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Coptic Leader Criticizes Egypt’s Building Restrictions on Churches After Deadly Fire
CAIRO — After an electrical fire raced through a tiny Coptic Orthodox Church in central Cairo on Sunday and killed 41 worshipers, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt ordered the army to renovate the building immediately. Under the watch of soldiers, dozens of laborers worked throughout the night, dragging out charred beams and broken pipes,…
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Russian Attack in Kramatorsk Kills 2 civilians, Regional Military Leader Says
A Russian attack on the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine early Friday left two civilians dead, 13 others injured, and damaged dozens of homes, according to Ukrainian officials. Pavlo Kyrylenko, the regional military leader in eastern Donetsk Province, confirmed the attack in social media posts and shared a video of the damage caused by…
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Serbia’s Leader Rejects ‘Little Putin’ Label Amid Fears of Russian Meddling
BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia’s strongman leader, Aleksandar Vucic, is fed up with being reviled as a “little Putin” intent on aggression against his country’s fragile neighbors in the Balkans. For starters, Mr. Vucic noted wryly in an interview in the library of the presidential palace this month, “I am almost two meters tall.” That makes…
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Japan’s Leader Tries to Honor Abe’s Legacy, While Building His Own
TOKYO — Fumio Kishida has spent years trying to emerge from the shadow of Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan who was gunned down at a campaign rally on July 8. Ever since both were elected in 1993 to the Diet, as Japan’s Parliament is known, Mr. Abe had been the more prominent…
