International

JERUSALEM—White House national security adviser John Bolton arrived in Israel on Sunday on the first leg of an overseas trip, and met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with Iran the focus of talks. Bolton is one of the U.S. administration’s leading hawks in dealing with Iran’s nuclear program. He was meeting Netanyahu at a working […]

Angry residents of a Brazilian border town, Pacaraima, ran riot and drove out Venezuelan immigrants on Saturday after a local restaurant owner was stabbed and beaten, residents and government officials said. The demonstrations forced hundreds of Venezuelans to flee back across the frontier on foot and residents set fire to the belongings they left behind […]

GENOA, Italy—Italy’s president demanded guarantees Aug. 18 that all the nation’s roads are safe following the Genoa highway bridge collapse, after he hugged and comforted mourners at a state funeral in the grieving port city. President Sergio Mattarella spoke quietly to victims’ families before the ceremony began on Genoa’s fairgrounds. Usually reserved in demeanor, Mattarella […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin danced arm-in-arm with Austria’s Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl at her wedding on Saturday, after receiving an invitation. Putin arrived in a car carrying a bouquet of flowers and accompanied, local media said, by a troupe of Cossack singers booked to serenade the newlyweds. He was on a stopover on his way […]

One bottlenose whale stranded on a small island off the coast of Reykjavik was helped back into the sea on Aug. 16 as another died on shore. The two whales were found beached on the rocky Engey island, just outside the Icelandic capital. Despite a rescue effort involving staff from whale watching companies and the […]

GENOA, Italy—One survivor of the Genoa bridge collapse was in his car as it plunged 45 meters (150 feet) to the ground along with falling sections of highway and concrete. He says he immediately understood that the structure was collapsing. “It came down, everything, the world came down,” said 33-year-old Davide Capello, a firefighter and […]

Turkey’s battered lira weakened more than 6 percent against the dollar on Friday, Aug. 17, after a U.S. warning that Ankara should expect more economic sanctions unless it hands over the detained American evangelical pastor Andrew Brunson. Brunson, called a “great patriot hostage” by President Donald Trump, has spent the better part of the past […]