He also said that until Mr. Macron received a letter Wednesday morning from the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, telling him the French submarine deal was scrapped, Australia had given no indication that it would pull out of the deal. Australia had asked in June whether France believed its attack-class submarines were still up to […]
The country’s prime minister was linked to the president’s assassination. A senator tried taking power. A shooting meant to stop the takeover paralyzed the center of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The dramatic sequence of events unfolded over a single day, Tuesday. But most Haitians carried on with a shrug, seeing the struggle — if they noticed […]
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. I used to joke that someone in Melbourne ought to make a song to the tune of the 2 Pac song “California Love,” but instead of the line “California knows how to party,” the words would be […]
SEOUL — The Rev. Cho Yong-gi, the charismatic founder of one of the world’s largest megachurches, whose preaching of “can-do positive thinking” helped fuel the explosive growth of Christianity in a once-war-ravaged South Korea, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Seoul. He was 85. Mr. Cho, an emeritus pastor at the Yoido Full Gospel […]
“I continually reminded him,” General Milley is quoted as saying, “depending on where and what you strike, you could find yourself at war.” Later that day, General Milley spoke to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was growing increasingly concerned Mr. Trump would lash out and use military force. “This is bad, but who knows what he […]
MOSCOW — Sitting in the cramped kitchen of her suburban Moscow headquarters, Alyona Popova pointed to the five-story brick complex next door and explained why domestic violence is at the center of her campaign for a seat in the Duma, Russia’s lower house of Parliament. “In each entrance, we have a story of domestic violence,” […]
PARIS — It’s the news network that claims it tells viewers what the “woke” mainstream media won’t. It says it fights for endangered freedom of expression, even as it has been fined by the government’s broadcast regulator for inciting racial hatred. It is CNews — which in four short years became France’s No. 1 news […]
Republicans officials on Sunday made further threats of legal action against President Biden’s sweeping plan to get tens of millions of American workers vaccinated, with even those who openly urge that people get shots claiming that the mandate violated civil liberties. Gov. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska said he would do everything in his power to […]
The plight of the Afghan people came into stark relief on Monday when top United Nations officials warned that millions of people could run out of food before the arrival of winter and one million children could die if their immediate needs are not met. Secretary General António Guterres, speaking at a high-level U.N. conference […]
The U.S. falls behind on vaccinations As of Thursday, the U.S. ranks last among the Group of 7 nations for the percentage of its population that has received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, just behind Japan. Some 62.16 percent of Japanese people were at least partly vaccinated, compared to 61.94 percent of […]
