A United States-brokered cease-fire in Sudan appeared to be on shaky ground on Tuesday as gunfire and loud explosions erupted in Khartoum, the capital, threatening continued efforts by thousands of people to flee a conflict that has ripped through Africa’s third-largest nation for more than a week. In pockets across Khartoum, residents reported low-flying warplanes […]
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Russian Shelling Cuts Power to Kherson as Lavrov Defends Strikes: Live Updates
Waiting at a food stand operating on a generator in a darkened city after a wave of Russian missile strikes on energy facilities across Ukraine last week.Credit…Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times As Ukrainian officials warned that Moscow was preparing to launch yet another wave of missile strikes aimed at destroying the nation’s energy […]
Saudi Arabia and U.S. Trade Accusations Over Oil Cuts
The kingdom said it had rejected the Biden administration’s urging for a one-month delay to the reduction in output. That could have prevented a price spike before the American midterm elections.
U.K. Government Goes Full Tilt on Tax Cuts and Free-Market Economics
The new administration’s proposals are a sharp break from the era of Boris Johnson, and they represent a turn toward Thatcherism.
New Water Cuts Announced as Colorado River Hits Dangerous Low
With water levels in the Colorado River near their lowest point ever, Arizona and Nevada on Tuesday faced new restrictions on the amount of water they can pump out of the river, the most important in the Southwest. And the threat of more cuts looms. This week, those two states along with five others failed […]