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Oct 24, 2026 - World

Japan’s unpopular revisions to the Imperial House Law that reinforce the male-only succession rules took effect Saturday

Oct 24, 2026 - World

An amateur mixed martial arts fighter was the man killed in Friday’s shooting rampage near Paris, his club said, identifying the victim of what French President Emmanuel Macron called a racist terror attack

Oct 24, 2026 - World

Ukraine and Russia have signaled willingness to resume peace talks and back a humanitarian mission led by U.S. First Lady Melania Trump, but deep disagreements over territory and security guarantees underscore obstacles to ending the war

Oct 24, 2026 - World

Major museums in Paris are closed as authorities deploy a large police force for new protests across France

Oct 24, 2026 - World

The prime minister has defined and dominated his country’s politics for three decades and is putting his rivals on the defensive before Tuesday’s general electionThey chant his name, they cheer and clap – and yet he is not the most dominant person in the room. Looming over the crowd that has gathered to hear Gadi Eisenkot, the former general who is the lead opposition challenger in Tuesday’s Israeli election, is a man who is not there. It is the man Eisenkot seeks to replace as prime minister, the man who first served in that role three decades ago and who has held it, on and off, for 19 of the past 30 years. It is Benjamin Netanyahu.Naturally, the warm-up speakers at this evening rally in the modest city of Modi’in, halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, stress the virtues of Eisenkot, a son of working-class Moroccan Jews who rose through the ranks to become chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces and entered politics only four years ago. But every sentence might as well end with two words that go unspoken: unlike Bibi. Continue reading...