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One of the biggest corporate donors to the populist Reform U.K. party has sold almost $2 million worth of transmitters, cockpit equipment, antennas and other sensitive technology to a major supplier of Moscow’s blacklisted state weapons agency, documents show. From 2023 to 2024, the company, part of the British aerospace manufacturer H.R. Smith Group, shipped … Read more
Updated March 28, 2025, 4:55 a.m. ET A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said, damaging buildings there and shaking cities across a vast expanse of Southeast Asia, as far as Bangkok, in neighboring Thailand. The quake struck near Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city of more than a million people, … Read more
Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 4 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as “light,” though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown. The New York Times A major, 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Myanmar on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 12:50 p.m. Myanmar … Read more
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said, shaking buildings as far as Bangkok, in neighboring Thailand. The quake struck near Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, at around 12:50 p.m. local time, the agency said. This is a developing story.
U.S. auto tariffs raised the risk of a global trade war President Trump’s plan to impose a 25 percent tariff on cars and parts has sent a shudder through the global auto industry. Markets in Asia, Europe and the U.S. wobbled yesterday as many automakers’ share prices fell. Trump has threatened to target the E.U. … Read more
The pope’s doctors did not think he was going to make it. “It’s terrible,” Pope Francis gasped during a breathing crisis last month. The pope, his hand bruised with needle pricks and his oxygen saturation dipping to a dangerously low 78 during his long hospitalization, acknowledged in a failing voice that he might die. He … Read more
For at least six centuries, residents along a lake in the mountains of central Japan have marked the depth of winter by celebrating the return of a natural phenomenon once revered as the trail of a wandering god. It would only appear after days of frigid temperatures had frozen Lake Suwa into a sheet of … Read more
Over the last two decades, countries like Turkey, Hungary, Venezuela and India gave the world a lesson on how democracy can erode into “competitive authoritarianism” — a system in which elections are still meaningful, but leaders manipulate the rules to their own benefit, while systematically violating civil liberties. Now, we are starting to find out … Read more
The long-running battle over whether to allow Pacific Ocean seabed mining took an unexpected turn Thursday when a company disclosed it had been confidentially negotiating a plan with the Trump administration to circumvent a United Nations treaty and perhaps obtain authorization from the United States to start mining in international waters. The proposal, which drew … Read more
