‘It Really Was Abandonment.’ Virus Crisis Grips British Universities
LONDON — Inside a dormitory now known by students as H.M.P., for Her Majesty’s Prison, trash piled up in shared kitchens. Students washed their clothes...
Category: European News
Jorge Mendes Was Deadline Day’s Big Winner
The soccer economy is reeling. Every week there appears to be a new, dizzying figure highlighting the financial crunch the industry is facing as a...
Attack at German Synagogue During Sukkot Raises Anti-Semitism Fears
BERLIN — A man wearing army fatigues and wielding a shovel attacked and badly injured a Jewish student coming out of a synagogue in Hamburg...
Floodgates in Venice Work in First Major Test
ROME — After decades of bureaucratic delays, corruption and resistance from environmental groups, sea walls designed to defend Venice from “acqua alta,” or high water,...
Jacques-Louis Monod, Modernist Composer With a Lyrical Touch, Dies at 93
Jacques-Louis Monod, a French composer, conductor and pianist known for his fierce dedication to new music, died on Sept. 21 in Toulouse, France. He was...
After 2 Years of Paralysis, Belgium Forms a (Very Fragile) Government
BRUSSELS — For nearly two years, Belgium has been without a formal government, leaving a country that was already divided by language and politics to...
Russians Were Urged to Return to Normal Life. Except for Putin.
MOSCOW — The officials from a secretive Russian security force seemed to know exactly what they wanted when they reached out to Olga Izranova’s company...
Will Navalny’s Poisoning Force Germany to Get Tough on Russia?
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bedside visit to Aleksei A. Navalny after he emerged from a coma while recovering from a poisoning was not a...
Live, Urgent, but With a Slightly Recycled Feel
In London on Saturday night, the venerable British dance company Rambert performed “Draw From Within,” a new work by the Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus. I...
Paris Suspect Said Attack Was Aimed at Paper That Mocked Islam’s Prophet
PARIS — The suspect in the stabbing of two people outside the former Paris office of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo has confessed and said...