Videos posted on social media and Iranian news sites showed harrowing scenes of water rushing into town centers and residential neighborhoods. Surging water collapsed walls, swallowed cars and drowned people as trapped onlookers cried for help, videos showed. In some areas, highways turned into lakes. The ancient city of Yazd, a UNESCO heritage site with […]
Breaking Agreement to Use a Condom Is a Sex Crime, Canada High Court Rules
TORONTO — It is a crime to renege on a promise to wear a condom during sex without a partner’s knowledge or consent, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled this week. The decision sends a British Columbia man back to trial for sexual assault, and sets legal precedent in Canada, further clarifying the law governing […]
Blinken speaks to Russia’s foreign minister for the first time since the war began.
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke on Friday to his Russian counterpart, Sergey V. Lavrov, and urged him to accept a proposal for the release of Brittney Griner and Paul N. Whelan, but reported no breakthrough. Mr. Blinken told reporters at a news conference that he had spoken to his Russian counterpart […]
Live Updates: Zelensky Says Ukraine’s Ports Are Ready to Ship Grain Under U.N. Deal
The Navi-Star cargo ship docked beside grain silos at the Port of Odesa on Friday.Credit…Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times ODESA, Ukraine —President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, visiting a port in the Odesa region on Friday, expressed hope that grain exports could begin within the coming days, as U.S. and European ambassadors called on […]
Hong Kong: Mirror Concert Accident to Be Investigated
The Hong Kong authorities will investigate why a large, heavy video screen fell from the ceiling during a concert by a popular boy band at a government-managed venue, injuring two dancers, officials said on Friday. The accident happened during a performance on Thursday night by Mirror, a 12-member band in the Chinese territory whose popularity […]
England Overhauls Medical Care for Transgender Youth
The National Health Service in England announced on Thursday that it was shutting down the country’s only youth gender clinic in favor of a more distributed and comprehensive network of medical care for adolescents seeking hormones and other gender treatments. The closure followed an external review of the Tavistock clinic in London, which has served […]
Viktor Bout Could Be Swapped for Brittney Griner. Who Is He?
Shortly after his conviction in 2011 on charges including conspiring to kill American citizens, the Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout relayed a defiant message through his lawyer, even though he faced the prospect of decades in prison. Mr. Bout, his lawyer said, “believes this is not the end.” More than a decade later, Mr. Bout, […]
Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
Ukrainian soldiers in a bunker in the south of the country last week.Credit…Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times Ukraine expressed a heightened sense of urgency over its looming counteroffensive in the south on Thursday as it said Russia was racing to bolster its forces in the region and taking further steps to solidify its […]
Phyo Zeya Thaw, Burmese Pro-democracy Rapper, 41, Is Executed
U Phyo Zeya Thaw, a Burmese hip-hop pioneer whose democracy-affirming lyrics led to a career in Parliament and, after Myanmar’s military coup last year, as a resistance leader, was executed on Saturday in Yangon, Myanmar, by the country’s military junta. He was 41. His execution, and those of three other political prisoners, were announced in […]
Russia-Ukraine News: Live Updates – The New York Times
Video Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said the Biden administration has made a “substantial proposal” during talks with Russia to release the W.N.B.A. player and the former Marine Paul Whelan.CreditCredit…Andrew Harnik/Associated Press WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken revealed on Wednesday that the United States had “put a substantial proposal on the […]