The Russian economy was slowing even before President Trump’s latest threats. But the Kremlin has enough money to keep fighting in Ukraine.
A package of U.S. cruise missiles is among the first shipments of purchases by NATO allies to be sent to the embattled country....
The Russian authorities have seized on the crisis in Donetsk to argue that taking over the rest of the region from Ukraine would allow Moscow to restore the water supply....
Mr. Duyet endorsed Mr. McCain’s presidential bid in 2008 after insisting no Americans were tortured under his watch in the Vietnam War....
Against the backdrop of the devastating war and hunger crisis in Gaza, Israeli travelers have been harassed and accosted in Europe, sometimes just for speaking Hebrew....
Mr. Shchedrin drew on Russian literature for stage works and was an eager experimenter, inspired by folk tales, religious mysticism and melodrama....
With Israel’s expanded assault looming, Zeitoun already resembles other parts of Gaza that have been largely flattened in the war....
U.S. and European military officials are increasingly concerned about the flights, even as Russian acts of sabotage have declined....
The strikes, which hit a five-story apartment building, a shopping mall and buildings used by European governments, were the largest on the Ukrainian capital since the Alaska summit....
Worn down by hundreds of days of military service, fewer Israeli reservists are turning up for duty. Others are refusing to fight in a war they no longer believe in....
The Supreme Court has said the Federal Reserve Board’s independence warrants protection. President Trump’s effort to fire a member will test that commitment....
Iran halted cooperation with the agency last month, as experts warned that Tehran might revive efforts to build a nuclear bomb....
For three years of war, the country has banned young men from leaving the country once they turn 18, prompting an exodus of teenage boys. Now it is raising that age limit to 23....
As punishment for buying Russian oil, President Trump is doubling the tax on goods imported from India, jeopardizing a relationship decades in the making....
With President Trump’s trade moves, war in Ukraine and wildfires, it was a busy month for the European Union. But not in Brussels....
The president’s Middle East envoy signaled that the war would be settled before the end of the year, but seemed to rule out a temporary truce....
Built for a cooler climate, many homes need to be retrofitted for warming temperatures. It won’t be as simple as installing air-conditioning....
Journalists endure the same harrowing reality as other Gazans: hunger and the constant threat of death. Those challenges risk further stifling what the world hears about the war....
At a delicate moment in Lebanese politics, the envoy, Thomas J. Barrack Jr., provoked outrage by warning journalists at a news conference there not to be “animalistic.”...
It starts with flattery....
President Trump accused India of aiding Moscow’s war on Ukraine by purchasing Russian energy, derailing trade talks between India and the United States....
The dupes of the cute-ugly toys have left consumer complaints and warnings about safety risks and potentially hazardous chemicals in their wake....
It is the latest effort by President Trump and his allies to impugn the Russia investigation, which the president sees as having been a partisan witch hunt....
One of the last surviving combat aces from the war, he took down five Japanese aircraft and helped save a destroyer during the Battle of Okinawa....
As rallies spread to demand action to free hostages, the security cabinet met for the first time since Hamas agreed to a new cease-fire proposal, officials said....
President Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook, a Fed governor, will set off a long legal battle. Economists warn it could lead to higher inflation and government borrowing costs....
The two countries appear to be trying to raise political pressure on each other and send signals to Washington in case peace talks move forward....
The measures were almost entirely symbolic, yet laid bare the broader fault lines dividing and shaping the party nearly two years after the war began....
For the first time, Russian forces seized villages in the Dnipropetrovsk region, a minor but symbolic gain that gives the Kremlin another bargaining chip....
The question of whether to send soldiers to a postwar Ukraine is the latest chapter in an evolving relationship between Germans and their military....
On the ground in Kharkiv, the choices are starkly different....
08/08/2025 09:47
New York Times
