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Russia-Ukraine War: Russia Restarts Gas Flow
The American-made HIMARS truck-mounted rocket system on display in March at the World Defense Show in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Credit…Fayez Nureldine/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images As Russia’s foreign minister made clear that Moscow’s territorial ambitions extend beyond Ukraine’s eastern territories, the United States said on Wednesday that it would send four more advanced multiple-rocket launch vehicles…
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Your Thursday Briefing – The New York Times
Good morning. We’re covering a plan to ration gas in Europe and the implosion of Italy’s government. The E.U. prepares to ration gas The E.U.’s executive branch put forth a plan to avert an energy crisis from a likely Russian gas cutoff and yesterday called on member states to ration natural gas. Europe is being…
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With Russian Cutoff Feared, Europeans Are Told to Curb Natural Gas Use
BRUSSELS — Europe must cut its use of natural gas by 15 percent from now through next spring to prevent a major crisis as Russia slashes gas exports, the European Union’s executive branch said on Wednesday, calling for hard sacrifices by the people of the world’s richest group of nations. “Russia is blackmailing us,” the…
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As Temperatures Rise, ‘This Is a Preview.’ Will the Warning Be Heard?
But it remains an open question whether extreme weather events like this month’s heat wave and fires will change that mind-set. “For Germany, I think last year’s floods were a bit of a wake-up call, insofar as, ‘Oh, weather can actually be deadly in Germany,’” Otto said. But she expressed skepticism that the heat wave…
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E.U. Natural Gas, Putin News and the Latest: Ukraine War Live Updates
Kherson, in southern Ukraine, has been under Russian control since the early days of the war.Credit…Andrey Borodulin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A critical bridge shelled. A fighter jet shot out of the sky. Ammunition depots destroyed. A cluster of soldiers attacked. Ukraine’s intensifying attacks on Russian forces in just the last 48 hours in Kherson…
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Japan’s Leader Tries to Honor Abe’s Legacy, While Building His Own
TOKYO — Fumio Kishida has spent years trying to emerge from the shadow of Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan who was gunned down at a campaign rally on July 8. Ever since both were elected in 1993 to the Diet, as Japan’s Parliament is known, Mr. Abe had been the more prominent…
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Europe’s Heat Wave Breaks UK Temperature Records and Drives Wildfires
LONDON — For the first time on record, Britain suffered under temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius — 104 Fahrenheit — on Tuesday, as a ferocious heat wave moved northwest, leaving a trail of raging wildfires, lost lives and evacuated homes across a Europe frighteningly ill-equipped to cope with the new reality of extreme weather. While…
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Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates as Putin Visits Iran
A HIMARS vehicle in eastern Ukraine in early July.Credit…Anastasia Vlasov/ The Washington Post, via Getty Images The commander in chief of Ukraine’s armed forces said on Tuesday that new long range artillery systems supplied by the United States are helping in “stabilizing” the country’s defense. Russia’s defense minister, by contrast, on Monday ordered his forces…
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Sri Lanka, Out of Fuel, Runs on Patience
The rage at the failure and corruption of a ruling elite is matched by generosity and ingenuity to prevent complete collapse and anarchy.
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Where Dalí Once Painted the Sea, Wind Turbines Are Set to Rise
PORT LLIGAT, Spain — Moises Tibau clambered aboard his small wooden boat at dawn, pushing off from a craggy outcropping in front of the house where Salvador Dalí composed some of his most famous Surrealist paintings. Mr. Tibau, one of the two remaining fishermen in this speck of a Mediterranean town about 100 miles north…
