The Interpreter
As Vehicle Attacks Rise, an Ordinary Object Becomes an Instrument of Fear
A sense of menace becomes part of daily urban life if anything — even something as ubiquitous as a van — can be a weapon.
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A sense of menace becomes part of daily urban life if anything — even something as ubiquitous as a van — can be a weapon.
By AMANDA TAUB
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack near Plaza de Cataluña and Las Ramblas in the Spanish city.
By ANNE-SOPHIE BOLON, PALKO KARASZ and JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
The White House adviser’s blunt remarks appeared to undercut the United States’ top military official, who sought to persuade China to get tough on Pyongyang.
By JANE PERLEZ and CHOE SANG-HUN
After Karen Espíndola had a wrenching pregnancy she was told she couldn’t end, she became an activist. Now, Chile’s constitutional court is set to rule on a law that allows abortion in some cases.
By PASCALE BONNEFOY
With its long history and shifting borders, and a bloody century marked by two World Wars, fights over public statues are nothing new in Europe.
By RICK LYMAN
A few years ago, a student occupation in the fashionable Trastevere neighborhood saved a classic theater from demolition. But how much longer can it survive?
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
Diagrams and photos showing what happened when a van plowed into pedestrians in the Spanish city.
By SARAH ALMUKHTAR, JEREMY ASHKENAS, LARRY BUCHANAN, TROY GRIGGS, JASMINE C. LEE, SERGIO PEÇANHA, JUGAL K. PATEL and ANJALI SINGHVI
At least a dozen were killed and 80 injured when a van plowed into a crowd in Barcelona. The police have taken two people into custody.
By AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER, CAMILLA SCHICK and DEBORAH ACOSTA
In Britain and elsewhere in Europe, President Trump’s comments on violence in Charlottesville, Va., are being viewed as disgraceful but predictable.
By PATRICK KINGSLEY
Councilors in London’s Kensington and Chelsea borough, home to some of the city’s wealthiest and poorest residents, are accused of catering to the wealthy and ignoring the poor.
By KATRIN BENNHOLD
Crossrail is a megaproject meant to bind London together. But in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, it may signal the end of an ambitious era.
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
The ship, the destroyer Fitzgerald, collided with a cargo freighter in the middle of the night, killing seven sailors.
By ERIC SCHMITT
The Navy on Tuesday released a partially redacted report on the investigation of the collision in June between the American destroyer Fitzgerald and the ACX Crystal that resulted in the death of seven sailors.
The girl, who had been raped by an uncle, was told that she had a kidney stone that needed removal. She was under anesthesia while a cesarean section was performed.
By HARI KUMAR and JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
China’s Alibaba and Tencent have rocketed this year to become global investor darlings, inching up on Facebook and Amazon, as their sway in China grows.
By PAUL MOZUR
The Pakistani-born activist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize made the announcement on Twitter.
By CEYLAN YEGINSU and PRASHANT S. RAO
With the Islamic State leaving behind thickets of booby traps and improvised explosive devices, the Pentagon seeks to help clear its own remnants of war.
By HELENE COOPER
Ms. Suleiman, who fled to France, defied gender and sectarian stereotypes to protest the regime’s repression and propaganda about the civil war.
By SAM ROBERTS
Iraq will let investigators collect evidence of ISIS crimes. But an urgent test remains: how to deliver justice for beheadings, slavery and genocide?
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
After a day, the government agreed to meet some of Mr. Karroubi’s demands, including a pledge to “endeavor” to grant his longstanding demand for a public trial.
By THOMAS ERDBRINK
Men accused or convicted of rape in Lebanon will no longer be exonerated if they marry their victims, as the country joins several other Arab nations in reversing such laws.
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
An internal inquiry absolves the United Nations, suggests that the investigators did not take security measures, and fails to identify the killers.
By KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA
Because the convicted man is in prison and penniless, the International Criminal Court asked the court’s Trust Fund for Victims to pay the reparations.
By MARLISE SIMONS
The daily exodus of villagers escaping armed conflict, hunger and sexual violence prompted the U.N. refugee agency to urge international action.
By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE
The disaster, which killed at least 400 people, awakens painful memories of past national traumas: the Ebola outbreak and Sierra Leone’s civil war.
By JAIME YAYA BARRY
A South African model said Grace Mugabe attacked her with an extension cord after finding her with the first lady’s two sons in a luxury hotel room in Johannesburg.
By JEFFREY MOYO
The Coast Guard was searching for five people who were aboard a Black Hawk helicopter in a training exercise. It was the third crash in about a month involving U.S. military aircraft.
By CHRISTINE HAUSER
The move by Pauline Hanson, the leader of the anti-immigrant One Nation party, drew strong criticism, with one lawmaker denouncing it as “appalling.”
By JACQUELINE WILLIAMS
Research that studied semen samples from nearly 43,000 men from 50 countries detected a sharp downward trend that is provoking broad health concerns.
By MAYA SALAM
Comments by the prime minister, who called the decision by Yarra “a repudiation” of national values, stoked discussion about the meaning of the holiday.
By JACQUELINE WILLIAMS
Australia’s top diplomat said a New Zealand party was meddling in her country’s politics by exposing questions about the citizenship of Australia’s deputy prime minister.
By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM
Officials accused the country’s ousted attorney general, Luisa Ortega, of turning her office into a center for extortion and said her husband ran the operation.
By NICHOLAS CASEY and ANA VANESSA HERRERO
The Trump administration’s first major effort to mend fences with a region rattled by President Trump did little to assuage fears.
By ERNESTO LONDOÑO
The Trump administration opened talks with Canada and Mexico on the North American Free Trade Agreement by asserting that the current deal had failed.
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
The program was established in 2014 to deal with a surge of migrants fleeing violence and lets them live and work in the United States temporarily.
By VIVIAN YEE and KIRK SEMPLE
As the administration renegotiates Nafta, a fan manufacturer in Kentucky worries that its business could be hurt by rising impediments to trade.
By PETER S. GOODMAN
Seventy years ago, millions of people were uprooted as British India was carved up along religious and political lines. Here are some of their stories.
Paul Kagame’s successes have branded him a beacon of hope. But his 99 percent electoral victory shows he is yet another strongman.
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The most brilliant golfer in the history of the universe hits trouble.
By ROGER COHEN
The new world order — just, peaceful, equal — that India’s leaders promised at independence is nowhere in sight.
By PANKAJ MISHRA
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s acquiescence to repressive measures against free expression threaten democracy.
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD