World news from The Thursday Times' foreign desk.
The Yisrael Beytenu leader refuses to serve with Netanyahu under any circumstances and says the opposition may find defectors from Likud
India’s home minister says votes that “never existed” are behind the opposition’s protests, and offers a special session on the voter purge
Tehran says its seven-step plan can now be carried out in two days, but rules out sending its enriched uranium abroad
One Swedish store says its freezers were “hacked” and set to 50 degrees as food is thrown away at dozens of shops
Workers want the minimum wage more than doubled to 30,000 taka a month, and say a new government wage board does not go far enough.
He had been detained since June 2024 and his family was told only recently. He is the second UN employee to die in Houthi custody.
The severe cyclonic storm is forecast to cross the south Andhra coast around midnight with winds of up to 110 kilometres an hour, and officials plan to evacuate 30,000 people.
The Hebron Governorate says more than 3,300 Palestinians were displaced or affected and 15 homes and other structures were demolished during the operation.
The Muslim Democrat is in a tight Michigan Senate race, and community leaders say hostility is at its highest since the September 11 attacks.
Justice Noam Sohlberg says official results go to President Herzog on Wednesday as planned, while Likud says a ‘black cloud’ hangs over the vote until the Shin Bet inquiry ends.
