The seesaw fight for a sunflower field raged for weeks with neither Ukrainian nor Russian forces gaining an upper hand, but for Ukraine’s army, that counts as a win in the crucial battle for access roads into the city of Bakhmut. Inside the battered eastern Ukrainian city, the site of one of the longest-running battles […]
Month: April 2023
Ireland Readies a Warm Welcome for Biden, ‘the Most Irish’ President Since J.F.K.
When John F. Kennedy became the first serving U.S. president to visit Ireland, in 1963, he was hailed as a returning hero in New Ross, County Wexford, his family’s ancestral home. Richard M. Nixon was met in 1970 with a few thrown eggs, but by otherwise friendly crowds, and toured the graves of his Quaker […]
U.S. Sends Attack Submarine to Middle East
The United States Navy said on Saturday that it had deployed a guided missile submarine to the Middle East, a day after the U.S. 5th Fleet and its partners released a warning advising all ships to proceed with caution following escalating tensions between Iran and Israel, according to a U.S. Navy spokesman. U.S. military and […]
Overlooked No More: Alice Ball, Chemist Who Created a Treatment for Leprosy
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. On New Year’s Day in 1922, a scientific paper in an obscure medical journal described a drug that would help revolutionize the treatment of leprosy in Hawaii and beyond. It would also […]
Ukraine Says Russia Is Preparing to Evacuate Civilians From Occupied Areas of South
The Russian occupation authorities are preparing to evacuate civilians from territory that Moscow controls in southern Ukraine before a potential counteroffensive by Ukrainian forces, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday. Ukraine is widely expected to launch a counteroffensive in the coming weeks to recapture territory from Russian forces, aided by an influx of sophisticated weapons […]
China to Do Military Drills Around Taiwan
China announced on Saturday that it would conduct three days of military drills around Taiwan, days after the Taiwanese president, Tsai Ing-wen, met with the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, in California. China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, had condemned the meeting. It is the highest-level government reception a […]
New Leak of Classified Documents on Social Media Alarms Pentagon
WASHINGTON — A new batch of classified documents that appear to detail American national security secrets from Ukraine to the Middle East to China surfaced on social media sites on Friday, alarming the Pentagon and adding turmoil to a situation that seemed to have caught the Biden administration off guard. The scale of the leak […]
Taliban Bar Women From U.N., Threatening Afghanistan’s Last Lifeline
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan government this week barred female Afghan employees at the United Nations from working in Afghanistan, according to U.N. officials, a move threatening one of the last lifelines of badly needed aid in a country where millions risk starvation and restrictions on women have hampered aid operations in recent months. The […]
Russia-Ukraine War: Latest Updates – The New York Times
A senior Ukrainian official said on Friday that a leak of documents detailing U.S. and NATO efforts to support a possible Ukrainian counteroffensive appeared to be a Russian disinformation operation aimed at creating doubt about Kyiv’s military plans. The classified war documents, which were posted this week on social media, included a “very large amount […]
The Latest: War in Ukraine: Leader of Russian Mercenary Group Affirms Ukraine’s Hold on Bakhmut
BEIJING — President Emmanuel Macron of France and Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, appealed on Thursday for a rapid return to peace talks to end the war in Ukraine, but Mr. Xi did not indicate whether he would use his close relationship with Moscow to push Russia to negotiate. Greeted with great pomp at the […]