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Patrick Tyler, Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country--and Why They Can't Make Peace (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), 576 pp., $35.00. [...]

The Group of 7 summit, held recently, went smoothly despite the leaders' anxiety about various global issues. The summit focused on supporting Ukraine, with a $50 billion injection and long-term security pacts signed by the United States and Japan. The upcoming NATO summit aims to provide military and financial support to Ukraine, demonstrating global support and deterring Russia. The leaders, including President Biden, showed unity and American leadership on contentious issues. The summit also addressed topics like Israel-Gaza conflict and China, with critical language towards Beijing. The goal is to convince Putin that he cannot achieve his objectives in Ukraine. The West is investing in Ukraine's long-term survival and preparing for a potential transition of support from the United States to Europe. The West is increasing its aid to Ukraine, but more support is needed for Ukraine to end the war on its own terms. The war in Ukraine is slowly moving towards a functional cease-fire, but serious conversations about Ukraine's war aims are expected after the American presidential election. Overall, there is remarkable solidarity with Ukraine, but the challenge lies in determining how to utilize that solidarity effectively. [Extracted from the article]

Byline: STEVEN ERLANGER The police said that two prints signed by Damien Hirst had been stolen from a London art gallery. To view this article at nytimes.com, click here: [...]

Moscow Russian President Boris Yeltsin is often praised in toasts at summit meetings as the first democratically elected leader in Russia's thousand-year history. As Russia enters its political season in [...]

Even after a precampaign diet last year -- less wine, less cheese and especially less chocolate -- Francois Hollande, the Socialist who is currently favored to become the next president [...]

In the early 1990s, US Congress passed laws that cut off financing to UN agencies that accepted the Palestinians for full membership. Times have changed: A majority of countries welcome [...]

SHE MAKES FUN, in private, of the way he walks and talks, of his rapid, jerky gestures and facial grimaces. He mocks her deliberation, her reluctance, her matronly caution. She [...]

Palestinians never used to do these things to one another. Putting bullets in the back of the heads of men on their knees. Shooting up hospitals. Killing patients. Knee-capping doctors. [...]

HAMAS Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad. By Matthew Levitt. 324 pp. Yale University Press. $26. HAMAS is hot. A Palestinian branch of the Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood, [...]

This article presents information related to politics. Russian President Boris Yeltsin is often praised in toasts at summit meetings as the first democratically elected leader in Russian history. As Russia enters its political season in earnest, however, the first of the many fundamental questions facing this country is whether he, or anyone else, will be the second elected leader. On November 27, 1996, Ralph Nader officially entered the California Green Party's presidential primary. Organizers with Third Parties '96 and various state Green parties see this as a chance to jump-start a national presidential campaign from the left.

IN YUGOSLAVIA, TEENS TAKE TO THE STREETS TO TELL EUROPE'S BIGGEST WAR CRIMINAL IT'S TIME TO GO When the end came for Yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic, 16-year-old Dejan Stanisavljevic was […]

Hamdi Shabiu is an almost excessively humble man, grateful for attention, quick to provide coffee and a seat in the one warm room of the poor little house he and [...]

In a moral universe full of shadows and grief, I have been an American correspondent working in a country at war with America. Of course, it is the NATO alliance [...]

With the professional decline of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, still better known in the West as the Kirov, has become the one necessary stop in [...]

IF you tromp around Moscow enough in winter, you'll want a bit of deviltry, or at least some decent hot tea. After you've done Red Square, seen the 'smoked fish' [...]

Now that Russia has opened its cities and countryside to foreigners, what shocks most is the gloomy monotony of this vast, centralized empire. The same corroded aluminum surrounds the same [...]

For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus By Frederick Brown Alfred A. Knopf 2011, $28.95, pp. 304 This seems to be the moment of rediscovery [...]

To get anywhere by train these days, Russians must be prepared to pay double the normal price to gangs who've already secured all the tickets. Thousands wait in dank, dim [...]

LOOKING LIKE POOH Bear in the lions' den, Yegor Timurovich Gaidar, the Acting Prime Minister of Russia, strode to the podium to face his harshest audience, the Supreme Soviet, the [...]

Sunday evening in Ho Chi Minh City. At first it sounds like the beginning of 'Apocalypse Now,' with the growling whumf-whumf of American helicopters prowling across the paddy fields, reconning [...]

If you don't see the coffin, you shed no tears. -- Thai proverb. FOUR THAI MEN, CIGARETTES IN hand, sit on a rough bamboo bench, staring across a packed dirt [...]

