Andriy Yermak had ensured internal discipline in Ukraine’s wartime politics. He also led the country’s peace negotiations, which now must go on without him.A Ukrainian soldier in the eastern Donbas region. Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s former chief of staff, had negotiated to soften
Even if a peace can be reached, it won’t be easy to solve the problem of Ukrainian civilians languishing in Russian jails. This is one prisoner’s story.Mykola Zakhozhyi and his wife, Iryna. “The uncertainty was killing me,” Ms. Zakhozha said. “I neither slept nor ate. I bended away from my children,
The attack came as U.S. officials were expected to hold peace talks with Ukrainian and Russian officials in the coming days.A damaged residential building following an air attack in Kyiv on Saturday.
The South African government is investigating how more than a dozen men unwittingly ended up on the front line in Russia’s war on Ukraine.Smoke rising after shelling in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine in 2024.
Juan Orlando Hernández was accused of receiving millions in bribes and partnering with cocaine traffickers. He was convicted in Manhattan in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison.Juan Orlando Hernández, then the president of Honduras, speaking at the United Nations in 2019. President Trump announ
President Trump said days earlier that the United States could “very soon” expand its campaign of killing people at sea suspected of drug trafficking to attacking Venezuelan territory.President Trump spoke with Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s leader, last week, according to two people with knowledge of
The upcoming election in Honduras shows how politicians must balance cooperation with the Trump administration with their obligation to undocumented citizens in the United States who may be deported.Delmar Méndez, 53, his partner and their 3-year-old son were deported from the United States in Febru
The agency’s top vaccine regulator proposed broad changes, claiming that a new review linked 10 children’s deaths to the Covid vaccine. But public health experts questioned the findings, wanting to examine the data.Dr. Vinay Prasad, the F.D.A.’s top vaccine official, suggested in a memo that the dea
President Trump’s ever-growing vision has caused tension with contractors. His architect has taken a step back as the president personally manages the project.President Trump walking on the White House roof with James McCrery, whose firm created the initial designs for the new ballroom, in August.
Prosecutors say members of the Somali diaspora, a group with growing political power, were largely responsible. President Trump has drawn national attention to the scandal amid his crackdown on immigration.Joseph H. Thompson, center, the federal prosecutor overseeing the cases, at the U.S. District
Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades on both sides of the Atlantic.Tom Stoppard in 1992. He earned a reputation as the most cerebral of contemporary English-language playwrights, venturing into vast fields of scho
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The police said they expected the death toll of 128 to rise as the authorities began combing through the charred apartment towers.People affected by the fire at a shelter on Friday.
Data on spending this week shows that consumers are shopping big for the holidays despite inflation and economic worries.Shoppers outside the Macy’s flagship store in Midtown Manhattan on Black Friday afternoon.
Leo XIV is being closely watched on an inaugural trip to Turkey and Lebanon to spread a message of peace and outreach.Pope Leo XIV visiting the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul on Saturday.
Segev Kalfon in Ramat Gan, this month.
