For months after the Israel-Hezbollah war that devastated southern Lebanon, the Alawieh family would visit a hillside near their ruined home to catch whatever glimpse they could of what remained. Their olive trees were gone. So were their goats, and the lemon and fig orchards that had taken years to bear fruit. Their house was … Read more
And there, paying no mind to any of it, are the hundreds of bodies jostling against one another as they get to wherever it is they’re going. But they should! For Euston Road is in fact the most generous of thoroughfares. It’s the site of the longest Champagne bar in Europe, five Pret-a-Mangers and a … Read more
For years, European leaders have fretted about reducing their dependence on a wayward United States. On Monday, at a hastily arranged meeting in Paris, the hand-wringing gave way to harried acceptance of a new world in which Europe’s most powerful ally has begun acting more like an adversary. President Trump’s plan to negotiate a peace … Read more
Senior American and Russian officials were set to meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for the most extensive negotiations between the two countries in at least three years, as President Trump pushes to end the war in Ukraine and the Kremlin seeks warmer ties with Washington. After arriving in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, Russian officials … Read more
About 40 minutes into a recent performance of “The Years” in London, Stephanie Schwartz suddenly felt ill and had to put her head between her legs. Onstage at the Harold Pinter Theater, the actress Romola Garai was holding two knitting needles while portraying a young Frenchwoman trying to give herself an abortion. The scene was … Read more
Israel said it would remain in a handful of positions in southern Lebanon as the deadline elapsed for the Israeli military and Hezbollah forces to withdraw from the area on Tuesday, raising fears that a sustained Israeli presence could undermine the fragile truce there. After a cease-fire in November ended the deadliest war between the … Read more
Russia released another American held on drug charges on Monday, in what the Kremlin acknowledged was a good-will gesture on the eve of talks between senior Russian and U.S. officials in Saudi Arabia. The American, Kalob Byers Wayne, 28, was arrested on Feb. 7 at a Moscow airport on charges of carrying a small amount … Read more
On the first Sunday of this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah” (1985) — a nine-and-a-half-hour documentary about the Holocaust — screened to a nearly full house in the auditorium of the city’s Academy of Arts. Tricia Tuttle, the festival’s new director, spoke before the film, along with a curator from Berlin’s Jewish … Read more
The Land Ukraine Could Be Forced to Give Up to End the War
