Sleek social media posts and a shift rightward on immigration helped a center-left party win last week’s election. But can its leader, Mr. Jetten, form a government?
The city’s new leader will have to contend with preparing for deadly floods, rising electricity costs and the future of an ambitious energy efficiency program.
The country will introduce fixed-term military contracts to try to attract recruits and ease the strain on soldiers after years of fighting.
Bucking the anti-immigration trend in British politics, remote areas of Scotland would like to attract foreign workers to offset declining local populations.
How one decades-old Milan shop makes remarkably realistic blossoms out of copper.
The island, a Portuguese territory, is only 35 miles long, but its mountains are laced with scenic trails, tumbling cascades and inviting villages.
Los ‘best-sellers’ del escritor francés surgieron de un profundo afecto a Rusia. Pero desde que Moscú invadió Ucrania, ha reconsiderado sus opiniones.
Poland and other countries across Europe that found economic success in an era of collaboration are now facing a crumbling of international alliances.
The center-left D66 party edged the far-right party of Geert Wilders in the popular vote, giving it the first crack at forming a new government.
The Russian authorities canceled a festival in St. Petersburg, branding it “Satanist,” as part of a larger assault on anything viewed as a Western influence.
The police are examining whether the suspect in the stabbing spree on a London-bound train on Saturday was connected to three other incidents involving a knife.
The 3,500-year-old artifact, likely stolen from Egypt during the Arab Spring in 2011 or 2012, was found at an elite European art fair in Maastricht.
El acervo de perfiles de ADN de Francia ha ayudado a resolver delitos de gran repercusión, como el atraco del Louvre, y sigue creciendo.
Three of the four people whom the police believe carried out the theft have been arrested. But the jewelry is nowhere to be found.
The Torre dei Conti, a 13th-century medieval tower near Rome’s Colosseum, partially collapsed on Monday. Two restoration workers had to be rescued, and a third suffered critical injuries.
Rescue workers were trying to remove the man from the debris at the medieval tower, but said it was a dangerous operation. Another man was seriously injured in the collapse.
From the must-see locations to the most frequently asked questions, our guide has all you need to plan your next visit.
Emmanuel Carrère’s best sellers on Russia grew out of a deep affection. Since Moscow invaded Ukraine, he has traveled to the war-torn country to rethink his views.
It’s not all baguettes and cheese.
Switzerland is racing to rebuild Blatten, which was crushed by a glacier. It’s a sign of the economic and emotional costs of a warming Europe.
France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases.
The climbers were in two groups in northern Italy on Saturday night when an avalanche struck. Two people survived.
U.K. officials said they did not believe the attack on a train to London was connected to terrorism. Two of the 11 people wounded in the stabbing spree remain in critical condition, the police said.
Fra Angelico’s work is not merely artistically significant. It is a spiritual experience.
By sharing details of her seafaring life, a young designer found an audience for her cozy game about cleaning polluted waterways.
Propelled by anti-establishment fervor, Catherine Connolly was elected last week with a landmark popular mandate.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain denounced the attack, which the police said left nine victims with “life-threatening injuries.”
In addition to the two main suspects, who partially admitted to the robbery, two others have been charged by the Paris prosecutor overseeing the case.
Zohran Mamdani, the leading contender in the Nov. 4 New York election, and Sadiq Khan, London’s mayor, are liberal and Muslim, but they’re navigating varied politics, communities and cities.
La policía de arte de Italia aún no sabe quién se llevó la página manuscrita brillantemente iluminada de un convento franciscano, y todavía quedan muchas páginas por encontrar.
Touting new weapons tests, Moscow signals to Washington that it must contend with the Kremlin’s power and negotiate.
Two journalists, both in detention for their work, show how President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s repressive machine grinds on despite warming ties with the U.S.
Puesto que algunos visitantes se interesan cada vez más por las realidades sociales y políticas de los lugares turísticos más importantes del mundo, algunos guías locales están adaptando sus ofertas.
Developers have finally broken ground on the project, known as Sizewell C, but getting there meant navigating wary investors and local opposition.
Senesh fled Hungary just before World War II. But unlike most Jews who escaped the Nazis, she went back to fight. Today, she is regarded as a hero in Israel.
Plans for a wealth tax, which is dividing France, have gotten popular around the world as inequality has widened and government debt has risen.
The decision by King Charles III to strip the title of his brother Prince Andrew showed a level of accountability rarely applied to royals.
“It is impossible not to marvel at her steadiness and courage,” one reviewer wrote after reading her memoir.
