NY Times World
Out searching with a metal detector in his hometown, Kalle Lappinen found a historical treasure buried in an unexpected location.
NY Times World
The Trump administration is taking an increasingly militarized approach to Latin America, and it has pushed governments across the region to work with U.S. forces.
BBC World
The father had threatened to behead a female primary school teacher near Toulouse.
The Guardian
Broadcaster, 86, had intended to end her life in Swiss clinic after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2023 Esther Rantzen has said she is no longer able to travel to Switzerland to end her life because she has become “too physically fragile”.Rantzen, who presented the TV current affairs programme That’s Life! for 21 years and founded the youth support charity Childline, had intended to end her life in a Dignitas assisted dying clinic in Switzerland after being diagnosed with terminal
NY Times World
Low rainfall and shrinking rivers are causing shipping bottlenecks, and higher prices, around the world.
WSJ World News
The U.S. and Canada are distinct nations built on different branches of their shared British inheritance.
WSJ World News
The G-20’s recognition of Beijing’s policy-driven steel overproduction is a welcome first step.
WSJ World News
After a pilgrimage through Spain, the challenge is carrying its lessons forward in everyday life.
The Guardian
Democrats are targeting Trump’s relationship with Epstein as part of strategy ahead of midterm electionsJames Talarico, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas, accused his rival Ken Paxton of “ignoring” survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse, as Democrats seek to increase pressure on Republicans ahead of November’s midterm elections.Speaking in Dallas, where Republicans are holding a midterm convention this week, Talarico appeared alongside one of Epstein’s victims at an exhibit that
The Guardian
Terry Strada, whose husband was killed in the attacks, says she remains hopeful for justice as a lawsuit alleging Saudi support for the hijackers moves toward trialThe leader of one group of 9/11 victims’ families says it has “taken way too long” to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for its alleged support of the terrorists who carried out the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, whose 25th anniversary was observed across the US on Friday.As that grim milestone approached, Terry Strada – the nation
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Housing market has been stymied by borrowing costs, as mortgage rates marched higher amid war between the US and IranSales of previously occupied US homes declined in August to their slowest annual pace in more than a year as home shoppers grappled with rising mortgage rates and home prices.Existing home sales fell 2% last month from July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.98m units, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday. This is the third straight monthly decline. Continue r
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European leaders are reluctant to close Ukraine’s funding gap, as opposition parties who are against paying for the war grow in influence.
The Guardian
Veterans recall chaos and confusion as the attacks unfolded – followed by a ‘war on terror’ that left agency with a tarnished reputationA generation of spies had lost an enemy but not yet found a role. Then came 9/11.A decade after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, al-Qaida’s devastating attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001 announced to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that the long era of battling communism, for which it had been founded, was officially at an end. Con
WSJ World News
The party’s success is more likely to contribute to instability and paralysis than conservative energy.
NY Times World
Prominent rabbis reacted with a mix of support, condemnation and concern about the ramifications for Jews in Britain.
The Guardian
The payments amounted to 30% of each aides’ $150,000 annual salaryDonald Trump may have committed “serious” ethical violations by giving three officials including his close personal aide Natalie Harp cash gifts of $45,000 each, according to a former White House “ethics czar”, as a watchdog group called for an investigation.The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the US Office of Government Ethics over the US president’s handouts to a handful of staff, arguing that an investi
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Britain warned that Russia uses disinformation to divide Ukraine from its international partners.
The Guardian
The defense says: ‘It’s about competition, not conspiracy’ A US prosecutor described China’s Huawei as a criminal enterprise that stole from US companies to build its telecommunications empire, as the trial against the tech giant kicked off in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday.“Theft, lies, cover-up,” Taylor Stout, a trial attorney from the US Department of Justice, said in the government’s opening statement. “For 20 years, that’s how Huawei, a massive Chinese telecommunications company, vict
The Guardian
Bronwen James, 30, admitted offences against two girls at schools in Wiltshire and Hampshire, and found guilty of charges involving boyA former PE teacher is facing a lengthy jail sentence for grooming and sexually abusing three pupils at two schools.Bronwen James, 30, admitted offences against two girls at schools in Hampshire and Wiltshire and was found guilty by a jury of charges involving a boy. Continue reading...
BBC World
Since the attacks, New York officials are working with new, complex technology to find traces of more than 1,000 victims.