London’s High Line Will Echo Its New York Inspiration, With Local Notes

London’s High Line Will Echo Its New York Inspiration, With Local Notes

The derelict rail bridge stretches across a busy north London street, green foliage peeking out of the gaps between the beams overhead, where bright blue paint flakes from rusting steel. Farther east, the railway’s grand Victorian-era arches span a small slice of park wedged between two streets, where tents belonging to homeless people, a discarded…

Telegraph Takeover Deal Seen as Fight for the Heart of U.K. Conservatives

Telegraph Takeover Deal Seen as Fight for the Heart of U.K. Conservatives

The Daily Telegraph has long been viewed as the house paper of Britain’s Conservative Party. So, it’s perhaps not surprising that a takeover battle for the 168-year-old paper has mutated into a political struggle within the Tory ranks — one that some commentators have gone so far as to cast as a contest for the…

The meaning of the first I.C.J. ruling in the genocide case against Israel

The meaning of the first I.C.J. ruling in the genocide case against Israel

Today the United Nations’ highest court, the International Court of Justice, issued its first, preliminary decision in the genocide case South Africa brought against Israel. South Africa won its application for “provisional measures,” roughly equivalent to a temporary injunction, ordering Israel to take proactive steps to ensure genocide doesn’t occur in the future, while the…

France Tries to Contain Protests by Farmers as Outrage Spreads

France Tries to Contain Protests by Farmers as Outrage Spreads

Protests by farmers angered by complex regulations, administrative hassles and low wages spread across France on Friday, blocking several highways, snarling traffic for miles and forcing the country’s new prime minister to tear up his schedule and head to a remote farm in the region where the demonstrations began. Gabriel Attal, the 34-year-old prime minister…

State Dept. Tells Congress It Has Approved Sale of F-16 Jets to Turkey

State Dept. Tells Congress It Has Approved Sale of F-16 Jets to Turkey

The State Department notified Congress on Friday that it had approved a $23 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets and related equipment to Turkey after the country’s leader signed documents allowing Sweden’s long-delayed entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, department officials and the Pentagon said. Although Congress could move to formally block the sale,…

Bali Bombing Conspirators Get 5 More Years at Guantánamo Bay

Bali Bombing Conspirators Get 5 More Years at Guantánamo Bay

A military jury at Guantánamo Bay sentenced two prisoners to 23 years in confinement on Friday for conspiring in the 2002 terrorist bombing that killed 202 people in Bali, Indonesia. But the men could be freed by 2029 under a secret deal and with sentencing credit. Mohammed Farik Bin Amin and Mohammed Nazir Bin Lep,…

U.N. Court Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide, but Does Not Demand Stop to War

U.N. Court Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide, but Does Not Demand Stop to War

The United Nations’ highest court said on Friday that Israel must take action to prevent acts of genocide by its forces in the Gaza Strip, adding to the international pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reduce death and destruction in the battered Palestinian enclave. But the court did not rule on whether Israel was…

What Is UNRWA, Aid Agency With Workers Accused of Involvement in Oct. 7 Attack?

What Is UNRWA, Aid Agency With Workers Accused of Involvement in Oct. 7 Attack?

The U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinians has been a vital lifeline in the Gaza Strip for generations — and it was a point of contention with Israel long before some of the agency’s employees were accused of involvement in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 assault on Israel. The allegation, made by Israel, is a…

Palestinian Americans’ Lawsuit in Oakland Seeks to Halt U.S. Support for Israel

Palestinian Americans’ Lawsuit in Oakland Seeks to Halt U.S. Support for Israel

Palestinian American plaintiffs asked a federal judge in California on Friday to force the White House to withdraw U.S. support for Israel pending a cease-fire in Gaza and accused President Biden and other administration officials of abetting a genocide of the Palestinian people. In more than two hours of testimony before Judge Jeffrey White in…

Venezuela Court Bars Opposition Leader From Running for President

Venezuela Court Bars Opposition Leader From Running for President

Venezuela’s highest court ruled on Friday that a top opposition leader cannot run for president, dealing a crippling blow to prospects for credible elections that the government had agreed to hold this year in exchange for the lifting of crippling U.S. economic sanctions. The court’s decision bars the opposition figure, María Corina Machado, from taking…

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