American forces in recent weeks have helped coordinate the passage of dozens of commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. officials, even as travel through the waterway remains risky amid stalled negotiations to end the war with Iran. U.S. Central Command has guided around 70 commercial ships through the strait, traveling into […]
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A thousand tons of potatoes were stacked 15 feet high in a warehouse on Kris D’haeyere’s farm for months. Even though he offered to sell them for just a couple of euros per ton, no one wanted to buy them. So Mr. D’haeyere did the unthinkable: This month, he dumped the crop back into his […]
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One day after the announcement of a ceasefire between the United States and Iran, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) outlined the implications of the war in the Middle East on the global energy system and the world’s economy, offering his expertise to an MIT audience. “This is the largest energy crisis we’ve […]
Read MoreWithin an hour of landing in Shanghai, I was sitting in the back of a Didi cab while the driver pleaded with me to game the company’s algorithm. Didi is the “Uber of China” and has a ubiquitous footprint in the country, dispatching tens of millions of rides per day. Could I cancel the ride […]
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One meeting that appears to be absent from King Charles III’s carefully planned schedule in the United States this week is any reunion with Prince Harry. On a four-day state visit intended in part to repair bruised U.S.-British relations, Charles’s itinerary currently includes no plans to see Harry, his 41-year-old son, who lives in California […]
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The United Arab Emirates will next month leave OPEC, a cartel of oil-producing countries, its government said on Tuesday, a decision that will weaken the group’s influence over global energy markets. Emirati officials had long floated the idea of quitting the cartel, complaining that its quotas had unfairly curtailed its oil exports. The government is […]
Read More The United Arab Emirates will next month leave OPEC, a cartel of oil-producing countries, its government said on Tuesday, a decision that will weaken the group’s influence over global energy markets. Emirati officials had long floated the idea of quitting the cartel, complaining that its quotas had unfairly curtailed its oil exports. The government is […]
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The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has ripped through the highest levels of Britain, prompting the firings of two top officials and a rupture in the royal family. Now it looms over the state visit of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. Mr. Epstein, the convicted sex offender, cultivated ties with political and business elites on multiple […]
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Often hailed as the most successful international environmental agreement of all time, the 1987 Montreal Protocol continues to successfully phase out the global production of chemicals that were creating a growing hole in the ozone layer, causing skin cancer and other adverse health effects. MIT-led studies have since shown the subsequent reduction in ozone-depleting substances […]
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new video loaded: What the Cease-Fire Means for Iran <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/04/10/world/middleeast/ceasefire_thumb/ceasefire_thumb-jumbo.png?auto=webp&quality=75" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width Emerging from weeks of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes, an emboldened Iran has 10 demands for talks during the tenuous cease-fire, according to Iranian state media. Our reporter Erika Solomon assesses Iran’s position. By Erika Solomon, Christina Thornell, David Seekamp and Joey Sendaydiego […]
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The sense of support and community was palpable when Sojun Park, a postdoc at the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), delivered a recent presentation on The Global Diffusion of AI Technologies and Its Political Drivers. The event, part of the CIS Global Research and Policy Seminar, filled the venue with audience members from across MIT. “My […]
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The United States and China “are the two largest emitters of carbon in the world,” said Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, at a recent MIT seminar. “We need to work with each other for the good of both of our countries.” During the MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition […]
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new video loaded: On the Ground in Beirut <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/03/06/world/middleeast/rv-thumbnail/rv-thumbnail-jumbo.png?auto=webp&quality=75" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width Our Beirut bureau chief, Christina Goldbaum, reports on the escalating conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah, as Israel’s military seizes areas of southern Lebanon and carries out bombings. March 5, 2026
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Who is in charge of Iran’s government after airstrikes killed the supreme leader and some of his defense and security officials? Erika Solomon, our bureau chief for Iran and Iraq, describes what we know. By Erika Solomon, Nikolay Nikolov, Jon Miller, Stephanie Swart, Rafaela Balster, Samuel Granados and Christina Shaman March 3, 2026
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