The suspect, a Syrian refugee, told the police that a plan had come into his mind to kill Jews. The attack raises tensions just before an election in which immigration is a big issue.
A French convict was arrested in Romania months after he had been freed in a brazen daytime ambush that killed two prison guards, authorities said.
Muchos de quienes le conocen dijeron que Francisco, impulsado por un sentido de misión y una disciplina nacida de su formación temprana, prácticamente trabajó hasta terminar hospitalizado.
The suspect, an Algerian national who was on France’s terrorist watch list, was arrested.
The announcement on Saturday evening indicated that Francis’ medical condition had become more complicated since an update from his doctors on Friday.
Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially worked himself into the hospital.
The German chancellor, who defied calls to step aside after his government fell apart, is down in the polls but insisting he can still win.
Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s response to a changing America.
The Trump administration wants revenues from Ukraine’s natural resources, according to a draft obtained by The New York Times, with no security guarantee in exchange.
For the United States to put its considerable clout behind a German political party whose leaders minimize Nazi crimes is a blunder of historic proportions.
En los Países Bajos, los médicos y los pacientes con demencia deben negociar una delgada línea: la muerte asistida para quienes no tienen capacidad es legal, pero los médicos no la practican.
A new band of influencers unafraid of confrontation has helped elevate the Alternative for Germany party to second in pre-election polls.
A new exhibition about the indefinable performer and designer won’t pigeonhole him, though it will bring his work to a much broader audience.
The legal onslaught on Moscow’s second-largest airport has been seen as part of the Kremlin’s wartime drive to seize control of key assets still in private hands.
The police said they had detained a suspect in the assault, which occurred among the labyrinth of concrete slabs at one of the German capital’s most sacrosanct sites.
President Trump on Friday continued to bash President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and pressure him for mineral rights.
Law enforcement in the country was pressuring the company to create a tool that would act like a back door into customers’ data.
As the pope enters his second week in a Rome hospital with a lung infection, his physicians said his condition was critical but not immediately life-threatening.
The justices unanimously ruled that the plaintiffs had not established a connection to the United States required by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
Christie’s, which values the work at more than $1 million, said the proceeds from any sale would be shared with the heirs of an art collector killed in a concentration camp.
The bloc announced new steps to prevent threats to undersea lines after Sweden discovered damage to one east of Gotland island.
Metrics reveal an economy sliding backward. It will be one of the biggest issues in the election set for Sunday.
We’ve never seen anything like this: a president who appears aligned with a Russian dictator in targeting the weak and the vulnerable.
Researchers have found dozens of human bones on the banks of the iconic river, many of them thousands of years old.
The country’s competitiveness has stagnated and its once-powerful industries are suffering. Just ask these executives.
Moscow’s forces are three miles from Dnipropetrovsk, a province they have never invaded. If they cross in, the advance would be a morale blow to Ukraine and complicate any territorial negotiations.
A two-bedroom apartment in the heart of Vieille Ville, a top-floor unit just north of the city center, and a two-bedroom with sea views in Nice’s old port.
Popular social media accounts share the best mirror sales fails on the internet. A photographer helped us learn from the mistakes.
Christian Lindner triggered early elections last fall with a move meant to save his party. It brought chaos at an inopportune time. But will it work out?
Its economy is trapped in a vicious cycle.
The famous sandal company lost a battle over copyright law, leaving room for imitations to spawn.
The American opposition to a draft of a Group of 7 statement marking the third anniversary of Russia’s attack on Ukraine comes after President Trump blamed Kyiv for starting the war.
A senior Ukrainian intelligence official confirmed the plot to blow up drone goggles. But it was unclear how much effect the scheme had on Russian forces.
A giant hole opened up on a street in Surrey, southwest of London, forcing evacuations and leaving a car teetering on the edge. The cause was unknown.
The mystery has bewildered city workers and set off a police investigation.
Rubiales besó a la fuerza a Jennifer Hermoso después del triunfo de la selección nacional en el Mundial Femenino 2023.
Luis Rubiales forcibly kissed Jennifer Hermoso on the lips after the country’s national team won the 2023 Women’s World Cup.
