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Where Were the Gatekeepers?

On Monday, I was having a conversation with Pavithra Suryanarayan, a political scientist at the London School of Economics, about what fuels far-right...

Ukraine Has Nearly All Combat Vehicles Allies Promised, NATO Says

Nearly all the combat vehicles Ukraine’s Western allies promised to deliver in time for Kyiv’s expected spring counteroffensive have arrived, NATO’s top military...

Boat Sinks in Mediterranean, and at Least 55 People Drown

At least fifty-five people drowned after their boat sank off the coast of Libya, the United Nations migration agency said on Wednesday, the...

A Rocket Took Off From Sweden. Part of It Landed in Norway.

When Sweden sent a research rocket 155 miles into the air at 7:20 a.m on Monday, the expectation was that it would land...

Relations between China and Ukraine have been uncertain since Russia’s full-scale invasion.

The last time President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, communicated, they celebrated 30 years of diplomatic ties, hailing...

Germany Deems Branch of Far-Right Party an Extremist Group

BERLIN — Germany’s domestic intelligence agency on Wednesday classified the youth wing of a prominent far right nationalist party as an extremist group...

In an Indian Village, Cultivating Girls’ Big-League Dreams

The girls arrive at the makeshift cricket ground on their bicycles, a narrow file of white athletic uniforms breezing down a dirt track...

Pope Will Allow Women to Vote at Meeting of Bishops

The Vatican announced on Wednesday that Pope Francis would for the first time allow women to vote at a coming meeting of bishops,...

Kitsch to Creepy: Polish Town No Longer Relishes Soviet Past (or Rasputin)

BORNE SULINOWO, Poland — Set in a thick forest, ringed by limpid lakes and free of violent crime, the town of Borne Sulinowo...

Navalny, Top Kremlin Critic, Says New Charge Could Jail Him for Life

Aleksei A. Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition leader, said on Wednesday that Russian authorities had initiated new “absurd” terrorism charges against him that...

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