7 killed in another mass shooting in California Seven people were shot to death yesterday afternoon in San Mateo County, Calif., the local sheriff’s office said, the second mass shooting in the state in three days. The shooting happened around 2:20 p.m. local time at two separate locations about 30 miles south of San Francisco, […]
Month: January 2023
Mexican Ex-Lawman Took Money from Cartels He Pursued, Prosecutors Say
The corruption trial of Genaro García Luna, the man who was once the face of Mexico’s violent war on drug trafficking, began on Monday with radically different descriptions of the defendant. In their opening statement, federal prosecutors said that for more than a decade, Mr. García Luna led a double life, taking millions of dollars […]
Power Outage Sweeps Pakistan, Dropping Millions Into Darkness
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Millions of Pakistanis lost electricity Monday as major power outage swept across the country, the longest in recent years and a breakdown that put the focus back on the country’s battered and poorly maintained power grid. Pakistan has been plagued by frequent outages and blackouts in recent years, and the latest to […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, inspecting a Leopard 2 tank during a visit to an army training center in Ostenholz, Germany, in October.Credit…David Hecker/Getty Images Germany’s foreign minister said that Berlin would not stop Poland from sending German-made tanks to Ukraine, while Poland’s prime minister vowed to build a coalition of nations willing to donate some […]
IVF Offers Hope in China, Even to the Government
It was a cold and overcast morning in November, but one full of promise for Guo Meiyan and her husband: They would finally get a chance to start a family. As Ms. Guo, 39, was wheeled on a gurney into a hospital room where a doctor transferred her eggs, which had been harvested and fertilized, […]
Zelensky Urges Ukrainians to Remain Unified
With winter conditions bogging down military troops and leaving both sides looking ahead to spring offensives, President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday called on Ukrainians from all regions to remain unified. His comments came in a speech marking Unity Day, a holiday created to commemorate events that took place more than a century ago — and […]
Netanyahu Fires a Top Minister to Comply With a Supreme Court Ruling
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Sunday dismissed a senior minister recently convicted of tax fraud to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that disqualified the minister from serving, shaking the right-wing government just weeks after it came to power. By complying with the court’s ruling to remove the minister, Aryeh Deri, Mr. Netanyahu […]
Peru’s Deadly Protests – The New York Times
While some people living in urban areas dismissed these demonstrators as extremists, at least one trusted poll shows a majority of Peruvians support the protests. What has the government done to address this unrest? The new president, Dina Boluarte, called a national state of emergency, an exceptional measure limiting guarantees to certain civil rights. The […]
China Celebrates Lunar New Year After ‘Zero Covid’ With Caution
Sheng Chun had not visited his parents in their mountain village in southern China for more than three years because China’s “zero Covid” restrictions made travel difficult. Then the country abandoned its stringent pandemic rules, and he decided to take a long-anticipated road trip. With his son and wife, Mr. Sheng, 43, embarked on a […]
For Reporter, Trauma Comes With Exposing Ugly Truths of a Brutal Conflict
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — For Mariam Ouédraogo, retelling the stories of the lashings and rapes of women by armed groups in Burkina Faso can be as traumatic as when she was documenting these atrocities as a journalist. But it is a horror she is asked to replay again and again, at a great toll. Ms. […]