The New York TimesWorld News For Some Home Buyers, It’s All About the Royal BackstoryThe New York Times - By PETER WILSONLONDON — The three big things influencing a property’s desirability may indeed be “location, location, location,” but there is at least one other factor that can add extra allure: an engaging story. A
The New York TimesDisease A Mystery Disease Is Killing Children, and Questions Linger About LycheesThe New York Times - By ROD NORDLANDMUZAFFARPUR, India — Every year, a mysterious disease stalks the area around the eastern Indian city of Muzaffarpur, killing children seemingly at random — there, and nowhere else. It mostly afflicts children
The New York TimesAfghanistan 2 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan in What Taliban Call an AmbushThe New York Times - By FAHIM ABEDKABUL, Afghanistan — Two United States soldiers were killed during a military operation in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, bringing to nine the total number of American military fatalities in the country
The New York TimesWorld News Europe Is Bracing for a Heat Wave. It’s the New Normal.The New York Times - By MEGAN SPECIATemperatures were set to soar across Europe beginning on Wednesday, with authorities from Paris to Warsaw issuing heat alerts, canceling events and bracing for potentially record heat across the region.
The New York TimesNews (Hong Kong) A Rush to the Street as Protesters Worldwide See Democracies BackslidingThe New York Times - By AMANDA TAUB and MAX FISHERIt seems that 2019 might be the year of the protest. In Prague last week, Czechs gathered in the largest demonstration since the fall of the Iron Curtain to demand the resignation of their prime minister
The New York TimesIran Trump Threatens ‘Obliteration’ of Iran, as Sanctions Dispute EscalatesThe New York Times - By DAVID E. SANGER, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and ISABEL KERSHNERWASHINGTON — President Trump warned on Tuesday that any attack Iran might carry out “on anything American” would result in the “obliteration” of parts of Iran, responding angrily to comments by President
The New York TimesPalestinian Authority In Bahrain, U.S. Tries to Promote Mideast Peace Through ProsperityThe New York Times - By DAVID M. HALBFINGERMANAMA, Bahrain — Eyeing a future Middle East in which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a thing of the past, business executives, billionaire investors and Middle East diplomats gathered in Bahrain
The New York TimesHuawei U.S. Tech Companies Sidestep a Trump Ban, to Keep Selling to HuaweiThe New York Times - By PAUL MOZUR and CECILIA KANGSHANGHAI — United States chip makers are still selling millions of dollars of products to Huawei despite a Trump administration ban on the sale of American technology to the Chinese telecommunications
The New York TimesDementia Risk for Dementia May Increase With Long-Term Use of Certain MedicinesThe New York Times - By PAM BELLUCKA new study suggests that people who take a class of common medicines called anticholinergic drugs for several years may be more likely to develop dementia as they age. This is not a new hypothesis about
The New York TimesRecep Tayyip Erdoğan Turkey Trials Seen in New Light After Erdogan’s Istanbul DefeatThe New York Times - By CARLOTTA GALLISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey was dealing with a rapidly changing political reality on Tuesday, meeting with party leaders to discuss a cabinet shake-up days after a disastrous mayoral
The New York TimesWorld News A Rape Case and a Wedding Strain Ties Between Arab and Jewish VillagesThe New York Times - By DAVID M. HALBFINGERAs a young Palestinian couple’s wedding wound down in a hilly West Bank village two weeks ago, Arab men danced with ultra-Orthodox Jews from the sprawling Israeli settlement next door. Some even hoisted
The New York TimesSouth China Sea Duterte Plays Down Chinese Ramming of Philippine Fishing BoatThe New York Times - By JASON GUTIERREZMANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines says a government investigation has found that the recent sinking of a Philippine boat by a Chinese vessel in the disputed South China Sea was an maritime
The New York TimesThe Arts The Holocaust Survivor Who Deciphered Nazi DoublespeakThe New York Times - By GAL BECKERMANIn August 1944, as soon as Soviet troops swept the Nazis out of eastern Poland, a group of Jewish intellectuals rushed to cities like Lublin and Lodz to begin collecting and recording, scouring for any
The New York TimesYahya Jammeh A Beauty Queen Accuses Former Gambian President of Rape: ‘I Literally Stumbled Out of There’The New York Times - By DIONNE SEARCEYDAKAR, Senegal — Five years ago, the president of Gambia crowned 18-year-old Fatou Jallow the winner of the nation’s top beauty pageant with a lecture to her and other contestants: Do not rush to marry,
