ImageFace masks being handed out at John F. Kennedy International Airport in December.Credit…Karsten Moran for The New York Times With in-flight and airport mask mandates slated to be lifted in the United States next month, a flight attendants’ union is pushing the Biden administration to extend the requirement until more people are vaccinated. In a […]
A coronavirus testing center in North London in December.Credit…Andrew Testa for The New York Times Since the start of the pandemic, Clare Dawson has paid close attention to the government’s announcements of new coronavirus restrictions, to see if it was safe enough for her to leave her parents’ home in Surrey, England. On Monday, she […]
MOSCOW — A tough global response to moves by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia against Ukraine began to take shape on Tuesday as European nations prepared to impose sanctions and Germany halted a key gas pipeline, but the Russian leader remained defiant in the face of worldwide condemnations. A day after Mr. Putin recognized two […]
WASHINGTON — Russia’s decision to order troops into Ukraine on Monday presented the United States and Europe with the challenge of deciding how quickly to move in imposing stiff sanctions on Moscow, seeking to balance punishment, deterrence and maintaining unity among the allies. President Biden’s initial reaction was cautious, limited to issuing a narrow set […]
ImageRussian President Vladimir V. Putin chairing a meeting with members of the Security Council via a video link last week in Moscow.Credit…Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik, via Reuters MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is holding an unscheduled meeting of his Security Council on Monday, the Kremlin said, declaring that “tensions are rising” as the warnings […]
KYIV, Ukraine — Even as rocket attacks continued in eastern Ukraine, and as Russian soldiers remained massed at the borders for what Western leaders call an imminent invasion, people in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, paused on Sunday to remember another moment of peril: the gunning down, eight years ago, of dozens of protesters by Ukraine’s government, […]
ImageQueen Elizabeth this month. Buckingham Palace announced on Sunday that she has been infected by the coronavirus.Credit…Pool photo by Joe Giddens LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II has been infected with the coronavirus, Buckingham Palace said on Sunday, becoming one of the world’s most prominent figures to battle the virus and deeply rattling the country she […]
ImagePolice vehicles and municipal buses at a convention center near the airport in Ottawa. Credit…Ian Austen/The New York Times The Ontario provincial police mobilized outside Ottawa’s city center on Thursday, in what appeared to be preparation for a promised clampdown on protesters who have paralyzed the capital of Canada for three weeks. In the early morning, […]
France and several of its Western allies said on Thursday that they would begin a “coordinated withdrawal” of their military forces from Mali, accusing the junta that recently came to power there of obstructing antiterrorist operations that the French Army has been spearheading in the Sahel region over the past decade. Jihadist groups have spread […]
michael barbaro From The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily. [music] Today: Russia is making preparations for what many fear may be a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, prompting warnings from the U.S. of serious consequences if it does. I spoke to my colleague, Moscow bureau chief Anton Troianovski, about what Vladimir […]
