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President Lai Ching-te has pledged to stay on his predecessor’s narrow path of resisting Beijing without provoking it. It won’t be easy.

Some reservists in the Israel Defense Forces who have returned home from war are joining the growing calls within Israel for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing coalition to step aside.

Mr. Raisi had been seen as a possible successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, the highest political and religious position in the Islamic republic.

The two countries are groping their way out of a number of simultaneous crises, including over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

Two key members of the wartime government have demanded that Israel’s leader come up with a decisive strategy for Gaza, with one issuing an ultimatum.

Conflicting political visions, competitive jockeying and American dominance stand in the way of a more coordinated and efficient military machine.

Outrage over the pop star’s new music video brought Brazil’s struggle with religious intolerance into view.

President Luis Abinader was bolstered by nativist migration policies, a strong economy and an anticorruption drive.

Families grapple with anguish and isolation as they try to raise their children in a country that increasingly questions their very identity.

Rescuers are trying to locate the helicopter on which President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian were traveling, state media reported. Their status is unknown.