During a bilateral meeting with Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, President Trump said that the likely candidates to lead Iran were killed in the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign.
Hundreds of thousands have been stranded since the conflict started. The United States urged Americans to leave and said on Tuesday it was “actively working on plans” to help them do so.
Friedrich Merz has called for greater European unity, but he did not object to the president rebuking Spain and Britain in an Oval Office meeting.
The numeraio Pasquale De Stefano’s handmade market signs are a dying breed of everyday beauty in a baroque city.
Many artisanal practices are hanging by a thread, but there is still a chance to enjoy them.
For months, the region has been encouraged by low inflation and better-than-expected economic growth. A disruption to energy supplies from the Middle East could knock it off course.
A Times reporter and a photojournalist traveled above the Arctic Circle to retrace the footsteps of scientists who studied auroras over a century ago.
The Islamic Republic is aiming to draw out the conflict and broaden the fighting. That would force President Trump to risk more casualties and more political capital.
Soon the country’s armed forces budget could exceed those of Britain and France combined. In Paris, there are concerns that European “strategic autonomy” will have a German accent.
In “Muv,” the biographer Rachel Trethewey looks at the Mitford family matriarch.
La sobriedad y el minimalismo de actores de Dinamarca, Noruega y Suecia están resonando con audiencias internacionales.
In the wake of the U.S. bombing of Iran and its dismissal of European allies, an anxious continent’s best chance at security runs through its largest economy.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s visit to Washington, long planned, is now likely to be dominated by discussions of the attack, which Europeans did not take part in.
La nueva política es la crítica más reciente a Estados Unidos por parte de España, que ha destacado en Europa por su oposición constante al gobierno de Trump.
En un vuelo a Alemania, Carolin Widmann tuvo que sostener su instrumento centenario, valorado en millones de dólares. Su situación resonó entre músicos que han enfrentado desafíos similares.
The announcement was a significant step in forging a European deterrent as Russia grows more aggressive and the U.S. steps back.
La Copa del Mundo es una oportunidad para que EE. UU. demuestre que es más que Trump.
The president’s flat 10 percent tariff is most beneficial to nations that previously faced the highest rates. But it’s not clear how much that will prompt a new surge in imports.
The leftist government in Madrid said the war against Iran violated both international law and the agreement between Spain and the United States on the use of air bases.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer risks being dragged deeper into the conflict, after allowing the U.S. military to use British bases for “defensive” purposes.
Disregarded by President Trump over Iran, Europe’s leaders are adapting to a world in which they are little more than bystanders.
A new exhibition in the director’s native Athens showcases his work as a photographer. “I’d like to take a break from making films,” he said. “For now, at least.”
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Skarsgard, Reinsve and Lilleaas discuss their favorite winter rituals.
Friedrich Merz’s chancellorship is in choppy waters.
President Trump again deployed heavy force against a country with which he had been negotiating, continuing a pattern seen in previous attacks on Iran and Venezuela.
El ambiguo llamamiento del presidente Trump se produce después de que socavara los medios de comunicación financiados por Estados Unidos que normalmente habrían ayudado al gobierno a llegar a la gente dentro del país.
A badly weakened Iran will no longer intimidate or threaten its neighbors in the same way. The regional impact could be comparable to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
While the latest tranche of documents about the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has exposed a deeply American scandal, it is Europe where the aggressive enforcement is taking place.
The Christians known as viruiuchi prostaky see electricity, cars, higher education and much else as distractions from what really matters.
President Trump’s ambiguous appeal comes after he undermined U.S.-funded media outlets that normally would have helped the administration reach people inside the country.
Governments around the world urged restraint after the United States and Israel launched a major assault, and Iran vowed retaliation.
Developers are using a new geothermal technology in Germany to produce clean energy.
At Milan Fashion Week, Prada showcased a collection built on layering. For the models, it was like shedding a skin each of the four times they strutted down the runway, revealing a new look with each cycle.
He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.
Greenpeace has said the verdict could bankrupt it. The lawsuit was over the group’s role in protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Ms. Lacks’s family accused Novartis of profiting from her cells, which were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when she was dying of cervical cancer.
Hannah Spencer, a plumber by trade, won a British parliamentary seat in a district that had been represented by the Labour Party for generations. Her victory signaled frustration from left-leaning voters with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Judges at the International Criminal Court have heard starkly different interpretations this week of the words of former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines.
