A departures information board is seen at Charles-de-Gaulle airport, outside Paris, on July 3, 2025. THIBAUD MORITZ / AFP French air traffic controllers launched a two-day strike on Thursday, July 3, to demand better working conditions, disrupting travel for tens of thousands of people at the start of the summer holiday season. The DGAC civil […]
Liverpool’s Diogo Jota during the warm up before the match against Toulouse, Anfield, Liverpool, October 26, 2023. MOLLY DARLINGTON / REUTERS Liverpool and Portugal forward Diogo Jota and his brother died in a car crash in northwestern Spain on Thursday, July 3, police said, days after the star got married. The Civil Guard said a […]
Ukrainian Air Force F-16 fighter jets fly over a Patriot air and missile defense system in Ukraine, August 4, 2024. EFREM LUKATSKY/AP The skies over Ukraine darkened considerably on Wednesday, July 2, with the announcement of a “pause” in the delivery of crucial US air defense systems needed to counter the daily volleys of missiles […]
HÉLÈNE BLANC First meeting I was born in the 60s and grew up in Siberia. I lived my first life there. First marriage, first son. Then in the 80s, I moved to Moscow, where I played the drums in a band. I got divorced, remarried, and started a career in film acting. Ten years later, […]
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, September 12, 2023. NOAM GALAI / GETTY IMAGES VIA AFP It is a setback for the MeToo movement. Despite footage of violence and testimony recounting cruelty, the rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was acquitted on Wednesday, July 2, […]
A cybercafé in Lagos, Nigeria, on April 18, 2019. THE NEW YORK TIMES-REDUX-REA For half a second, it was unclear if the interview was veering off course. Ben’s voice (those interviewed requested anonymity) suddenly became warm and persuasive. “I need a girlfriend that I can trust. Like, I need you. Can you be my girlfriend?” […]
An unmanned semi-submersible between two Colombian Navy boats of the coast of Tayrona Park near Santa Marta, Colombia on July 2, 2025. HANDOUT / AFP The Colombian navy on Wednesday, July 2, announced its first seizure of an unmanned narco-submarine equipped with a Starlink antenna off its Caribbean coast. The vessel was not carrying drugs, […]
The road is barely marked on the maps. Located in the far north of Pakistan, just a stone’s throw from the Chinese border, it leads to Shimshal, the highest village in the Hunza Valley. The route begins at the foot of the Karakoram range and its string of cone-shaped mountains. Natural cathedrals, pointed like needles, […]
Supporters of newly elected president Karol Nawrocki stand in front of the Supreme Court building in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. CZAREK SOKOLOWSKI / AP A leading supporter of Ukraine since Russia’s invasion on February 24, 2022, Poland failed to leverage its presidency of the Council of the European Union, which ended on […]
Donald Trump does not claim to be an expert on the conflict between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but he knows two things about it: “They were going at it for many years, and with machetes.” While not inaccurate, the oversimplification, which featured in his statement on Friday, June 27, to salute the peace […]
