As U.S. and Chinese Officials Meet, Businesses Temper Their Hopes
In a meeting in Beijing on Friday, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, traded warm smiles with Bill Gates and praised Mr. Gates as “the first American friend” he had met this year. The encounters in Beijing between Secretary of State Antony…
Your Intentions for the Summer
Years ago, I received a voicemail from the neighborhood cobbler telling me my shoes were ready to pick up. The message was perfunctory, left by the shop owner, a usually grumpy guy who sounded like his usually grumpy self. But…
Deadnaming Children Would Be Allowed Under School Policy
For almost two years, the province of New Brunswick has had a policy that required teachers to use the preferred names and genders of schoolchildren. But under a new policy introduced by the provincial leader, Premier Blaine Higgs, teachers must…
Victims in the Manitoba Crash Were 10 Minutes From Their Destination
It was supposed to be a fun escape: a group of elderly people from a sleepy town in Manitoba traveling by bus to a casino where they could play the slot machines and perhaps enjoy the Oasis restaurant’s bison pasta….
Why the Evidence Suggests Russia Blew Up the Kakhovka Dam
Even in a war that has razed entire cities, the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine stands out. Thousands of people were displaced by flooding from one of the world’s largest reservoirs, which was vital for irrigating…
African Leaders Visit Ukraine to Talk Peace With Russia
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and African leaders on a peace mission to Kyiv had testy exchanges on Friday on how to end the war with Russia, hours after Russian forces fired missiles at the capital while the African heads…
Putin Asserts Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Has ‘No Chance’ at Economic Forum
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia wrapped up what was for him an extraordinary and sometimes rambling week of upbeat commentary on the Ukraine war by asserting on Friday that Russia was so assured of prevailing against the Ukrainian counteroffensive…
Republicans Attack Blinken for China Trip, Threatening Subpoena
The News Leading congressional Republicans excoriated Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Friday for traveling to China this weekend, accusing him of undermining national security by attempting to normalize diplomatic relations with Beijing as they press for a more…
Finland Shifts Right With Coalition Including an Anti-Immigration Party
Finland’s main conservative party announced a new coalition government on Friday after weeks of negotiations, in a deal that moves the country firmly to the right and follows a pattern of similar political shifts elsewhere in Europe. Petteri Orpo, leader…
‘It Could Have Been So Much Worse’: Mountain Collapse Narrowly Misses Swiss Village
The Latest After decades of threatening to tear off and plummet down the slope, obliterating the homes below, the mountainside near the village of Brienz, in central Switzerland, finally collapsed. Geologists had predicted in May that the long-feared landslide was…