A dispute over free speech at the Berlin Film Festival around Israel’s actions in Gaza, and rumors of the festival director’s firing, raised broader worries about Germany’s cultural landscape.
The provisional application of the agreement with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay is intended to diversify Europe’s trading relationships.
India has grown rapidly despite its slow industrialization, and its economy is now nearly as big as Japan’s.
Facing a serious election challenge, Prime Minister Viktor Orban is holding up a big E.U. loan for Ukraine. Analysts say the timing is no coincidence.
El canciller Friedrich Merz expuso sus quejas durante un viaje a Pekín que China había diseñado para demostrar la buena relación entre ambos países.
The Istrian Peninsula offers traditional stone villas near the Adriatic Sea.
A dozen major blackouts and central heating cutoffs across the country have affected hundreds of thousands during a brutal winter.
La idea de Judith Chernaik de incluir versos en los vagones del metro ha transformado los viajes matutinos de millones de personas que se dirigen al trabajo.
“We don’t need a bulldozer,” says Alexander Stubb, Finland’s president and a golf partner of President Trump. “Reform doesn’t mean destruction.”
Natural gas production in Germany has fallen about 80 percent in the past two decades even as the country seeks to replace flows from Russia.
The result marks the first time the Greens have won a British parliamentary by-election and signals the frustration of left-leaning voters with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Russia unleashed a series of drone and missile strikes on Ukraine on Thursday, injuring at least 20 people and damaging buildings in eight different regions.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s announcement came just weeks after she surged in public opinion polls for standing up to President Trump’s threats to take over Greenland.
His minimalist road signs became a visual hallmark of France’s highways. He also created logos for cultural institutions like the Pompidou Center.
Germany’s chancellor seeks to reduce Europe’s reliance on China and the United States. He speaks with a bluntness that few business leaders share.
The domestic intelligence agency can still spy on the far-right party, and the ruling may not change Germans’ views, but it is a symbolic victory for the AfD.
Experts say Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is trying to capitalize on her success standing up to President Trump.
Svetlana Dali was detained in Milan after she boarded a United flight without a ticket at Newark Liberty International Airport, according to two people familiar with incident. She was convicted last year of doing the same thing.
The founders of HateAid, a German human-rights group that helps victims of online attacks, were accused by the Trump administration of being part of a “global censorship-industrial complex.”
A fledgling collection of elegant, easy to wear clothes designed by women is enjoying a flurry of visibility thanks to “The Devil Wears Prada 2.”
Tanto EE. UU. como Irán dicen que quieren evitar un conflicto. Se acaba el tiempo para eludirlo.
Since the artist was diagnosed with aggressive bladder cancer in 2020, a lot has changed in her life and work. A new show at Tate Modern examines Tracey Emin’s “second life.”
Moscow unleashed an extensive drone and missile attack just hours before American officials were set to meet with Kyiv’s chief negotiator.
On the city’s Left Bank, an art-world architect transforms part of an 18th-century mansion into a showroom and intimate social club.
Many in Ukraine assume that the alerts are automated. A rare look inside an emergency-response center reveals the specialists who do the pressure-packed job.
The inside story of how the designer is transforming the brand — and himself.
Yorkshire del Oeste, donde se escribió la historia original de ‘Cumbres borrascosas’, ofrece una ventana a las fuerzas que están perturbando la política británica.
President Emmanuel Macron has championed a refurbishment of the museum, but the fallout from a sensational heist has put his plans at risk.
A parliamentary by-election in Gorton and Denton, outside Manchester, will test support for Britain’s prime minister at a moment of intense political pressure.
The firings are part of a rolling barrage of retribution aimed at those who worked on the two federal prosecutions of President Trump.
Tras más de cuatro décadas de conjeturas, el gobierno español publicó documentos de una investigación mantenida en secreto durante mucho tiempo sobre un golpe fallido de 1981.
Two federally funded newsrooms received a draft funding agreement that could give President Trump’s appointees the power to veto their new hires for editors in chief and chief executives.
He held Spain’s Parliament hostage for 18 hours on Feb. 23, 1981, before surrendering after it became clear that he had little support from the country’s armed forces.
The leftist party of Yanis Varoufakis, a former finance minister and critic of the conservative government, said he had been charged based on admitting he had tried ecstasy once.
