President Emmanuel Macron and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Bulboaca, Moldova, on Thursday.Credit…Ludovic Marin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images President Emmanuel Macron of France said on Thursday that a gathering of European leaders in Moldova showed Europe’s unity in supporting Ukraine and in standing up to Russian aggression, but he reiterated France’s position that full-fledged […]
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Your Wednesday Briefing – The New York Times
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 […]
Your Friday Briefing – The New York Times
When will Ukraine’s counteroffensive come? Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, said yesterday that it needed more time to begin a counteroffensive against Russia because Ukraine’s forces are still waiting for military equipment promised by the West. “We’d lose a lot of people,” he said. “I think that’s unacceptable. So we need to wait. We […]
Your Wednesday Briefing – The New York Times
Trump found liable in civil sexual abuse case A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the former magazine writer E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages. More than a dozen women have accused the former president of sexual misconduct over the years, but this is the only […]
Your Monday Briefing – The New York Times
Is Britain preparing for a new era? On Thursday, elections for Britain’s local officials. On Saturday, King Charles III’s coronation. As milestones go, the two could hardly have had less in common, yet each, in its own way, confirmed a Britain on the cusp of change, in both politics and the monarchy. The stinging defeat […]
Your Monday Briefing – The New York Times
Sudan’s health system is collapsing In the third week of brutal fighting in Sudan, health care services are rapidly unraveling in the nation’s capital, Khartoum. Hospitals have been shelled, and two-thirds of those in Khartoum have closed, according to the W.H.O. More than a dozen health care workers have been killed, officials say, and basic […]
Russia-Ukraine War: Latest Updates – The New York Times
BRUSSELS — China moved quickly on Monday to limit damage to its relations with Europe, repudiating the comments of Beijing’s ambassador in Paris who had questioned the sovereignty of post-Soviet nations like Ukraine in a televised interview. The comments by Lu Shaye on Friday caused a diplomatic firestorm over the weekend among European foreign ministers […]
Your Thursday Briefing – The New York Times
India’s population is set to pass China’s India, which has 1.428 billion people, is on the cusp of surpassing China as the world’s most populous country. (It’s already surpassed mainland China, new U.N. estimates show; soon it will have more people than the mainland and Hong Kong combined.) That has led some to hope for an “Indian century” […]
Russia-Ukraine War: Latest Updates – The New York Times
A senior Ukrainian official said on Friday that a leak of documents detailing U.S. and NATO efforts to support a possible Ukrainian counteroffensive appeared to be a Russian disinformation operation aimed at creating doubt about Kyiv’s military plans. The classified war documents, which were posted this week on social media, included a “very large amount […]
Your Monday Briefing – The New York Times
New York braces for Trump’s indictment Donald Trump is expected to arrive in New York today from his estate in Florida and head to his former home in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, before surrendering at the office of the Manhattan district attorney early tomorrow afternoon. He will then be arraigned in the Manhattan Criminal […]