During that period, South Korea sent warships to the Philippines and Thailand, submarines to Indonesia, and combat and trainer aircraft to the Philippines and Thailand. Russia also lost a few potential deals. Indonesia canceled an order for 11 Russian fighter jets last year, buying American and French planes instead. For many Southeast Asian nations, the […]
Far Right’s Rise in Israel Driven by Anxiety and Fear
LOD, Israel — The sectarian unrest between Arabs and Jews that swept across Israeli cities in May 2021 helped end Benjamin Netanyahu’s last term in office. Seventeen months later, fallout from that same unrest has helped put him back in power — at the head of one of the most right-wing coalitions Israel has ever […]
Astronomers Find a Black Hole in Our Cosmic Back Yard
Almost but not quite in time for Halloween, astronomers announced on Friday that they had discovered the closest known black hole. It is a biggie, a shell of yawning emptiness 10 times as massive as the sun, orbiting as far from its own star as the Earth is from ours. Not to worry, however: This […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
Water supplies in the basement of a school that has been prepared as a gathering point in Kyiv, Ukraine.Credit…Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times A fire truck parked outside the school.Credit…Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times A classroom set up in the basement.Credit…Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine — Rolling […]
In Bid to Show It Is Open, Hong Kong Bends Covid Rules … for Some
Hong Kong is eager to show the world that the city is open for business after years of pandemic restrictions. Officials this week even found themselves willing to bend some rules for visitors — as long as they could afford it. Bankers in town for the Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit were told they could […]
The Search for Missing Russian Soldiers
In Rostov, Ms. Chistyakova managed to identify one soldier because he had an unusual bear claw tattoo on his right hand. His body had arrived at the morgue on June 3, more than two months before she found him. Nobody was actively looking because his parents were dead, she said, so she called his stepmother […]
New US Command and $400 Million More in Aid Signal Longterm US Support for Ukraine
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is setting up a new command to oversee how the United States and its allies train and equip the Ukrainian military, the Pentagon announced on Friday along with a new package of $400 million in security assistance. The Pentagon’s commitment to supplying Ukraine with weaponry and the new command are […]
Russia-Ukraine War Updates: Kherson Braces for Battle
WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner arrives to a hearing at the Khimki Court, outside Moscow in August.Credit…Kirill Kudryavtsev/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images U.S. officials met with the jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner on Thursday for the first time since a Russian court rejected her appeal on a drug-possession conviction, and the White House said […]
Russia-Ukraine War: U.N. Inspectors Find No Evidence for Russian ‘Dirty Bomb’ Claim
Ukrainian soldiers returning to a village to spend the night last week before heading to the front line in the Kherson region. Ukrainian officials have said they expect a brutal battle for the city of Kherson.Credit…Ivor Prickett for The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine — On the day after Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February, […]
Kherson Braces for Battle as Russian Administration Evacuates
KYIV, Ukraine — With Russian and Ukrainian forces apparently girding to battle for the city of Kherson, signs of Kremlin rule are disappearing from the city’s streets while the remaining residents, unsure what to believe and afraid of what comes next, are stocking up on food and fuel to survive combat. Russian soldiers, patrols and […]