Mr. Putin has also deployed Special Operations forces — some 1,500 troops — near and even inside the Ukrainian border, the officials told lawmakers. Those troops, they said, work closely with the Russian military intelligence agency, the G.R.U., which has in the past directed cyber and other attacks on foes. European officials tend to be […]
OTTAWA — A protest in Ottawa last week led by truckers against pandemic measures in Canada that has since paralyzed the country’s capital was expected to expand on Saturday with the arrival of hundreds more trucks. Police and officials in Toronto, Canada’s largest city, and Quebec City, that province’s capital, braced for similar demonstrations. What […]
CAIRO — Rescuers working day and night raced against the clock early Saturday to try to save a 5-year-old boy, his face distraught and bloodied, after he was trapped in a 100-foot-deep well in a sleepy Moroccan village for more than three days. The operation to save the boy, named Rayan, who fell to the […]
The daring pre-dawn raid by U.S. Special Operations forces in Syria that resulted in the death of the Islamic State’s leader offered a vivid reminder that no matter how much the world might want to move on, the chaos in Syria continues to reverberate. The sudden roar of American Apache attack helicopters in a pastoral […]
The 2022 Winter Olympics begin this week in Beijing, with the opening ceremony set for Friday, the official start of the Games. (Competition, it should be noted, will already be underway by then, in curling, women’s ice hockey and freestyle skiing; the Games — Winter or Summer — don’t easily fit into 17 days anymore.) […]
Video Video footage shows the aftermath of a U.S. raid in which the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed.CreditCredit…Yahya Nemah/EPA, via Shutterstock President Biden said on Thursday that the leader of the Islamic State died during a raid by U.S. Special Operations commandos in a risky pre-dawn attack in northwest […]
ISTANBUL — Twelve migrants died on Wednesday in Turkey, most of them found with little clothing in a freezing field near the border with Greece, according to several Turkish officials. A Turkish government minister said they froze to death and accused Greek border guards of stripping the migrants and forcing them back across the frontier […]
Shintaro Ishihara, a Japanese author turned firebrand nationalist politician who served as the governor of Tokyo and famously stoked diplomatic tensions with China over disputed islands, died on Tuesday in Tokyo. He was 89. His death was confirmed by his sons, who told reporters in Tokyo that Mr. Ishihara had suffered a relapse of pancreatic […]
Whoopi Goldberg, the comedian and actress who is also a co-host of the ABC talk show “The View,” will be suspended for two weeks, the network announced Tuesday night, after she said repeatedly during an episode of the show that aired on Monday that the Holocaust was not about race, comments that come at a […]
But I would be surprised if a media narrative were the full story. What else might explain the dissatisfaction? Even if you forget about inflation, the experience of living and working in the U.S. economy is often unpleasant right now. Among the problems: Public buses and subways are unreliable, mostly because of Covid absences, lengthening […]
