After Hajj Deaths, Egypt Suspends Companies That Took Pilgrims to Mecca
After hundreds of pilgrims died in the scorching desert heat during the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, the Egyptian government is taking action against tour...
Israeli Airstrikes Hit Gaza City
Israeli Airstrikes Hit Gaza City...
Israel-Hamas War Live Updates: Latest News on Gaza and Al-Mawasi
A United Nations-run school in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, in May. Most such schools are now being used as shelters.Credit…Haitham Imad/EPA, via Shutterstock Karim al-Masri...
Toxic Moonshine Leaves at Least 53 Dead in India’s South
The death toll from tainted liquor in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has reached 53, officials say, and is likely to rise, with...
As War Stretches On, Gaza’s High School Students Put Their Dreams on Hold
Karim al-Masri was supposed to start his final exams on Saturday morning, just a few weeks shy of graduating. Instead, he spent his morning filling...
Consider the Beach – The New York Times
A friend and I like to send each other photos of the corniest beach house signs we encounter, those punny plaques that declare a Margaritaville...
Amid the Stanley Cup Excitement, Edmonton’s Downtown Struggles
By the time this newsletter is published, the Edmonton Oilers will be either one game away from winning the Stanley Cup or out of the...
Hezbollah Has Threatened Cyprus. Here’s Why.
Cyprus found itself at the center of the world’s attention this week when the leader of Hezbollah threatened to target the small island nation if...
Sheinbaum’s American Experience Offers Clues to Her Approach to U.S. Relations
In the early 1990s, a young scientist named Claudia Sheinbaum moved with her family from Mexico City to Northern California, where she studied at the...
Piping Up at the Gates of Dawn
Since the James Webb Space Telescope began operating two years ago, astronomers have been using it to leapfrog one another millions of years into the...
Drag Goes Mainstream in the Philippines, a Bastion of Christianity
Before he put on the glittery neon yellow tasseled jumpsuit, donned the yellow wig, and lip synced and danced onstage under colorful spotlights, Paul Hidacan...
Are We Loving Our Pets to Death?
Pets are more popular than ever. Roughly two-thirds of American homes have at least one pet, up from 56 percent in 1988, according to the...
U.S.D.A. Avocado Inspectors Will Start Returning to Mexican Packing Plants
The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, announced on Friday that inspections of avocados and mangos made by U.S. Agriculture Department workers in Michoacán, a...
Putin Came to Asia to Disrupt, and He Succeeded
Four days in Asia. That’s all President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia needed to anger Washington, undermine Beijing and rattle a collection of Indo-Pacific nations...