Author Archives: @ 2020 The New York Times

By: Hannah Beech @2021 The New York Times Company NOUMÉA, New Caledonia — New Caledonia, a tiny scattering of islands in the South Pacific, will not mark the new year by becoming the world’s newest country. In a referendum held Sunday, voters rejected independence overwhelmingly, with 96% electing to stay part of France, according to […]

By: Aina J. Khan and Muktita Suhartono @ 2021 The New York Times Searing ash towered in the sky over the Indonesian island of Java on Saturday after the Semeru volcano erupted, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens of others. At least 41 people suffered burns from the lava flow, Indah Amperawati Masdar, […]

By: Apoorva Mandavilli @ 2021 The New York Times As nations severed air links from southern Africa amid fears of another global surge of the coronavirus, scientists scrambled Sunday to gather data on the new omicron variant, its capabilities and — perhaps most important — how effectively the current vaccines will protect against it. The […]

By: Jin Yu Young @ 2021 The New York Times As Asian countries are learning to live with the coronavirus — with the notable exception of China — and gaining momentum in their vaccination campaigns, several are cautiously reopening their borders and welcoming travelers. Although the Asia-Pacific region initially lagged in vaccinations and many countries […]

By: David Segal and Ivan Nechepurenko @ 2021 The New York Times Company KYIV, Ukraine — A buccaneering 37-year-old educated in a British private school, Michael Chobanian is fluent both in English and the folkways of Ukraine, which he regards as a largely lawless frontier and which he likes to traverse in his black Ferrari […]

By: Ben Smith @ 2021 The New York Times (The Media Equation) After Mark Zuckerberg announced, in a goofy video Thursday, that he was changing his company’s name to Meta and shifting its focus to the creation of a digital space called the Metaverse, he granted interviews to just four media outlets, including exactly zero […]