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by Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer / 4h
War, climate shocks and trade disputes are pounding the world’s breadbaskets and pushing the global food system into dangerous territory.
The Ukrainian president repeated his long-held position that elections in the middle of war would tear his country apart.
Iran’s new hard-line national security adviser, Mohsen Rezaei, vowed to prevent “a single drop of oil” from leaving the region.
by Shaila Dewan / 13h
How the trial of Lindsay Clancy has become a proxy for how people view society’s ills.
Yesterday
Canada suspended trade negotiations, triggering President Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on a range of Canadian goods. Mark Carney said he would retaliate “dollar for dollar.”
by Ian Austen / 15h
Buoys, dog muzzles, capes, national flags and “base metal statuettes” from Canada are now more expensive for U.S. shoppers.
by Emma Bubola, Annie Correal and Ana Ionova / 16h
With cheers, endorsements and insults for rivals and “wokismo,” a new crop of right-wing leaders are openly stepping into one another’s elections.
by Somini Sengupta / 16h
Bad harvests and attacks on trade passages threaten to drive food prices higher.
by Susan Dominus / 16h
The German actress Collien Fernandes set out to discover who was pretending to be her online and sending men sexually explicit material. Her answer ignited a feminist movement.
Rubén Rocha Moya of Sinaloa reversed course a day after returning to office, amid widespread criticism, including from members of his own party.
by Andrew Higgins / 21h
The mysterious collapse of a European cryptocurrency exchange helps to explain why the industry hasn’t shaken off its reputation as a magnet for criminals.
by Ana Swanson / 1d
In an interview, Jamieson Greer, President Trump’s trade representative, laid out details of what the United States offered to Canada before talks crumbled.
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a powerful speech to Canadians on Saturday morning, hours after ordering negotiators to suspend U.S. trade talks despite President Trump’s punishing tariffs.
The two countries are locked in a potentially devastating tariff war after last-minute demands ended talks in Washington late Friday night.
by Stephen Castle and Sarah Mervosh / 1d
One effect of moving back is that Archie and Lilibet now have the opportunity to be schooled as Britons. Here’s what that might look like.
Aug 21, 2026
Canada’s prime minister walked away from what he thought was a bad trade deal with the United States. Many Canadians are behind him, but it will be costly.
Maintaining that access to abortion was as much a matter of economic equality as women’s rights, she successfully championed state reimbursement for abortions.
by Christina Goldbaum / 1d
President Joseph Aoun took office with a popular mandate to reassert control after the militant group dragged the country back into war with Israel.
by Esther Bintliff / 1d
They took on topics as diverse as fall of the Aztecs, the French Revolution, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and history’s greatest monkeys. The rest is history.
by John Eligon, Sutton Raphael, Christina Thornell and Joey Sendaydiego / 1d
Our reporter John Eligon takes a six-mile walk between two townships in Cape Town to show how the barriers left by apartheid still exist 30 years later.
by Valerie Hopkins / 1d
The diplomat, John Coale, says his personalized approach gets results and matches the president’s style. Critics contend he is giving up too much to an authoritarian leader.
by Suhasini Raj and Francesca Regalado / 1d
A fraud case, in which dozens of grooms showed up for a wedding that never materialized, is an extreme example of scamming in a marriage industry long prone to it.
by Melissa Kirsch / 1d
What makes a movie a summer movie? Is it the time of its release, or the way that it depicts the season itself? Or something else entirely?
Canadian negotiators were in Washington to finalize a deal that would stave off new tariffs and improve the terms of existing ones, but Mark Carney faces a tough sell back home.
by Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Ian Austen and Ana Swanson / 1d
Intense negotiations to stave off new levies by the Trump administration ended in an impasse as Mark Carney suspended talks. U.S. tariffs on Canada, and retaliatory tariffs on the U.S., will come into effect.
by Javier C. Hernández and Hisako Ueno / 1d
Osaka? Fukuoka? Sapporo? The race is on to be second to Tokyo — and to claim the prestige and money that could come with it.
by Motoko Rich / 1d
Many Italians see themselves in Andrea Bajani’s latest novel, a portrayal of the family as a “little totalitarian system” shaped by psychological and physical violence.
United States trade representative Jamieson Greer said that it was a “missed opportunity for Canada.” The surprising development means tariffs against $20 billion of Canadian goods come into effect at midnight.
After U.S. prosecutors accused Gov. Rubén Rocha Moya of protecting the Sinaloa cartel, he said he would step down to focus on his defense. On Friday, he declared he was back and faced much criticism.
Turkey’s request for an Interpol ‘red notice’ came at a time of escalating tensions between the two countries.
At least five of the people flown to Liberia under the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program resisted leaving the plane. They were then flown to Equatorial Guinea.
by John Eligon and Rabecca Lungu / 2d
While the government says it is preventing an insurrection, activists and international observers have raised fears about arbitrary arrests and electoral fraud.
The 26-year-old received a yearlong sentence from a court on the Indonesian resort island after he flouted a sacred Hindu ritual and insulted it on Instagram.
The prominent landowner has added a nearly 200-year-old estate to his holdings. Archival information says it can take “a brisk walk of 4½ minutes to reach the dining room from the kitchen.”
Officials were careful not to point a finger, after revealing what they said was a plan for a political attack, at a time when a series of destabilizing actions have been blamed on Russia.
Canadian negotiators were in Washington to finalize a deal that would stave off new tariffs and improve the terms of existing ones, but Mark Carney faces a tough sell back home.
Harry and six other high-profile figures lost a privacy lawsuit against Associated Newspapers. They may eventually have to pay more than twice the initial sum, a judge said.
by Claire Moses and Amelia Nierenberg / 2d
Recent surveys suggest the broader public views both of them negatively, especially in comparison to Harry’s brother, William, and his wife, Kate.
China’s regulator ordered changes after vehicle occupants sometimes had difficulty exiting electric cars, an issue that has led to lawsuits against Tesla in the United States.
Palestinian and Israeli authorities offered divergent accounts of the incident, which came as settler violence has surged across the Israeli-occupied territory.
Beijing can squeeze U.S. critical mineral supplies and has enough oil to withstand the loss of Iranian crude, Chinese analysts say.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, lead negotiator in talks with Washington, made the comments after President Trump vowed an “economic D-Day” against Iran.
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