The New York TimesBusiness Drug Companies Are Focusing on the Poor After Decades of Ignoring ThemThe New York Times - By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Twenty years ago, thousands of Africans died of AIDS each day as pharmaceutical companies looked on, murmuring sympathy but claiming that they could not afford to cut the prices of their $15,000-a-year
The New York TimesJacqueline Kennedy Onassis A Year in Paris That Transformed Jacqueline Kennedy OnassisThe New York Times - By ANN MAHIn August 1949, a 20-year-old Jacqueline Bouvier arrived in France and began a year that would change her life. Before her marriages to Jack and Aristotle, before the glamour and the tragedy, before she
The New York TimesSyria Netanyahu Presses Superpowers to Remove Iranian Forces from SyriaThe New York Times - By ISABEL KERSHNERJERUSALEM — Hosting an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday of the Russian, American and Israeli national security advisers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel pressed for ridding Syria of all foreign
The New York TimesWorld News Forced to Chant Hindu Slogans, Muslim Man Is Beaten to Death in IndiaThe New York Times - By SUHASINI RAJ and ROD NORDLANDNEW DELHI — After apprehending a Muslim man suspected of stealing a motorcycle, the Hindu mob tied him to a lamppost and reportedly beat him for 12 hours while forcing him to chant praises to Hindu gods.
The New York TimesTechnology Yewande Komolafe’s 10 Essential Nigerian RecipesThe New York TimesThere is a saying in Yoruba, one of the languages spoken by the people of southwestern Nigeria, that translates as “The soul that does not eat pepper is a dead soul.” The saying refers not to just one
The New York TimesCouncil of Europe Council of Europe Restores Russia’s Voting RightsThe New York Times - By STEVEN ERLANGERBRUSSELS — In a decision opposed by most former Soviet-bloc countries, the parliament of the Council of Europe voted on Tuesday to end Russia’s suspension, which began with the annexation of Crimea from
The New York TimesVladimir Putin What Does Putin Really Want?The New York Times - By SARAH A. TOPOLOn a warm late-May afternoon, I took a taxi to the outskirts of the Russian capital to the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, known by its Russian acronym, Mgimo. Flags marked the entrance
The New York TimesAbortion U.K. Court Says Mentally Disabled Woman Must Have AbortionThe New York Times - By YONETTE JOSEPHLONDON — A British court has ordered an abortion for a mentally disabled woman against her and her mother’s wishes, with the judge calling the decision “heartbreaking” but in the best interests of the
The New York TimesImran Khan Tired of Hearing Leader Criticized, Pakistani Lawmaker Starts Banning WordsThe New York Times - By SALMAN MASOODISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Words fly around Pakistani Parliament sessions at a furious pitch and pace. So when a senior leader declared one particular phrase off-limits, it was inevitable that a war of many
The New York TimesWorld News 1894: President Carnot of France AssassinatedThe New York Times - By THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] LYONS, June 25. — The assassination of President Carnot took place practically in daylight at Lyons last evening. He was being entertained at a grand banquet by the Chamber
The New York TimesWorld News She’s 83 and a Famous Nun. Australia’s Catholic Leaders Want Her to Stay Away.The New York Times - By DAMIEN CAVEFor thoughtful coverage of Australia delivered to your inbox, sign up for the Australia Letter. SYDNEY, Australia — Sister Joan Chittister, a well-known American nun, feminist and scholar, was looking
The New York TimesEthiopia General Accused in Ethiopian Coup Attempt Is Reported KilledThe New York Times - By REUTERS
The New York TimesVietnam In Vietnam, U.S. Citizen Gets 12-Year Sentence for Trying to Overthrow StateThe New York Times - REUTERS
The New York TimesBangladesh At Least 5 Dead in Bangladesh After Train Veers Off BridgeThe New York Times - By MIKE IVESAt least five people were killed and dozens injured late Sunday night when part of a train heading for Bangladesh’s capital careened off a railway bridge that failed, officials said. The crash occurred
The New York TimesAbortion U.K. Appeals Court Overturns Order for Mentally Disabled Woman to Have AbortionThe New York Times - By ALAN YUHASThree days after a British court ordered a developmentally disabled woman to have an abortion against her and her mother’s wishes, an appeals court overturned that decision, the mother’s lawyer said Monday.