King Charles III’s brother will retreat further from public life after additional damaging revelations about his ties to the sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Los resultados de los comicios en el país, en los que se impuso la centroizquierda, podrían ofrecer lecciones para la ultraderecha europea.
Professor Marianne Hirsch on how the way we teach the “crime of all crimes” informs our understanding of Gaza.
Vin et Hip Hop brings musicians together with French winemakers, to present wine in a different light.
The Ukrainian military has a point-scoring system for drone operators who hit various enemy targets. Kim Barker, a New York Times reporter covering the war, describes how the necessities of drone warfare have transformed the conflict.
Drone teams compete to ascend a scoreboard that rewards units for successful attacks. Ukrainian officials say the contest helps keep soldiers motivated.
King Charles III’s younger brother, who fell from grace over his association with Jeffrey Epstein, will no longer be able to call himself a prince. The king is also evicting him from Royal Lodge, where he lives.
She had to fight for recognition after a male colleague took credit for her work in identifying an extra chromosome as the cause of that genetic condition.
The robbers used explosives to gain entry to a precious-metal company in Lyon, French officials said. The police recovered the items.
La extraordinaria medida culmina su caída en desgracia por sus vínculos con el depredador sexual convicto Jeffrey Epstein.
The extraordinary move caps his fall from grace over his ties to the convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Más de una semana después de que unos ladrones hurtaran tesoros del Louvre, se perfila la imagen de un robo bien planeado que aprovechó los fallos de seguridad del museo y se adelantó a la policía.
Los personajes de la exitosa película de Netflix están entre los disfraces más codiciados de este año, y la escasez ha obligado a algunos a improvisar.
As a high priestess of Wicca, a branch of modern paganism founded in England, she promoted an image of witches as early feminists who were benevolent and spiritual.
In a major loss for Geert Wilders’s far-right, his populist Party for Freedom was poised to lose ground to the socially progressive Democrats 66 of Rob Jetten after Wednesday’s Dutch election. Mr. Jetten, 38, could take the first chance to form a new government.
The couple had sued Paris Match for publishing paparazzi photos of them and their children on a ski vacation.
Characters from the hit Netflix film are among the most coveted outfits this year, and scarcity has forced some to improvise.
The police have arrested five more suspects in connection with the theft at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday. Seven people total have now been arrested, but authorities have not yet retrieved the stolen jewelry.
China has suspended export controls announced this month, but was conspicuously silent about rules imposed earlier, which are snarling global supply chains.
Geert Wilders suffered a loss of support as a center-left party staged major gains, an election result that could offer lessons for Europe’s far right.
The authorities have detained seven suspects in total, but have not recovered the stolen jewels.
Over nearly seven decades Paddington Bear has enjoyed a lasting popularity. Now, he’s the star of a new musical.
The socially progressive Democrats 66 were neck and neck with the far-right party of Geert Wilders, who faced a significant setback in an election he forced.
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From California to the Mediterranean, abandoned groves are being restored to life in order to save shrinking towns and prevent environmental damage.
During the war, a Ukrainian boy lost his home, his father and his friends. Could he find new buddies at a camp in the mountains?
Muchas personas de Europa del Este emigraron en masa para cuidar a los ancianos y enfermos de Italia. Entonces empezaron a enfermar, con una dolencia conocida como “síndrome de Italia”.
More than a week after thieves made off with treasures from the Louvre, a picture is emerging of a seemingly well-planned burglary that exploited security lapses at the museum and outpaced the police.
Investigators revealed new information about the Louvre heist. Both suspects had a criminal record and were traced using DNA samples left at the crime scene.
A center-left party was poised to become the country’s largest political party, according to exit polls. The anti-immigrant Party for Freedom, led by Mr. Wilders, was expected to lose 12 seats.
The Italian art police still don’t know who took the brilliantly illuminated manuscript page from a Franciscan friary, and many more pages have yet to be found.
The Paris prosecutor overseeing the case said the two men face 15 years in prison for stealing some of France’s crown jewels, while two other suspects have yet to be caught.
Israel’s military released a drone video of the incident in Gaza, and The New York Times analyzed the footage.
Scientists offer a new idea for why orb-weaving arachnids add decorations known as stabilimenta to their webs.
The new legislation was adopted after dozens of men were convicted of raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged by her husband.
The test comes days after President Vladimir V. Putin announced the previous trial of another Russian nuclear weapon.
About 700 troops are expected to be withdrawn as Trump administration officials shift resources to the Indo-Pacific region.
Moscow’s forces infiltrated Pokrovsk after months of attacks on the city, a strategic part of Ukraine’s eastern defenses.
Until this month, Radio Free Asia had successfully resisted Trump officials who had tried to render it obsolete.
