A Chinese survey ship 37 nautical miles from Itbayat has opened a new northern front in a maritime rivalry once concentrated west of the Philippines — in the corridor that links Luzon, Taiwan and the wider Pacific.
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Hundreds were detained in Delhi and thousands rallied in Mumbai as India’s opposition transformed a technical fight over voter lists into a national confrontation over the credibility of the Election Commission.
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Ban Keun is formally a joint training center for a small Lao air arm. Strategically, it gives Beijing something it has never publicly acknowledged before: an overseas air facility with room to become far more…
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The number that will stay is 15-under. The sequence that explains the champion is seven, six, 10, 13 and 18: one disastrous hole, three repairing birdies and a last par made under the weight of history.
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Two deaths are not a war. Along a frontier between nuclear-armed rivals, however, the danger lies in how quickly disputed facts become national narratives — and how little room those narratives leave for a quiet exit.
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Two jets cannot change the balance of power across the Taiwan Strait. Their arrival can still change the political argument: after seven years of delays, Washington has finally moved Taiwan's most important new…
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A one-arrow shoot-off gave 17-year-old Kumkum Mohod India's first Asian Games women's individual recurve title. The gold also gave the country an LA 2028 quota — and turned a week of Indian archery breakthroughs into…
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Abhishek Sharma's 28-ball 61 and Tilak Varma's unbeaten 22-ball 51 lifted India to 211 for 6 — the highest total of the Aichi-Nagoya Games — before Hasan Nawaz's brilliant 96 off 51 balls fell 19 runs short of a…
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Vitaly Yusufov's N17 sued Menlo Park three days after the city council killed its 39-story Willow Park plan for the old Sunset Magazine campus — just as a congressman urges the Treasury Department to investigate the…
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A 66-page federal ruling finds the Pentagon treated a classified OLC opinion as binding law for a lethal campaign that has killed more than 230 people — and law, the judge says, cannot be kept secret.
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The Pretorius 188 T20 record was more than a young batter's breathtaking night. It ended Chris Gayle's 13-year hold on one of cricket's most intimidating landmarks, put South Africa's next white-ball star on every…
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President Donald Trump says more than 20 million Medicare enrollees will receive a one-time $90 payment in early October. The money is tangible, the arithmetic is striking, and the unresolved legal question is bigger…
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UN relief chief Tom Fletcher is sending emergency cash to a dozen underfunded crises — with a first-ever disability set-aside. But money can't cross front lines, and in five of these countries, aid workers can't…
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Washington won agreement against coercing countries through food trade. On the larger fight over subsidized production and cheap exports, it met a refusal that shows why unilateral tariffs remain the administration's…
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A sharp but undisclosed fall in international applications helped push Columbia's specialized M.A. toward a one-year reset. The school calls it a curricular evaluation; its dean says visas were part of the calculation.
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A 3-2 State Election Board vote has escalated Georgia's fight over machine-readable ballot codes into a request for federal intervention. The legal claim is contested, the requested transition would take months, and…
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The army says the town links North and West Kordofan, and that seizing it advances its campaign to cut RSF supply lines. The casualty figures are the SAF's own claims — the RSF has not confirmed them.
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The south korea oil recovery deal exists, for now, in two incompatible versions: President Donald Trump says it adds an $8.4 billion U.S. project to a sweeping investment pact; Seoul says no such project was agreed.…
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A unanimous final on her birthday delivered the perfect photograph. The deeper achievement is harder and more important: Borgohain has built a championship career across three weight-class eras while Indian women’s…
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The Pentagon will give servicemembers a duty day to register, request ballots and vote — a rare military-wide stand down with real electoral math behind it, one month before the midterms.
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The nonpartisan Cook Political Report moved both races from Likely to Lean Republican, citing the president's poor approval — and Democrats are suddenly playing offense in two states Trump carried by double digits.
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An unidentified projectile set fire to part of Saudi Arabia's Yanbu port on October 1, briefly halting crude loadings days after the East-West Pipeline restart. Who fired it remains unconfirmed.
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A new Grammy category was supposed to recognize Asian pop. Instead, two of its most globally powerful acts are refusing to enter, turning a procedural change into a test of whether the Grammys can honor global music…
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A document Ukrainian officials describe as an intercepted Russian operational plan maps a staged winter campaign against electricity imports, hydroelectric plants, nuclear switchyards and water systems. The New York…
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Ukraine's Third Army Corps says the third phase of Operation Vivaldi forced more than 250 Russian troops to surrender near Lyman — whole subunits, officers included. The figures are Ukrainian claims and have not been…
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Why is Abu Dhabi investing in a Hormuz bypass? The UAE Zero Hormuz oil bypass is an insurance policy against a chokepoint the emirate can no longer treat as reliably open — moving crude and industry toward Fujairah…
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Interceptions stopped missiles and drones from reaching their apparent targets, but debris inside a prayer hall and damage to a school show why a successful defense is not the same as a harmless attack.
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Riyadh is weighing a limited strike around Bab el-Mandeb or a much broader campaign as the Red Sea and Strait of Hormuz crises collide.
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TIME says the president spent hours testing how Elon Musk's chatbot read Venezuelan reaction before the U.S. operation. The account is consequential—and rests on one unnamed official.
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The Letitia James Cornell rape case is now in the hands of New York's attorney general after Gov. Kathy Hochul said an omitted rape statement and an incomplete review had destroyed her confidence in the local…
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