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Justin Trudeau’s Trying to Save His Party. Is He Hurting Canada?
By suspending Parliament and promising to resign, the prime minister bought the Liberals time. But Canada will now face Donald J. Trump with a lame duck in charge.
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U.S. Says Sudan’s R.S.F. Committed Genocide and Sanctions Its Leader
A force fighting Sudan’s army in a brutal civil war committed massacres and rape that amount to genocide, the Secretary of State said, two decades after a finding of genocide in the same region.
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Ireland Joins South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel
Ireland had said it would intervene in the case at the International Court of Justice, arguing that Israel’s actions in Gaza amounted to collective punishment.
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At a Beloved Lebanese Market, the ‘Destruction Is Painful’
Israeli raids pummeled the historic souk in the city of Nabatieh, in southern Lebanon. Residents and shop owners are only beginning to come to terms with the damage.
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7.1-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes China’s Tibet Region Near Nepal Border
Chinese state media said at least 126 people had died in the magnitude 7.1 quake near an area of religious significance in Tibet. It was felt in neighboring Nepal.
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Mexico City to the Met: Frida Escobedo’s Supercharged Path to Fame
The 45-year-old architect had mostly designed temporary structures before becoming the first woman to design a wing at the country’s largest art museum.
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At Lake Como, Monuments to a Brutal Regime Draw Tourists and Defenders
Giuseppe Terragni, the modernist architect, served Mussolini and fascism, but to many, the appeal of his buildings has outlived the taint of their history.
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Frustrating Second Season of “Severance” Gets Off to a Rocky Start
The first season of “Severance” was one of the best standalone TV outings of the streaming era, all the way down to its incredible conclusion. But it always felt like a tough act to follow. While the end of that award-winning season opened doors to dozens of thematic hallways, which one would the writers take?…
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Short Films in Focus: My Son Went Quiet
Ian Bawa’s “My Son Went Quiet” tells a story of grief and ghosts. In the film, a Father (Harkaran Jhinger) and Son (Jay Vaidyanathan) have just come from a funeral of the young man’s mother. (Father) notices that (son) has stopped talking, perhaps too stunned by the loss and has been left with a debilitating…
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NASA Will Let Trump Decide How to Bring Mars Rocks to Earth
The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.