Category: World
Bullfighting Returns to Mexico City. A Fight Over Its Future Goes On.
At 4:30 p.m., the near-capacity crowd of 42,000 people at La Plaza México started restlessly whistling. They had waited since May 15, 2022 — a…
Wednesday Briefing: Imran Khan Gets 10 Years
Pakistan’s former leader is sentenced Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former prime minister, was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday. The verdict is widely seen as…
After Help From Kenyan Police Is Blocked, Haitians Ask: What Now?
Gangs have taken over entire neighborhoods in Haiti’s capital, and killings have more than doubled in the past year, but for the organizers of the…
Spending More Money on Police Shows No Clear Link to Lower Crime Levels
One effect we’re now seeing from the inflation that is largely a product of the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are municipal tax increases…
Whitney Biennial Names 71 Artists to Probe Turbulent Times
The last time the Whitney Biennial came around, in 2022, its production had been extended an extra year by the Covid pandemic, and the curators…
Widening Mideast Crisis: Blast That Killed About 20 Soldiers Linked to Israeli Effort to Create Gaza Buffer Zone
Israel was trying to demolish part of a Palestinian neighborhood as it pursued a plan to create a buffer zone between Gaza and Israel when…
Middle East Live Updates: Iran Accuses Israel of Killing 4 Military Advisers in Syria
President Biden pressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Friday to agree to the creation of a Palestinian state after the war in Gaza…
Brazilian Police Make Arrest in Killing of Brent Sikkema
A man was arrested in Brazil on Thursday in connection with the killing of Brent Sikkema, a New York art dealer who was found with…
Israel-Hamas War: Israel and Hamas Reach Deal to Supply Medicine to Hostages in Gaza
Hila Rotem Shoshani had invited her friend Emily Hand over for a sleepover in Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel. The girls, then 12 and 8, woke early…
Guatemala’s New President Is Sworn In, Despite Efforts to Stop Him
Despite staunch resistance from his opponents in the government, the anticorruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo was inaugurated early Monday morning as Guatemala’s president, a turning point…