The German carmaker held its outlook steady and said it would buy back more than $2 billion in shares, as sales of its high-end models improved.
Eastern Europeans have migrated in droves to take care of Italy’s aged and infirm. Then they started getting sick, with an ailment dubbed ‘Italy syndrome.’
With visitors increasingly interested in the social and political realities of global tourist hot spots, some local guides are adapting their offerings.
La primera dama de Francia presentó una denuncia penal después de que se viralizaron afirmaciones falsas sobre su género y su relación con el presidente Emmanuel Macron. Los acusados niegan haber cometido delito alguno.
Dos años después de la sorprendente victoria del ultraderechista Geert Wilders, Países Bajos regresa a las urnas. Su ciudad natal muestra los puntos críticos de la volátil política del país.
Geert Wilders and his far-right party blew up the Dutch governing coalition this year. Will that cost their party seats in Parliament?
The small European nation of 18 million people is in the middle of its worst housing crunch in decades. But there is no quick political solution.
Annabel’s, the club that Ms. Goldsmith’s first husband named after her, opened in the 1960s and is still one of London’s most exclusive nightspots.
A 28-year-old man stabbed two teenagers during a flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, according to federal prosecutors.
Brigitte Macron filed a criminal complaint in Paris after claims about her gender and her relationship with President Emmanuel Macron went viral. The accused deny wrongdoing.
The government has been under pressure to shut down hotels accommodating migrants as public anger rises.
The British singer and songwriter’s new album, “West End Girl,” is a salacious autobiography. For pop fans hungry for real-life details, it’s proving irresistible.
Two years after a shock win for the far-right Geert Wilders, the Netherlands is returning to the polls. His hometown shows the pain points of the country’s volatile politics.
Late for a rock concert, dads’ rules about driving are (legally) broken as the speedometer hits 125 m.p.h. on a highway where there are no speed limits.
A climate reporter wanted to follow scientists into the Mediterranean Sea. First, he had to learn to scuba dive.
In “Let My Country Awake,” Scott Miller tells the story of revolutionaries in America who fought the British Empire at the beginning of the 20th century.
Although he posed with a Cubs jersey on Monday, a gift from a religious leader also from Chicago, Pope Leo is a longtime fan of the Chicago White Sox. Some people can’t seem to keep it straight.
La idea, denominada movilidad laboral, consiste en poner en contacto a jóvenes indios con empresas de lugares cuya población está disminuyendo y donde la escasez de mano de obra frena el crecimiento.
In Milan, bones that piled under a hospital over a half-century shed light on the health and habits of some of the Renaissance era’s most impoverished people.
View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
In the city of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, small drones routinely target ordinary people by dropping hand grenades, and record video documenting their attacks, a U.N. commission reported.
The Italian Coast Guard was assisting in the search, the cruise company said. The cruise was taking passengers from Greece to Italy.
Skulls displayed in public 2,000 years ago were intended as a warning to enemies and a celebration of comrades, a new paper argues.
The Italian region has lacked hotels worthy of its many charms, but a new crop of boutique lodgings and converted estates have opened. Here, stylish places to stay and explore.
His rise is both a symptom and a cause of the newly febrile mood in Britain.
A botched spying case prompted accusations that the British government was soft on China, highlighting tensions between economic and national security interests.
Un cocinero brasileño iba a encargarse de un evento para el príncipe de Gales y 700 invitados. Pero le pidieron que fuera vegano.
Los ladrones robaron más de 100 millones de dólares en joyas del museo de París. No está claro cuántas personas fueron detenidas, pero un hombre fue capturado cuando intentaba salir de Francia.
Because of its power source, the Burevestnik can remain airborne far longer than other nuclear-armed missiles.
Four thieves broke into the famed Paris museum last week and stole over $100 million in historical jewelry, shocking France and the world. It is unclear how many people were arrested.
As a guarantor of the cease-fire, Turkey is keen to play a role in Gaza’s future, seeing political and economic benefits. Israel is having none of it.
Among the flood of Ukrainian defense start-ups, one stands out to both its supporters and its critics: the drone maker Fire Point.
Buttressed by courts and support from some Republican lawmakers, federally funded newsrooms that President Trump has tried to eliminate have yet to be rendered obsolete.
The robbery at the Louvre left behind more than broken glass. It battered the pride of a nation that is increasingly glum about itself and its direction.
In the wake of a revolution, he helped found a leading political party and tried to conciliate warring left and right factions, although his success was limited.
Andrew Tate, an online influencer, and his brother Tristan, have been in a legal battle with a woman who accused them of harassing her after she gave testimony in Romania.
