Europe

In 2007 circumstances modified, and Mr. Donaldson additionally altered course. Following talks in Scotland, the D.U.P.’s veteran founder and chief, the Rev. Ian Paisley, ended his opposition to the Good Friday Agreement, and the D.U.P. went into coalition, in Belfast’s devolved meeting, with Sinn Fein, previously the political wing of the I.R.A. Mr. Donaldson, whereas […] More

The Czech Republic has frozen the property of two males and a information web site it accuses of operating an affect operation in Europe that helps “the overseas coverage pursuits of the Russian Federation,” the nation’s Foreign Ministry stated in a press release. The ministry recognized the lads as Viktor Medvedchuk, a high-profile, pro-Russian Ukrainian […] More

Days after Hamas launched its Oct. 7 assaults on Israel, Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, was one of many first Western leaders to reach in Tel Aviv. Standing beside the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, he declared that Germany had “just one place — and it’s alongside Israel.” That place now feels more and more awkward […] More

The scene is as spectacular as it’s harmful: flowing rivers of shimmering lava and a dramatic plume of poisonous fuel. That picture has been the truth for a lot of the previous 4 months within the Reykjanes Peninsula in southern Iceland, which the nation’s tourism web site has known as a “geological surprise the place […] More

Notre-Dame Cathedral sat within the pre-dawn chill like a spaceship docked within the coronary heart of Paris, its exoskeleton of scaffolding lit by brilliant lights. Pink clouds appeared to the east as equipment hummed to life and employees began clambering round. One of them, Hank Silver, carrying a yellow laborious hat, stood on a platform […] More

A Paris faculty principal’s choice to step down after he obtained on-line dying threats over an incident involving a Muslim pupil’s head scarf has prompted nationwide outrage this week in France. Camera crews have descended on the college and the federal government stated it deliberate to sue the coed, accusing her of constructing false accusations […] More

Some members of the royal household, notably the princes and princesses of its youthful era, are simple to fit into that sufferer function. They are rich, well-known and photogenic, and their roles in public life make them beloved to many. Catherine, notably, was a ready-made focus for a conspiracy narrative, not solely as a result […] More

Peter Eotvos, a towering Hungarian composer and conductor who linked modernist traditions in Twentieth-century European music and whose multifaceted work was singularly evocative, died on Sunday at his house in Budapest. He was 80. His spouse, the librettist Maria Eotvosne Mezei, introduced his dying. Mr. Eotvos (pronounced OAT-voesh) was a tireless advocate of up to […] More

An influential United Nations human rights physique delivered a scathing evaluation Thursday on the safety of civil rights in Britain, accusing the Conservative authorities of backsliding and urging the nation to desert its controversial laws to permit asylum seekers to be despatched to Rwanda. The criticisms from the U.N. Human Rights Committee got here because […] More

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has warned that if F-16 fighter jets provided to Ukraine by its Western allies operated from airfields in different international locations, the bases could be “authentic targets” for assault. In a speech to Russian Air Force pilots late Wednesday, nevertheless, Mr. Putin rejected strategies from some Western leaders that […] More

The music has stopped in at the very least one recreation of style musical chairs. Valentino has a brand new inventive director: Alessandro Michele, the previous Gucci designer who left that model in 2022. Mr. Michele, who was recognized for having reworked Gucci right into a $10 billion powerhouse by making it a baroque treasure […] More

The British Museum on Thursday named Nicholas Cullinan, an artwork historian who presently leads the National Portrait Gallery in London, as its new director, ending an unsettled interval by which the august establishment lacked a everlasting chief. He will instantly face a bunch of challenges, together with the fallout from an embarrassing scandal by which […] More