MANILA — Emergency response teams backed by the Philippine police and military scrambled on Saturday to prepare for Typhoon Goni, which officials expect to be the strongest storm to hit the country this year. Goni, which as of Saturday afternoon had sustained winds of 135 miles per hour at its center and…
Month: October 2020
A Frazzled World Holds Its Breath While the U.S. Chooses Its Leader
JERUSALEM — If the world could vote in Tuesday’s presidential election, Israel would be one of the reddest places on the globe. Israel’s right-wing government has been showered with political favors by the Trump White House and backed to the hilt, culminating in normalization deals with three Arab countries that made the…
The End of a Beloved Delhi Institution
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. NEW DELHI — For more than half a century, Parambaloth Joseph Anthony, a shrewd and sweet-natured man, served as The New York Times’s secret weapon in India. As the New Delhi bureau…
In Avignon, Snatching Theater From the Jaws of New Lockdowns
AVIGNON, France — Festivalgoers who cross the medieval ramparts of Avignon are used to being greeted with a riot of activity. Every July, thousands of posters cover the city’s walls to advertise stage productions as the official Avignon Festival and its Fringe compete for attention. Seemingly every street corner brings hopeful performers…
New Zealand’s Advance Preview of a Post-Virus World
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. Roughly three weeks ago, I stepped off a plane and into a parallel universe. Here in New Zealand, coronavirus lurks far from the limelight, the recent election was orderly and uncontroversial, and the national…
Coronavirus, Nice Attacks, U.S. Election: Your Friday Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering new coronavirus precautions to keep European schools open, attacks in France and the latest from the U.S. election campaign. ImageReturning to secondary school after the autumn holidays in Bonn, Germany, earlier this week.Credit…Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters Despite lockdowns, Europe’s schools…
Deadly Knife Attack in France Appears to Be Terrorism, Officials Say
PARIS — An assailant with a knife killed at least two people on Thursday morning at a church in the southern French city of Nice, according to local officials who said it appeared to be a terrorist attack. The assault comes as the country is still shaken by the beheading of a…
Turkish Bank Case Showed Erdogan’s Influence With Trump
WASHINGTON — Geoffrey S. Berman was outraged. The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Mr. Berman had traveled to Washington in June 2019 to discuss a particularly delicate case with Attorney General William P. Barr and some of his top aides: a criminal investigation into Halkbank, a state-owned Turkish bank suspected of violating…
How to Staycation in 6 American Cities
The pandemic has decimated urban tourism as Americans, if they choose to travel, have fled populated areas to spread out in rural and wilderness destinations where social distancing comes easier. With business travel all but stopped, city hotels and tourist organizations have made a full-court press to attract especially locals and nearby…
The Americans Left Behind in Kuwait
Listen to This Article Audio Recording by Audm To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. On the first night of the Republican National Convention, the opening video asserted that America treats all its citizens equally regardless of race. But at the…
Americans Abroad Wait to See if Ballots They Mailed Will Arrive
Benjamin Cole, a Ph.D. student in Germany, had no problem voting from abroad in 2016 and 2018 for elections in Georgia, where he lived before moving overseas. But this year, concerned about mail delays in the pandemic, he took his completed ballot to the post office in Cologne the same day he…
Coronavirus, Britain, Transgender Rugby: Your Wednesday Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering a second coronavirus wave in Britain, an angry response to France in the Muslim world and international rugby’s ban on transgender women. ImageIn August, British health care workers demanded that the government address their wage claims.Credit…Jonathan Brady/Press Association,…
Blast at Pakistani Religious School Kills at Least 7
LAHORE, Pakistan — At least seven people were killed and more than 70 wounded when a powerful explosion ripped through an Islamic religious school in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said. Classes were underway early Tuesday at the school, the Jamia Zuberia madrasa, located in a crowded suburban neighborhood outside Peshawar, when…
Arts Bailout in U.K. Buys Time, but No Peace of Mind
LIVERPOOL, England — One recent afternoon, Liam Naughton was standing in the main room of the Invisible Wind Factory, a vast music venue and arts space he runs in a formerly industrial area of Liverpool, which has been largely shuttered since March. “We could put a roller rink in here,” he said,…
Europe’s virus numbers look like they did in the spring: high and getting higher.
The weather has turned distinctly autumnal in Europe, but the pandemic looks much like it did in the spring, with cases climbing at alarming rates in nearly every country. Britain, which had the greatest surge of excess deaths during the pandemic’s first peak in Europe and still holds the most reported deaths…
Witnessing Peru’s Enduring, if Altered, Snow Star Festival
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with travel restrictions in place worldwide, we launched a new series — The World Through a Lens — in which photojournalists help transport you, virtually, to some of our planet’s most beautiful and intriguing places. This week, Danielle Villasana shares a collection of images from…
A Teacher, His Killer and the Failure of French Integration
ÉVREUX, France — They could have easily shared the same classroom — the immigrant teenager and the veteran teacher known for his commitment to instilling the nation’s ideals, in a relationship that had turned waves of newcomers into French citizens. But Abdoullakh Anzorov, 18, who grew up in France from age 6…
Spain, Covid-19, Airbnb: Your Monday Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering a state of emergency in Spain, the push to reclaim short-term accommodation listings in Europe and the unexpected outcome of a local election in Russia. ImageAn empty square in Barcelona last week. Spain declared a state of emergency…
As Lawlessness Roils Nigeria, Police Chief Vows to Take Back Streets
LAGOS — Nigeria’s police chief on Saturday ordered the mobilization of all police resources to reclaim public space after more than two weeks of peaceful protests over police brutality gave way to widespread vandalism and looting. The order came four days after the police and soldiers fired on demonstrators, killing 12 and…
Venezuela Opposition Figure, Long Confined, Flees Country
The Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López fled the country Saturday after spending the past six years in jail, house arrest and diplomatic asylum, his political party said. Mr. López, 49, is heading to an undisclosed international destination after leaving the Spanish Embassy in Caracas, according to his political party and Spain’s Foreign…