MEXICO CITY — Around 11 p.m. last Thursday, one of Mexico’s most famous news anchors was driving home from work through his bucolic neighborhood in the capital when gunmen on a motorcycle pulled up and started shooting at him. They hit his car several times before racing off. The anchor, Ciro Gómez Leyva, escaped unharmed, […]
Month: December 2022
Zelensky Takes Plea To Congress as Russia Pounds Ukraine: Live Updates
A close ally of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia met with China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, on Wednesday, a sign of the countries’ alignment amid Russia’s deepening international isolation. Dmitri A. Medvedev, the former Russian president and prime minister, held a previously unannounced meeting with Mr. Xi in Beijing as Chinese and Russian naval […]
Zelensky Will Meet With Biden in Washington and Address Congress, Officials Say
WASHINGTON — President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine will meet with President Biden at the White House on Wednesday and later deliver a prime-time address to a joint session of Congress, a daring trip abroad intended to reaffirm American support for his country, White House officials announced late Tuesday night. “Three hundred days ago, Russia launched […]
Gunman in Canada Condo Shooting Was Being Forced Out of Building
A gunman who killed five people on Sunday in a high-rise building outside Toronto where he lived had been ordered to appear in court the next day, where a board was seeking to force him to sell his apartment. The gunman, Francesco Villi, 73, who was armed with a semiautomatic handgun, also injured another tenant […]
At a Holiday Celebration in Southern Ukraine, ‘Kids Still Need Miracles.’
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — Some of the children who sat on Saint Nicholas’s lap asked for iPhones. Others asked for peace. Others, said Yevhen Vorobyov, who was dressed as Saint Nicholas, asked for air defense. Some just wanted clean water, he said, “so that they can finally have a normal shower.” It is far from a […]
Putin Admits Difficulties in Occupied Ukrainian Areas: Live Updates
The Ukrainian military in the frontline city of Bakhmut on Sunday.Credit…Tyler Hicks/The New York Times In perhaps his most daring visit to the front lines since Russia invaded Ukraine 300 days ago, President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to the ravaged city of Bakhmut on Tuesday morning to rally the soldiers there and demonstrate his defiance of […]
Jose Maria Sison, Philippine Communist Party Founder, Dies at 83
Jose Maria Sison, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its long-running guerrilla insurgency, died on Friday in exile in the Netherlands, where he had lived for decades. He was 83. His death, in a hospital in Utrecht, was announced by a spokesman for the party, Marco Valbuena, who called him a […]
King Charles III Is the New Face of U.K. Money
LONDON — In recent months, as Britain has healed from mourning its queen, the beginning of a new reign has started to show in the country’s daily life. England’s World Cup team sang “God Save the King.” For the first time in decades, a king welcomed a new prime minister. Now, as Britons prepare for […]
Putin Visits Belarus as Ukraine Warns of New Offensive: Live Updates
A drone attack at a power plant in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday.Credit…Sergei Supinsky/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images KYIV, Ukraine — Explosions rang out before dawn on Monday in Kyiv and in other Ukrainian cities as officials said that Russia had launched another drone attack targeting power plants and other key infrastructure. The Ukrainian Air Force […]
Countries Adopt a Sweeping Agreement to Protect Nature
MONTREAL, Quebec — Roughly 190 countries early on Monday approved a sweeping United Nations agreement to protect 30 percent of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030 and to take a slew of other measures against rampant biodiversity loss, a mounting under-the-radar crisis that, if left unchecked, jeopardizes the planet’s food and water supplies as […]