Europeans seem to have gotten over their antipathy toward Elon Musk. A year ago, Tesla sales in Europe were in free fall after Mr. Musk, the automaker’s chief executive, appeared to turn off car buyers with his vocal support for right-wing politicians in Britain and Europe and his role as President Trump’s cost-cutting czar. But…
Even as the world is racing to contain the deadly Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Trump administration is moving ahead with a plan that could decimate support for programs that detect and snuff out exactly such outbreaks. The new plan, proposed by the State Department, aims to overhaul the Centers for…
As the globe convulses over the economic fallout from the war in Iran, many African nations say the ripple effects of the conflict are exacerbating longstanding challenges at home, like the lack of manufacturing on the continent and its heavy reliance on imports and foreign investment. The standoff over the Strait of Hormuz has sent…
To the Editor: Re “Comey Targeted for Second Time With Indictment” (front page, April 29): The Trump Justice Department’s securing of an indictment of James Comey, the former F.B.I. director, over an Instagram post of seashells on a seashore is as ludicrous as it is bone-chillingly dangerous. Anyone who’s worked in an American restaurant or…
Saulo Kasekela died of AIDS on March 7, in a small town called Mpongwe in the copper belt of northern Zambia. He was a 37-year-old security guard, admitted to the mission hospital two days earlier. After his body was wheeled out of the men’s ward, a nurse set aside his chest X-ray, a clouded smear…
Afghan refugees who once helped U.S. forces and have been stranded for years at a former U.S. military base in Qatar, say they are being forced to choose between returning to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan or resettling to a third country that some said they had never heard about. The New York Times reported this week that…
The United States-funded H.I.V. program that is credited with saving 26 million lives worldwide suffered big blows to its impact after the Trump administration’s abrupt stop and restart of its activities last year, according to the first tranche of data from the program since 2024. Overall, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR,…
