Pandemic woes continue to disrupt the attempts of artists to resume live performances. Months after delaying their 25th anniversary reunion tour to early this year, The Fugees announced on Friday that the tour would be canceled altogether, saying the pandemic made performing safely too difficult. On Thursday, Adele postponed her Las Vegas residency only a […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Fighters from the Islamic State launched a brazen attack on a prison holding thousands of their comrades in northeastern Syria, setting off deadly clashes with the Kurdish-led militia that controls the area, Kurdish officials said Friday. The fighting continued throughout the day with numerous casualties, but there were conflicting reports of how […]
Near the height of the war against the Islamic State in Syria, a sudden riot of explosions rocked the country’s largest dam, a towering, 18-story structure on the Euphrates River that held back a 25-mile-long reservoir above a valley where hundreds of thousands of people lived. The Tabqa Dam was a strategic linchpin and the […]
The United Nations on Thursday adopted an Israeli resolution that condemns denial and distortion of the Holocaust, the Nazi genocide that killed nearly six million Jews and millions of others. Adoption of the resolution by the 193-member General Assembly, co-sponsored by Germany and supported by the United States and Russia among many others, took place […]
Both Russian and American officials sounded a pessimistic note after three rounds of talks last week, with one Russian diplomat saying that talks with the West were approaching a “dead end,” and Mr. Blinken offered little reason for optimism. Mr. Blinken said the United States did not make any formal proposals last week but merely […]
The mammoth, ethereally beautiful glaciers of the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, near the North Pole, bear the scars of climate change more than almost anywhere else on the planet. Over the past three decades, Svalbard has warmed twice as quickly as the rest of the Arctic region and seven times the global average. That is […]
A bitter dispute over Covid precautions in French schools turned into a political scandal on Tuesday as the local news media reported that the country’s education minister had been vacationing on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza while a contentious new testing protocol took shape. The minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, has led efforts to keep France’s schools […]
The N.B.A.’s Golden State Warriors on Monday distanced themselves from a partial stakeholder in the team after he said “nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs,” the predominantly Muslim minority that has faced widespread repression in China’s western Xinjiang region. Chamath Palihapitiya, a billionaire venture capitalist who owns a small stake in the Warriors, […]
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s former president and a leading opposition figure, Petro O. Poroshenko, returned Monday to Kyiv, where he faced possible arrest on charges of treason, adding internal political turmoil to the mounting threat of a Russian invasion. Mr. Poroshenko led Ukraine from 2014 until 2019, when he was soundly defeated by his rival, […]
KARACHI, Pakistan — A neuroscientist who was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she was accused of trying to kill American soldiers and plotting to blow up the Statue of Liberty. Since then, Aafia Siddiqui has spent almost 12 years in a federal prison in Texas. Now, investigators are looking into whether her story […]
