Protesters, predominantly Houthi supporters, demonstrate in solidarity with Palestinians, in Sanaa, Yemen June 27, 2025. KHALED ABDULLAH / REUTERS Israel’s military launched airstrikes early Monday, July 7, targeting ports and facilities held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, with the rebels responding with missile fire targeting Israel. The airstrikes came after an attack Sunday targeting a Liberian-flagged […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia, June 20, 2025. GAVRIIL GRIGOROV / VIA REUTERS It was a powerful symbol. Just after speaking for two hours on Tuesday, July 1, with Emmanuel Macron – his first phone conversation with the French president in three years – Vladimir Putin then met […]
Upon arrival, one looks for the scars. They are easy to find: bullet holes in buildings, mortar marks poorly covered by cement and the poignant “Sarajevo roses” − red ceramic petals marking spots where bombings killed groups of civilians. From 1992 to 1996, Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, endured the longest siege in […]
The wreckage of a double-decker bus with its top blown off by a bomb and damaged cars scattered on the road at Tavistock Square in central London, July 7, 2005. SANG TAN / AP King Charles III will lead commemorations on Monday, July 7, on the 20th anniversary of the 2005 London transit bombings, the […]
An israeli army vehicle drives near the Israeli-Gaza border with a banner reading ‘Bring them home now’ call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, Sunday, July 6, 2025. OHAD ZWIGENBERG / AP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, July 6, that he hoped an […]
Muslim pilgrims around the Kaaba, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. MICHAEL RUNKEL/ROBERTHARDING /GRAPHICOBSESSION Like many founders of new orders, the Prophet of Islam, who lived in the sixth and seventh centuries, emerged as a multifaceted figure who belonged as much to the religious sphere as to the political. He was alternately depicted as a preacher, a […]
‘Urchins’ (2024), by CHOI + SHINE Architects, at the Nice Arts Biennale in 2025. JEAN-CHRISTOPHE LETT/CHOI+SHINE/PRODUCTION VILLE DE NICE/BIENNALE DES ARTS ET DE L’OCÉAN DE NICE, 2025 The first United Nations conference on the need to protect oceans took place in New York in 2017. The third and most recent was just held in Nice, […]
McLaren’s Lando Norris celebrates with a trophy on the podium after winning the British Grand Prix, Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, UK, July 6, 2025. ANDREW BOYERS / REUTERS Lando Norris won a treacherous rain-hit British Grand Prix at Silverstone on Sunday, July 6, from his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri. Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg took third for the […]
Crews work to clear debris from the Cade Loop bridge along the Guadalupe River on Saturday, July 5, 2025, in Ingram, Texas. JASON FOCHTMAN / AP Rescuers in Texas raced against time Sunday, July 6, to find dozens of missing people, including children, swept away by flash floods that killed at least 68, as forecasters […]
Oracle founder and president Larry Ellison speaks alongside US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, on January 21, 2025. ANDREW HARNIK/GETTY IMAGES VIA AFP Three well-behaved men stood at the podium – three generations: The son, the father, and the grandfather. Sam Altman, 39 years old and head of OpenAI; financier Masayoshi […]