The Hong Kong authorities will investigate why a large, heavy video screen fell from the ceiling during a concert by a popular boy band at a government-managed venue, injuring two dancers, officials said on Friday. The accident happened during a performance on Thursday night by Mirror, a 12-member band in the Chinese territory whose popularity […]
Month: July 2022
England Overhauls Medical Care for Transgender Youth
The National Health Service in England announced on Thursday that it was shutting down the country’s only youth gender clinic in favor of a more distributed and comprehensive network of medical care for adolescents seeking hormones and other gender treatments. The closure followed an external review of the Tavistock clinic in London, which has served […]
Viktor Bout Could Be Swapped for Brittney Griner. Who Is He?
Shortly after his conviction in 2011 on charges including conspiring to kill American citizens, the Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout relayed a defiant message through his lawyer, even though he faced the prospect of decades in prison. Mr. Bout, his lawyer said, “believes this is not the end.” More than a decade later, Mr. Bout, […]
Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
Ukrainian soldiers in a bunker in the south of the country last week.Credit…Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times Ukraine expressed a heightened sense of urgency over its looming counteroffensive in the south on Thursday as it said Russia was racing to bolster its forces in the region and taking further steps to solidify its […]
Phyo Zeya Thaw, Burmese Pro-democracy Rapper, 41, Is Executed
U Phyo Zeya Thaw, a Burmese hip-hop pioneer whose democracy-affirming lyrics led to a career in Parliament and, after Myanmar’s military coup last year, as a resistance leader, was executed on Saturday in Yangon, Myanmar, by the country’s military junta. He was 41. His execution, and those of three other political prisoners, were announced in […]
Russia-Ukraine News: Live Updates – The New York Times
Video Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said the Biden administration has made a “substantial proposal” during talks with Russia to release the W.N.B.A. player and the former Marine Paul Whelan.CreditCredit…Andrew Harnik/Associated Press WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken revealed on Wednesday that the United States had “put a substantial proposal on the […]
Senior European Parliament Member Targeted as Spyware Abuse Spreads
BRUSSELS — As the number of politicians, activists and journalists hacked with spyware grew to include prime ministers and prominent dissidents in the European Union, the world’s biggest democratic club, the European Parliament in April started checking its members’ phones. About 200 devices in, it hit its first positive. A high-profile European Parliament deputy from […]
Anti-U.N. Protests in Congo Leave 15 Dead, Including 3 Peacekeepers
Demonstrations began on Monday in front of the United Nations base in Goma, the capital of North Kivu, and then spread to other towns in the province, including Butembo, with protesters demanding the departure of the peacekeeping forces, claiming that they had failed to protect civilians. That sentiment has been gathering pace in recent weeks, […]
7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Northern Philippines
MANILA — A strong earthquake struck the northern Philippines on Wednesday morning, killing at least one person, shaking buildings and causing some structures to collapse, officials said. The 7.0 magnitude quake struck at 8:43 a.m. at a depth of 10 kilometers, or six miles, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. The epicenter […]
Facing ‘Putin’s Energy Blackmail,’ Europe Agrees to Cut Russian Gas Use
BRUSSELS — Fearing Russia could shut the taps this winter, the European Union agreed to a deal on Tuesday to curb natural gas consumption starting next week, the latest show of resolve and solidarity in its push and shove with the Kremlin over President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The deal highlighted the continued […]