The Supreme Court is struggling to draw a line between two kinds of rights: those afforded to gay people and protections for free speech. Yesterday, the justices heard a highly anticipated case about whether a Colorado website designer who opposes same-sex marriage should be compelled to serve gay couples. The designer, Lorie Smith, said she […]
Month: December 2022
Peru’s President Pedro Castillo Faces Impeachment Attempt
SAN LUIS DE PUÑA, Peru — At a livestock market high in the Andes Mountains in northern Peru, Estaurofila Cieza recalled the joy that erupted in the region when a fellow campesino, or poor farmer, was elected president last year. “Everyone celebrated. Every last one of us,” Ms. Cieza said. “We thought, ‘finally, someone who […]
Cyril Ramaphosa Unlikely to Face Impeachment in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress, is standing by its president, Cyril Ramaphosa, rejecting calls that he face an impeachment hearing over accusations that he kept a large sum of cash in a sofa at his game farm and failed to report a crime when it was stolen. The decision by […]
Missiles Target Ukraine’s Energy Grid; Blasts Reported at 2 Bases in Russia: Live Updates
A gas station in Frankfurt, Germany.Credit…Michael Probst/Associated Press Europe and the United States started enforcing on Monday two of the toughest measures aimed at curbing Russia’s income from oil, the principal source of cash used to fund its nearly 10-month-old war in Ukraine. The first, a price cap initiative led by the United States, aims […]
Brussels Terrorist Attack Trial Opens, Reviving Painful Memories
BRUSSELS — The mammoth trial against 10 men accused of involvement in the March 2016 terrorist attacks in Brussels began on Monday, almost seven years after the bombings that killed 32, wounded hundreds more and shook multicultural, multiethnic Belgian society to the core. The bombings at the Brussels Airport and at a subway station in […]
Russia’s Economy Is Threatened by War and Sanctions
KALUGA, Russia— Valery Volodin, a welder at a sprawling Volkswagen plant in western Russia, relaxed for most of the summer at his dacha, or weekend house, planting his garden and looking after his children. Mr. Volodin, 41, had little choice: The car factory closed down in March, joining more than 1,000 multinational companies that had […]
Werner Franke, Who Exposed East German Doping Program, Dies at 82
Werner Franke, an esteemed molecular biologist who, with his wife, exposed many of the details of East Germany’s state-sponsored, illicit athlete doping program that brought the country a striking surge of Olympic glory in the 1970s and ’80s, died on Nov. 14 in Heidelberg, Germany. He was 82. His son, Ulrich, said the cause was […]
Iran Shutting Down Morality Police,Official Says, After Months of Protests
Iran has abolished the morality police, according to remarks by the attorney general carried on state media, following months of protests set off by the death of a young woman who was being held by the force for supposedly violating the country’s strict Islamic dress laws. The decision, reported by state news outlets late Saturday […]
Omega X Members Say Their K-pop Agency Mistreated Them
Members of the K-pop group Omega X seemed to be riding high a few weeks ago when their first international tour ended with a successful gig in Los Angeles. But that feeling of triumph was short lived. After the October show, an executive from their management agency screamed at the group at an L.A. hotel […]
In War, Ukrainians Forage for Mushrooms in Forests With Mines
ZDVYZHIVKA, Ukraine — Deep in a pine forest to the north of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, a beautiful mushroom warmed its brown cap in the gentle autumn sun — it was an all but irresistible scene for Ukrainian mushroom hunters. But all around there was danger. Cut through the mossy forest floor were line after […]