Iran Sent Ballistic Missiles to Russia, U.S. and European Officials Say
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 19:45:38 +0000 U.S. and European countries had warned of sanctions if Iran provided weapons that could be used against Ukraine. President Biden’s lame-duck status could hamper a response.: Israel Strikes Schools Turned Shelters in Jabaliya, Gaza Medics Say
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 15:58:54 +0000 Israel said it had launched a “precise strike” against Hamas militants operating from two school compounds in northern Gaza, as the family of a slain American lashes out at Israel.: Super Typhoon Yagi Makes Landfall in Vietnam After Pounding Southern China
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 19:31:30 +0000 At least four people have died and thousands were evacuated after Yagi, one of the strongest storms to hit northern Vietnam, brought powerful winds and torrential rains.: Tony Blair’s Advice on Leadership: Tend to Your Legacy
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 07:12:39 +0000 In an interview, the former British prime minister discussed his new book ‘On Leadership,’ the dysfunction of U.S. politics, and deflected questions about Elon Musk’s influence.: In Papua New Guinea, Pope Francis Hears Plea for Climate Action
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 09:00:06 +0000 Pope Francis is visiting Papua New Guinea, which has been exploited for its natural resources and is imperiled by rising sea levels.: Ukrainian Street Artist Documents War Against Russia, One Stark Mural at a Time
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 07:26:04 +0000 Using ruins as his canvas, Gamlet Zinkivskyi has captured life in wartime Ukraine in dozens of grim, gripping and harshly beautiful paintings. “Broken, but invincible,” read one captioned work.: Indonesia Is One of the World’s Biggest Sources of Catholic Priests
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 04:22:03 +0000 A seminary on Flores, a Catholic-majority island in Indonesia, ordains so many priests that a lot of them go abroad to serve the faithful.: In France Rape Trial, a Daughter Talks of Torment
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 22:26:56 +0000 In court, the woman said she was traumatized not only by what prosecutors said happened to her mother but also by fear that she herself might have been abused.: Distracted and Divided, Russian Security Service Misses Threats
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 18:48:58 +0000 The Ukrainian offensive over the border caught Moscow’s intelligence agencies by surprise, experts say. It wasn’t the first time that has happened during the war.: American Killed at West Bank Protest Was a Campus Organizer
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 08:27:20 +0000 Her trip to the West Bank, where she was shot on Friday, was Ms. Eygi’s latest effort in years of activism that began nearly a decade ago when was still a teenager.: Twitter Changed Soccer. There’s a Risk X Will Do It Again.
Sun, 08 Sep 2024 02:28:32 +0000 The world’s most popular pastime has been irrevocably shaped by its exposure to social media. That evolution can still go awry.: Fire at School Dormitory in Kenya Kills at Least 18 Students
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:06:12 +0000 At least 70 students are still unaccounted for, although officials urged people not to jump to conclusions about their fate.: China Stops Foreign Adoptions, Ending a Complicated Chapter
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 01:07:58 +0000 Beijing said the move was in line with international trends, as more countries have limited such adoptions. Many would-be adoptive families were left in limbo.: Eagles Players Feared Crime in Brazil. Is Philadelphia More Dangerous?
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 18:42:28 +0000 Some N.F.L. players called Brazil dangerous ahead of the league’s first game in South America on Friday. Statistics show their home city is deadlier.: Family of American Slain in the West Bank Demands an Independent Inquiry
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 21:15:57 +0000 With witnesses and Palestinian officials accusing Israeli soldiers of firing the fatal shots, “an Israeli investigation is not adequate,” the family said in a statement.: C.I.A. and MI6 Chiefs Discuss Ukraine’s Incursion Into Russia and Gaza War
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 20:54:38 +0000 Appearing together publicly for the first time in the history of their agencies, the heads of the U.S. and British intelligence services discussed Ukraine’s incursion into Russia and the war in Gaza.: Ukrainian Forces Block Russian Advance on a Key Eastern Town
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 16:05:57 +0000 Russia’s drive toward Pokrovsk has stalled along one part of the frontline, but its troops continue to advance in other parts of eastern Ukraine, and its long-range aerial attacks continue.: India’s Epidemic of Cow Vigilantism Unnerves Nation’s Muslims
