Hanadi Abu Zant hasn't been able to pay rent on her apartment in the occupied West Bank for nearly a year after losing her permit to work inside Israel. When her landlord calls the police on her, she hides in a mosque.

10 Feb 2026 13:15 ✍️ RSS THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Thousands of people gather each evening in Milan to watch the Olympic cauldron, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's intricate knot patterns, as it swells and pulsates with colored light to an original soundtrack in a spectacle that is quickly becoming a focal point of the Milan-Cortina Winter Games.

10 Feb 2026 11:53 ✍️ RSS THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Liu Zhiquan was waiting for a 30-plus-hour train journey to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, some 1,242 miles (2,000 kilometers) from Beijing, where he works in construction.

10 Feb 2026 11:01 ✍️ RSS THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Manila's top envoy to Washington expressed confidence Tuesday that the United States will not abandon the Philippines as it fights Beijing's assertiveness in the disputed South China Sea - even as Donald Trump and Xi Jinping seek more direct talks to resolve differences.

10 Feb 2026 10:58 ✍️ RSS THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Much like the Olympic flame, there is another symbol of triumph and transcendence - far less known - that graces one host city after another: a one-of-a-kind, wooden cross.

10 Feb 2026 05:04 ✍️ RSS THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The deadliest fire in Hong Kong in decades last year left thousands of residents without some of their friends, family or the place they called home. More than two months later, the occupants of the Wang Fuk Court apartment complex are not only waiting for answers about what happened, but longing for a new place.

09 Feb 2026 23:00 ✍️ RSS THE WASHINGTON TIMES