Trick or trash: Candy makers grapple with plastic waste

Halloween treats have a tricky problem: plastic packaging that’s difficult to recycle. As America loads up on an estimated 600 million pounds of candy for

Lebanon president leaves with no replacement, crisis deepens

President Michel Aoun left Lebanon’s presidential palace yesterday, marking the end of his six-year term without a replacement, leaving the small nation in a political vacuum that is

Opposition leader says Belarus shouldn’t fight for Russia

An opposition leader in exile from Belarus said yesterday that her country’s soldiers should lay down their arms if they are deployed to Ukraine under

Russia, Belarus ambassadors barred from Nobel ceremony

The ambassadors of Russia and Belarus have been excluded from this year’s Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm because of the war in Ukraine. The Nobel Foundation, a

Sunak takes over as prime minister amid economic crisis

Rishi Sunak became Britain’s third prime minister of the year yesterday, tasked with taming an economic crisis that has left the country’s finances in a precarious

Two images of Britain, taken seven weeks apart, that speak volumes

They are two photos taken exactly seven weeks apart, capturing the traditional and ceremonial rites of the monarch meeting the British prime minister-in-waiting to ask them to

Ukraine cites success in downing drones, fixes energy sites

Ukrainian authorities tried to dampen public fears over Russia’s use of Iranian drones by claiming increasing success yesterday in shooting them down, while the Kremlin’s talk

Las Vegas at center of tight contests for US Senate, governor

In a meeting hall just north of Las Vegas Boulevard, where casino-resorts tower like gleaming beacons of amusement, Ted Pappageorge laid out a darker, urgent call for action

Sunak, UK’s next PM, gets cheers from unlikely place: India

Rishi Sunak, the former British Treasury chief who won the race to be leader of the Conservative Party and is  As the news became clear yesterday, social

Russian warplane falls on building in Siberia; two pilots die

A Russian warplane slammed into a residential building in the Siberian city of Irkutsk yesterday, killing both crewmembers, authorities said. It was the second time in less

Salman Rushdie lives, but loses use of eye and hand: report

Salmon Rushdie’s agent says the author has lost sight in one eye and the use of a hand as he recovers from an attack from a man who

UK’s Liz Truss quits after turmoil obliterated her authority

British Prime Minister Liz Truss quit yesterday — bowing to the inevitable after a tumultuous term in which her policies triggered turmoil in financial markets and a rebellion

Allies blast Scholz over Chinese investment in German port

Lawmakers from two of Germany’s governing parties yesterday slammed plans for Chinese shipping company Cosco to take a major stake in the operator of the country’s biggest container terminal,

Russia evacuates occupied Ukrainian city, orders martial law

Russian forces launched mass evacuations of civilians yesterday from one of the first major cities they seized in the invasion of Ukraine — a tacit acknowledgement that yet

Liz Truss’ waning power brings political plots, and jokes

Powerless, humiliated, labeled a “ghost” prime minister and compared unfavorably to a head of lettuce — this is not a good week for Liz Truss. Britain’s prime minister

China defends right to protect consulate in UK after assault claim

China’s Foreign Ministry said yesterday its diplomatic missions abroad have the right to “take necessary measures” to maintain security after British police opened an investigation into

German foreign minister urges caution in China relationship

Germany must avoid repeating with China the mistakes that it made in its relationship with Russia over recent years, the German foreign minister said yesterday. Annalena Baerbock

Ukrainians’ resilience persists despite new Russian barrage

When  The next day, traffic flowed over the newly asphalted road, and life in the capital had returned to near normal. The response to Russia’s new

Musk has a ‘super app’ plan for Twitter. It’s super vague

Elon Musk has a penchant for the letter “X.” He calls his son with the singer Grimes, whose actual name is a collection of letters

Activists in UK court after soup thrown at Van Gogh picture

Three climate activists appeared in a London court this weekend on charges of criminal damage after protests including throwing soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting

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