A 32-year-old psychologist in Britain developed blood clots and died 10 days after he took his first dose of AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine, a report released by a London coroner on Wednesday found, in a highly rare case of a fatal reaction to the vaccine. The inquest, which was requested by Charlotte Wright, the widow of […]
Month: April 2023
Flocking to One of the Few Specks of Land in Sight of a Total Eclipse
For the tens of thousands of astrophotographers, eclipse chasers and cosmically minded tourists contemplating the best site from which to view Thursday’s total solar eclipse, the town of Exmouth, perched on a finger of land jutting from Australia’s west coast, was the simplest solution to a problem of extreme scarcity. The narrow ribbon across the […]
Your Thursday Briefing – The New York Times
India’s population is set to pass China’s India, which has 1.428 billion people, is on the cusp of surpassing China as the world’s most populous country. (It’s already surpassed mainland China, new U.N. estimates show; soon it will have more people than the mainland and Hong Kong combined.) That has led some to hope for an “Indian century” […]
How Russian Propaganda Plagues Parts of Eastern Ukraine
KOSTYANTYNIVKA, Ukraine — Standing outside her home, pointing out the rocket crater in her driveway, a Ukrainian resident of the frontline town was angry, and quick to assign responsibility for the attack. “They are killing us,” she said. “Our own guys are shelling us.” The woman, named Natasha, blamed the rocket strike in Kostyantynivka not […]
Russia-Ukraine War News Live Updates: U.S. Sends More Aid
MUSKO NAVAL BASE, Sweden — With Finland now safely in the arms of NATO, the Biden administration turned its attention on Wednesday to the famously (and formerly) neutral Sweden, as Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said he hoped that objections to the country’s NATO accession would be ironed out by midsummer. Turkey and Hungary, […]
How a Terra-Cotta Warrior Lost Its Thumb to a Delaware Shoe Salesman
If a 24-year-old shoe salesman slips away from a science museum’s ugly-sweater party and breaks into a closed exhibition of terra-cotta warriors, it is entirely possible that nothing bad will happen. Or he could steal a warrior’s thumb. After the salesman, Michael Rohana, confessed to doing that in Philadelphia six years ago, federal prosecutors sought […]
Who Are Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces?
The Sudanese Army and a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces were once aligned. The R.S.F. fought on behalf of the Sudanese Army, until its outgrown influence and the ambitions of its leader, Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, put the two groups in direct confrontation. Who are the Rapid Support Forces? The Rapid Support […]
Seeking to Calm Unrest, Macron Calls for a ‘New Pact of Life and Work’
PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron, straining for a tone of reconciliation after months of bitter conflict over his plan to raise the retirement age in France, expressed regret for the first time that a consensus was not reached and appealed for a new “national élan” based on “calm, unity, ambition and action.” In a 13-minute […]
Sudan Live Updates: At Least 97 Dead and Hundreds Injured in Fighting
After starting as a camel trader who led a feared militia accused of atrocities in Darfur, Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan has steadily amassed influence and riches in Sudan over the past two decades as he rose toward the pinnacle of power. Even when his one-time patron, the autocratic ruler President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, was ousted […]
Battles for Control of Sudan Stretch Into a Third Day
NAIROBI, Kenya — The forces of rival generals battling for control of Sudan clashed for a third day on Monday in the capital, Khartoum, as one of Africa’s largest nations descended deeper into violence. The fighting has pitted a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces against the Sudanese Army — a longstanding rivalry […]