BRUSSELS — As the number of politicians, activists and journalists hacked with spyware grew to include prime ministers and prominent dissidents in the European Union, the world’s biggest democratic club, the European Parliament in April started checking its members’ phones. About 200 devices in, it hit its first positive. A high-profile European Parliament deputy from […]
Anti-U.N. Protests in Congo Leave 15 Dead, Including 3 Peacekeepers
Demonstrations began on Monday in front of the United Nations base in Goma, the capital of North Kivu, and then spread to other towns in the province, including Butembo, with protesters demanding the departure of the peacekeeping forces, claiming that they had failed to protect civilians. That sentiment has been gathering pace in recent weeks, […]
7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Northern Philippines
MANILA — A strong earthquake struck the northern Philippines on Wednesday morning, killing at least one person, shaking buildings and causing some structures to collapse, officials said. The 7.0 magnitude quake struck at 8:43 a.m. at a depth of 10 kilometers, or six miles, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. The epicenter […]
Facing ‘Putin’s Energy Blackmail,’ Europe Agrees to Cut Russian Gas Use
BRUSSELS — Fearing Russia could shut the taps this winter, the European Union agreed to a deal on Tuesday to curb natural gas consumption starting next week, the latest show of resolve and solidarity in its push and shove with the Kremlin over President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The deal highlighted the continued […]
E.U. Agrees to Curb Natural Gas Use: Live Russia-Ukraine War News
The International Space Station, photographed from a Russian spacecraft in 2018, was built as a symbol of post-Cold War cooperation between the world’s space superpowers.Credit…NASA/Roscosmos, via Reuters The new head of Russia’s space agency announced on Tuesday that Russia will leave the International Space Station after its current commitment expires at the end of 2024. […]
Brittney Griner’s Lawyers Argue for Leniency in Russian Court
Wearing a black and gray sweatshirt with the slogan “Black lives for peace” printed on the back, Brittney Griner, the W.N.B.A. star who has been detained in Russia on drug charges, appeared in a court near Moscow on Tuesday as her defense team continued to present evidence that she had not intended to break the […]
Eyeing Kherson, Ukraine Prepares an Ambitious Counterattack
KHERSON REGION BORDER, Ukraine — The road to Russian-occupied Kherson in southern Ukraine passes through a no man’s land of charred wheat fields and cratered villages. The tails of rockets stick out of asphalt and the boom of incoming and outgoing artillery ricochets off tidy, abandoned homes. Along a jagged frontline, Ukrainian forces are preparing […]
Pope Francis Apologizes to Canada’s Indigenous People: Live News Updates
MASKWACIS, Alberta — Pope Francis offered a sweeping apology to Indigenous people on their native land in Canada on Monday, fulfilling a critical demand of many of the survivors of church-run residential schools that became gruesome centers of abuse, forced assimilation, cultural devastation and death for over a century. “I humbly beg forgiveness for the […]
Latest Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
Ukrainian soldiers in a village retaken from Russia near the border of Mykolaiv and Kherson Oblast.Credit…Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times ON THE BORDER OF THE KHERSON REGION, Ukraine — The road to Russian-occupied Kherson in southern Ukraine passes through a no-man’s land of charred wheat fields and cratered villages. The tails of rockets […]
A French University Confronts Medical Crimes and Its Nazi Past
STRASBOURG, France — For decades, students at the prestigious University of Strasbourg swapped rumors that human remains from Nazi victims, preserved as anatomical or pathological specimens, were still somewhere on campus. There was reason for suspicion. When Germany annexed the Alsace region of France in 1940, it had poured in money and resources to transform […]