President Trump said a Russian proposal to extend by one year the limits on long-range nuclear weapons sounded “like a good idea to me.”
De regreso de un viaje a Ucrania, Philip Pan, editor de la sección Internacional, explica por qué se trata de un nuevo tipo de guerra.
Back from a trip to Ukraine, our international editor Philip Pan explains how this is a new kind of war.
At least five people were killed before dawn in another large-scale and wide-ranging assault.
In a country where power is highly centralized, Moscow sets the tone for Vladivostok, 4,000 miles away, complicating longstanding ambitions to make it a trading powerhouse.
The drone strikes killed at least one person and injured dozens of others, officials said. The attack came amid rising alarm about the status of a nuclear plant relying solely on generators.
“We’ll see how it all turns out,” President Trump said after Hamas agreed to portions of his cease-fire plan, with conditions.
Antoni Lallican, a Paris-based photographer, is the first working journalist to be killed by a remotely piloted drone during the war, according to press associations.
The Russian president warned against fulfilling a Ukrainian request for more powerful long-range missiles, while also suggesting President Trump would decide against the idea.
A judge ruled that Finland did not have jurisdiction to prosecute a case against a ship believed to be a part of Russia’s “shadow fleet.”
En medio de un plan para prestar 165.000 millones de dólares a Kiev utilizando activos estatales rusos, los funcionarios europeos son conscientes de la posibilidad de represalias mientras se reúnen para debatir la idea.
Kim Scott, who lived and worked in Russia, on Silicon Valley’s silent complicity in the rise of authoritarianism.
President Vladimir V. Putin lashed out at “European elites” for “whipping up the hysteria” about the “Russian threat.”
The Danish public has been unsettled by a wave of mysterious drone incursions, which has underscored the country’s vulnerability.
Amid a plan to lend $165 billion to Kyiv using Russian state assets, European officials are mindful of the possibility of blowback as they gather to discuss the idea.
The president leveraged the meeting as his chance to trumpet his domestic and foreign policy moves.
The budget indicates that Russia will continue to fight largely as it has, locking it in a grinding war of attrition.
In winning parliamentary elections, Moldova’s incumbent party has kept the country on track to join the European Union, overcoming Russia’s efforts to influence the election. Jeanna Smialek, reporting from Chisinau, explains why the stakes were so high.
A Czech Republic-led effort gathers munitions for Kyiv from around the world, but an opposition party expected to win elections there has vowed to drop it.
In an election widely seen as a showdown between Europe and Russia, Moldova’s pro-European party of President Maia Sandu won slightly more than 50 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results. The win could further the country’s bid to enter the European Union.
Moldova’s pro-European party held onto its absolute majority in Parliament in national elections, but it still has a long road into the European Union.
The party of President Maia Sandu appeared poised to keep its majority in Parliament, in a vote widely seen as a showdown between Europe and Russia.
Parliamentary elections in this nation bordering Ukraine come at a critical moment in Moldova’s push for European Union membership.
Los funcionarios europeos temen que Moscú esté intensificando su antagonismo con Europa a medida que disminuye el apoyo de Estados Unidos. La interferencia electoral en Moldavia es un foco de preocupación.
European officials fear that Moscow is escalating its antagonism of Europe as U.S. support recedes. A focus of worry now: election interference in Moldova.
The unsuccessful bid to put off the sanctions for six months over Iran’s nuclear program means they would go into effect early Sunday in Iran.
Nathan Gill, a former leader of Reform U.K. in Wales, pleaded guilty on Friday to charges of bribery while he was a member of the European Parliament.
Germany’s chancellor is the latest to back a loan plan that is meant to send a message to Moscow that Ukraine will not collapse. But the idea carries risks.
El presidente Donald Trump ha mostrado cada vez menos interés en mediar en un acuerdo de paz, sumarse a las “garantías de seguridad” europeas para Ucrania o compartir inteligencia con los ucranianos.
Authorities acted for the second time in days. European governments are on alert after Russian incursions into NATO airspace, but Danish authorities said they could not say who was behind the latest incident.