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 16:13:12 +0000 An unexpectedly narrow victory at the polls for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu-first agenda has not cooled simmering sectarian tensions, as some had hoped.: The U.S. Open Concludes
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 18:20:01 +0000 Let us consider the grief of the lapsed sports fan.: Online Credit Unions Offering High Interest Rates on Savings May Be Fakes
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 10:02:15 +0000 Ontario’s financial regulator has issued warnings about three websites illegally claiming to be credit unions, but it is powerless to close them.: The Pivotal Decision That Led to a Resurgence of Polio
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 09:02:17 +0000 In 2016, the global health authorities removed a type of poliovirus from the oral vaccine. The virus caused a growing number of outbreaks and has now arrived in Gaza.: Meet the Team Climbing Trees in the Amazon to Better Understand Carbon Stores
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 09:01:50 +0000 A small team in a remote corner of Colombia is surveying every tree in an effort to better understand how much planet-warming carbon the Amazon actually stores.: How Telegram Became a Playground for Criminals, Extremists and Terrorists
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 18:33:21 +0000 Drug dealers, scammers and white nationalists openly conduct business and spread toxic speech on the platform, according to a Times analysis of more than 3.2 million Telegram messages.: West Bank Residents Survey Destruction as Israeli Forces Withdraw
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 22:44:24 +0000 A 10-day raid by Israeli troops into the occupied territory has been one of the most devastating in years, with at least 39 people killed, according to Palestinian officials.: Nell McCafferty, Larger-Than-Life Irish Journalist, Dies at 80
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 21:53:14 +0000 Her pugnacious writing on women’s rights, gay rights and other issues helped turn her country into one of the most progressive in Europe.: U.N. Panel Calls for International Force in Sudan to Protect Civilians
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 17:29:16 +0000 The country’s brutal civil war has led to the killing, rape and torture of civilians, including children, as it threatens to destabilize neighboring countries.: American Woman and Palestinian Girl Killed in Separate West Bank Incidents
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 14:29:38 +0000 In a separate incident, a 13-year-old Palestinian girl was also fatally shot, part of the rising toll of West Bank violence during the war in Gaza.: Ukraine’s Zelensky Presses Western Allies for More Weapons
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 00:20:35 +0000 The Ukrainian leader argued that escalating military pressure on Russia, combined with diplomacy, was the best way to motivate Moscow to seek peace.: Hamas’s Release of Hostage Videos Inflames Divisions in Israel
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 15:55:00 +0000 The fourth recording in as many days of a hostage killed in Gaza has added to pressure on the Israeli government to reach a cease-fire deal with Hamas.: Qatar’s Crucial Role in the Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire Talks
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 13:54:21 +0000 The emirate has used its influence with Hamas to press for a truce with Israel. But “the last word is with those on the battlefield,” one expert said.: Israeli Military Withdraws From Jenin After 10-Day Raid
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:29:42 +0000 The operation killed 21 people, including children, and caused widespread destruction of streets, homes and businesses, according to Palestinian news media and residents.: Against This Mighty Paralympic Team, a Close Loss Can Feel Like a Win
Sun, 08 Sep 2024 02:28:03 +0000 Other teams give themselves an A for effort after playing the Dutch women’s wheelchair basketball team, the favorite for the gold medal at the Paris Games.: Typhoon Yagi Expected to Strengthen Before Hitting Vietnam
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 21:32:44 +0000 Yagi, one of 2024’s strongest storms, hit the southern Chinese island of Hainan on Friday. It is forecast to make landfall in Vietnam on Saturday.: Is Brisbane Ready to Be the Equal of Sydney and Melbourne?
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 05:24:35 +0000 Many don’t see Brisbane in the same light as the other two cities, but the Queensland capital is showing it, too, has cultural heft.: Friday Briefing
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 04:09:33 +0000 Donald Trump’s sentencing on federal charges.: Nurses Win a Bigger Role as Doctors Strike in South Korea
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 15:04:31 +0000 As hospitals struggle from a monthslong walkout, nurses have picked up some of the slack. A new law gives them more responsibilities and, they say, greater recognition.: Are Pacific Islands a ‘Dumping Ground’ for Accused Priests?
