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 […]
Protesters confronted Turkish police during a demonstration marking the 100th day of detention for Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in Istanbul, on July 1, 2025. YASIN AKGÜL/AFP There was a sense of déjà vu in Turkey. After the publication of a political cartoon, which Turkish authorities said depicted the Prophet Muhammad, led to the arrest of […]
Palestinian men carry the bodies of children killed earlier in the day by an Israeli strike in Gaza City on July 2, 2025. OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP US President Donald Trump says Israel has agreed on terms for a new 60-day ceasefire with Hamas and that Washington would work with both sides during that time […]
In this photo released by the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) rescuers search for victims after a ferry enroute for the resort island of Bali sank off Ketapang, East Java, Indonesia, early Thursday, July 3, 2025. BASARNAS / AP At least 61 people were missing after a ferry sank off the popular Indonesian […]