Russian troops close in on Bakhmut Russian forces are attacking Bakhmut from three directions in a persistent attempt to encircle Ukrainian troops, the Ukrainian military said yesterday. The battered city has become the focal point of Moscow’s offensive in eastern Ukraine, and the Ukrainian military’s General Staff said that its forces had repelled 130 Russian […]
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Russia-Ukraine War: Live Updates – The New York Times
MOSCOW — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s two-day visit to Central Asia comes as the leaders of the region, especially in Kazakhstan, are increasingly — if carefully — asserting themselves in relations with their former Soviet master, Moscow. Some three decades ago, after 70 years under Soviet rule, the Central Asian states claimed their […]
New York Times Photographers in Ukraine on the Images They Can’t Forget
New York Times photographers were on the ground in Ukraine even before Russia invaded in February 2022. Over the course of the year, they have documented every aspect of the conflict that journalistic effort could reach: drone bases and sites of atrocity, packed subways and deserted villages, funerals and joyful crowds, missile paths and refugee […]
Your Tuesday Briefing – The New York Times
Israelis take to the streets As a battle over the future of Israel’s judiciary — perceived by many as a fight for the soul of the country’s democracy — intensifies, roughly 100,000 protesters filled the streets outside Parliament in Jerusalem yesterday. Carrying Israeli flags, megaphones and banners, they chanted for democracy, freedom and judicial independence. […]
A National Holiday – The New York Times
Super Bowl Sunday is akin to a national holiday, one of the few times of year that tens of millions of Americans do the same activity at the same time. By that standard, today may beat even Thanksgiving, given the variation in meal times. The Super Bowl is reliably the year’s most-watched broadcast, a status […]
A Fight Against Sludge – The New York Times
Sneaky fees have become a big part of America’s consumer economy. Hertz charges almost $6 a day simply for using a toll transponder in a rental car. Marriott and Hilton add nightly “resort fees” to the bill even at hotels that nobody would consider to be resorts. American, Delta and United list one airfare when […]
Your Thursday Briefing – The New York Times
Desperation builds in Turkey and Syria Two days after a devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake killed more than 12,000 people in Turkey and Syria, families huddled under improvised tents in the cold rain, resting on bits of furniture pulled from the wreckage. On the border between the two countries, the bodies of Syrian refugees who had […]
Russia-Ukraine War: Live Updates – The New York Times
Journalists for the independent news site Meduza in an apartment office in Riga, Latvia, in 2021.Credit…Janis Pipars for The New York Times Russian officials continued their campaign to stifle press freedom on Thursday, labeling the independent news website Meduza an “undesirable organization” and effectively outlawing its content. The move made Meduza the latest journalistic outlet […]
Your Thursday Briefing – The New York Times
Britain’s cost-of-living crisis hits families In Britain, one of the world’s richest countries, growing numbers of workers are struggling to feed their children amid a devastating cost-of-living crisis. Prices for groceries and energy have hit record highs, and austerity measures from Conservative-led governments have eaten away at benefits paid to many low-income families, including working […]
Your Wednesday Briefing – The New York Times
More tanks for Ukraine The Biden administration plans to send up to 50 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, U.S. officials said yesterday, in what would be a major step in arming Kyiv as it tries to seize back its territory from Russia. It could take years before those tanks reach Ukraine, but the announcement would […]