Chris Wright, Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Energy, landed the job during his first encounter with the past and future president. The founder and chief executive of Liberty Energy, a fracking services company based in Colorado, Mr. Wright was among about 20 oil and gas executives whom Mr. Trump gathered at […]

Germany’s economic growth shrank for a second straight year in 2024, data released Wednesday showed. How to revive it this year has become a central issue as voters prepare to go to the polls next month to elect a new government. Manufacturing of automobiles and machinery fell sharply last year, as increased competition, especially from […]

Bashar Abdo had just returned home last month after four years in the Syrian military when a mob of neighbors and others armed with guns and knives swarmed his family’s front door and accused him of being a thug for the ousted regime. His sisters and sister-in-law tried to block the crowd as he hid. […]

A Thai court issued an arrest warrant for an adviser to the Cambodian strongman Hun Sen on Wednesday, charging him with hiring others to commit “premeditated murder” in the brazen killing of a former Cambodian opposition politician in Bangkok last week. The warrant was the strongest indication so far that Lim Kimya, who was gunned […]

Nintendo Switch owners can add Donkey Kong Country Returns to their collection for the third time this week. The wonderful side-scrolling platform originally released on Nintendo Wii in 2010 and was ported to Nintendo 3DS in 2013. Now, over a decade later, DK and Diddy are swinging back into action with remastered graphics and everything […]

Chartered flights have been canceled. Performances have been called off or postponed. Tour agencies have fielded requests from travelers who want to change their plans. Chinese travelers have been scrapping trips to Thailand, frightened by the story of a Chinese actor who was abducted there, taken to Myanmar and forced to work in an online […]

Ukraine’s national electricity operator introduced emergency power cuts on Wednesday after the country came under what the energy minister called a “massive” missile attack. Air-raid sirens wailed at around 5:45 a.m. in the capital, Kyiv, as most of the country was put on alert for missile launches. As people huddled in shelters into a third […]

The mother lived for 42 years in a three-story house overlooking a former gas chamber and a gallows at Auschwitz, sometimes losing sleep at the thought of what had happened on the other side of her garden wall. But the house in Oswiecim, southern Poland, once the home of the death camp’s wartime commandant, Rudolf […]

Following a lengthy hiatus, the mainline Dynasty Warriors franchise is back this Friday, January 17, with the most ambitious entry in the hack-and-slash action series to date. Dynasty Warriors: Origins has some enticing launch and preorder offers that fans will want to check out before they expire. Dynasty Warriors: Origins’ Digital Deluxe Edition is actually […]

Decades ago, Mozambique’s liberation party, Frelimo, easily attracted adoring crowds. The promise of salvation from Portuguese colonizers, and a life with jobs and housing for all, was an easy sell in a southern African nation that was suffering under racist rule. But when Daniel Chapo of Frelimo becomes president on Wednesday, he will confront a […]