U.S. Knew Prigozhin Was Preparing to Take Military Action Against Russia
American intelligence officials briefed senior military and administration officials on Wednesday that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the mercenary Wagner Group, was preparing to take...
Rebel Wagner Forces, Threatening March to Moscow, Abruptly Stand Down
A domestic security crisis that threatened the government of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia appeared to ease late Saturday, when a mercenary tycoon, whose...
As Putin’s Partner, Prigozhin Was Always Willing to Do the Dirty Work
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the mercenary leader who led an armed rebellion in Russia on Saturday, was never afraid of a dirty task, many say. Emerging...
What to Know About the Election in Sierra Leone
Since he became president of the small West African nation of Sierra Leone in 2018, Julius Maada Bio has dedicated 22 percent of the country’s budget...
Map: Tracking Wagner Military Convoys in Russia
Military convoys believed to belong to Yevgeny V. Prigozhin’s Wagner forces have been seen at various points along Russia’s major M-4 highway, which leads to...
Ship That Launched Ill-Fated Titan Submersible Returns to Newfoundland
Escorted to a Canadian Coast Guard base, the ship that launched the ill-fated Titan submersible returned from international waters to its home port, St. John’s,...
Tropical Storm Bret Expected to Dissipate Overnight
Tropical Storm Bret continued moving west across the Caribbean Sea on Saturday after bringing high winds and heavy rain to several small islands southeast of...
How a Crypto Fugitive Upended the Politics of a Troubled Balkan Nation
Already notorious as an agent of market mayhem, the crypto industry has now unleashed political havoc, too, upending a critical general election in Montenegro, a...
Putin Embraced Turmoil. Now It Is Rattling His Leadership.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia always seemed to thrive on chaos. Then it threatened to consume him. For the last few months, as the...
U.S. Government Moves to Expand Health Care to Pacific Veterans
After decades of neglect, the U.S. government is one step closer to eliminating longstanding obstacles to free health care for veterans from three Pacific Island...
Killing of Sikh Leader Raises Fears in British Columbia
On Sunday, after riddling a car with bullets in a parking lot, two masked, heavyset men made a run for it and jumped into a...
Greek Youths, Shaped by Debt Crisis, Plan to Vote for Stability
Days before this Sunday’s election in Greece, three young women with piercings and ironic T-shirts who sat outside a hipster coffee shop in an Athens...
Saudi Arabia Wants Tourists. It Didn’t Expect Christians.
The caravan of five Toyota Land Cruisers raced across Saudi Arabia’s rocky desert, weaving onto a highway so new it was not on the map....
What’s Happening in Russia? What We Know About Wagner’s Military Revolt
A powerful mercenary military leader brought in by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to help salvage his floundering invasion of Ukraine turned his guns...