Keith Kellogg and President Volodymyr Zelensky were expected to discuss possible paths to ending the war and ways to defuse tensions between Washington and Kyiv.
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Residents of a Ukrainian suburb that was the site of notorious attacks on civilians after Russia invaded are alarmed by President Trump’s warm words for Moscow.
Britain appears ready to approve what would be the largest diplomatic outpost in Europe, but neighbors and activists fear tapped phone lines and suppressed protests.
Friedrich Merz, whose conservative party is ahead in polls before Sunday’s election, sees an “epochal rupture” with a United States that is more aligned with Russia.
Germany’s attempts to “remember away” its Nazi past has instead paved the way for an extremist resurgence.
Ignored for most of its existence, the huge ice-bound island has been thrust into a geopolitical maelstrom. It’s trying to make the most of it.
“A lot of people are trying to get closer to admire this natural phenomenon,” a local mayor warned his community. “But it is extremely dangerous!”
Through early next week, a surge of cold air will plunge temperatures far below what is typical for the region.
The latest eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily has drawn crowds of photographers, hikers and nature aficionados, which have congested streets and clogged paths for rescue crews.
President Trump’s claim that Ukraine was responsible for its war with Russia has left many Ukrainians disillusioned.
The S.S. United States, the largest passenger ship ever built in America, left Philadelphia under tow on Wednesday, eventually to be sunk off the Gulf Coast.
A look at how the war in Ukraine began, the state of the peace talks and why the country isn’t holding elections.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine responded to President Trump’s comments on the war. Among other things, Mr. Trump had suggested that Ukraine had started the war, and he appeared to embrace what has been a Russian demand that Ukraine hold p...
Russian officials are arguing that American companies stand to make billions of dollars by re-entering Russia. The White House is listening.
The American president’s latest remarks embracing Vladimir Putin’s narrative that Ukraine is to blame for the war have compounded the sense of alarm among traditional allies.
President Trump called Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator without elections” after the Ukrainian president said Mr. Trump was in a “web of disinformation.”
Many people in Russia expressed relief that an end to the conflict in Ukraine seemed nearer and that the hardships of war, and the shunning of their country by much of the world, may soon end.
Alice Weidel of the nationalist, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany lives in Switzerland and is married to a Sri Lankan-born woman. She had led her party to second place before Sunday’s election.
Smitten with England before she became a regular visitor, the actress, who returns as Belinda in Season 3, tells us why London is “a good city to get nerdy in.”
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In “The Revolutionary Self,” the historian Lynn Hunt explores the way 18th-century culture transformed our sense of power in the world.
Updates on Francis’ condition, which was said to be stable on Wednesday, have typically been spare, leaving plenty of room for suspicion and speculation.
Ante la evidente agresividad del gobierno de Trump, los dirigentes europeos se preparan para lo que se perfila como una era en la que cada país parece ir por su cuenta.
The Trump administration has many worried that Washington is no longer a trusted ally.
The vice president’s speech was a monument of arrogance based on a foundation of hypocrisy.
El Vaticano dijo que el pontífice tenía neumonía en ambos pulmones y que “seguía presentando un cuadro complejo”.
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The Vatican said that the pontiff had pneumonia in both lungs and that he “continued to present a complex picture.”
Thousands uprooted by the war in Lebanon have been unable to reach southern towns occupied by Israel, but some have tried anyway. For one man, the journey was deadly.
Los conductores chinos compran vehículos eléctricos asequibles cargados de nuevas tecnologías, una tendencia que está redefiniendo los vehículos de gama alta y perjudicando a los fabricantes de automóviles alemanes.
Euston Road hosts the site of the longest Champagne bar in Europe, five Pret-a-Mangers and a phenomenal E.R. that I recommend to anyone considering breaking a bone.
In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn driver of planetary harm.
Faced with undisguised hostility from the Trump administration, Europeans are preparing for what is shaping up to be a go-it-alone era.
The two sides met in Saudi Arabia for their most extensive discussions in years. In addition to Ukraine, business ties were on the table.
“The Years,” running in London, dramatizes a woman’s life from teenage thrills to later-life sex. One intense scene is causing audience members to pass out.