President Trump has shown dwindling interest in mediating a peace accord, joining European “security guarantees” for Ukraine or providing aid and intelligence to the Ukrainians.
El presidente Trump dijo que Ucrania podría recuperar todo el territorio perdido en la guerra contra Rusia. Anteriormente, sugirió que los países de la OTAN deberían derribar los aviones militares rusos que entren en su espacio aéreo.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said more weapons were needed to defend his country and the free world, blaming Russia for spurring a dangerous new arms race.
Whereas he once pressed Ukraine to take any deal, President Trump said he now believed that the country could win. Some Ukrainians seemed not to take his position seriously.
Plus, robot fight club.
The Ukrainian leader said in an interview on Fox News that Russia’s unwillingness to take steps toward peace had impacted the American president.
President Trump’s pivot could give him room to distance himself from a conflict that he once promised to solve in days or weeks.
The leaders of Ukraine and the United States will hold talks weeks after President Trump agreed to participate in postwar security guarantees for Ukraine.
In a social media post, Ukraine’s president pushed leaders gathering in New York to strengthen their efforts to get Moscow to end the war.
Mr. Putin said Russia didn’t want to provoke a strategic arms race with the United States.
Personality can open doors, but it cannot rewrite geopolitics.
The Kremlin has infused education with nationalism and militarism. Outlawing the International Baccalaureate underlines that effort.
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.
On Saturday, Russia is hosting the Intervision Song Contest, with singers representing countries like China and Cuba. And the United States, too.
Western officials have concluded that the incursion was to probe their defenses.
Restrictions have made it costlier for Russia to ship oil by sea. But they have also expanded the illicit shipping economy, with lasting consequences.
Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension exposes a chilling new reality of the media bowing to political pressure from the Trump administration, the New York Times Opinion columnist M. Gessen argues. “The only way for the media to resist is to band together to create a joint strategy to agree, for example, never to settle Trump’s lawsuits, to agree to defend one another, to provide individuals with institutional backing even if they weren’t working for a large institution when they were sued,” says Gessen.
Estonia’s foreign minister described the flights, which lasted for an unusually long 12 minutes, as an “unprecedentedly brazen” intrusion.
The tactics President Trump has embraced place the United States in awkward company as freedom of expression is declining in dozens of countries.
The latest set of European Union restrictions are aimed at chipping away at Russia’s energy profits and ability to do business globally.
Dmitri N. Kozak’s departure is one of the few known splinters in President Vladimir V. Putin’s inner circle since the start of his invasion of Ukraine.
Russia’s use of drone swarms in the Ukraine war has other countries worried about their own air defenses. Lara Jakes, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, explains how some are looking at laser weapons technology to counter the drone threat.
State media and online trolls have seized on the assassination to score geopolitical points against the United States, according to a new report.
The organization founded by Aleksei A. Navalny, the Kremlin’s most prominent political opponent, presented what it called new information to support its claim that he was poisoned.
Ukrainian and European officials, analysts and entrepreneurs keep asking privately, “What’s up with Trump?”
Poland suggested such a zone after a major Russian incursion. But political hesitance and military shortcomings pose clear obstacles.
War crime investigators at Yale discovered a program of re-education and military and police training that was larger than estimated earlier.
Antiwar Russians are being sent back as part of President Trump’s immigration crackdown, despite facing imprisonment and other dangers.
Spontaneous gas explosions appear to be increasing in northern Russia because of climate change and some specific local conditions.
Ukraine is struggling to defend itself against the growing number of attack drones that Moscow has started using in its onslaughts.
It was the latest in a series of new conditions that President Trump had announced on punitive action against Russia for its war against Ukraine.
Drones in Poland and GPS jamming attributed to Russia have intensified a debate over whether the West should impose stiffer penalties for such “hybrid warfare.”
The quake briefly triggered tsunami alerts at nearby coastlines, less than two months after a larger earthquake sent tsunami waves across the Pacific.
Increased air patrols, air defense systems and other protections will be mobilized over Eastern Europe.