The U.S. and Iran both say they want to avoid a conflict. Time is running out to avoid one.
The awards organization and the broadcaster have ordered separate investigations into what led to airing the slur, which was shouted involuntarily during Sunday’s ceremony.
Ending more than four decades of conjecture, the Spanish government moved to publish documents from a long-secret investigation of a failed 1981 coup.
Despite his connections with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the former prince is eighth in line to the British throne. That could change.
The number of Roman Catholics is growing faster in Africa than anywhere else, according to the Vatican.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz laid out his complaints in a frank message to his hosts on a trip to Beijing that China had designed to showcase their relationship.
Christophe Leribault, who runs the Palace of Versailles, will replace Laurence des Cars, who resigned months after an audacious jewel heist.
Appeasing a predatory hegemon doesn’t work.
From palatial to contemporary to luxuriously rustic, this collection of new resorts and inns offers spas, private gardens, fine restaurants and exquisite settings.
Ukraine must project strength to secure continued Western support. But its people want the world to know they are not superhuman.
“Starry and Restless,” by Julia Cooke, delivers an immersive account of the pathbreaking careers of Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn and Emily Hahn.
Negotiators agree that joining the bloc is critical to Kyiv’s future. But obstacles abound, and compromises might forever change how the union works.
La región norte del país ha liderado la búsqueda científica para comprender la aurora boreal. Este verano, se espera que un radar con 10.000 antenas inaugure la siguiente fase de exploración.
The currency is stumbling, by many accounts. But the narrative is false.
“Her children have let her down,” said one woman, referring to Queen Elizabeth II. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s fall from grace drew strong reactions from some. Others said they just did not care.
An itinerary for Mr. Patel’s trip provides more granular detail, including long segments of personal time that suggest he was not immensely oversubscribed by official duties.
Her Tibetan Buddhist spiritual practice and her experiments with synthesizers came together in vast, slow-moving works that drew wide acclaim.
Laurence des Cars’s departure is the latest setback for the world’s largest museum. Her tenure was marred by labor strikes, water leaks, a ticket scam and security lapses, which led to the heist in October.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s trip will test his ability to address tensions between the countries, at a time of strain between Europe and Washington.
Russia has lost as many as 325,000 troops, according to some estimates, with more than 200,000 deaths verified by researchers.
Ukrainians on Tuesday commemorated four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion began. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed on both sides in Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II.
News of an investigation into Pavel Durov, the app’s billionaire founder, deepened a crackdown on what remains of the free Russian internet.
Novels by Daniel Kehlmann, Olga Ravn and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara are among the 13 titles nominated for the renowned award for fiction translated into English.
The arrest of the British former envoy to Washington, long a key figure in the Labour Party, deepened a scandal that has led to calls for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s resignation.
The YouTuber, actor and comedian had already pleaded not guilty to five other charges of sexual assault in Britain.
Last week, the British authorities arrested the former Prince Andrew amid allegations that he shared confidential government information with Jeffrey Epstein. Michael D. Shear, The Times’s chief U.K. correspondent, explains what we know about the former prince’s ties to Epstein over the years.
Conservation experts helped the Nazi regime inspect church and civil archives to track down people they sought to persecute, a researcher concluded.
Her diary overflows with her devotion to books and movies. But after rereading the entries, a critic was struck by how often she writes about music.
La Tour Montparnasse es una de las construcciones menos apreciadas de París. Después de medio siglo, por fin está siendo remodelada.
Hungría dijo que bloquearía tanto el más reciente paquete de sanciones contra Rusia como un paquete de ayuda financiera a Kiev por valor de alrededor de 106.000 millones de dólares.
Four years into the war, a major sticking point in talks is control of the eastern Donetsk region. Residents could face an agonizing choice if Ukraine gives up the territory.
Whatever you make of Emerald Fennell’s R-rated “Wuthering Heights” movie, the region where the original novel was written is worth revisiting in its own right.
About half of the country’s federal budget goes toward the fight in Ukraine, money that does little to support its long-term development.
The former British ambassador to the United States was arrested on Monday, months after being fired over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender.
The former British ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, was arrested on Monday following allegations that he passed confidential government information to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s comedy drama “One Battle After Another“ took home six awards at Britain’s equivalent to the Oscars on Sunday.
