“The Big Apple has fallen,” a right-wing lawmaker said, reflecting broader worries in the Mideast country. Palestinians hailed the election as a sea change in the United States.

The country’s prime minister called the blaze “a disaster of enormous proportions.” The cause was still to be determined.

Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, recounts a harrowing story of cruelty, survival, U.S. diplomatic pressure and, finally, release from the grip of a group backed by Iran.

Kataib Hezbollah, a hard-line Iraqi militia linked to Iran, held Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, hostage for more than two years.

The namesake of Mazar-i-Sharif suffered countless cracks in a 6.3-magnitude quake, but, like Afghanistan, it has endured for centuries.

Officials have accused the United States of foreign interference and called on Washington to support the country’s democracy instead of fomenting division.

China’s new national drive to embrace artificial intelligence is also giving the authorities new ways to monitor and control its citizens.

The murder of Mexico’s most vocal anti-crime mayor shows that, despite President Claudia Sheinbaum’s crackdown on drug cartels, the battle is just beginning.

The country will introduce fixed-term military contracts to try to attract recruits and ease the strain on soldiers after years of fighting.