The Biden administration said yesterday that it is prepared to begin evacuation flights for Afghan interpreters and translators who aided the U.S. military effort in the nearly 20-year war —
There are many startling moments in “Roadrunner,” Morgan Neville’s rich and moving documentary about the singular culinary storyteller Anthony Bourdain, who tragically took his life at the age of 61. Here’s
More than 20 people have died and dozens of people were missing yesterday in Germany and neighboring Belgium after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away
Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace has been shot dead on the steps of his Miami mansion. The incident happened shortly before 0900 local time (1400 GMT) as the 50-year-old designer returned
The COVID-19 curve in the U.S. is rising again after months of decline, with the number of new cases per day doubling over the past three weeks, driven by the
A crowd of retired police officers tried to storm Ukraine’s parliament yesterday and blocked several streets in the capital, Kyiv, during a protest demanding higher pensions. Former police officers rammed through
Booksellers at Hong Kong’s annual book fair are offering a reduced selection of books deemed politically sensitive, as they try to avoid violating a sweeping national security law imposed on
British troops protecting the Kurdish population in Iraq have begun to pull out of the region. They had been part of a western relief effort - Operation Haven - to re-settle
Malaysia shut down a mass vaccination center in its worst-hit state yesterday after more than 200 medical staff and volunteers tested positive for the coronavirus. The closure was the first of
Australian government officials yesterday announced added financial support for businesses and households as Sydney appeared increasingly likely to enter a fourth week of lockdown due to coronavirus clusters. New South Wales
IOC President Thomas Bach appeared in public yesterday for the first time since arriving in Tokyo last week and with the pandemic-postponed Olympics opening in just 10 days. Bach spent his
South Africa’s rioting continued yesterday with the death toll rising to 32 as police and the military struggle to quell the looting and violence in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces. Many of
Officials in Manchester bidding to hold the 2000 Olympic Games have been told their chances are “very, very high”. The President of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, was speaking
Pfizer says it plans to meet with top U.S. health officials yesterday to discuss the drugmaker’s request for federal authorization of a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine as President
A federal judge is considering whether to order financial penalties or other sanctions against some of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers who signed onto a lawsuit last year challenging Michigan’s
Swashbuckling billionaire Richard Branson hurtled into space aboard his own winged rocket ship yesterday , bringing astro-tourism a step closer to reality and beating out his exceedingly richer rival Jeff
The resignation has also led to a declaration from the small but influential radical reform group Democratic Platform that they would also break away. The split leaves Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
Just two months ago, Indonesia was coming to a gasping India’s aid with thousands of tanks of oxygen. Today, the Southeast Asia country is running out of oxygen as it endures
Syrian President Bashar Assad issued a decree yesterday giving hundreds of thousands of civil servants and military members a 50% salary increase amid a harsh economic and financial crisis and
Two more prefectures outside the immediate Tokyo area have decided to bar fans from attending Olympic events because of rising coronavirus infections, Tokyo Olympic organizers confirmed on Saturday with the
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