Month: March 2023

Russia and Ukraine Step Up Recruitment, Bracing for Fights Ahead

Their soldiers battling and dying across muddy trenches, ruined towns and sprawling minefields, Russia and Ukraine have stepped up recruitment drives to bolster their badly depleted militaries, in another sign that both sides are steeling themselves for a long war. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia signed a decree on Thursday authorizing a larger-than-normal spring […]

Under the Taliban, Afghanistan Is Trying to Make Due With Less

The last lunch for the last president of Afghanistan was vegetable fritters, salad and steamed broccoli. Nasrullah, the head chef at the presidential palace in Kabul, fried the fritters and steamed the vegetable himself. He tasted it all to make sure it was good — it was, although steamed broccoli has a limited range of […]

Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, center, at Parliament in Ankara on Wednesday.Credit…Adem Altan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ISTANBUL — Since Finland announced its intention to join NATO last year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, one of the largest boulders obstructing its path was the will of one man: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of […]

In Taiwan’s Waters, a Hunt for Tiny, Wriggling ‘Gold’

The hunters waded into the water after dark, their headlamps beaming as they tossed nets into the crashing waves over and over again. All night, they shook muck from the nets, sorting out their prizes: wriggling, transparent baby eels, each no thicker than a vermicelli noodle. They were worth their weight in gold, or nearly. […]

In Berlin, King Charles Lauds Germany’s Support for Ukraine

King Charles III of Britain addressed Germany’s Parliament, the Bundestag, on Thursday during his first international trip as monarch, emphasizing the close ties between the two nations and applauding the military aid Berlin has given to Ukraine. Alternating between German and English, Charles’s 25-minute speech elicited applause as he affirmed the “strength of the partnership” […]

Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates

The Russian authorities said on Thursday that they had detained an American journalist for The Wall Street Journal and accused him of espionage, marking a new escalation in Moscow’s tensions with the United States and with foreign media organizations since the start of its invasion of Ukraine. The journalist, Evan Gershkovich, a correspondent based in […]

The Biggest Battle in Ukraine

Early this month, the head of NATO warned that the fierce battle over the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut could end with a Russian victory within days. Three weeks later, his prediction has yet to come true. Ukraine and Russia are still fighting for control of the city. The stalemate has come at great cost for […]

Your Thursday Briefing – The New York Times

Soldiers amass near nuclear plant Russia and Ukraine are ramping up their military forces in southern Ukraine. Now, concerns are rising about what an escalation in fighting could mean for the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the top U.N. nuclear official said yesterday. “The situation is not improving,” said the official, Rafael Mariano Grossi, who crossed […]

Yang Bing-yi, Who Brought Soup Dumplings to the World, Dies at 96

HONG KONG — Yang Bing-yi, the founder of Din Tai Fung, the Taiwanese restaurant chain whose signature soup dumplings have attracted crowds around the world and one of the rare Asian restaurants to win a Michelin star, has died at 96. The company announced his death in a statement on Saturday. It did not say […]

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