President Joe Biden’s advisers are working on setting up a meeting with Xi Jinping and maintaining a dialogue after the Chinese president emerged from the Communist Party congress last week with a tighter grip on the country, a White House spokesman said. John Kirby, a spokesman for Biden’s National Security Council, said the US would have no official comment on ...

Six Palestinians were killed in the West Bank overnight, and more than 30 were injured, in an Israeli military operation. The operation against the Lion’s Den group, which the military says was planning a number of attacks against Israelis, was the deadliest night of violence in the West Bank and Jerusalem since the start of the year. It comes a ...

Ukraine’s allies are increasingly concerned that desperation in the Kremlin over an unrelenting string of battlefield failures may lead Russia to escalate its war, possibly using a massive attack on a target like a dam or even a weapon of mass destruction. For the moment, there’s no sign Moscow is actually making preparations for such a strike, even as it ...