Pope Francis greatly limited the use of the traditional Latin Mass, believing it sowed division. Traditionalist Catholics are hoping Pope Leo charts a different path.
Was it the heist of the century or a master class in incompetence by the museum? Some prominent former jewelry thieves have plenty to say about the audacious break-in at the Louvre.
As winter slows the pace of battlefield combat, Moscow and Kyiv are betting on campaigns against each other’s energy assets to break a stalemate in the conflict.
He was asked to cater a climate event for Prince William and 700 guests. But for a renowned chef who wanted to showcase the Amazon’s culinary tradition, it was like “asking Iron Maiden to play jazz.”
The inordinate gilded privilege of being a member of the royal family takes anything but the strongest character and ruins all the good in it.
One of America’s favorite fall drinks shows up in Brussels and Antwerp, but rarely in Paris and Rome. It has yet to reach the ubiquity — or the sugar content — of its stateside counterpart.
Found guilty in 2009, he had been serving a 22-year sentence but was released for health reasons at the request of the Serbian government.
A G.O.P. fund-raiser, he was the Navy chief under Gerald R. Ford and held ambassadorships in the 1970s and ’80s. He gained notice for his classical music compositions.
For a brief moment, the puzzle of what had happened to Pablo Picasso’s “Still Life With Guitar” infected Deifontes with caper fever.
Dylan Earl recruited people to set fire to two London warehouses containing aid bound for Ukraine, the police said. He was also convicted of plotting against a dissident Russian restaurant owner.
Dahbia Benkired, an Algerian woman, was convicted of raping and killing 12-year-old Lola Daviet, in a case that outraged France and raised questions about the deportation of migrants.
¿Es siquiera real? Internet se hizo muchas preguntas después de que una foto empezó a circular.
The Estonian Festival Orchestra made its North American debut at Carnegie Hall, offering a broad, excellently played survey of Pärt’s music.
Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French emperor’s troops as they withdrew from Russia.
A “pre-preview” of Art Basel Paris this week drew some of the world’s wealthiest art collectors. Dealers were hoping to shed some of the recent gloom that the art market has faced.
Britain is hosting a meeting of European leaders to discuss bolstering support for Kyiv as winter approaches.
The widespread outage involving the cloud-computing provider Amazon Web Services was particularly disruptive ensnared unexpected consumers earlier this week: People who just wanted to sleep well.
As fears about Russia grow, Estonia’s tech-savvy work force is developing new weapons and defense systems.
The governing party placed a distant third in a special election for a district of Wales it has dominated for a century. Plaid Cymru, a center-left Welsh nationalist party, won.
After thieves stole more than a hundred million dollars’ worth of jewelry from the Louvre using a lift truck, the manufacturer decided to capitalize on the connection.
European leaders want to build on President Trump’s sanctions on Russia with new commitments of financial and military support for Kyiv.
The brazen daylight robbery of the Louvre on Sunday has turned into a marketing opportunity for Böcker, a German maker of cranes and elevators whose product was used in the heist.
Hasta este mes, el país nórdico tenía la distinción de ser uno de los últimos lugares del mundo sin avistamientos confirmados de mosquitos silvestres.
In weaponizing its dominance over the crucial minerals, Beijing is using tactics that it once denounced, potentially alienating nations it wants to court.
Fue productor y uno de los integrantes del dúo inglés pionero del synth-pop.
India plans to send its vast work force abroad to countries with labor shortages, like Germany and Japan.
For the first time in his second term, President Trump is imposing new sanctions, but they may not shift the course of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Is he even real? The internet had many questions after a photo began to circulate.
The former paratrooper, referred to only as Soldier F, was found not guilty more than a half-century after his unit in Northern Ireland killed 14 unarmed civilians.
After China stopped deliveries of Nexperia’s chips over a dispute with the Dutch government, German carmakers are worried about supply shortages.
There’s something in the air: a pro-heist frisson.
Fue la primera vez en siglos que los líderes de las Iglesias católica y anglicana rezaron juntos, en una muestra pública de unidad cristiana.
He was a producer and one half of the pioneering English synth-pop duo.
President Trump announced sanctions on Lukoil and Rosneft, Russia’s two largest oil companies, while restrictions by the European Union included a ban on imports of Russian liquefied natural gas.
Traders are pondering whether the United States and its allies are finally getting serious about restricting Russian energy.
While oil markets reacted strongly to the sanctions, analysts said the measures were unlikely to significantly change President Vladimir V. Putin’s war calculations.
It was the first time in hundreds of years that the leaders of the Catholic and Anglican churches prayed together, offering a public display of unity between Christian faiths.