President Yoon Suk Yeol said his declaration of martial law was born out of “desperation,” and apologized for causing “anxiety.”
Author: NYT > World News
Read President Yoon’s Speech Declaring Martial Law in South Korea
President Yoon Suk Yeol made the extraordinary declaration in an unannounced speech to the nation on Tuesday night.
Read Putin’s Warning to NATO on Ukraine’s Use of Long-Range Weapons
The Russian president said Western support for Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia would put his country and NATO “at war.”
Read Putin’s Warning to NATO on Ukraine’s Use of Long-Range Weapons
The Russian president said Western support for Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia would put his country and NATO “at war.”
St. Lucia gets its first gold medal, thanks to the world’s fastest woman.
Julien Alfred beat Sha’Carri Richardson of the United States by 15-hundredths of a second to win St. Lucia’s first Olympic medal.
Simone Biles’s gold-medal-winning Yurchenko double pike, frame by frame.
Biles won her second Olympic vault title — eight years after her first in Rio — with her signature Yurchenko double pike and then a vault called a Cheng.
It’s really a matter of math …
There are 10,000 athletes at the Paris Games, spread across 32 sports. In the space of 19 days, that field has to be whittled down to just 329 gold medals. So, ultimately, someone has to go out first.