El presidente Trump insiste en que puede resolver los conflictos mundiales. Pero cuando tanto aliados como adversarios parecen ignorarlo, se encoge de hombros en una actitud de “qué se le va a hacer”.
El episodio pone de relieve la necesidad de que la OTAN refuerce sus defensas contra la guerra moderna de drones y aprenda las lecciones de Ucrania.
President Trump often insists he can bring peace to global conflicts. But when allies and adversaries alike appear to be ignoring him or testing American will, he adopts a what-can-you-do shrug.
A continent already on edge over the Ukraine war sees a Russian challenge to NATO readiness and to an America that wants to disengage from Europe.
Putin’s move has to be considered a test, and the West needs to think about how to counter it.
El líder ruso parece decidido a demostrar él que dictará las condiciones de cualquier fin de la guerra.
Fue la primera vez que aviones de la alianza atacaron objetivos enemigos en espacio aéreo aliado, tras lo que el dirigente polaco calificó de “provocación a gran escala”.
Russian drones entered Poland’s airspace during an attack on targets across the border in Ukraine, in what the Polish military called an “act of aggression.” It was not clear exactly how many drones had crossed into Poland.
Poland denounced what it has described as an incursion by more than a dozen Russian drones. It would not be the first time Russia’s war effort had spilled beyond Ukraine.
With escalating airstrikes, the Russian leader appears determined to demonstrate that he will dictate the terms for any end to the war.
The Polish military called the incursions an “act of aggression.” It said the drones crossed the border during a wave of Russian strikes in Ukraine.
The president, thwarted at home, has become increasingly frustrated and weakened at a critical moment for his country and Europe.
The Ukrainian leader said that the strike on older people in a Donetsk village should prompt a global response.
While a decisive victory remains elusive, a Russian military resurgence is guiding Vladimir Putin as he pushes for a peace deal on his terms.
Each day of war risks a strike on sites that could scatter radioactive material. Officials say one laboratory near the front has been hit dozens of times.
Analysts have linked major attacks to important geopolitical events as the Kremlin tries to strengthen its hand in talks.
Tanks have been a mainstay in battle since the early 20th century. Drones made them evolve.
El Kremlin ha iniciado una campaña para influir en las elecciones parlamentarias de Moldavia, en lo que podría convertirse en un nuevo modelo de injerencia electoral en internet.
Russia launched hundreds of exploding drones and decoys across Ukraine in the largest air assault so far in the war, killing at least five people and setting a government building in Kyiv ablaze.
The Kremlin has begun a campaign to sway the parliamentary election in Moldova in what could become a new model of election interference online.
The attack set a government building on fire in an area of the Ukrainian capital that is rarely damaged.
El libro del periodista Bob Woodward también relata que Donald Trump envió en secreto a Vladimir Putin lo que entonces eran raras máquinas de prueba COVID-19 para uso personal del líder ruso.
The journalist Bob Woodward cited an unnamed aide saying that Donald J. Trump had spoken to Vladimir V. Putin as many as seven times since leaving office. Multiple sources say they cannot confirm that report.
The president defended his debate performance with exaggerations about polling, his recent appearances and his opponent.
The war in Ukraine. Hamas’s attack on Israel. Inflation. The former president has insisted that none would have occurred if he had remained in office after 2020.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia made highly choreographed appearances in an effort to project power and control, and U.S. officials suggested Gen. Sergei Surovikin was probably being held.
Mientras prestábamos atención a la pandemia, China y Ucrania, los caminos hacia la prosperidad y los intereses comunes se han oscurecido.
While the world’s eyes were on the pandemic, China and the war in Ukraine, the paths to prosperity and shared interests have grown murkier.
The group liked online war games. But then Jack Teixeira, an active-duty airman, began showing them classified documents, members say.
Oil prices soared 7 percent on Sunday night after the group’s move to cut 1.2 million barrels a day.
Also, Russia tries to cut off Bakhmut, and countries reach an ocean biodiversity deal.
Readers discuss a guest essay by Christopher Caldwell that blamed the U.S. for an escalation in the war. Also: Mask mandates; the next pandemic; YouTube.
