The Russian soldiers who occupy Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine seemed excited about the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, the Russian holiday that marks the surrender of Nazi Germany in World War II. The soldiers posted videos on social media, verified by The New York Times, of themselves hanging colorful posters and banners with messages in…
The conclave to elect the next pope is now underway at the Vatican. The cardinals — the prelates who are just below the pope in the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy — will vote by secret ballot for a successor to Pope Francis until one candidate earns a two-thirds majority. While we may not know what’s…
Agatha Christie is dead. But Agatha Christie also just started teaching a writing class. “I must confess,” she says, in a cut-glass English accent, “that this is all rather new to me.” The literary legend, who died in 1976, has been tapped to teach a course with BBC Maestro, an online lecture series similar to…
The conclave to elect the next pope is now underway at the Vatican. The cardinals — the prelates who are just below the pope in the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy — will vote by secret ballot for a successor to Pope Francis until one candidate earns a two-thirds majority. While we may not know what’s…
Will the India-Pakistan conflict escalate further? A number of Indian aircraft went down in Pakistan after India conducted airstrikes on Pakistan and the Pakistani-held area of Kashmir — two or three, according to Indian officials, Western diplomats and local media, and five planes and at least one drone, according to Pakistan. The question now is…
It is disquieting to recall the moving ceremony on the beaches of Normandy that marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day 11 months ago, a celebration of the ironclad alliance between the United States and Europe, and their shared resolve to meet “the test of ages” and defend Ukraine. That phrase from former President Joseph R….
In one image, a plume of smoke obscures the vibrant sunrise over a Himalayan landscape. In another, men carry a casket past soldiers on the verdant grounds of a damaged mosque. The famed beauty of Kashmir has once again been scarred by military confrontation. Indian strikes on Wednesday hit several sites on the Pakistani-administered side…
By agreeing to meet with the Trump administration to discuss trade, China is seeking to cast itself as the responsible one in a bruising superpower competition that has roiled the global financial system and set off fears of a recession. For weeks, China had publicly said that it would not engage in trade talks with…
Indian aircraft went down after the country launched attacks against Pakistan this week, in what it said was retaliation for a terrorist attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed scores of people and caused tensions between the two nations to boil over. The exact number and variety of lost aircraft is not yet clear. Two or…
A coalition of states led by Washington, Colorado and California sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, charging that it was unlawfully withholding billions of dollars allocated by Congress for electric-vehicle charging stations across the United States. The 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law provided $5 billion to states to build stations around the country. So far, 71…
