Tag: Politics and Government
TikTok says its American traffic is going through Oracle servers, but it retains backups.
TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app, said on Friday that it was moving all of the data produced by…
Russians Breached This City, Not With Troops, but Propaganda
LYSYCHANSK, Ukraine — Gesturing to the artillery shell lodged in the ground and a rocket protruding from the…
Extradition Order for Julian Assange Approved by Britain
LONDON — The British government approved an extradition order on Friday for Julian Assange, the embattled WikiLeaks founder,…
Federico Carboni Becomes Italy’s First Assisted Suicide
ROME — For more than a year, media reports kept Italians up-to-date on the travails of a 44-year-old…
In New Textbooks, Hong Kong Was Never a British Colony
HONG KONG — Many schoolchildren around the world have long been taught that Hong Kong was once a…
In Ukraine, Some Ethnic Hungarians Feel Ambivalence About the War
TRANSCARPATHIA, Ukraine — Beneath dark clouds unleashing a summer rain, officials in a southwestern Ukrainian border village gathered…
Man Confesses to Killing Journalist and Indigenous Activist, the Police Say
BRASÍLIA — A fisherman confessed that he helped kill a British journalist and a Brazilian expert on Indigenous…
U.K. Vows to Press Ahead With Rwanda Deportations
LONDON — The British government on Wednesday promised to press on with plans to send asylum seekers to…
Flight of Asylum Seekers From Britain to Rwanda Is Halted
LONDON — Last-minute legal challenges on Tuesday grounded a flight that was scheduled to take asylum seekers from…
In South Asia, Climate Change Worries Take On Fresh Urgency
FATEHGARH-SAHIB, India — When the unseasonably heavy rains flooded the fields, and then the equally unseasonable heat shriveled…
What to Know About France’s Parliamentary Elections
PARIS — Weeks after re-electing President Emmanuel Macron, voters in France return to the polls on Sunday to…
Newly United, French Left Hopes to Counter President in Upcoming Vote
ALLEX, France — With its centuries-old stone villages nestled among lavender fields, cows and goats grazing in the…