Category: World

[ad_1] Since President Trump took office vowing to pull back U.S. support for Ukraine, European leaders have worried that they would be unable to supply Ukraine with the weapons it needs. So far, it looks like they were right. The so-called coalition of the willing of European nations backing Ukraine has struggled to get materiel…

[ad_1] In the fall of 2024, the cardinal who is now Pope Leo XIV sat at a large round table inside the Vatican, discussing the challenges that face the Roman Catholic Church with a cardinal from Ethiopia, archbishops from Cameroon and Kenya, a cardinal posted to Mongolia, and bishops from Texas and Liberia. Joining them…

[ad_1] The fighting between India and Pakistan intensified sharply on Saturday, with both sides targeting air bases and military sites, and each blaming the other for striking first. Pakistan said India had targeted at least three of its air bases with air-to-surface missiles in the early hours of Saturday, including Nur Khan, a key air…

[ad_1] It sounded as if a friend were calling. “Sorry, Emmanuel,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, answering his phone in the middle of an online news conference in late March. “I have just a conversation with journalists. Can I be back in some minutes?” On the other end of the phone was Emmanuel Macron,…

[ad_1] Xi Jinping has been preparing for this moment for years. In April 2020, long before President Trump launched a trade war that would shake the global economy, China’s top leader held a meeting with senior Communist Party officials and laid out his vision for turning the tables on the United States in a confrontation….

[ad_1] Billionaire art collectors rarely air their deals or dirty laundry out in public. But a battle between a pair of boldfaced names over a Giacometti sculpture is now playing out in the open, shining a rare light on a global market featuring unlicensed agents, multi-million-dollar handshake deals and pervasive secrecy. The Chinese crypto entrepreneur…

[ad_1] When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was selected as pope on Thursday, President Trump quickly offered the first U.S.-born pontiff a hearty congratulations. “It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope,” Mr. Trump said in a statement. “What excitement.” But some of Mr. Trump’s most fervent followers do not…

[ad_1] The mayor of a small Mexican town has been accused of colluding with one of the country’s most violent drug cartels to operate a recruitment and training center that was uncovered in March. The mayor, José Asunción Murguía Santiago was charged with organized crime offenses and forced disappearance, prosecutors said at a hearing on…

[ad_1] American cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church described the historic papal conclave that concluded this week as relatively easy, with no arm-twisting or overt politicking. When their work was done — and as the outside world waited to learn the new pope’s identity — the cardinals inside the Sistine Chapel “went wild,” one recalled…

[ad_1] As the conflict between India and Pakistan has escalated, with its impact felt well beyond the border in the disputed region of Kashmir, this is the tensest time I can remember since 1971. That was the year of the last major declared war between India and Pakistan. I was in seventh grade, and I…