Also, Adani Enterprises pulls its offering and soldiers die on both sides in Bakhmut.
Also, Russia’s resilient economy and Sri Lanka’s enduring struggle.
Also, Russian missile attacks in Ukraine and a major deal for Indian women’s cricket.
Also, China’s uncertain economic recovery.
Russia is isolated by its invasion of Ukraine and needs China more than ever. But China, facing a Covid crisis, is in no position to risk sanctions.
Also, Ukraine peace talks seem far-off.
Also, Ukraine is fighting to retake a city in the Donbas.
Also, an emerging picture of China’s Covid crisis.
Also, Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to lead Israel again and the week in culture.
In China, Russia and the United Kingdom, unmarked sheets of white paper have become a potent symbol of defiance.
Plus, Iran abolishes the morality police and Russia vows to defy an oil price cap.
Readers discuss a guest essay about recent misdeeds by four billionaires. Also: Pandemic cautions; moderate Republicans; Russian brutality in Ukraine.
Plus Russia says it is retreating from Kherson City and markets try to parse China’s “zero Covid.”
Plus Myanmar gets closer to Russia and a dire climate report.
When Russia closed its airspace, it upended the decades-long strategy for making Finland a European travel hub to and from the East.
Readers respond to the latest Russian attacks in Ukraine. Also: The wonders of math; pandemic spending; Republicans and crime.
Readers discuss new aspects of the workplace during the pandemic. Also: A political balance; Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Gorbachev; student newspapers.
Xi Jinping, who is expected to meet with Vladimir Putin, will seek to project confidence as a global statesman at a time of grave challenges at home.
Plus India’s growing economy and China’s “zero-Covid” trap.
Plus the decline in American life expectancy and the latest on Typhoon Hinnamnor.
A Russian-born painter, he created a mural of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev smooching the East German leader Erich Honecker — and with it a tourist attraction.
Readers debate the party’s strategy of supporting far-right G.O.P. candidates it thinks it can beat. Also: Covid and schools; Ukraine’s students; Kansas and abortion.
Plus Russia prepares for show trials and Taiwan does not rise to China’s provocations.
Plus new details about explosions in Crimea and revelations about the victims of Seoul’s floods.
The departure of a grain-filled vessel from Odesa was hailed as a victory against global hunger. But experts say the crisis is so big that no single advance can reverse it.
Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout?
Russia looks to Africa.
Under pressure as tight oil supplies hurt the U.S. economy, Biden will go to Saudi Arabia for a meeting with M.B.S.
Plus the conviction of an ailing Hong Kong activist and President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming trip to Iran.
Plus Ukrainian civilians bear the brunt of Russia’s war and new details after Shinzo Abe’s death.
Plus Xi Jinping visits Hong Kong and Ukraine takes back Snake Island.
La COVID-19, el cambio climático y la posibilidad de una crisis alimentaria global demuestran que los problemas del mundo están muy ligados entre sí. Y también las soluciones.
No single country can solve the problem of rising food and fuel costs.
A reader praises the former vice president; another reluctantly suggests pardoning Donald Trump. Also: Ukraine what-ifs; Covid mandates; paid internships.
Plus the Fed raised interest rates and a video of an assault in China went viral.
Ukraine says Russia controls 20 percent of its territory.
The bloody battle for Ukraine’s east.
Readers weigh in on the Florida governor’s record. Also: Vladimir Putin’s nuclear option; last Covid texts; belief in change; hope and healing.
Mental health evaluations, chat rooms and parents’ roles. Also: Republicans and shootings; Covid mandates; voters and democracy; Estonia and Russia; abortion funds.
Plus climate’s role in Australia’s upcoming election and a Covid-19 protest at Peking University.
The teen mental health crisis. Also: Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Twitter; Vladimir Putin’s gambit; Russian TV; Penn Station; flying without masks.
Moscow wants victories before its Monday holiday.
And Mariupol evacuees start to emerge.
Readers discuss the Florida Department of Education’s objections to some of the topics in math textbooks. Also: The Ukraine war; mask mandates.