the British city of Leeds on Saturday has died of a self-inflicted injury, the police said on Tuesday. The suspect, Owen Lawrence, 38, died in the hospital where he was taken after his arrest at the scene of the attack, the counterterrorism police said…
Deadly clashes fueled by sectarian tensions erupted on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, killing at least nine people, Syrian officials and a war monitoring group said on Tuesday. The violence erupted overnight from Monday to Tuesday in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, which has a large population from the minority Druse sect. It…
Rocio Vilaplana, a dentist in southeastern Spain, was closing a suture in a patient’s mouth during oral surgery early Monday afternoon when the lights went out. “Everything started beeping,” Ms. Vilaplana said. Her backup generator kicked in, the emergency lights in her surgery room flickered on and the 36-year-old dentist tried to remain calm. “Let’s…
Follow live updates on the Trump administration. The auditorium at Alibaba’s headquarters was packed with attendees, leaning against the wall and squeezing onto the stairs. Hundreds of Chinese small-business owners listened raptly as a stream of representatives from Alibaba, the Chinese online shopping giant, stepped onstage to reassure them of China’s resilience in the face…
Tens of millions of people on the Iberian Peninsula had their day upended by power outages that lasted hours. Across Spain and Portugal, hospitals ran on generators, trains were halted and supermarkets were shuttered. By Monday evening, some power was restored in parts of Spain and areas in Portugal, but many residents were still waiting…
Two men used a chain saw to deliberately cut down the celebrated Sycamore Gap tree in the north of England in a “moronic mission” a year and a half ago, and the felling was filmed on a cellphone, a prosecutor in northeastern England said on Tuesday. The tree, a beloved landmark that stood by Hadrian’s…
Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party, was unseated as the parliamentary representative of his Ottawa district in a stunning upset that could put his leadership of the party in question. Mr. Poilievre was first elected in 2004 as the member of Parliament representing Carleton, a largely rural district bordering parts of the Ottawa…
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada won a new term on Monday night, a remarkable turnaround for his Liberal Party, which surged in popularity as President Trump took an increasingly aggressive stance toward the country. Early Tuesday morning and after an all-night count, Canada’s elections agency said it would stop tallying votes for a few…
On a rusty door at the top of a nine-story apartment building that no architect would admire, someone had scratched a declaration: “FALL OF SAIGON.” Nguyen Van Hiep can still see it happening. On April 29, 1975, as South Vietnam’s government collapsed in the final hours of the war, he watched from next door as…
