The mural shows Indian calvary troops advancing from both sides on a cornered British army, guns blazing. In one part of the 18th-century battlefield, the victorious commander sits on an elephant holding a red rose. To a leading British historian of India, the roughly 32-foot-long masterpiece, which goes on sale at auction in London on […]
LVIV, Ukraine — When diplomats from Russia and Ukraine met for talks in the 19th-century Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul on Tuesday, their host urged the antagonists to reach a cease-fire “to the benefit of everyone.” Those words from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey may have resonated in particular with a Russian oligarch in the […]
President Biden, in a passionate speech from Warsaw on Saturday, proclaimed the West’s complete support for Ukraine. “We stand with you, period,” Biden said. The next day, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, offered a different message: He criticized the West for not doing enough. In a videotaped speech to Ukrainians, Zelensky contrasted their “determination, heroism and […]
Nokia said this month that it would stop its sales in Russia and denounced the invasion of Ukraine. But the Finnish company didn’t mention what it was leaving behind: equipment and software connecting the government’s most powerful tool for digital surveillance to the nation’s largest telecommunications network. The tool was used to track supporters of […]
Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Emirati foreign minister, left, with Yair Lapid, his Israeli counterpart, in Sde Boker on Sunday.Credit…Amit Elkayam for The New York Times SDE BOKER, Israel — Israel was hosting four Arab foreign ministers and the U.S. secretary of state, Antony J. Blinken, on Monday in a groundbreaking summit that reflects […]
JERUSALEM — Israel’s meeting with top diplomats from four Arab countries and the United States, set to start on Sunday, is one of the strongest signs yet that the country is beginning to reap the dividends of normalization deals reached two years ago, a profound realignment of Middle Eastern powers that has been accelerated by […]
A fading peace Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could mark a troubling shift: the end of a relatively peaceful global era. Though it has not always felt like it, the world has since the 1990s endured less war than any other period in recorded history. Wars and resulting deaths plummeted with the conclusion of the Cold […]
LONDON — A toddler cries on his mother’s lap while his twin naps a few feet away. The mother hushes their older siblings, who are watching videos on an iPad in the next room. The mother, Seema Mohammed; her husband, Eid Mohammed; and their five children have lived in two adjoining hotel rooms south of […]
Margaret Atwood always brushes aside suggestions that her dystopian novels are prescient. But in recent years, it has become difficult to see them as anything but that. She appeared as the guest on Friday’s episode of “The Ezra Klein Show,” a New York Times Opinion podcast. I encourage you to listen to the lively, and […]
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Valentyna Vereteska, 31, did not even pack clothes or other belongings. She and her 11-year-old daughter fled their hometown, Mykolaiv, which has since come under Russian bombardment. They waited at the Polish border for 15 hours in frigid temperatures, with limited access to food, she said, before being able to cross. […]
