A “serious act of sabotage” disrupted Spain’s high-speed rail lines, the country’s transport minister said on Sunday, affecting thousands of travelers as transit operators worked […]
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French Police Rescue Kidnapped Father of Crypto Entrepreneur
French prosecutors said on Monday that the police had arrested seven people over the weekend in connection with the kidnapping of the father of a […]
Ancient Indian skeleton still waits for permanent address
Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai Roxy Gagdekar Chhara BBC Gujarati, Vadnagar Kushal Batunge/BBC The skeleton has been placed inside a makeshift tent for now… A […]
Poised to Expand Gaza Offensive, Israel Calls Up Thousands of Reserve Soldiers
Israel will mobilize thousands of reserve soldiers to bolster its campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the military announced on Saturday night, as the […]
India Sees a Future Making Solar Panels for Itself, and Maybe the World
China, the world’s clean-energy juggernaut, faces a rival right next door. And one of its top customers, no less. India, a big buyer of Chinese […]
A Push to Remove Symbols of Imperial Russia Divides Odesa, Ukraine
The writer Isaac Babel is memorialized in the act of creative thinking, eyes on the horizon and pen resting on a stack of paper, in […]
Israel Believes Pounding Gaza Again Will Finish Hamas. Some Are Not So Sure.
As Israel gears up to add tens of thousands of reserve soldiers to the battlefield in Gaza, the logic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears […]
The Last Surrealist – The New York Times
It was Paris in the late 1950s, and Jean-Claude Silbermann knew where the Surrealists met every evening from 5 to 6 p.m. He waited outside […]
Why the Italian Who Leads the Church in Jerusalem Is a Contender to Be Pope
In the days after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, offered himself up as a hostage […]
Survivors Urge Cardinals to Discuss Sex Abuse Crisis in Choosing Next Pope
Cardinals are not the only ones who have arrived in Rome for the conclave to pick Pope Francis’ successor. Since Francis’ death last month, survivors […]