WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had a rare phone call with his Russian counterpart in the aftermath of a collision between a Russian warplane and an American spy drone, as senior Pentagon leaders tried to move swiftly to prevent the incident from increasing tensions between the two superpowers. Mr. Austin said he […]
Month: March 2023
Pension Vote Looms in France After Protests: Live Updates
France’s Senate approved President Emmanuel Macron’s widely unpopular plans to raise the retirement age by two years on Thursday, setting the stage for a decisive, if far more unpredictable, vote in the National Assembly, the lower house, later in the day. After waves of protests and rolling strikes that disrupted public transportation and left garbage […]
Finland’s President Visits Turkey as Country Awaits Decision on NATO Bid
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had a rare phone call with his Russian counterpart in the aftermath of a collision between a Russian warplane and an American spy drone, as senior Pentagon leaders tried to move swiftly to prevent the incident from increasing tensions between the two superpowers. Mr. Austin said he […]
TikTok Pushed by U.S. to Resolve National Security Concerns
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration wants TikTok’s Chinese ownership to sell the app or face a possible ban, TikTok said on Wednesday, as the White House hardens its stance toward resolving national security concerns about the popular video service. The new demand to sell the app was delivered to TikTok in recent weeks, two people […]
U.S. Will Continue Drone Flights After Russian Jet Incident: Live Ukraine War Updates
Ukrainian soldiers from the 28th Brigade fired toward Russian positions in Bakhmut from Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, on Tuesday.Credit…Tyler Hicks/The New York Times Ukraine’s top military commander said on Tuesday that blocking Russian advances in the ruined city of Bakhmut remained of “paramount strategic importance” and vowed that the Ukrainian military would hold the line there […]
Garbage Piles Up in Protest Against France’s Pension Change
Mounds of food waste piled in view of the Eiffel Tower. Small cobblestone streets lined with overflowing garbage bins. The bank of the Seine skirted by heaps of trash. For more than a week now, garbage workers in parts of Paris and other cities across France have been on strike, protesting President Emmanuel Macron’s plan […]
Court in Italy to Rule on Convictions of 2 Americans in Police Officer’s Killing
Italy’s highest court is expected to rule on Wednesday on appeals by two Americans convicted in the killing of an Italian police officer in Rome in July 2019 after a chaotic evening and a small-time drug deal gone wrong, a case that eventually drew international attention. The Americans, Finnegan Elder, 23, and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, […]
U.S. Says Russian Fighter Jet Hit American Drone Over Black Sea
WASHINGTON — A Russian warplane struck a U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday, hitting the drone’s propeller and causing its American operators to bring it down in international waters, according to the Pentagon, in the first known physical contact between the Russian and American militaries since the war in Ukraine started last […]
Polish Court Convicts Rights Activist of Aiding an Abortion by Providing Pills
Ms. Wydrzynska, who has been an abortion rights activist in Poland for the past 16 years, said in an interview last summer with The Times that she had always been careful to provide only instructions on buying and using abortion medications, and not to provide the pills themselves. But in February 2020, she said in […]
Russia-Ukraine War: Live Updates – The New York Times
GENEVA — The United Nations continued on Tuesday to try to broker a deal that would allow Ukraine to keep exporting its grain past Russian naval vessels blockading the Black Sea, after Moscow said it would extend the agreement only for 60 days, rather than the 120 sought by Kyiv. The Black Sea Grain Initiative […]