He liquidated his retirement savings, taught himself to sail mostly via YouTube and moved to he Oregon coast, where he spent months refitting the $50,000 boat he bought.

Romania is gripped by a deep political crisis after a top court voided the previous election in which the far-right outsider topped the first round.

Authorities said Hadi Matar, a U.S. citizen, was attempting to carry out a decades-old fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s ...