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In a moment of heedless generosity, you could almost commend Damien Chazelle for caring enough about the last days of the silent film era to make a movie about it—if he showed any evidence of caring at all. Babylon isn’t a film made with love, or even with any degree of exactitude; it pretends to […]

Comment on this story Comment KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian authorities reported explosions in at least three cities Friday, saying Russia has launched a major missile attack”= on energy facilities and infrastructure. Local authorities on social media reported explosions in the capital, Kyiv, southern Kryvyi Rih and northeastern Kharkiv as authorities sounded air raid alarms across […]

Comment on this story Comment PARIS — Ten people, including 5 children, died in an overnight blaze in a seven-story apartment building near the French city of Lyon, officials said Friday, making it one of the deadliest fires in France in years. French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin called the incident “a shock,” adding that the […]

Comment on this story Comment ANKARA, Turkey — A bomb exploded on a highway in Turkey as a van carrying police officers drove past on Friday, injuring nine of its passengers, government officials said. Two people were detained in connection with the attack, which occurred near the predominantly Kurdish-populated city of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey, […]

The bloody fate of the 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade is emblematic of Vladimir Putin’s derailed invasion plans December 16, 2022 at 1:00 a.m. EST Members of Russia’s 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade, based in the far northern Kola Peninsula, take part in February 2021 drills for an Arctic expedition. (Pavel Lvov/Sputnik/AP) Comment on this […]

The U.S. Naval hospital ship Comfort (USNS Comfort) is seen on the Hudson River en route to New York Harbor as seen from Exchange Place in Jersey City, New Jersey, in an April 2020 file photo. Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Jeremie, Haiti — A U.S. Navy hospital ship docked in southwest Haiti has temporarily suspended medical services […]

Comment on this story Comment You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. In early September, I sat down with Argentine Finance Minister Sergio Massa during a visit […]

At least 12 people were killed Friday after a landslide hit a campsite about 20 miles north of the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, according to rescue officials. Malaysia’s national fire and rescue agency said 94 people were caught in the landslide, with 22 still missing, as of 11.41 a.m. local time. The figures are being […]

As 2022 draws to a close, lawmakers in the Philippines are pushing for the establishment of a sovereign wealth fund to purportedly help the country finance future economic development. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had called for the immediate enactment of the fund’s implementing bill, which was initially proposed on Nov. 28. A revised version of […]

What’s a dust devil sound like on Mars? A NASA rover by chance had its microphone on when a whirling tower of red dust passed directly overhead, recording the racket. It’s about 10 seconds of not only rumbling gusts of up to 25 mph, but the pinging of hundreds of dust particles against the rover […]