nytimes 1 year ago

Why Israel and Hezbollah Are Still Firing Amid a Cease-Fire

Why Israel and Hezbollah Are Still Firing Amid a Cease-Fire (Published 2024)

Some violations of the truce, and some amount of violence, are to be expected, analysts say, and do not necessarily mean the deal will collapse and...

nytimes 1 year ago

Airbnb ‘Gladiator’ Experience at the Colosseum Prompts Outcry in Rome

Gladiator for a Night at the Colosseum? Some Romans Are Up in Arms. (Published 2024)

An initiative by officials at the monument in a partnership with Airbnb has prompted an outcry among those who feel it will demean a cultural treas...

nytimes 1 year ago

An Indigenous Group in Quebec Tries to Keep the Caribou Alive

An Indigenous Group in Quebec Tries to Keep the Caribou Alive (Published 2024)

The Canadian government is threatening to use emergency measures to protect three caribou herds at risk of dying out in Quebec.

nytimes 1 year ago

Top U.N. Envoy Says Gaza War Followed Years of Weak Diplomacy

‘Politics Failed’: Top U.N. Envoy Says Gaza War Followed Years of Weak Diplomacy (Published 2024)

World leaders failed to focus on a permanent solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and risk making the same mistake again, the departing Uni...

nytimes 1 year ago

U.S. and Canadian Climbers Missing After Climbing Mount Cook

3 Climbers Missing After Attempt to Scale New Zealand’s Tallest Mountain (Published 2024)

Two Americans and a Canadian were climbing Aoraki/Mount Cook before failing to show up to a prearranged flight on Monday.

nytimes 1 year ago

Who Are HTS, the Rebels Leading the Syria Offensive?

Who Are the Rebels Leading the Offensive in Syria? (Published 2024)

The group now advancing, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, says it wants to replace the Assad government with one inspired by Islamic principles.

nytimes 1 year ago

Monday Briefing

Monday Briefing (Published 2024)

A presidential pardon for Hunter Biden.

nytimes 1 year ago

A North Korean Voice That Kim Jong-un Would Like to Silence

A North Korean Voice That Kim Jong-un Would Like to Silence (Published 2024)

Kim Seongmin, who fled to South Korea in the 1990s, broadcasts to his homeland twice a day, delivering the kind of information Pyongyang is trying ...

nytimes 1 year ago

Life After Death: America’s Cemeteries Are Rewilding

Life After Death: America’s Cemeteries Are Rewilding (Published 2024)

More burial sites are forgoing pristine lawns for drought resistant plants and wildflowers that help wildlife. Efforts picked up in the pandemic.

nytimes 1 year ago

What a Deadly Offensive in Syria Means for a Stalled Civil War

Why Did Syria’s Civil War Reignite?

Rebel groups have launched the largest offensive in years against government forces in the northwest.

nytimes 1 year ago

With Joy and Tears, Lebanese Return Home: ‘Look at All the Destruction’

With Joy and Tears, Lebanese Return Home: ‘Look at All the Destruction’ (Published 2024)

A cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah allowed those displaced by the war to return to their homes. Many found buildings cleaved in half, crushe...

nytimes 1 year ago

Will the Hezbollah Cease-Fire Draw Back Northern Israel Residents Displaced by War?

Northern Israel Residents ‘Don’t Know What We Will Be Returning To’ After Cease-Fire (Published 2024)

Some of the tens of thousands of Israelis displaced by the war with Hezbollah worried whether it was safe to go home.

nytimes 1 year ago

France Suggests It Would Not Immediately Arrest Netanyahu Despite I.C.C. Warrant

France Suggests It Would Not Immediately Arrest Netanyahu Despite I.C.C. Warrant (Published 2024)

The Foreign Ministry did not say outright that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel would be free to travel to France, but it argued that an...

nytimes 1 year ago

Compassion or Coercion? Britain’s Emotional Debate Over Assisted Dying.

Britain’s Emotional Debate Over Assisted Dying (Published 2024)

As lawmakers prepare to vote on legalizing assisted suicide for the terminally ill in England and Wales, an intense public discussion has unfolded.

nytimes 1 year ago

Wednesday Briefing

Wednesday Briefing (Published 2024)

A cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah.

nytimes 1 year ago

Meet One of Hong Kong’s Last Few Pro-Democracy Activists

Meet One of Hong Kong’s Last Remaining Pro-Democracy Activists (Published 2024)

For Chan Po-ying, a labor rights leader, life is one of constant police surveillance, even on hikes. But she finds solace from tiny gestures of sup...

nytimes 1 year ago

Breyten Breytenbach, Dissident South African-Born Writer, Dies at 85

Breyten Breytenbach, Anti-Apartheid Writer in Exile, Dies at 85 (Published 2024)

He wrote poetry in Afrikaans and prose in English in his fight against South African racial oppression, an effort that landed him in jail for seven...

nytimes 1 year ago

Mexican President Mulls Retaliatory Tariffs After Trump’s Threats

Mexico’s President Raises Prospect of Retaliatory Tariffs on U.S. Goods (Published 2024)

President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to President-elect Trump’s threat to impose high tariffs, saying such a move would inflict damage on both c...

nytimes 1 year ago

Live Updates: Israel Pummels Lebanon as Ministers Prepare to Discuss Truce With Hezbollah

Cease-Fire in Lebanon Takes Effect (Published 2024)

The truce is intended to stop more than a year of fighting between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

nytimes 1 year ago

Israeli Ministers Plan to Vote on Israel-Hezbollah Cease-Fire Deal

Here are the latest developments. (Published 2024)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was expected to present a deal mediated by U.S. and French diplomats to end the fighting. The Israeli military ke...