Finland seized an oil tanker after the latest in a series of disruptions to undersea infrastructure.
Mr. Parsons’s lengthy résumé is a catalog of corporate emergencies at Time Warner, Citigroup and the Los Angeles Clippers....
Also, Israel bombed an airport and ports in Yemen. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday....
More than 250 people have died in this southern African nation as protesters disputing the results of the presidential election clash with the police and military....
Russian aviation authorities said the Azerbaijan Airlines plane had hit a flock of birds. But some experts cast doubt on that account, pointing to footage showing apparent holes in the fuselage....
An election. A shooting. A solar eclipse. Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine....
Moscow again struck Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, part of an effort to wear down the country. “In the trenches, there are no holidays,” one man said....
With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out....
Trapped in Sudan’s brutal civil war, a young woman chose to work in a clinic on the front line, treating civilians and combatants. She had to navigate suspicion from both sides....
Pope Francis’ Christmas message was a plea for reconciliation, peace and care for others....
Russia’s state aviation authority said the Azerbaijan Airlines plane had been trying to make an emergency landing. The Kazakh authorities said that at least 29 people survived....
The dispute highlights the difficulties with data collection in Gaza that have hampered humanitarian efforts since the war began....
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a vehement critic of President Vladimir V. Putin, didn’t want to be part of a prisoner exchange. But he says more exchanges are needed....
An unusually powerful surf has already killed one man and destroyed part of a historic pier in Santa Cruz, Calif....
Eugene Spector was already serving a sentence for a bribery conviction when he was charged with spying, for which a court ordered him to serve an additional 13 years....
Also, where you’ll find warmer temperatures. Here’s a day-by-day forecast....
President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus keeps arresting political opponents, but analysts wonder if a string of unusual pardons is a bid to get sanctions eased....
Prime Minister Robert Fico’s surprise visit to Moscow on Sunday, reportedly to discuss natural gas and Ukraine, was a blow to European unity against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
Many Haitian immigrants work at an Amazon warehouse near Springfield, packaging thousands of holiday gifts. But after Donald Trump won the election, some worry about their future....
They include a billionaire investor who supported Mr. Trump’s campaign, a former official who froze aid to Ukraine and a former executive at Uber....
Many in the West have applauded the annulling of the first round of the presidential election, won by a Moscow-friendly candidate, but even his critics say it raises troubling questions about Romanian democracy....
The North Korean army is one of the world’s largest. As it joins Russia’s war against Ukraine, its soldiers are paying a price for Kim Jong-un’s geopolitical maneuvers....
North Korean troops have now entered Russia’s war with Ukraine in a major way, and some have been killed, Western officials say....
She roams Brooklyn’s parks and streets in search of prey. It’s not hard to find....
Investors are betting that they can make a dent in global warming, and healthy profits, with companies that alter the atmosphere....
Some college students and faculty members are seeking space for nuanced perspectives on the Israel-Hamas war on deeply divided campuses....
Lithuania’s national opera house had stopped showing Tchaikovsky’s 1892 masterpiece in solidarity with Ukraine over the war with Russia. Then a new minister expressed fondness for the Russian composer, igniting a furor....
The popular measure gives full benefits to millions of people who currently receive them at a reduced level. Critics warn the $196 billion cost will speed up the program’s insolvency....
The Ukrainian energy network has been so battered by Russian attacks that officials are seeking out new options to prevent a crisis, like renting floating power plants and scavenging scrapped ones from the region....
Anh Sung-jae went to America as a 13-year-old, joined the Army, went to culinary school and opened a top restaurant in San Francisco. Now back home in South Korea, he’s a Netflix star....
Losing Syrian military bases would hurt the Kremlin’s attempts to project power in the Middle East and Africa....
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