In footage released by the Kremlin on New Year’s Eve, President Vladimir V. Putin is seen chatting with soldiers, exhorting them: “We can’t give up anything. We must only fight, only keep going.” He then adds: “Of course, there is still much that needs to be done.” As winter sets in and the one-year anniversary […]
Month: January 2023
Pele’s 24-Hour Funeral Attracted More Than 200,000 Mourners
SANTOS, Brazil — The city, it appeared, was asleep. The streets were empty, the shops were closed and a dog howled in the distance. Then, a few blocks from the soccer stadium that put the port city of Santos on the map, there were signs of life. Lots of it. Popcorn vendors. Men grilling meat. […]
Ukraine Grows More Adept at Defending Against Russian Drones: Live Updates
Fixing electrical wires at the site of a Russian missile strike in Kyiv on Sunday.Credit…Laura Boushnak for The New York Times Russia’s efforts to wear down Ukraine’s air defenses and incapacitate its energy infrastructure with exploding drones are being met with increased ability by Ukraine to shoot down nearly all of the lumbering Iranian-made weapons. […]
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Deadly Strike on Russians in Ukraine Exposes Moscow’s Military Failings
In one of their deadliest attacks yet on Russian forces, Ukrainians used American-made rockets to kill dozens — and perhaps hundreds — of Moscow’s troops in a New Year’s Day strike behind the lines, prompting outraged Russian war hawks to accuse their military of lethal incompetence. The strike by the HIMARS rockets killed 63 Russian […]
Pope Benedict Lies In State, Drawing Thousands of Mourners
Tens of thousands of people lined up outside St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City on Monday to pay last respects to Benedict XVI, the pope emeritus, who died on Saturday at age 95 and is now lying in state. The long line — a mix of Roman Catholic faithful and tourists — moved steadily, snaking […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
A hotel in Kyiv, Ukraine, was heavily damaged after being hit in a Russian strike on Saturday.Credit…Laura Boushnak for The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine — As small crowds gathered on Saturday at the sites of damage from missile strikes, people talked about close calls, a New Year’s Eve disrupted and a burning anger at […]
North Korea Vows to Escalate Nuclear Threat Against the South
SEOUL — North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, vowed to expand his country’s nuclear capabilities against rival South Korea “exponentially,” indicating that he would escalate his military brinkmanship in the new year despite sanctions from abroad and economic woes at home. During a five-day meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party that ended in Pyongyang on Saturday, […]
U.S. Pours Money Into Chips, but Even Soaring Spending Has Limits
In September, the chip giant Intel gathered officials at a patch of land near Columbus, Ohio, where it pledged to invest at least $20 billion in two new factories to make semiconductors. A month later, Micron Technology celebrated a new manufacturing site near Syracuse, N.Y., where the chip company expected to spend $20 billion by […]
As Lula Becomes Brazil’s President, Bolsonaro Flees to Florida
BRASÍLIA — President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected to take the reins of the Brazilian government on Sunday in an elaborate inauguration, complete with a motorcade, music festival and hundreds of thousands of supporters filling the central esplanade of Brasília, the nation’s capital. But one key person will be missing: the departing far-right […]