Could the U.S. take a tougher line? While the scale and target of Biden’s promised response is not yet clear, any unilateral move is likely to draw blowback…
Read more Iran’s allies are attacking the West. What happens next?Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at Israel on Saturday in retaliation for the targeted killing of a Hamas leader in Beirut this week amid mounting…
Read more Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel in response to killing of Hamas leaderBRUSSELS — In early August, Bulgarian officials spotted something they weren’t sure was legal. Barrels of Russian oil were arriving in the country priced above a $60 limit allies…
Read more Bulgarian millions, fake paperwork and the ‘cockroach strategy’: How Europe failed to sap Russia’s energy profitsDUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Some countries at the COP28 climate talks are lying about the potential for capturing the greenhouse gases fossil fuels emit, U.S. climate envoy…
Read more John Kerry warns against carbon capture’s ‘great facade’ as a climate cure-allPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Now the real work starts. The first few days of the COP28 climate…
Read more WTF is the ‘Global Stocktake’? We explain the ‘heart’ of COP28Ukraine’s security service blew up a railway connection linking Russia to China, in a clandestine strike carried out deep into enemy territory, with pro-Kremlin media reporting that investigators…
Read more Ukraine blows up main railway connection between Russia and ChinaThis article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM. LONDON — World leaders will touch down in Dubai next week for a climate change conference they’re billing…
Read more Anti-green backlash hovers over COP climate talksPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Last winter, Europeans faced exorbitant energy bills as the Continent rapidly weaned itself off Russian gas. This…
Read more Europe braces for a winter of two warsPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. MÁLAGA, Spain — The leader of Israel’s center-left Labor Party says something has gone “very wrong” with…
Read more Leader of Israel’s Labor: Something is ‘very wrong’ on the global leftPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. TEL AVIV — Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled to quell a revolt by religious nationalists and settler leaders within…
Read more Netanyahu scrambles to quell revolt by far right over Gaza fuelThe World Health Organization described Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital as a “death zone,” after a U.N. team visited the largest medical complex in the Palestinian enclave on Saturday. “The…
Read more ‘Death zone:’ WHO slams situation at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospitalPARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron travels on Wednesday to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, where he hopes to secure uranium for his country’s nuclear plants. The trip comes as…
Read more Macron pursues nuclear deals in Russia’s back yardIsrael’s Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu was suspended indefinitely after he said in an interview that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was “one of the possibilities,”…
Read more Israel minister suspended after calling nuking Gaza an optionThe Egyptian-controlled Rafah border crossing from the Gaza Strip opened on Saturday morning, letting trucks carrying humanitarian aid into the blockaded enclave, which has been under siege from…
Read more Aid enters Gaza as Rafah border crossing opensPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. The ongoing blockade of Gaza has pushed the enclave’s 2.3 million people to the brink of starvation,…
Read more UN warns of Gaza catastrophe as Israel prepares ground invasionPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Western efforts to undermine the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine through a price cap on Russia’s all-important oil…
Read more West’s oil price cap fails to empty Russian war chestThe West’s united front on Ukraine is showing more cracks than ever — and Kyiv has little choice but to grin and bear it. More than 500 days…
Read more Ukraine puts on brave face as West goes wobblyPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Top officials from the United States and the EU met with their Russian counterparts for undisclosed emergency…
Read more EU, Russia and US held secret talks days before Nagorno-Karabakh blitzKORNIDZOR, Armenia — Tons of humanitarian aid were en route on Saturday to Nagorno-Karabakh under the terms of a deal struck with the breakaway region’s Armenian leadership, Azerbaijan…
Read more Aid convoys set course for Nagorno-Karabakh under new pact with AzerbaijanPress play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. What César really wanted was to get out of Cuba. A bartender struggling to make ends meet…
Read more Deal ‘with the devil’: Meet the Cubans who’ve joined Russia’s war on Ukraine
