A pro-Russian crowd during a rally outside a Ukrainian military base in Crimea in 2014, the year Russia annexed the region.Credit...Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times Donald J. Trump on Sunday offered a muddled explanation of his views about the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia and its continued efforts to undermine Ukraine’s control of other parts of the country, and he amplified his earl
A panel in The Hague rejected Beijing’s claims to the South China Sea on Tuesday, in a landmark case.CreditCredit...Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times BEIJING — An international tribunal in The Hague delivered a sweeping rebuke on Tuesday of China’s behavior in the South China Sea, including its construction of artificial islands, and found that its expansive claim to sovereignty over the wat
Huge fires that broke out a few hours after a nuclear bomb was detonated on Aug. 6, 1945, over Hiroshima, Japan, caused billowing clouds of smoke.Credit...United States Army, via Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, via Associated Press WASHINGTON — For decades, visitors to the ghostly dome in Hiroshima that stands like a sole survivor from the dropping of the atomic bomb there more than 70 years ago
A refugee from Syria with her grandson after entering south-central Turkey on Wednesday.Credit...Bulent Kilic/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images MUNICH — For months now the United States has insisted there can be no military solution to the Syrian civil war, only a political accord between President Bashar al-Assad and the fractured, divided opposition groups that have been trying to topple him.
Protesters in Hong Kong hold up missing persons notices.Credit...Anthony Wallace/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images China has long had one of the world’s worst human rights records because of the way it treats its own citizens. Now, Beijing appears to be reaching beyond its territory and abducting critics from Hong Kong, a semiautonomous city, and from other countries, an alarming expansion of th
As Freed Americans Rejoin Relatives, Mystery Surrounds One Who Stayed Put TEHRAN — As relatives of American prisoners freed by Iran over the weekend reunited with them Monday at United States military facilities in Germany, most Iranian officials conspicuously avoided talking about the deal that had led to their release. At the same time, a mystery deepened over one of the freed American prisoners
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, supported an apology and payment for the Korean “comfort women” who were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japan’s Imperial Army.
SEOUL, South Korea — The foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan on Monday reached a deal meant to resolve a decades-long impasse over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II , an important breakthrough for the Northeast Asian powers. The deal, which included an apology from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a 1 billion yen ($8.3 million) aid fund from T
transcript Japanese React to Surname RulingResidents in Japan gave their opinions on their country's Supreme Court ruling requiring married couples to use the same surname. (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) 80-YEAR-OLD PLAINTIFF, KYOKO TSUKAMOTO, SAYING: “My identity was Tsukamoto Kyoko. What happens to a person who loses that identity? I can’t live as Tsukamoto Kyoko, and now I won’t be able to die as Tsuka
Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft, shown being loaded with cargo last month, is scheduled to be launched for the International Space Station on Thursday. A new jetpack, "mixed reality visors" and a small satellite built by elementary school students are included in the shipment.Credit...Cristobal Herrera/European Pressphoto Agency NASA’s supply ships to the International Space Station are soon to fl
President Xi Jinping of China, at the lectern, with People's Liberation Army honor guards in Beijing in September.Credit...Rolex Dela Pena/European Pressphoto Agency BEIJING — President Xi Jinping of China has announced a major reorganization of the nation’s military, state-backed news media reported on Thursday, laying out plans to create new command systems intended to integrate and rebalance la
transcript Turkey Footage Shows Downed PlaneVideo taken at the Turkey-Syria border shows an aircraft that Turkey says it shot down after its airspace was violated on Tuesday. Video taken at the Turkey-Syria border shows an aircraft that Turkey says it shot down after its airspace was violated on Tuesday.CreditCredit...Fatih Akta/Anadolu Agency, via Getty Images MOSCOW — The Russian navigator who p
transcript Russia and Turkey on Downed WarplaneThe president of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, said Turkey's shooting down of a Russian warplane was a “stab in the back.” The prime minister of Turkey, Ahmet Davutoglu, asserted the nation's right to respond when its airspace has been violated. The president of Russia, Vladimir V. Putin, said Turkey's shooting down of a Russian warplane was a “stab in t
Firefighters and police officers inspecting the south gate of the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Monday.Credit...Shigeyuki Inakuma/Kyodo News, via Associated Press TOKYO — A small explosion damaged a public toilet on the grounds of a contentious Japanese war shine on Monday, drawing police bomb squad technicians and firefighters to the scene and prompting the shrine to close some areas to visitors, t
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — China on Sunday told other countries not to "deliberately stir up trouble" in the disputed South China Sea, while insisting it has no intention of militarizing the strategically vital area even though it has increased construction activities there. Deputy Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin reiterated China's position that its construction of artificial islands in the sea was des
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon — Four civilians were killed in northern Cameroon on Saturday in a suicide bomb assault by militants suspected of belonging Boko Haram. Three female attackers and one man blew themselves up in the attack, security officials said. The attack on the village of Nigue was the latest of many Boko Haram has mounted in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria this year. The attacks are turning
BEIJING — The Chinese authorities acknowledged on Friday that they had killed 28 people suspected of taking part in an attack on a coal mine in the country’s turbulent western frontier, several days after news of the killings first emerged. Officials in Xinjiang, a sparsely populated swath of desert and mountains near China’s border with Kazakhstan, said the people were terrorists who had helped o
Mr. Taylor was the band’s drummer from 1975 to 1984 and then for another five-year stint beginning in 1987. He played on many of the band’s multimillion-selling hits, including “Overkill” and “Ace of Spades.” His double-bass drum style on tracks like “Overkill” helped give rise to thrash metal, a frenetic-paced genre popularized by Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax and other bands. “Motorhead w
The ease of creating informal roads through the flat, sandy desert in northern Syria could limit the effectiveness of an American-backed offensive to cut off a key Islamic State supply route. The operation seeks to retake control of the highway between Raqqa, the Islamic State’s capital in Syria, and Mosul, the largest city controlled by the group in Iraq.
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