The E.U. isn’t throwing out the deal it agreed with the United States before President Trump’s tariffs were overruled, but European officials want more clarity first.
Charles Kushner, President Trump’s envoy to Paris, was called in after the State Department cited “violent radical leftism” in the beating death of Quentin Deranque, 23.
Many important U.S. trading partners are facing higher duties after President Trump, reacting to a Supreme Court setback, set the rate on a new set of global tariffs at 15 percent.
Hungary said that it would block both the latest sanctions package on Russia and a financial aid package to Kyiv worth about $106 billion.
Alan Cumming forced fishy British snacks onto movie stars. Paddington Bear presented an award. And there was more swearing, and racial curses, than this awards show has ever heard.
Vladyslav Vlasiuk has spent the past four years pressing Western allies to squeeze the Russian economy through more sanctions. He hopes that 2026 will be the tipping point.
Pizzoccheri, a hearty buckwheat pasta, graced restaurant menus and the athletes’ cafeterias. A chef hopes it can put a spotlight on the valley where it comes from.
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The protests are a sign of the Philippine ex-leader’s ongoing influence, even as he faces a possible trial for the deaths of thousands during his war on drugs.
The Tour Montparnasse is one of Paris’s least-loved landmarks. After half a century, it’s finally being remodeled.
The bones of St. Francis, preserved in a nitrogen-filled plexiglass case, were shown to the public just once, briefly, in 1978.
Kash Patel’s trip to Italy came at a fraught and frenetic time for the bureau and Mr. Patel, who has shown little willingness to curb his jet-setting.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s comedy drama won six awards at the British equivalent of the Oscars. The best actor choice, however, was a surprise.
Stars have begun to arrive at the Royal Festival Hall in London for Britain’s biggest celebration of film.
Amid growing cross-border political animosity, the game meant even more than usual to Canadian fans who had flown in for one of the marquee events of the Winter Games.
Which country won the most events on snow, ice or sliding track? We (over) analyzed the medal standings in Milan.
The bones of Italy’s patron saint will be shown to the public for a month, to mark the 800th anniversary of his death.
At least one man was killed in Kyiv as Moscow launched a wave of drones and missiles, days after the latest round of U.S.-mediated talks to end the war.
The human capacity for hope is an essential quality. But hope can also turn into delusion.
Norway, led by the cross-country skiing sensation Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, topped the medal table for the fourth straight Winter Games.
The Kremlin’s sabotage campaign against European allies of Ukraine has been escalating. It needs people like Aleksei Kolosovsky, 42, to carry it out.
The film, from the director Ilker Catak, explores political repression in Turkey. Another movie set in the country, “Salvation,” took the runner-up prize.
Jorrit Bergsma, a gold medalist back in 2014, is now 40. But he rolled back the years to win gold.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince, is getting no help from the throne as the crisis over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein intensifies.
Young skaters known as flower kids jump into action. They have their own Olympic dreams.
La decisión de la Corte Suprema de invalidar gran parte de los aranceles del presidente Trump genera interrogantes sobre el futuro de los acuerdos alcanzados con los principales socios comerciales de Estados Unidos.
Tech giants, including Meta and Alphabet, are spending lavishly on splashy billboard ads, courting on-the-fence politicians and bulking up their ranks of lobbyists.
The thermal waters of the Italian Alps, long praised for their restorative properties, are well known to elite athletes. During the Winter Games, they’ve drawn spectators, too.
Johannes Klaebo won his sixth cross country gold medal at the 2026 Olympics.
The Norwegian cross-country skier completed the biggest medal haul ever by an athlete at a Winter Games, and one of the biggest at any single Olympics.
The decision could distract from other challenges facing the continent, like issues with China and the war in Ukraine.
Will “One Battle After Another,” “Hamnet” or “Sinners” triumph at Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars? U.S. viewers can watch this year’s show on E!
For three generations, Bruno Goppion’s family has supplied display cases to the world’s top museums. What others look through, he can’t look past.
Paolo Zampolli, a special envoy for President Trump, endorsed Russia’s participation at next month’s Paralympics, a move greeted with dismay in European capitals.
A team of skilled technicians and drivers keep the frozen surface at the right temperature and thickness. The challenge? Each event needs a different kind of ice.
La investigación sobre el expríncipe podría rivalizar con las bodas reales y las coronaciones como uno de los mayores espectáculos públicos de la historia británica moderna.