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A Troubled Homeland Embodied in a Bag of Chickpeas

admin7 May 2025

“I started exploring it as a kind of landscape,” the Lebanese-born designer Jessy Slim said of the ravaged surfaces of her legume creations.

With Tears of Joy and Anxiety, Waiting for P.O.W.s to Come Home, at Last

admin7 May 2025

In a parking lot in Ukraine, hundreds of family members gathered to greet loved ones being repatriated from Russian prisons. Amid happy reunions, there was anguish, too.

A Half-Ton Spacecraft Lost by the Soviets in 1972 Is Coming Home

admin7 May 2025

Kosmos-482, which was headed to Venus, is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere by the end of this weekend. Experts don’t yet know where it may come down.

Trump’s Threatened Tariffs Are So Large, 10% Feels Like a Relief

admin7 May 2025

As he proposes ever stiffer tariffs, President Trump has normalized his merely big ones.

Can Trump Turn Back the Economic Clock?

admin7 May 2025

Historians make their names by persuading people to see patterns in the chaos. In the late 1970s, the French historian Fernand Braudel thought that one of those patterns was about to repeat. Braudel was a student of the slow-moving currents that ...

Xi’s Visit to Russia Complicates China’s Courtship of Europe

admin7 May 2025

Xi Jinping, China’s leader, is reinforcing his bond with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. But that could hurt Beijing’s efforts to repair ties with Europe.

Russia and Ukraine Trade Strikes Before Moscow’s Victory Day Parade

admin7 May 2025

The attacks came a day before a Russian-proposed cease-fire was to take effect and as Moscow prepared to welcome foreign dignitaries for a parade.

Chinese Imports Hit 2-Decade Low as Trump Tariffs Begin to Bite

admin7 May 2025

While imports can swing with seasonal shifts, President Trump’s ratcheting up of U.S. tariffs on China has begun to cascade through supply chains, government data shows.

Scenes From India’s Strikes in Kashmir and Pakistan

admin7 May 2025

In one image, a plume of smoke obscures the vibrant sunrise over a Himalayan landscape. In another, men carry a casket past soldiers on the verdant grounds of a damaged mosque. The famed beauty of Kashmir has once again been scarred by military ...

India vs. Pakistan Is Also U.S. vs. China When It Comes to Arms Sales

admin7 May 2025

Increasing Western military support to India, and China’s to Pakistan, signals a shift in global alignments — and another potential flashpoint for international tensions.