Drone strikes in Moscow A number of attack drones were downed over Moscow yesterday, the first time civilian areas of the Russian capital had been touched directly by the Ukrainian conflict and a signal that a distant war might soon begin to feel somewhat less so for ordinary Russians. Apartment windows were shattered, and there […]
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North Korean Rocket Triggers ‘False Alarm’ Evacuation Alert in South Korea
SEOUL — North Korea on Wednesday launched a space vehicle carrying its first military reconnaissance satellite designed to monitor the South Korean and American militaries, South Korean defense officials said, briefly triggering “false alarm” evacuation alerts in South Korea and Japan. The South Korean military indicated hours later that the North Korean launch had been […]
Germany’s Tenuous Coalition Government Shows Strain
BERLIN — Germany’s coalition government was always an awkward trio of center-left Social Democrats, climate-conscious Greens and pro-business Free Democrats. Yet in the heady days after their election victory in 2021, the parties vowed to stick to a tradition of consensus-driven politics, keeping the drama behind closed doors. Those doors have now swung open. In […]
Drones Attack Moscow as Kyiv Is Hit Again: Latest Russia-Ukraine News
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia targeted the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, with yet another wave of attack drones early Tuesday, killing at least one person, setting residential buildings ablaze and extending a day of terror for the city’s residents. For the second night in a row and the 17th this month, explosions in different parts of Kyiv […]
Russia Targets Kyiv With Third Wave of Strikes in 24 Hours, Killing One
Russia unleashed another wave of attacks early Tuesday on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, killing at least one and prompting evacuations, extending a day of terror for the city’s residents that started with midday strikes. Explosions rang out in different parts of Kyiv overnight, according to local and military officials, sparking a fire in a high-rise […]
Kyiv Residents Scramble for Shelter from Daytime Russia Missile Barrage
Even in a city where people have adapted the routines of ordinary life to wartime, the spectacle unfolding overhead in Kyiv was a reminder that while the fighting has been concentrated hundreds of miles east, the Ukrainian capital still has a Russian bull’s-eye on it. Ballistic missiles began roaring in shortly after 11 a.m. Monday […]
Ugandan President Signs Anti-Gay Law That Includes Death Penalty
The president of Uganda signed a punitive anti-gay bill on Monday that includes the death penalty, enshrining into law an intensifying crackdown against L.G.B.T.Q. people in the conservative East African nation and dismissing widespread calls not to impose one of the world’s most restrictive anti-gay measures. The law, which was introduced in Parliament in March, […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
KYIV, Ukraine — Frightened pedestrians hurried to get off the streets of Ukraine’s capital and into underground shelters on Monday morning as Russian forces launched a rare daytime missile attack on Kyiv. Air-raid alarms sounded shortly after 11 a.m. local time, sending parents racing to get their children to safety and hospital workers to take […]
One Indian State Is Desperate for More Babies
Sikkim, nestled in the Himalayas and surrounded on three sides by Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet, stands out in the teeming diversity of India’s states. It has the country’s tallest peak. It is the world’s largest producer of smoky black cardamom. It also has India’s smallest population, not even three-quarters of a million people, and its […]
Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey Is Re-elected
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan beat back the greatest political challenge of his career on Sunday, securing victory in a presidential runoff that granted five more years to a mercurial leader who has vexed his Western allies while tightening his grip on the Turkish state. His victory means Mr. Erdogan could remain in power for at […]