President Biden enlists a dozen Asian-Pacific nations to form a new economic bloc. But will liberal Democratic opposition allow it to be an engine for the resurgence of U.S influence in the region, especially to counter China?  https://t.co/tRR3nOKQOv

In a grim start to a long weekend in Canada, at least five people were killed and hundreds of thousands of customers remained without power after a line of thunderstorms cut a violent path across parts of Quebec and Ontario on Saturday. https://t.co/awzJnPb8eV

President Biden indicated on Monday that the U.S. would use military force to defend Taiwan if it were ever attacked by China, appearing to dispense with the “strategic ambiguity” traditionally favored by American presidents https://t.co/skre2vBGmt

President Biden raised the alarm on Sunday about monkeypox, a viral infection that is fast spreading around the world and raising fears of another pandemic. He said the U.S. is working "to figure out what we do and what vaccine may be available." https://t.co/wy1ToAPlrH

For Australian voters who spent years in despair about the country's deny-and-delay approach to climate change and the fossil fuel industry’s hold on conservatives, the results of Saturday's election amount to an extraordinary reversal. https://t.co/05x5YSe9Ky

An enormous monument to the Communist Party in Bulgaria is now a decrepit ruin. The country is wrestling with how to deal with a symbol of an unwanted and, in many ways, deeply ugly past. https://t.co/gGRgl5Xn1y

A senior member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, Col. Sayad Khodayee, was assassinated on Sunday outside his Tehran home, according to a statement by the Guards. No one claimed responsibility, but the attack resembled others inside Iran by Israel.  https://t.co/NfcTskay4X

Ukraine’s culture minister said Sunday that Russian forces have destroyed or damaged more than 350 cultural and historic sites since invading the country in late February. https://t.co/4bhskuDM7L

The battle for the city of Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine represents another crucial point in the war, as both sides continue to engage in a grueling war of attrition. https://t.co/HgT8tDtY2p

A destroyed village, a war crimes trial, a funeral: Images from Ukraine. https://t.co/3RbZuoJlZ0

A failed state. An aid trap. The modern world’s first nation born of a slave revolt.

We just published an investigation on an overlooked part of history, examining what might have been — if Haiti had not been looted since its birth.

Here's what we found. https://t.co/DqT0pOdT67 https://t.co/ZfYBuMDWJG

The war in Ukraine will undoubtedly dominate this week’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, and Daniel Yergin, the energy historian, is among those whose insights are likely to be sought by that gathering’s global elite. https://t.co/E7MGRH1bQ2

Les 6 infos à retenir de l’enquête du New York Times sur les sommes qu’Haïti a dû verser après avoir chassé les colons français lors de la première révolte d’esclaves victorieuse du monde moderne – et à quel prix les Haïtiens ont dû payer leur liberté. https://t.co/NrcIF2hvV3

Ukrainian and Russian forces traded fresh blows on Sunday near Sievierodonetsk, military authorities and analysts said, as Moscow renewed its push toward the city, one of the last major Ukrainian strongholds in a key part of the east. https://t.co/BELd6VAs8Q

A Mogadishu dentist was appalled by an all-too-common sight on his daily commute: severely injured and dead Somalis being transported to hospitals in wooden hand carts or wheelbarrows. He decided to do something about it: He began a free ambulance service. https://t.co/xWTJzfXScU

Bulgaria is wrestling with what to do with a monument built to glorify an oppressive communist system but, ravaged by rain and snow and stripped bare by thieves, is now a wreck. https://t.co/DvUTnKmzGk

Heavy pre-monsoon rains in India and Bangladesh have killed dozens and left millions of people homeless. “We haven’t seen such a widespread flood” in over two decades, said an official. https://t.co/3bY1HRoEob

Russian troops are pushing south from the city of Izium and from positions to the east in an attempt to encircle the Ukrainians and seize the entire Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, which consists of Donetsk and its neighboring province, Luhansk. https://t.co/O0IDqd4sY2

A reversal by an Arab-Israeli lawmaker who quit the governing coalition last week averts the imminent collapse of an unwieldy coalition under Naftali Bennett https://t.co/qm2i4q53ON

This Times Insider brings you behind the scenes of The Ransom, our investigation on Haiti’s payments to France. https://t.co/uZoh1vPx1h