World
Anything but predictable: Five things that could shake up the 2024 US election
Don’t be fooled by the familiar faces: both Joe Biden and Donald Trump represent different unknowns coming into the presidential contest this year.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Rescuers race against time in search for earthquake survivors in Japan
- by Hiro Komae, Richard Colombo and Yuri Kageyama
Opinion & Perspectives
The war in Gaza is changing, but the end is not yet in sight
Thousands of Israeli troops are returning home because of a faltering economy, a frustrated United States and a changed situation on the ground in Gaza.
Matthew Knott
National correspondent
What to expect around the world in 2024
Amid hope for less war and a better year, our correspondents take a look at the major issues they will be watching in their patch.
I tell my family’s Holocaust story while I advocate for Palestinians and Israelis
I exist only because a Nazi SS officer saved my mother’s life. History and human behaviour are complicated. And now, we can cry for Gaza’s children and for Israeli victims of Hamas.
Karen Kirsten
Writer, educator
North America
Updated
US Votes 2024
Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn Colorado ballot ban
One day after the former president appealed a similar decision in Maine, Trump filed a petition asking the America’s highest court to weigh in.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Anything but predictable: Five things that could shake up the 2024 US election
Don’t be fooled by the familiar faces: both Joe Biden and Donald Trump represent different unknowns coming into the presidential contest this year.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Europe
Analysis
World politics
What to expect around the world in 2024
- by Eryk Bagshaw, Chris Barrett, Lucy Cormack, Rob Harris, Farrah Tomazin, Lia Timson and Matt Wade
Asia
Rescuers race against time in search for earthquake survivors in Japan
Ishikawa prefecture and nearby areas were shaken by more aftershocks, adding to the dozens that followed Monday’s magnitude 7.6 temblor.
- by Hiro Komae, Richard Colombo and Yuri Kageyama
Updated
Air accident
Police probe possible negligence in Tokyo air crash
“There’s a strong possibility there was a human error,” Hiroyuki Kobayashi, a former pilot and aviation analyst, said of the fiery collision between a Japan Airlines airliner and a coast guard plane.
- by Kaori Kaneko
Updated
Earthquakes
Japan quake toll rises as many trapped under possibly thousands of homes
- by Kiyoshi Takenaka and Sakura Murakami
Also in World
More than 100 killed after blasts near Iranian Guards commander’s tomb
Two explosions caused by ‘terrorist attacks’ killed more than 100 people and wounded scores at a ceremony in Iran to commemorate top commander Qassem Soleimani, officials said.
- by Parisa Hafezi
Hezbollah targets Israeli soldiers after drone kills Hamas deputy in Beirut
- by Laila Bassam and Nidal al-Mughrabi
Updated
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel pulls some troops from Gaza but steps up strikes in the south
- by Dan Williams, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Arafat Barbakh
Analysis
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The war in Gaza is changing, but the end is not yet in sight
- by Matthew Knott
