International

Israel Tells Washington Hamas Is Not Disarming and Is Preparing for War, Leaving the Gaza Peace Plan Frozen Days Before Israel's Election

With the Board of Peace's base blocked, its reconstruction plan stalled and the ceasefire fraying, the fight over who moves first in Gaza has become a campaign issue.

Daily World Politics Briefing 

Overview

Israeli military intelligence has reportedly told American…

Tankers Burn and Bases Are Threatened as Iran Escalates in Hormuz, While Washington and Jerusalem Plan Strikes After the Midterms

The Revolutionary Guard says it hit four ships and warns it will widen the confrontation to US bases, eight months into a war with no ceasefire and no direct talks.

World Politics 

Overview

The war between the United States, Israel and Iran, which began on February…

Ethiopia Installs Caretaker Rule in Tigray as Federal Forces Reach the Eritrean Border, Raising Fears of a Wider War

ADDIS ABABA

Four weeks after fighting resumed in northern Ethiopia, the federal government has moved from battlefield advances to political engineering. On Oct. 16 it named a six-month caretaker administration for Tigray, and on Tuesday the senior United Nations official in the country urged an immediate…

Drones Over the Danube Delta: Ships Burn Off Romania and Bulgaria as NATO's Black Sea Members Demand a Response

World Politics 

Overview

For most of the war in Ukraine, the western Black Sea has been a place where the fighting was close but not quite inside the alliance. That distinction is now under severe strain. Over the past two weeks, drones have struck a string of merchant ships off the…

Mauritius Lifts Curfew After Its Worst Unrest in Decades, but Water Shortages and Public Anger Remain Unresolved

PORT LOUIS

Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island long held up as one of Africa's most stable and prosperous democracies, is counting the cost of its most serious civil unrest in more than two decades. The government of Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam lifted its nationwide curfew on Oct. 19, schools have reopened and…

South Africa's ANC Wins a Ballot Fight in Court, Then Threatens Its Coalition Partner Two Weeks Before Local Elections

JOHANNESBURG

A Constitutional Court ruling that put 181 African National Congress candidates back on the ballot has done more than rescue the governing party from a self-inflicted paperwork failure. Two weeks before South Africa's Nov. 4 local government elections, it has opened a rift in the Government of…