There is something profoundly human about wanting to know who — or what — you are talking to. Is the voice on the other end of the line a living person, or a machine...
Walk down Hester Street in a century-old photograph and you can almost hear it: the bargaining at pushcarts, the crackle of Yiddish in the air, the thrum of a city being learned from scratch....
In a single post, Donald J. Trump captured a sobering truth: America’s influence over two great powers has slipped away. The story runs deeper than one president. It is the result of decades of...
Walk into almost any synagogue and you may hear the phrase tikkun olam. The Hebrew words sound ancient, but to most non-Jews they are unfamiliar. Translated simply, they mean “repairing the world.” The idea...
Imagine you type out a query: Opinion on Bhutan. Or perhaps: What’s the background of the Prime Minister? You might ask, Where are the good places to take a holiday? Or something more practical:...
The machines did not arrive as monsters. They arrived as helpers—polite, ever-awake, and eager to please. In offices and bedrooms, in clinics and classrooms, people now ask chatbots to plan a week, critique a...
BIRMINGHAM — In 2021, Reform UK was little more than a footnote. Its inaugural conference drew a few hundred activists to a function room in Manchester, far overshadowed by the Conservative Party gathering down...
LONDON — London is bracing for days of severe disruption on the Underground as members of the RMT union prepare a rolling walkout that is expected to halt most Tube services for four consecutive...
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has asked China to postpone joint naval exercises with Russia until after November’s Group of 20 summit, an unusual step by a government that has long defended its military partnerships...
WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order on Friday authorizing the Pentagon to be styled once again as the Department of War, reviving a name that vanished from official use more...
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise of a strategic victory is unraveling. Instead of triumph, Israel faces the contours of strategic defeat: a grinding stalemate in Gaza, an economy losing investor confidence, a...
JERUSALEM — In the Hebrew press, the calls are growing louder, sharper, and more extreme. The country’s most widely read right-wing daily, Israel Hayom, published an opinion piece this week that made plain what...
JERUSALEM — More than four in five Jewish Israelis — 82 percent, according to a June Haaretz poll — now say they support expelling Gazans from the Strip. The figure is overwhelming, and it...
BERLIN — The turbulence in Germany’s politics cannot be separated from the choices its leaders have made since 2022. What some analysts describe as a “political tsunami” is also the result of self-inflicted wounds:...
Washington’s Shadow War on Venezuela: Bounties, Battleships, and the Long Siege CARACAS — The gray silhouettes of U.S. warships have reappeared in the Caribbean, a show of force not seen with such intensity since...
Russia has now turned its back on Europe. It has signed an agreement with China to build a new pipeline that will carry Siberian gas straight into the Chinese heartland — and, in time,...
The machines aren’t waiting. They’re already here. Across offices, hospitals, studios, and courtrooms, artificial intelligence is seeping into the daily routines of professionals who once thought their roles were untouchable. What matters now is...
LONDON — On the afternoon of 24 July 2025, a bare-bones website suddenly lit up with traffic. Its message was stark: “It’s time to build a new kind of political party — one that...
Middle East A cluster of American guided-missile destroyers has shifted into the Eastern Mediterranean, adding a sea-based layer to Israel’s missile defense while Washington weighs the risk of deeper entanglement. By Jaffa Levy WASHINGTON...
By Jaffa Levy CARACAS — President Nicolás Maduro appeared on national television this week flanked by his defense minister and closest lieutenants, warning that Venezuela was facing its most serious external threat in decades....
President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Wednesday as China staged a vast military spectacle in Beijing, accusing President Xi Jinping — flanked by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un —...
NEW DELHI/LONDON — As Britain’s asylum system creaks under record numbers and Labour’s government pursues reforms, Indian newspapers are watching closely. Their coverage reflects both practical concerns — warnings to Indian students, exposure of...
LONDON — Immigration is once again Britain’s most combustible political issue, and this week it spilled into the streets and across X — the platform once known as Twitter — with hashtags like #StopTheBoats...
LONDON — The arrest of Graham Linehan, co-creator of the sitcom Father Ted, has erupted into a global flashpoint after Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling used their platforms on X to denounce the move....
LONDON — Graham Linehan, the Irish writer and co-creator of the cult sitcom Father Ted, was arrested at Heathrow Airport this week on suspicion of inciting violence through social media posts. What might once...
LONDON — Britain’s long-term borrowing costs have surged to their highest level since 1998, rattling the Treasury and intensifying the pressure on Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of her first full Budget. The yield on...
Sam Altman speaks less like a computer scientist than a strategist. He has no doctorate in artificial intelligence, no technical pedigree of the kind that fills the ranks at OpenAI. Yet he has come...
When the leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization gathered in Tianjin this week, it was meant to be a grand performance — and across Asia, newspapers described it as such. But while Chinese state...