World
A single cigarette can go for $45 in Gaza, and gangs are seeking to profit
A black market for cigarettes is booming in the besieged Gaza Strip, a window into the lawlessness and desperation in the enclave nine months into the war.
- by Miriam Berger and Hajar Harb
Opinion
US Votes 2024
I’ve been covering Biden for years. I’m surprised Democrats let him run again
- by Farrah Tomazin
Opinion & Perspectives
Children in a cancer hospital are not soldiers of war
The Russian missile attack on a Kyiv paediatric hospital has brought worldwide condemnation yet Russia blamed Ukraine air defences.
The Herald's View
Editorial
I’ve been covering Biden for years. I’m surprised Democrats let him run again
In 2020, the US president presented himself as a transitional figure who would unite the country before passing onto a new generation – yet here he is.
Farrah Tomazin
North America correspondent
For Democrats, replacing Biden will solve one problem but create another
Joe Biden is the ultimate decider on whether to stay on or to step aside, but key meetings this week may force his hand and open the door for Kamala Harris.
Bruce Wolpe
Senior fellow at the US Studies Centre and former political staffer
North America
Opinion
US Votes 2024
I’ve been covering Biden for years. I’m surprised Democrats let him run again
In 2020, the US president presented himself as a transitional figure who would unite the country before passing onto a new generation – yet here he is.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Opinion
US Votes 2024
For Democrats, replacing Biden will solve one problem but create another
Joe Biden is the ultimate decider on whether to stay on or to step aside, but key meetings this week may force his hand and open the door for Kamala Harris.
- by Bruce Wolpe
Opinion
US Votes 2024
Why Trump’s explosive Iran question stumped this former White House insider
- by Peter Hartcher
Europe
US officials say Russia unlikely to take much more Ukrainian territory
- by Julian E. Barnes and Eric Schmitt
Editorial
World elections
France’s far right did not win vote but are still waiting in the wings
- The Herald's View
Asia
This fairytale village in ruins symbolises state of China’s economy
These days the abandoned ruins stand as a mausoleum to Evergrande’s rapacious ambitions and a symbol of the sickness plaguing the real estate market.
- by Lisa Visentin
With nearly nude women, the Joker and pets, a Tokyo election descends into madness
Personal publicity stunts have hijacked Tokyo’s vote for a new governor, with nearly nude women, an AI character and a man practising his golf swing among the candidates.
- by Mari Yamaguchi
China anchors ‘monster ship’ in Philippine waters of South China Sea
- by Neil Jerome Morales
Stampede at religious event in India kills more than 100 mostly women and children
- by Biswajeet Banerjee and Krutika Pathi
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A single cigarette can go for $45 in Gaza, and gangs are seeking to profit
A black market for cigarettes is booming in the besieged Gaza Strip, a window into the lawlessness and desperation in the enclave nine months into the war.
- by Miriam Berger and Hajar Harb
Israeli strike kills 16 at Gaza school, military says it targeted gunmen
- by Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ramadan Abed
Reformist Pezeshkian wins Iran’s presidential runoff election, besting hardliner Jalili
- by Jon Gambrell and Amir Vahdat
Brazil’s ex-president indicted over undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia
- by Gabriela Sa Pessoa and Mauricio Savarese