La reunión formaba parte de una oleada de diplomacia que se espera se centre en Ucrania esta semana, mientras los funcionarios de Trump se preparan para iniciar conversaciones con Rusia por su cuenta.
“Anora” y “El brutalista” también se llevaron galardones importantes en el equivalente británico de los Oscar, inclinando la balanza una vez más antes de los Premios de la Academia.
El papa Francisco fue ingresado el viernes por una infección respiratoria. El anuncio del lunes no proporcionó más detalles, pero suscitó nuevas preocupaciones sobre la salud del pontífice.
President Trump has promised to bring a quick end to the war in Ukraine, suggesting that Russia could keep at least some of the Ukrainian territory it had captured. Andrew Kramer, the New York Times bureau chief in Kyiv, explains how this would le...
Pope Francis was admitted on Friday with a respiratory infection. The announcement on Monday did not provide further detail, but raised fresh concerns about the pontiff’s health.
The hastily called gathering was part of a flurry of diplomacy expected to center on Ukraine this week as Trump officials prepare to start talks with Russia on their own.
Balancing Ukraine’s sovereignty with Russia’s demand for its own “security guarantees” promises to be the hardest part of any negotiation. But experts see possible compromises.
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Chinese drivers are buying affordable electric vehicles loaded with new technology, a trend that is redefining high-end vehicles and hurting German automakers.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said for the first time on Sunday that he was “ready and willing” to deploy troops to help guarantee Ukraine’s security.
The American president’s foreign policy, and a divisive speech by his vice president, drew attention away from an attack by a refugee that some expected would fan political tensions over migration.
The Trump administration’s push for direct negotiations with Russia without Ukraine’s involvement leaves the European allies with no clear role.
European leaders felt certain about one thing after a whirlwind tour by Trump officials — they were entering a new world where it was harder to depend on the United States.
President Trump’s approach to foreign policy deals is reviving a bygone imperial approach that may backfire, experts say.
In the Netherlands, doctors and dementia patients must negotiate a fine line: Assisted death for those without capacity is legal, but doctors won’t do it.
One person was killed and five others wounded in stabbings in the center of the town of Villach. A man from Syria was arrested at the scene.
Remarks by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are fueling concerns that the U.S. will move away from Europe and align with Moscow.
A woman who runs a pro-Ukraine group has been accused by Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia of plotting to topple him as part of his campaign against organizations he says are funded from abroad.
President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly faulted the American proposal because it did not include security guarantees.
A celebrated Finnish modernist, he designed a variety of furnishings but was best known for his seating, which, his company said, “almost every Finn has sat on.”
Known for her interpretations of Bach, Mozart and Weber, she was praised for her clear, bright voice and her perfect intonation even on the highest notes.
The couple last posted online from Iran in early January. Britain’s foreign office confirmed their detention after Iranian reports about British nationals accused of “security crimes.”
Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler.
En la Conferencia de Seguridad de Múnich, Olaf Scholz acusó al vicepresidente de EE. UU. de intervenir de forma inaceptable en las próximas elecciones alemanas.
It was a crash course in geopolitical realities as the new defense secretary stepped onto the world stage.
After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better relations, raising hopes of loosening his repression and his embrace of Moscow.
Russian authorities have zealously prosecuted people with links to Aleksei A. Navalny’s organization inside Russia in the year since he died.
At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections.
His comments came on the first day of the Munich Security Conference, where anxious European officials had hoped to learn more about U.S. plans to broker peace talks.
The vice president’s speech in Munich, expressing support for far-right, anti-immigration parties and criticizing suppression of conservative voices, was a global extension of his core political themes.
By watching the brain process information, she discovered that a specific region plays a key role in spatial navigation — and that it can be strengthened like a muscle.
After an apparent drone strike blew a hole in the protective shell, there is an urgent need to patch what covers the wreckage of the world’s worst nuclear accident.
The president did not specify how much the tariffs would be or which nations could be targeted.
Diplomats at the Munich Security Conference were uttering “appeasement,” with all its historical resonance, to describe the Trump administration’s approach to negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
The president says the VAT system used across Europe gives other countries unfair trade advantages. Here’s how the system started.
