How Elba Makes a Living Wage
Early in Barack Obama’s recent Netflix documentary series about American jobs, viewers meet a housekeeper at the Pierre Hotel in New York named Elba. She...
A High-Profile Australia-English Cricket Series
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. This week’s issue is written by Natasha...
The U.S. Is Expected to Provide Cluster Munitions to Ukraine. Here Is Why They Are Controversial.
The United States appears to be on the verge of providing Ukraine with cluster munitions, a senior Biden administration official said. Kyiv has been pushing...
U.K. says Russia “likely” training dolphins in Ukraine’s occupied Crimean peninsula to “counter enemy divers”
London — British military spies on Friday said Russia appears to be training combat dolphins in the annexed Crimean peninsula to counter Ukrainian forces. In its...
Ukraine troops admit counteroffensive against Russia “very difficult,” but they “keep going”
Dnipro — Ukraine said it shot down 13 Russian cruise missiles targeting military airfields in the west of the country, hundreds of miles from the...
How ‘Barbie’ and Blackpink Entered South China Sea Map Spat
Of all the things that could inflame tensions in a region that could someday be a theater of war between superpowers, the movie “Barbie” was...
Killer whales attack sailboats during international race: “A dangerous moment”
Two sailing teams competing in a round-the-world race had a scary encounter with a pod of orcas on Thursday afternoon, race officials said. The two...
The America That Americans Forget
After Allied victory, Japan’s entire Pacific Island empire was placed into a trust of roughly 100 inhabited islands spread out over an area the size...
350 migrants on the boat that sank off Greece were from Pakistan. One village lost a generation of men.
Islamabad — In the tiny, remote village of Bandli, high up in the mountains of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, local officials were circulating a grim list on Friday....
Border Patrol agents find 146 pounds of cocaine hidden in ice cream maker
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents found 146 pounds of cocaine hidden in an ice cream maker, officials announced on Thursday. Agents stopped a 1995...
Amid strife with Kremlin, Wagner Group mercenaries enter Russian city
The governor of Russia’s Lipetsk province said Saturday that the Wagner mercenary group has entered the region. The Lipetsk region is about 360 kilometers (225...
Putin calls armed rebellion by Wagner mercenary group a betrayal, vows to defend Russia
President Vladimir Putin vowed Saturday to defend Russia against an armed rebellion by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led his troops out of Ukraine and...
What is the Wagner Group, and who is Yevgeny Prigozhin? What to know about the Russian private military company
For years, it was shrouded in secrecy, then infamy, and after 48 hours of confusion and claims of a “rebellion” in Russia, questions about the...
Beijing’s record high temperatures prompt authorities to urge people to limit time outdoors
Beijing and parts of northern China are experiencing record temperatures, with authorities urging people to limit their time outdoors. The Nanjiao observatory in southern Beijing...