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Shirley Conran, the industrious and proliferous British writer whose 1982 novel, “Lace,” was a story of feminine autonomy disguised as a bonkbuster (to make use of the British time period for a steamy greatest vendor) that made her a millionaire and launched the lowly goldfish into the erotic canon, died on May 9 in London. […] More

The choice of Karim Khan, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, to publicly search arrest warrants for the leaders of Hamas and Israel this week shall be one of the important and contentious of his profession. Khan accused three Hamas leaders of battle crimes and crimes towards humanity referring to the Oct. 7 assault on […] More

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain on Wednesday known as a snap common election for July 4, throwing the destiny of his embattled Conservative Party to a stressed British public that seems longing for change after 14 years of Conservative authorities. Mr. Sunak’s shock announcement, from a rain-spattered lectern in entrance of 10 Downing Street, […] More

From a piazza within the city of Castellabate on the Cilento coast of Italy, you might elevate your eyes over the rim of your cappuccino and drink in a panorama of sky and Mediterranean Sea from Salerno to the Gulf of Policastro. Looking means, means down, a fruited plain of vineyards, lemon bushes and white […] More

The solely factor sooner than the American withdrawal from Afghanistan may be how rapidly the world moved on. The Biden Administration largely stopped speaking about it. Most information organizations have been already scaling again in Afghanistan when the Taliban took over. But a query remained, directly fundamental and huge. How did it come to this? […] More

This little bus was full of folks from Vovchansk and the smaller villages round it, within the path of Russia’s surge into the Kharkiv area of Ukraine. I met them on the interim level from the place they had been being taken to Kharkiv itself, the closest massive metropolis. Volunteers and rescue employees helped those […] More

Zelensky urged NATO to do extra in a Times interview President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the U.S. and Europe to do extra to defend Ukraine, in a wide-ranging interview with The Times. He proposed that NATO planes shoot down Russian missiles in Ukrainian airspace. “What’s the issue?” Zelensky mentioned throughout the interview on Monday in Kyiv. […] More

Jenny Erpenbeck’s “Kairos,” a novel a few torrid love affair within the remaining years of East Germany, received on Tuesday the International Booker Prize, the famend award for fiction translated into English. Erpenbeck shares the award of fifty,000 British kilos, about $63,500, with Michael Hofmann, who translated the ebook into English. The pair acquired the […] More

The French movie star Gérard Depardieu repeatedly punched Rino Barillari, generally known as the “king of paparazzi,” on Tuesday at Harry’s Bar on the Via Veneto, the grand resort and cafe-lined avenue that was a energetic hang-out for celebrity-hunting paparazzi a long time in the past, in line with the photographer and a journalist who […] More

Russia despatched a pointed reminder on Tuesday that it may use battlefield nuclear weapons in Ukraine, releasing video of its forces starting workout routines to follow their use, two weeks after President Vladimir V. Putin ordered the provocative drills. Video launched by the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed a caravan of navy autos shifting down a […] More

Prince Harry was dealt a setback in his long-running authorized marketing campaign in opposition to Britain’s tabloids on Tuesday after a excessive court docket rejected a bid to attract Rupert Murdoch into allegations about how Mr. Murdoch’s London papers dug up private particulars about him and later hid or destroyed proof of it. Justice Timothy […] More

The world’s highest courtroom coping with the oceans mentioned on Tuesday that extreme greenhouse gases had been pollution that may trigger irreversible hurt to the marine atmosphere. The groundbreaking advisory opinion was unanimous, and consultants say it might result in extra wide-ranging claims for damages in opposition to polluting nations. The opinion by the courtroom, […] More