Haiti's gangs have always been deadly. But now at least one group is portraying itself as a paramilitary force, with more weapons, equipment and uniforms than ever before.

Gang leaders with suspected links to the 2021 Haitian president’s assassination now control key infrastructure, and pose a major threat to the incoming Kenya-led force.

The president, speaking at a Jewish heritage event in the Rose Garden, criticized the decision of an international prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for top Israeli officials on war-crime charges.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine speaks to The Times

People leaving the city of Rafah since Israel’s military started to move in are crowding into other parts of Gaza, where they lack the most basic hygiene and infrastructure, a U.N. official said.

A procession in the city of Tabriz was the first in a string of events after Ebrahim Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has announced five days of mourning.

As Moscow’s forces retake land from which they were ousted at the end of 2022, the Ukrainian military has adopted a strategy of fighting while slowly falling back to more heavily fortified positions.

After setting a very high bar for his party in the election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi often appears on the defensive as the voting nears its end.

Strong wind caused the stage to collapse during an event for a mayoral election attended by a presidential candidate, officials said. Dozens of people were injured.

China said the sea and air drills were meant as a “stern warning” to its opponents after Taiwan’s new president asserted the island’s sovereignty in defiance of Beijing.