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Brittney Griner Appeals Drug Conviction in Russia, Lawyer Says
The defense team for Brittney Griner, the American basketball star sentenced to prison in Russia on drug smuggling charges, said on Monday that it had appealed the verdict as Russian diplomats began to speak more openly about a potential prisoner exchange with the United States. Maria Blagovolina, a partner at the law firm that has…
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75 Years Later, the Fading Ghosts of India’s Bloody Partition
AMRITSAR, India — For seven decades, Sudarshana Rani has ached to learn her younger brother’s fate. She was just a child when the communal bloodletting that surrounded Britain’s 1947 partition of India wiped out nearly her entire extended family. But in the paddy fields that became execution grounds, there was one body she did not…
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Shots Fired at Airport in Australia’s Capital
SYDNEY, Australia — A lone gunman fired several gunshots inside Canberra Airport Sunday, prompting a rapid evacuation and grounding flights in Australia’s capital, according to witnesses and the police. In a statement, the Australian Federal Police said that the police had been called to the airport about 1:30 p.m. local time, and that one person…
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Fire at Egypt Coptic Church Kills Dozens During Sunday Prayers
CAIRO — At least 41 people were killed and about a dozen others injured after a fire broke out in a Coptic Orthodox church in greater Cairo as worshipers gathered for Sunday prayers, according to the country’s Health Ministry. The blaze at Abu Sefein Church — one of the largest in the municipality of Giza…
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Russia’s War in Ukraine: Live Updates
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, along the banks of the Dnipro River, is occupied by Russian forces.Credit…David Guttenfelder for The New York Times ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Artillery fire resumed on Sunday from the direction of a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, with shells streaking into a town from which the Ukrainian army has been…
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How the Taliban Has Rolled Back the Clock Since Seizing Power
KABUL, Afghanistan — Girls are barred from secondary schools and women from traveling any significant distance without a male relative. Men in government offices are told to grow beards, wear traditional Afghan clothes and prayer caps, and stop work for prayers. Music is officially banned, and foreign news broadcasts, TV shows and movies have been…
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As U.S. Seeks to Close Guantánamo, Saudi Center Could Be Option
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Nobody was home at the dusty brown campus of the reintegration center for recovering Islamic extremists. The swimming pool was still. The lights were on at the gallery of art therapy works, but there were no visitors. Not a slip of paper was out of place at the psychological and social…
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With New Weaponry, Ukraine Is Subtly Shifting Its War Strategy
KYIV, Ukraine — Despite suffering grievous losses over nearly six months of war, Russia still holds a distinct advantage over Ukraine in a head-to-head fight featuring brutal artillery battles. But Ukraine’s military has achieved some new battlefield success, waging the war on its own terms. Supplied with a growing arsenal of long-range Western weapons and…
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Russia’s War in Ukraine: Live Updates
A Ukrainian artillery unit firing toward Russian infantry troops advancing around the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovske on Wednesday.Credit…David Guttenfelder for The New York Times As the war drags on, Ukraine has managed to hold off Russian gains for the past month thanks in large part to continued support from the United States and its…
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Russian Attack in Kramatorsk Kills 2 civilians, Regional Military Leader Says
A Russian attack on the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine early Friday left two civilians dead, 13 others injured, and damaged dozens of homes, according to Ukrainian officials. Pavlo Kyrylenko, the regional military leader in eastern Donetsk Province, confirmed the attack in social media posts and shared a video of the damage caused by…
