It was billed as the first step in establishing a representative government as Syria emerged from decades of a brutal, one-family dictatorship. But for some in Syria, the highly anticipated “national dialogue” that ended on Tuesday night fell far short of those promises. Instead, the two-day conference only added to concerns about the openness of … Read more
The U.S. and Ukraine reached a minerals deal Ukraine has agreed to turn over the revenue from some of its mineral resources to the U.S., an American and a Ukrainian official said yesterday, in a deal that followed an intense pressure campaign from President Trump. It was not immediately clear what, if anything, Ukraine would … Read more
Chile’s government imposed a curfew and declared a state of emergency in response to a sweeping blackout that cut electricity to most of the country including the capital, Santiago, on Tuesday. The massive outage, which began in the afternoon, affected eight million households across the country, from the northern port city of Arica to Los … Read more
The Israeli military said it had struck sites in southern Syria on Tuesday, just hours after the new Syrian leadership demanded that Israel withdraw from territory it has seized since the fall of the Assad regime. The attacks were aimed at “military targets in southern Syria, including headquarters and sites containing weapons,” the Israeli military … Read more
Ukraine has agreed to a deal to turn over the revenue from some of its mineral resources to the United States, an American and a Ukrainian official said on Tuesday, after an intense pressure campaign from President Trump. Terms of the agreement The final details of the agreement, including the amount of money that Ukraine … Read more
If the old saying is true, that you are known by who your friends are, then President Trump may be telling the world something about who he plans to be in this second term. In a move that redrew the international order, Mr. Trump this week had the United States vote against a U.N. General … Read more
Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who returned to his native Poland after World War II to give voice to fellow victims of the Nazis and their collaborators, warning the world in writings and speeches about the dangers of indifference to racial and ethnic injustice, died on Feb. 18 at his home in Warsaw. He was … Read more
Officials in Ukraine and the Trump administration say they are close to a deal that would give the United States revenues from Ukraine’s minerals and other natural resources, including titanium, lithium, oil, natural gas and rare earth elements. A draft agreement seen by The New York Times described the creation of an U.S.-controlled fund that … Read more
An unidentified illness has killed scores of people and infected hundreds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has reported, with preliminary investigations tracing the outbreak to three children who in January ate a bat and died. Fifty-three people in the country’s northwest had died from the disease, out of 431 reported … Read more
