A 14-year-old boy was missing on Monday evening and believed to have drowned while swimming in the River Thames, according to London’s police service, as thousands flocked to stretches of water to escape Britain’s scorching heat wave. Late Monday afternoon, London’s Metropolitan Police was alerted to reports that a child had entered the river in […]
July 6, 2022, 11:00 p.m. ET July 6, 2022, 11:00 p.m. ET Smoke and fire in O Barco de Valdeorras in the Galencia region of northwestern Spain on Sunday. Extreme heat is fueling forest fires across the country.Credit…Brais Lorenzo/EPA, via Shutterstock The extreme heat wave that has enveloped Spain and Portugal and is spreading to […]
The family and friends of Liza Dmytriyeva brushed away tears on Sunday as four men carried her coffin into the cathedral, where a photo of the smiling girl was nestled between roses and teddy bears three days after she was killed by a Russian cruise missile strike. The death of Liza, a 4-year-old with Down […]
Not only did Ms. Mordaunt urge Britons to vote for Brexit, but she also played a minor, though memorable, part in the campaign by warning that Turkish migrants would flock to Britain when their own country joined the European Union, something she claimed Britain would be unable to block. The statement was erroneous: Britain, like […]
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — During his painful encounters with a series of Arab strongmen here in Saudi Arabia this weekend, President Biden kept returning to a single reason for renewing his relationship with American allies who fall on the wrong side of the struggle he often describes as a battle between “democracy and autocracy.” “We […]
President Biden will meet with leaders of nine Arab states on Saturday, focusing on security and energy.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Biden will meet in Saudi Arabia on Saturday with leaders from the United States’ closest partners in the Arab world to discuss working together to contain Iran and bring stability […]
President Biden with the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank on Friday.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times JERUSALEM — President Biden said on Friday that now was not the time to restart peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, but insisted that he remained committed to a two-state solution to their conflict and […]
JERUSALEM — This may be President Biden’s first visit to the Middle East since he took office, but he is no stranger to regional politics and diplomacy. Few leaders can match his claim to have known every Israeli prime minister over half a century, starting with Golda Meir in 1973, or his long record of […]
From the moment an agreement was reached in 2015, the Israeli government has been implacably opposed to the nuclear deal with Iran. Increasingly, though, high-ranking members of the Israeli defense and intelligence establishments are saying that a new agreement along the lines of that pact would be in Jerusalem’s best interest. The divide over the […]
A bus carrying Ukrainians evacuated in May from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol arriving at in the village of Bezimenne, nearer to the Russian border, in May.Credit…Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters Russian authorities have “interrogated, detained, and forcibly deported” between 900,000 and 1.6 million Ukrainian citizens, including 260,000 children, from their homes into Russian territory, often to […]
