Ukrainian soldiers operated a drone in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on Sunday.Credit…Libkos/Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — Aid groups and civilians will not be able to enter Bakhmut starting on Monday, Ukraine’s military said, as fighting continued to intensify in Russia’s monthslong campaign to seize the strategic city in eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian Army said that it would […]
Month: February 2023
China’s Top Airship Scientist Said He Sent One Over North America in 2019
The balloon that was launched in July 2019, Professor Wu said then, was a “big guy,” nearly 330 feet in length and weighing several tons, which appears to be bigger than the balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina by an American fighter jet this month. “This is the first time […]
Earthquake Shatters Rebuilt Lives of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
First, Syria’s civil war drove Hind Qayduha from her home in the city of Aleppo. Then, conflict and joblessness forced her family to flee two more times. Two years ago, she came to southern Turkey, thinking she had finally found safety and stability. But when a powerful earthquake struck a week ago, it destroyed their […]
Amnesty in Turkey for Construction Violations Is Scrutinized After Quake
On the campaign trail in 2019, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey praised legislation that his political party had pushed through allowing property owners to have construction violations forgiven without bringing their buildings up to code. The move was risky in Turkey, a fault-ridden land prone to earthquakes that had tightened those same codes to […]
Across Paris, an Invader Unleashes His Art
PARIS — It all began down a narrow cobblestone road near Place de la Bastille. An artist affixed a mosaic of a Martian from the pioneering 1978 video game Space Invaders to a wall. He used square bathroom tiles that resembled pixels. Within the year, he had stuck 146 more to monuments, bridges and sidewalks. […]
A National Holiday – The New York Times
Super Bowl Sunday is akin to a national holiday, one of the few times of year that tens of millions of Americans do the same activity at the same time. By that standard, today may beat even Thanksgiving, given the variation in meal times. The Super Bowl is reliably the year’s most-watched broadcast, a status […]
Hazel McCallion, No-Nonsense Canadian Mayor for 36 Years, Dies at 101
Hazel McCallion, who as the longest-serving mayor in Canadian history transformed the sleepy Toronto suburb of Mississauga into a multicultural dynamo and the country’s sixth-largest city, died at her home there on Jan. 29, nine years after she ended her 36-year run. She was 101. Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario and a close friend […]
Solomon Perel, Jew Who Posed as a Hitler Youth to Survive, Dies at 97
Solomon Perel, a German Jew who saved himself from death by posing as a member of the Hitler Youth during World War II and later felt gratitude for the Nazi he pretended to be in order to live, died on Feb. 2 at his home in Givatayim, Israel, near Tel Aviv. He was 97. His […]
Ronald S. Lauder Reaches Agreement on Klimt Painting With Jewish Heirs
Ronald S. Lauder, the billionaire cosmetics heir and art collector, will continue to own a well-known painting by Gustav Klimt, which he has held for 50 years, after agreeing to the restitution and repurchase of the work from the heirs of a Jewish woman who had owned it before World War II. Terms of the […]
AKA, Influential South African Rapper, Is Fatally Shot
AKA, a popular South African rapper who helped create a brand of hip-hop that melds local sounds with Western influences, was fatally shot on Friday night outside a restaurant in the coastal city of Durban. The police said that AKA, 35, had been walking to his car on a popular nightlife strip shortly after 10 […]