The trade threats could reduce exports to the United States and dampen investment in Europe, dealing a blow to growth at a time when the continent is already facing a lackluster economy.
The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and integrate into a national military force.
The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to be of Marcus Aurelius, had been stolen.
The United States has reportedly told Lebanese officials that Israel’s military intends to remain in five strategic points inside Lebanon, but will withdraw from towns it still occupies.
Two people were killed and nearly 40 others were injured when an Afghan asylum seeker drove a car into a union march. The police said the driver confessed.
His comments shocked attendees at the Munich Security Conference and seemed to target efforts to sideline the hard-right party the Alternative for Germany.
Nigel Farage’s anti-immigration party is winning over some disillusioned Labour voters by targeting regions that are struggling economically and by campaigning on local issues.
The 88-year-old pontiff, who has been battling health problems for years, is being treated in a Rome hospital.
The 2,000-year-old basilica was “once the beating heart of Roman London,” the Museum of London Archaeology said.
Ukraine said that a Russian drone had hit a shelter constructed to prevent radiation leaks at the site’s Reactor No. 4. The Kremlin denied the accusation.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine called the damage “significant” but said there were no signs of radiation leaks. A Kremlin spokesman denied that Russia had carried out the strike.
Bitterness has greeted suggestions that occupied territory will have to be ceded to Russia: “It’s like ripping off a man’s arm or leg and then saying, ‘Let it be as it is.’”
Elizabeth Day, a British writer, and Mel Schilling, a dating coach, are the hosts of the new podcast “How to Date.” In time for Valentine’s Day, here are their top tips.
A duplex loft in a former basket factory, a two-bedroom apartment in a former dog biscuit factory, and a modern perch in the Canary Wharf district.
Liquor is leverage as the world careens toward another trade dispute. European tariffs on American whiskey snap back after March 31 unless an extension is granted.
As the island of Patmos continues to evolve, one local designer considers just how much of the past to incorporate into her home.
La alianza de defensa mutua ha sido fundamental en la guerra de Ucrania contra Rusia, pero el futuro es incierto con el presidente Trump de nuevo en el cargo.
Vice President JD Vance told The Wall Street Journal that it was too early to talk about specific territorial or security arrangements.
Cellphone messages provide a cherished link for Ukrainians whose partners are away fighting, but when the answers dry up, the last words can become poignant symbols of loss.
An abuse scandal that once appeared centered on the billionaire Mohamed al-Fayed has since widened to include Salah and Ali, with whom he owned Harrods, the iconic London department store.
Las autoridades creen que el atropello, contra una manifestación sindical en día de huelga, fue un ataque deliberado. El sospechoso es un solicitante de asilo afgano de 24 años, conocido por la policía.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and European defense ministers had expressed concern that they might not be present for talks between President Trump and Russia’s leader to end the war.
The American schools at the NATO headquarters were scrambling to comply with Trump diversity, equity and inclusion rollbacks. An expected visit from Pete Hegseth’s wife intensified that effort.
President Trump has made it clear that he is pushing for an end to the war in Ukraine. The move has left Europe worried that it, and Ukraine, could be left out as he negotiates with Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin.
The new Trump foreign policy team has brought a dizzying message to European allies on A.I., Ukraine and more. It has already left many angered and chagrined.
“Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t Homeric in length: “Michael was a miniaturist.”
Ideas for a last-minute trip, whether you want wildflower meadows or white-sand beaches.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Brussels protested the government’s proposed pension reforms and cuts to public services. All flights into and out of Brussels Airport were canceled.
For 12 years, James Howells has begged officials to let him dig through a South Wales landfill to find a lost Bitcoin wallet that he says is worth around $800 million.
The artist and director Khaled Jarrar accompanies a group of people from Syria on their way to Germany in this documentary.
The police in Munich said they had arrested an Afghan asylum seeker who was known to them after a car drove into a demonstration by a major German union. More than two dozen people were injured, including children.
Ukraine’s government wants to restore the country’s frontier to where it was before Russia launched its first invasion more than a decade ago. The U.S. defense secretary said that was “unrealistic.”
Trump’s recent moves, including a conversation with Putin and a demand for Ukrainian mineral rights, are worrisome signs for Zelensky.