She attended the elite Holton-Arms School for girls in the suburbs outside Washington. On weekends she strolled with friends on shopping trips through the Tysons Corner Center mall in Northern Virginia. Three American secretaries of state — Colin L. Powell, James A. Baker and Madeleine Albright — were regular guests in her parents’ home. These days, Princess Reema Bandar al-Saud, …

There was anxiety in the thin mountain air when the planet’s economic leaders gathered in January at Davos for the 54th meeting of the World Economic Forum. Donald Trump had just trounced Nikki Haley in the Iowa caucuses, all but securing the Republican nomination for president. Haley was reliable, a known quantity. A resurgent Trump, on the other hand, was …

Relatives and supporters of those abducted on Oct. 7 in Israel turned their weekly protest into a somber vigil on Saturday, remembering a hostage whose body was recovered this week in Gaza and whose plight outraged thousands at a nearby antigovernment protest. The Israeli military said on Saturday that it had retrieved the body of Elad Katzir, 47, in Khan …