Beijing is signaling that it is ready for a trade showdown, and it is building up a legal arsenal in preparation.The port in Ningbo, China. “We are on the brink of a much more frequent or widespread use of Chinese countermeasures against U.S. sanctions,” said Andrew Gillholm, a China expert at Contr
The Trump administration has held up the sale for months ahead of President Trump’s meeting this week with President Xi Jinping of China.From left, Senators Jeanne Shaheen, John Curtis, Thom Tillis and Jacky Rosen in Taiwan in March. All four signed a letter to President Trump urging him to move for
Asian nations worry that the president might trade security commitments for better economic terms with China during his planned meeting with Xi Jinping this week.President Trump and Xi Jinping after their meeting in Busan, South Korea, in 2025.
Under pressure from the economic fallout of the war in Iran and politically emboldened, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asks Indians to sacrifice.Commuters on an electric bus in Delhi, India, last month. Mr. Modi appealed to people to conserve energy and use electric vehicles more.
Esmail Baghaei, the spokesman for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Tehran last month.
Narges Mohammadi, a prominent human rights activist who has spent much of her adult life in and out of prison, will undergo treatment in Tehran after collapsing earlier this month, a foundation run by her family said.Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian human rights activist, has been transferred to a hospi
Seventeen Americans from a cruise ship that faced a hantavirus outbreak arrived in Nebraska and will be monitored at a quarantine center. One tested positive for the Andes virus, health officials said.Passengers being evacuated from the MV Hondius on Sunday.
Nearly two dozen countries are repatriating citizens who were aboard the MV Hondius, where three passengers died in a hantavirus outbreak.British citizens repatriated from the MV Hondius arriving at a hospital in northwest England on Sunday.
The health authorities are working to calm fears and contain the rare virus. Three passengers died after traveling on the ship, and several others fell ill or tested positive.The cruise ship MV Hondius stationed off the port of Praia, Cape Verde, on Sunday.
Israel’s efforts to influence Eurovision’s vote were broader and started years earlier than previously known.
Exclusive voting data shows that, despite Eurovision’s assurances, an Israeli campaign could easily have influenced last year’s contest.Yuval Raphael of Israel topped last year’s public vote and almost won Eurovision. Contest organizers don’t release detailed vote data.
Hip crustaceans, dessert trends and the never-ending reservation battle were among the things our chief critic took note of.
Great meals can be found in virtually any corner of the five boroughs, but here are some areas that stood out to our critic.
As rankings proliferate, a cadre of completists have made it their mission to sample every single place on them.Ms. Hunter with the chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten at his Jean-Georges restaurant in New York, which has three Michelin stars. Ms. Hunter tries to eat there once a month.
Cole Tomas Allen faces four counts in what prosecutors say was a plot to kill President Trump and other top officials at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, and Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, at a news conferen
The Justice Department ended a deal that had helped fund a solution to the sewage crisis in rural Alabama. “Almost like we are starting all over again,” one activist said.A pipe carrying sewage away from a home in Hayneville, Ala.
Ten people. Eight weeks. Three thousand feet to pierce a fast-melting Antarctic glacier.Drilling equipment on the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica in January.
A study of a few patients, to be presented this week, showed promise for a type of therapy that has already cured some blood cancers.A study led by an H.I.V. expert at the University of California, San Francisco, could offer a path toward a lasting H.I.V. treatment.
One Democrat is accused of being a Republican in disguise. Another plans to drop out to boost an independent. It’s primary eve in one of the country’s most unusual midterm contests.The erosion of the Democratic Party brand in the Midwest and Great Plains has led to independent candidates’ sometimes
Several entities tied to Representative Mike Lawler, New York’s most endangered House Republican, paid a political consulting firm he once owned, raising ethics concerns.Representative Mike Lawler of New York is trying to win re-election this year in a race seen as a pickup opportunity for Democrats
The tech leaders, with combined net worths exceeding $670 billion, have brought props to court and traded icy stares as their legal dispute reaches a denouement.
The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert said.“We have high confidence that the actor likely leveraged an A.I. model to support the discovery
With peace talks on ice and Ukraine now more self-reliant, President Volodymyr Zelensky seems to be stepping away from the United States.President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Yerevan, Armenia, last week. Mr. Zelensky has publicly criticized the United States in ways that would have been unthink
The Russian military has yet to solve a fundamental problem: how to make big advances in eastern Ukraine when drones are everywhere.An Ukrainian soldier in the besieged eastern city of Kostiantynivka early this year.