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 04:01:11 +0000 Over a decades-long period, more than 30 Catholic priests and missionaries moved to remote island nations after they had allegedly abused children in the West, or had been found to do so.: Purported Rembrandt Painting Found in a Maine Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 23:27:11 +0000 “Portrait of a Girl,” a 17th-century work believed to be by the Dutch master, had been hiding in a home in Maine.: Woman in France Testifies Against Husband Accused of Bringing Men to Rape Her
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 12:26:39 +0000 Gisèle Pelicot spoke of the horror of being told by the police that they had evidence her husband had drugged her for years and brought men into their home to join him in raping her.: Anti-Polio Campaign in Gaza Enters New Phase, Hours After Deadly Strike
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:01:10 +0000 As the mass vaccination campaign shifted Thursday from central to southern Gaza, an Israeli strike reportedly killed four in an area where inoculations had just concluded.: Friday Briefing: A Judge Weighs a Monumental Trump Decision
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:22:29 +0000 Plus, the clothes that changed men’s fashion.: OPEC Plus Delays Plan to Increase Oil Output
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:16:12 +0000 OPEC Plus will extend its cuts until at least December. Demand has weakened, and other countries, including the United States, are expected to continue to increase production.: Russian Military Intelligence Members Indicted Over Ukraine Cyberattack
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:18:53 +0000 The indictment unsealed on Thursday comes as the United States expands its hunt for Russia’s most elite cyberwarriors.: How Much Screen Time Should Toddlers Have? None, Sweden Says.
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:58:46 +0000 Children under the age of 2 should not be exposed to any screens, Swedish public health authorities said, part of a growing effort to limit phone use by youngsters.: Surprising New Research Links Infant Mortality to Crashing Bat Populations
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 01:12:40 +0000 Without bats to eat insects, farmers turned to more pesticides, a study found. That appears to have increased infant deaths.: German Police Shoot Gunman Dead Near Israeli Consulate in Munich
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:04:44 +0000 The shootout with an 18-year-old Austrian came on the anniversary of the attack on the Munich Olympics that left 11 Israelis dead, and was being investigated as a possible terrorist attack.: U.S. Charges American Commentator Who Works for Russian State TV
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:38:36 +0000 Dimitri K. Simes, who was an adviser to Donald J. Trump’s first campaign, and his wife, Anastasia Simes, are accused of violating U.S. sanctions.: Boko Haram Kills at Least 170 Villagers in Nigeria Attack
Sat, 07 Sep 2024 00:10:15 +0000 Boko Haram killed at least 170 villagers in northeastern Nigeria, community leaders say, in what is likely one of the deadliest attacks in recent years.: Dismissing Kursk, Putin Says Ukraine’s East Is Russia’s Main Goal
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:39:53 +0000 Dismissing Ukraine’s recent invasion of Kursk, the Russian leader said Kyiv made a mistake in trying to force Moscow to divert its forces from the Donbas region.: Israeli Raids Become a Near-Daily Reality for Many Palestinians
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 20:10:14 +0000 As an Israeli offensive against Palestinian militant groups stretched to a 10th day, residents said many people were trapped in their homes out of fear.: How Swing State Politics Are Sinking a Global Steel Deal
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:04:15 +0000 As the Biden administration nears a decision to block the proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel, the debate over national and economic security is being dwarfed by presidential politics.: Blinken Visits a Haiti Wracked by Corruption and Gangs
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 23:49:19 +0000 The United States has played a supporting role behind Kenya’s deployment of a security force tasked with helping the Haitian police combat gangs.: Macron Names Michel Barnier to Be French Prime Minister, Breaking Impasse
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 11:39:54 +0000 The president’s choice of Michel Barnier, after an extraordinary delay, inflamed opponents on the left who came out on top in an inconclusive election.: Fugitive Ex-Mayor Whose Case Gripped the Philippines Is Arrested in Indonesia
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:58:52 +0000 Officials have accused Alice Guo of helping criminal syndicates involved in online scams and human trafficking, and have questioned her about whether she was born in China.: Pope Finds Fervent Fans Among Indonesia’s Transgender Community
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:21:40 +0000 For many trans women living on the fringes of the nation’s society, the Catholic Church is a haven, and Pope Francis a personal hero.: Racing the Clock to Document ISIS Genocide of Iraq’s Yazidis
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:10:00 +0000 For years, a U.N. team has painstakingly exhumed mass graves, but now the Iraqi government is ordering it to leave. Many sites remain unexamined.: In the Paralympic Fix-It Shop, Plenty of Fractures but No Blood
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:27:30 +0000 Repair technicians at the Paris Games fix everything from bent wheelchair frames to broken sunglasses.: When Gambia Banned Female Genital Cutting, a Defiant 96-Year-Old Resisted
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 20:40:26 +0000 Yassin Fatty, a traditional practitioner of female genital cutting in the West African nation of Gambia, became the first to be convicted there. But her case led to a backlash and a popular campaign to make it legal again.: Solar Farms Look to Produce Something Apart From Power: Pollinator Friendly Habitat
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 11:02:43 +0000 The sites fight climate change and can help with another global crisis: the collapse of nature. But so far, efforts to nurture wildlife habitat have been spotty.