The Obama administration lifted a ban on U.S. flights to Israel Thursday but some international airlines were expected to refuse to resume flying to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport until the raging conflict subsides. Air Canada, which cancelled its Toronto-to-Tel ...
On Sunday, the six months allotted for the negotiations between Iran and six major powers led by the United States – known as the P5 + 1 – on the Iranian nuclear program expire. The fact that Iran and the world have spent half a year holding negotiations ...
Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down in eastern Ukraine Thursday morning. The plane's flight path, sourced up to the final moments before its transponder stopped broadcasting location data, ...
The unsolicited $80-billion (U.S.) takeover bid by 21st Century Fox Inc. for Time Warner Inc. shows that, at 83, Fox proprietor Rupert Murdoch has lost none of his taste for wheeling, dealing and risk-taking on a grandiose scale. But there is more method than ...
Germany's World Cup winners shared their fourth title with hundreds of thousands of fans by parading the trophy through cheering throngs to celebrate at the Brandenburg Gate on Tuesday. An estimated 400,000 people packed the “fan mile†in front of the ...
A fragile truce between Israel and Hamas to end an eight-day conflict is in danger of blowing up as the Palestinian group's military wing, along with other Gaza militias, reopened fire on targets in Israel, and Israel has fired a warning shot into an open area in ...
Three bridges on key roads leading into Donetsk were blown up Monday – an apparent attempt to slow down any possible assault by Ukrainian forces on the country's main rebel-held city. Fighters driven out of Slavyansk and other eastern towns by the ...
The game, of course, is this afternoon's quarterfinal World Cup match between Brazil and Colombia. Mr. Cunha, a 44-year-old Rio de Janeiro bank teller, is desperate to see his team advance. But he fears the stress of seeing it happen – or not happen – may ...
Take Tim Howard of the United States. If that match against Belgium had gone to penalties, Howard looked like the guy who could stop all of therm. He's not in the last eight keepers left standing. As every game can go to penalty kicks, the last, elite eight ...
Take Tim Howard of the United States. If that match against Belgium had gone to penalties, Howard looked like the guy who could stop all of therm. He's not in the last eight keepers left standing. As every game can go to penalty kicks, the last, elite eight ...
Take Tim Howard of the United States. If that match against Belgium had gone to penalties, Howard looked like the guy who could stop all of therm. He's not in the last eight keepers left standing. As every game can go to penalty kicks, the last, elite eight ...
Take Tim Howard of the United States. If that match against Belgium had gone to penalties, Howard looked like the guy who could stop all of therm. He's not in the last eight keepers left standing. As every game can go to penalty kicks, the last, elite eight ...
Fighters from al-Qaeda's Nusra Front withdrew from two towns in eastern Syria on Thursday, leaving most of the border province of Deir al-Zor under the control of advancing forces of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, the Syrian Observatory for Human ...
One day not long ago, before the madness of the World Cup descended on Brazil, a group of families gathered on the terrace of a Rio restaurant for Saturday lunch. Parents were drinking and chatting and not paying much attention to the children, who were ...
For the 100th anniversary of the First World War, we looked back through The Globe's archives for our coverage in 1914. Here is a look at the headlines that documented the strengthening drumbeat of war from the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand ...
Shia LaBeouf is at it again with the shenanigans - or it could be another performance art exhibit, depending on how seriously you take the actor. Last night, LaBeouf was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and criminal trespass during a New York ...
Ukraine's president signed a free-trade and political cooperation agreement with the European Union on Friday, the culmination of months of upheaval and signaling a historic split with Russia. “Over the last months, Ukraine paid the highest possible price to ...
Barack Obama has sent U.S. warplanes back into Iraqi skies and put the boots of a few hundred elite troops on the ground, but before the President will order air strikes against Sunni separatist militants, he wants a new, inclusive government in Baghdad.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, after meeting with France's foreign minister, said on Thursday Russia should call on separatists in Ukraine to disarm within “the next hours.†“We are in full agreement that it is critical for Russia to show in the next hours, ...
Iraq, in its recognized form, came to an end two weeks ago when jihadist fighters captured the city of Mosul and swept south toward Baghdad, Fuad Hussein, the chief strategist of the Kurdistan Regional Government, says. Now Iraq's six million Kurds, who ...
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