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Activists said the designation could put L.G.B.T.Q. people and their organizations under threat of criminal prosecution for something as simple as displaying the rainbow flag.

Democrats are clashing with each other and the Biden administration over whether to attach conditions, including measures to avoid civilian casualties, to security assistance.

The U.S. secretary of state went to Israel as part of a diplomatic push to extend a tenuous truce with Hamas, but in comments in Tel Aviv, he focused more on the next phase of Israel’s offensive.

In 1987, “Nixon in China” meditated on what was then recent history, depicting Kissinger as a smooth diplomat with a brutal side.

As the government’s chief financial cabinet member, he helped stave off a broader economic collapse amid the global turmoil set off in 2008

Officials in the United States and Canada have described two assassination attempts: the killing of a Sikh leader in British Columbia and a plan to murder an activist in New York.

An indictment in a plot against a Sikh separatist in the United States provides details in a killing that has strained relations between Canada and India.

He grew Soka Gakkai International’s following over two decades and helped create a coalition partner for the country’s dominant Liberal Democratic Party.

The 22-year-old activist was jailed for three weeks without being charged. Her arrest was one of thousands made during the Israeli military’s crackdown in the occupied West Bank after the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7.

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