The World Trade Organization ruled Tuesday that some U.S. tariffs against China broke international trading rules, a conclusion that exacerbates U.S.-WTO tensions but likely will have no consequence for American tariff policy because the organization’s appellate system currently doesn’t function. The WTO sided with a complaint filed by China in 2018, which said the Trump … Read more
More than 100,000 people poured into the streets of Belarus’ capital Minsk, sparking a show of force and mass detentions by riot police on Sunday in one of the largest in a string of demonstrations aimed at keeping pressure on President Alexander Lukashenko. In the month since a vote maintained Mr. Lukashenko’s hold on the … Read more
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny with his wife and supporters in Moscow in February. Photo: kirill kudryavtsev/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images BERLIN—Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok, was woken up from a medically induced coma and is responsive, Berlin’s Charité hospital said Monday. Mr. Navalny, who was flown to Berlin … Read more
BERLIN—Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, a chemical nerve agent, the German government said on Wednesday, presenting the strongest evidence yet that the attack could have been carried out by Russian state agencies. Chancellor Angela Merkel held an emergency meeting with members of her cabinet and called on Moscow to immediately comment … Read more
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand—The man who murdered 51 people in live-streamed attacks on two New Zealand mosques was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, the first time the country has imposed a punishment that denies any chance of release. The March 15, 2019, massacre in the southern city of Christchurch, which brought about a national ban … Read more
New Covid-19 cases in the U.S. continued to drift lower Saturday, staying below 50,000 for the eighth consecutive day as the Food and Drug Administration authorized convalescent plasma as a treatment for serious coronavirus cases. Total U.S. coronavirus cases rose to nearly 5.7 million, just under a quarter of the global tally, while the nation’s … Read more