The International Space Station, photographed from a Russian spacecraft in 2018, was built as a symbol of post-Cold War cooperation between the world’s space superpowers.Credit…NASA/Roscosmos, via Reuters The new head of Russia’s space agency announced on Tuesday that Russia will leave the International Space Station after its current commitment expires at the end of 2024. […]
Month: July 2022
Brittney Griner’s Lawyers Argue for Leniency in Russian Court
Wearing a black and gray sweatshirt with the slogan “Black lives for peace” printed on the back, Brittney Griner, the W.N.B.A. star who has been detained in Russia on drug charges, appeared in a court near Moscow on Tuesday as her defense team continued to present evidence that she had not intended to break the […]
Eyeing Kherson, Ukraine Prepares an Ambitious Counterattack
KHERSON REGION BORDER, Ukraine — The road to Russian-occupied Kherson in southern Ukraine passes through a no man’s land of charred wheat fields and cratered villages. The tails of rockets stick out of asphalt and the boom of incoming and outgoing artillery ricochets off tidy, abandoned homes. Along a jagged frontline, Ukrainian forces are preparing […]
Pope Francis Apologizes to Canada’s Indigenous People: Live News Updates
MASKWACIS, Alberta — Pope Francis offered a sweeping apology to Indigenous people on their native land in Canada on Monday, fulfilling a critical demand of many of the survivors of church-run residential schools that became gruesome centers of abuse, forced assimilation, cultural devastation and death for over a century. “I humbly beg forgiveness for the […]
Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
Ukrainian soldiers in a village retaken from Russia near the border of Mykolaiv and Kherson Oblast.Credit…Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times ON THE BORDER OF THE KHERSON REGION, Ukraine — The road to Russian-occupied Kherson in southern Ukraine passes through a no-man’s land of charred wheat fields and cratered villages. The tails of rockets […]
A French University Confronts Medical Crimes and Its Nazi Past
STRASBOURG, France — For decades, students at the prestigious University of Strasbourg swapped rumors that human remains from Nazi victims, preserved as anatomical or pathological specimens, were still somewhere on campus. There was reason for suspicion. When Germany annexed the Alsace region of France in 1940, it had poured in money and resources to transform […]
Mossad Sheds New Light on Argentina Terrorist Attacks in 1990s
TEL AVIV — Two terrorist attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets in Buenos Aires in the 1990s that killed scores of people were carried out by a secret Hezbollah unit whose operatives, contrary to widespread claims, were not abetted knowingly by Argentine citizens or aided by Iran on the ground, according to an investigation by […]
Erdogan Remains a Headache for Biden, Even After Ukraine Deal Help
WASHINGTON — When Russia and Ukraine reached an agreement on Friday to unblock Ukrainian grain exports, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, played the role of benevolent statesman. Seated next to the United Nations secretary general in an Ottoman palace in Istanbul, Mr. Erdogan said the deal, which Turkey helped to broker, would benefit “the whole […]
Fears rise for a rights activist captured while fighting for Ukraine.
Maksym Butkevych made his name in Ukraine as a journalist and human rights activist, campaigning on behalf of refugees and internally displaced people and serving on the board of Ukraine’s chapter of Amnesty International. At the end of June, he was captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine, and his hard-earned reputation became a […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
In this image provided by his family, Maksym Butkevych is shown between his parents, Yevheniia and Oleksandr. Mr. Butkevych was captured in June and is now a prisoner of war held by Russia.Credit…via Oleksandr Butkevych Maksym Butkevych made his name in Ukraine as a journalist and human rights activist, campaigning on behalf of refugees and […]