This is one of those moments in history.
The wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan will hang over the annual gathering of the U.N. General Assembly next week in New York. So, too, will budget and identity crises....
Restrictions have made it expensive for Moscow to ship oil by sea. They have also expanded the illicit shipping economy....
If the world recognizes Sudan’s military government, it will exacerbate a humanitarian crisis — and betray the country’s pro-democracy movement....
The gains could help counter Moscow’s narrative that Russian advances are unstoppable and that Kyiv should settle for a peace deal, even if it means giving up territory....
The fallout of the war in Sudan has led to one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, but aid to its victims is vanishing. Pregnant women’s lives are in the balance....
A Vietnamese pop star won the Intervision Song Contest in Moscow on Saturday. The United States was meant to participate, but politics intervened....
They used a drone to drop cellphones into a Georgia prison yard, where an inmate coordinated a scheme targeting women who were medical workers in multiple states, prosecutors said....
The French president has rallied 142 nations behind a road map for a two-state solution after the Gaza war ends. Missing from the list: Israel and the United States....
Onstage campaigning for an end to the war in Gaza is now common in the British music scene, and pro-Palestinian benefit shows can sell out huge venues....
A row of converted 19th-century buildings filled with artists in the 1990s and transformed Red Hook. Now the work of more than 500 artists may be lost....
After Russian drones entered Poland, the country scrambled to shoot them down. Western officials concluded that the incursion was to probe their defenses....
Mark Zuckerberg’s glitch-filled unveiling of computerized glasses revealed a company that may struggle to deliver on its promise for the future of computing....
Incheon, the site of a crucial battle of the Korean War, has a singular place in South Korea’s modern history and in its ties with the United States....
Will the Senate minority leader, the avatar of old New York politics, endorse the young, up-and-coming democratic socialist?...
Estonia’s foreign minister described the flights, which lasted for an unusually long 12 minutes, as an “unprecedentedly brazen” intrusion....
The Republican senator warned that retaliating against media outlets over coverage that conservatives view as negative would set a “dangerous” precedent....
The latest set of European Union restrictions are aimed at chipping away at Russia’s energy profits and ability to do business globally....
Lawmakers have said that President Trump has not provided sufficient evidence about the threat posed by the vessels or the legal basis to use force against them....
The potential legislation would grant President Trump sweeping power to use military force if he saw a link to “narco-terrorists.”...
Battered by years of bombing and shelling, Deir al-Zour remains a frontline, even as its people struggle to rebuild....
As President Trump pulls back U.S. funding of the United Nations, countries like China, Russia and Qatar are seeking to influence the body’s work on human rights and labor....
“The chicken Alfredo ($10.95) was warm and comforting on a cold day,” she wrote from North Dakota. And suddenly the national media made her a celebrity....
“Blatant censorship,” Stephen Colbert said of ABC’s move to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show after pressure from the Trump administration....
Also, NATO is looking for an answer to Russian drones. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday....
Once, the Trump administration merely downplayed the threat of global warming. Now it flatly denies the science....
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the firing of one of the groups that arrange U.S. organ donations, effectively closing it down — and sending a warning to others....
As Israel expands its war in Gaza, decision-making has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of one person: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....
Plus, smart glasses and even smarter headphones....
Senator Bill Cassidy warned against any new restrictions, and insurers suggested they would still cover routine vaccinations even if a C.D.C. panel tried to limit them....
Both the United States and Britain are suffering through crises of identity....
22/09/2025 05:08
New York Times
