A man who in the mid-1990s killed the heir to the Italian fashion house Gucci was arrested on suspicion of shooting his own son on Tuesday before attempting to kill himself in the Italian province of Pisa, the police said. Investigators were still trying to piece together what happened in the small town of Santa…
Britain on Thursday lifted sanctions that had been imposed on several Syrian government agencies during the rule of the now-deposed president, Bashar al-Assad, in the latest sign of Western engagement with the country’s new leaders. In a notice updating its list of those sanctioned, the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office named a dozen organizations…
A year of rapidly slumping poll results for the Liberal Party that has governed Canada for nearly a decade was bad enough. But then there came the almost unthinkable: a defeat in a special election in downtown Toronto, the party’s longtime electoral fortress. The defeat last year, many analysts believe, triggered the chain of events…
A teenage student at a French high school in the western city of Nantes stabbed four other students during a lunch break on Thursday, killing one of them and injuring the others before he was overpowered and arrested, the authorities said. The police did not immediately identify the assailant, but Le Parisien newspaper said a…
Mr. Steggle suggests that Mrs. Shakespeare’s movements should be reconsidered with an eye to her “possible absences from London rather than her perpetual absence.” The note to Mrs. Shakespeare concerned money for a fatherless child named John, who was an apprentice, though not under the famous playwright, with the last name “Butte” or “Butts.” It…
Priests, pilgrims and cardinals dressed in black robes and red sashes mixed in the streets of the Vatican on Thursday as tens of thousands of Catholics paid their respects to Pope Francis and preparations for the funeral accelerated. The conclave to select the next pope has not yet started — the Vatican has not announced…
Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated sharply on Thursday as the Pakistani government announced a series of sweeping retaliatory measures, including the closing of its airspace to Indian carriers, a day after India moved to punish Pakistan over a deadly militant attack in Kashmir. After a high-level meeting of Pakistan’s National Security Committee, the government…
Russia launched a huge attack on Kyiv early Thursday, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 60 others in the Ukrainian capital just hours after the Trump administration again lashed out at President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and threatened to abandon peace talks. The assault was the deadliest on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv,…
Farmers in Africa that produce some of the world’s most prized coffee are in a scramble to comply with new European Union environmental rules that require them to document the origin of every shipment of beans. The new measure, coming into force at the end of this year, is designed to prevent deforestation driven by…
When the Trump administration proposed a peace plan that would recognize Russian rule of the Crimean peninsula, the response from Kyiv was a loud and unequivocal no. Doing so would violate the nation’s Constitution, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine told reporters. It would never happen, he declared, not even in exchange for the end of…
