Keiko Itokazu can still remember the day in 1965 when the parachute didn’t open. It was attached to a jeep trailer that was dropped from an airplane, along with U.S. paratroopers training near her home in Okinawa. The plummeting object missed her but hit a nearby house, killing a fifth-grade schoolgirl. Until then, Ms. Itokazu, … Read more
Israel said it would remain in a handful of positions in southern Lebanon as the deadline elapsed for the Israeli military and Hezbollah forces to withdraw from the area on Tuesday, raising fears that a sustained Israeli presence could undermine the fragile truce there. After a cease-fire in November ended the deadliest war between the … Read more
A Delta Air Lines passenger jet made a dramatic crash landing at Toronto airport on Monday afternoon, flipping upside down on the tarmac with its tail and one wing shorn off. But all 80 people aboard clambered out of the jet, which was coming in from Minneapolis. At least 18 of them suffered injuries, some … Read more
Costa Rica announced on Monday that it would receive a flight this week from the United States carrying 200 migrants from Central Asia and India, making it the second nation in Central America to accept deportees from faraway countries who had crossed illegally into the United States. Last week, Panama received three U.S. deportation flights, … Read more
At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of people in poor nations died literally gasping for breath, even in hospitals. What they lacked was medical oxygen, which is in short supply in much of the world. On Monday, a panel of experts published a comprehensive report on the shortage. Each year, the report noted, … Read more
E.U. leaders met as the U.S. moved forward on Ukraine European leaders convened in Paris yesterday to discuss a coordinated response as the Trump administration prepared to start its own talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine. Leaders were also expected to discuss issues including military spending and how to guarantee Ukraine’s security … Read more
A Delta flight arriving at Toronto Pearson Airport from Minneapolis appears to have overturned while landing on Monday afternoon, with photos across social media showing an airplane with its belly up on the tarmac. The airport’s X account said in a post that all passengers and crew had been accounted for. The post said there … Read more
As President Trump looks north and repeatedly presses his case to absorb Canada as the “51st state,” politically minded Democrats who are otherwise outraged by almost everything else about his agenda find themselves contemplating a potential electoral boon should it ever happen. Few in Washington take the prospect all that seriously, of course. Canada has … Read more
On Thursday morning, an Afghan refugee deliberately plowed a car into a crowd in Munich, motivated by what the police called an “Islamist orientation.” A 2-year-old girl and her mother were killed, and nearly 40 others were injured. A day later — in a country where migration has been a major election issue — that … Read more
The Land Ukraine Could Be Forced to Give Up to End the War