International

South Africa Braces as Anti-Migrant Group's Sept. 30 "Deadline" Arrives Five Weeks Before Municipal Elections

JOHANNESBURG 

South Africa reached the second unofficial ultimatum of its anti-immigrant summer today. The movement March and March had demanded that undocumented foreign nationals leave the country by Sept. 30, and the government has said the date "has no legal authority" and that private citizens cannot…

In Baidoa, a Dispute Over Somalia's Federal Bargain Turns Deadly Again, With Hunger Closing In

MOGADISHU

Fighting returned to the streets of Baidoa this week as forces loyal to a deposed regional president clashed with Somali government troops and those of the federally backed leader of South West State. Children have been killed and injured and a health facility was damaged, according to UNICEF, in a…

"I Stand By" the Charges: Jack Smith Faces a Hostile Senate Judiciary Committee and Says He Had Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Against Trump

World Politics 

Overview

Jack Smith, the former special counsel who brought two federal indictments against Donald Trump, appeared on Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee in one of the most anticipated and combative congressional hearings of the year. Smith told senators that…

Morocco's King Names First Woman Prime Minister, but Fragmented Parliament and Low Enthusiasm Cloud Her Mandate

RABAT 

King Mohammed VI on Tuesday appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as Morocco's first female prime minister, six days after an election in which her Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) won 97 of the House of Representatives' 395 seats. She becomes only the second woman to lead an Arab government,…

After the Mob at Jalud: Israel's Leaders Condemn Settler Violence as London Announces a Harder Line

A riot by more than 100 settlers that blocked a court-ordered homecoming for a Palestinian family has drawn rare condemnation from Israel's president and prime minister, and it landed one day after Britain's foreign secretary promised to ban settlement goods.

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