Türkiye summoned Ukraine’s ambassador on Aug. 29 after two Turkish-operated commercial vessels were damaged in separate drone attacks in the Black Sea near the Russian port of Tua…
Absolutely not! I knew what I wanted to write about, but I had to wait for that surprise cooker nugget before I could get going. Climate change is such awkward, intractable subjec…
Khamenei urges Gulf rulers to confront their ‘real enemy’ as Iran keeps Hormuz restricted amid stalled diplomacy.
Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Aug. 30 called on Muslim countries in the region to unite against the United States and Israel, in a written message issued six months on…
America's grocery squeeze has thus far been most painfully felt in a few expensive categories, like beef, coffee and chocolate.Now, the forces pushing up food prices are starting …
Greece is set to sign a $3.6 billion air defense agreement with Israel in Tel Aviv on Aug. 31, in what will become the largest defense export deal in Israeli history.
“There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others.”
Pacific island leaders will tackle transnational drug crime as they meet in Palau from Aug. 31 for a summit where tensions between Taiwan and China risk overshadowing regional pri…
We congregated there most weekends, eight of us, coming in from Bed-Stuy and Canarsie and lower Manhattan. I was renting a room on Second Avenue from a septuagenarian Buddhist who…
Die-offs and floods have started already, a prelude to supercharged storms and droughts.
These books can ease readers into a season of work and hard thinking. Summer is the ideal season for fun, frothy reads. On languorous weekends or hard-earned vacations, many peopl…
Dolly Parton's songs traveled far beyond Nashville. Across Africa, musicians embraced her stories of hardship, heartbreak and humble beginnings — and made them their own.