When he arrives in Greenland on Friday, Vice President JD Vance is not going to get much of a welcome from Greenlanders. Mr. Vance will be the highest-ranking American official ever to visit the island. But the government of Greenland never invited him and after all that President Trump has said about his desire to […]

The president of Lithuania on Friday visited swampland near his country’s border with Belarus, saying he was “hoping for a miracle” as military and civilian rescue crews worked frantically to extract a heavy United States Army vehicle carrying four American soldiers that disappeared in the waterlogged forest area on Tuesday. The American vehicle, an M88

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on Friday, sending shock waves across Southeast Asia and causing deaths and damage hundreds of miles away from the epicenter. The International Rescue Committee says at least 80 people are reported to have died in Myanmar. The death toll there is expected to rise, with many injured arriving at

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The Israeli military launched airstrikes on the southern outskirts of Beirut on Friday for the first time since a U.S.-brokered cease-fire came into effect in November, shattering months of tense calm in the Lebanese capital and stoking fears of a further escalation. The bombardment came after rockets were fired at northern Israel from Lebanese territory

The silent season is drawing to a close. All winter, there was little birdsong to lift my heart. The occasional caw of a crow, the chickadee-dee-dee of a chickadee, the big song of the little Carolina wren that now stays on our Pennsylvania farm all winter. But no courtship call of great horned owls, no

A strong earthquake struck near Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, on Friday, damaging or collapsing bridges and buildings across a swath of Southeast Asia, killing at least 20 people in Myanmar and injuring hundreds of others. The 7.7-magnitude quake struck just before 1 p.m. local time, and a strong, 6.4-magnitude aftershock followed 11 minutes later. The

After the 7.7-magnitude earthquake on Friday, the internet was filled with videos, images and social media posts documenting the damage in Thailand. But across the border in Myanmar, where the devastating quake was centered, there has been a far murkier picture about the scale of the diaster. Information from Myanmar has been harder to come

In central Bangkok, throngs of panicked residents ran outside when the earthquake hit. Afterward, sidewalks, plazas and sidewalks were packed with crowds of office workers, shopkeepers and tourists who remained outside for fear of aftershocks and structural damage to the buildings. Videos posted on social media, and confirmed by The New York Times, showed one

Updated  March 28, 2025, 4:55 a.m. ET A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said, damaging buildings there and shaking cities across a vast expanse of Southeast Asia, as far as Bangkok, in neighboring Thailand. The quake struck near Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city of more than a million people,