LEAD: FOR ME, AN IDEAL night in Southeast Asia must be in a place where a cellular telephone has yet to ring. At its end must be a long ride [...]

LEAD: For those Americans of a certain generation, and for anyone who's decided that travel, let alone life, isn't quite as exotic as it used to be, Saigon (now Ho [...]

Discusses the political orientation and liberal approach of presidential candidate Abolhassan Bani-Sadr in Iran. Criticism of Bani-Sadr on parallel government run by mullahs and militants in Iran; Willingness of Bani-Sadr to negotiate the release of American hostages from the clutch of militants; Reasons for the existence of many anti-American politicians in Iran; Opposition of Bani-Sadr to the tactics of militants with some sort of sympathetic attitude towards their basic aims; Comment of Bani-Sadr in response to a question about the behavior of the U.S. to violate laws, asked by militants in a meeting; Detest of American culture and economic influence in Iran by Bani-Sadr; Argument pertaining to the vote statistics of Iranian President Ayatolla Ruhollah Khomeini; Popular support of Bani-Sadr in Iran; Assessment of the political maneuver of Khomeini.

Focuses on the social condition in Iran under the theocratic rule of Ayatollah Ruhollah Mussawi Khomeini. Views on Khomeini's vision for Iran as a Platonic Republic; Effect of the health of Khomeini on his political performance; Comments on the reason behind the poor's support to Khomeini; Causes of the revolution in Iran; Khomeini's special status as revolutionary, priest and politician.

NEIGHBORS The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. By Jan T. Gross. Illustrated. 261 pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. $19.95. THIS small book is an important contribution [...]

Presents the February 20, 2006 issue of "The New York Times Upfront." Explanation that the constitutionality of U.S. President George W. Bush's expanded domestic spying after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is the cover article for this issue; Information on the Ski Dubai, an artificial ski resort in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Number of U.S. students who are learning Mandarin, a Chinese dialect; Funniest justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

LEAD: AT DUSK, WHEN ALL THE WESTERN relief workers have left for the day, blue Chinese-made trucks drive up to Site 8. Nudging the Thai-Cambodian border, Site 8 is run [...]

The article discusses how the murder of four teens triggered a seven-week battle between Israel and the militant group Hamas in Gaza. Topics covered include Israel's devastating airstrikes in Gaza, the rockets fired by Hamas into civilian areas in Israel, and the decades-old attempt of U.S. presidents to get Palestinians and Israelis to negotiate a peace treaty.

The article reports on developments in Russia's military intervention in Ukraine as of March 31, 2014. It attributes the decision of Russian President Vladimir Putin to send in troops to the long history linking Ukraine and Russia. It explores if Putin is trying to bring back the Soviet Union whose satellite nations became Western-leaning democracies. It discusses how the U.S. has responded to the military intervention and why Ukraine matters to Russia.

The article focuses on the Arab Spring revolutions in Syria. Syria is under the dictatorial rule of President Bashar al-Assad. The uprisings in the country began in March 2011 when residents of Dara'a protested the torture of Syrian students who put up antigovernment graffiti. Assad has since ordered a series of crackdowns by sending tanks into the cities and firing at demonstrators. U.S. President Barack Obama has called for Assad to relinquish power and stop the killing of Syrian citizens.

The article reports that U.S. President Barack Obama has urged Great Britain to stay in European Union, as of April 2016. It states that he wrote an opinion article in the newspaper "The Daily Telegraph, " which was published during his visit to London, England, and mentions that he has requested the people of Britain to remain as a full member of European Union. Views of London's mayor Boris Johnson on Obama's remark are presented.

The article reports on the peace conference between Israel and Palestine that was held in Annapolis, Maryland that marked U.S. President George W. Bush's first peace effort for the Middle East. 49 countries attended the conference which discussed issues between the two countries, including the borders of Palestine in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Palestinian refugees and the status of Jerusalem.

Argues that the hospitalization Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the victory of the radical Islamic party Hamas in Palestine have heightened the political volatility in the Middle East. Views of Sharon's deputy Ehud Olmert on Arab-Israeli war; Reason for Palestinians' vote for Hamas; Political oppositions from Israel and the U.S. that Hamas will face in assuming government functions.

The article reports on the identification of Mohammed Emwazi known as Jihadi John, the man wearing black balaclava who was involved in beheading foreign hostages in videos provided by terrorist group Islamic State.

The article reports on the suspect of several shooting incidents in Copenhagen, Denmark such as in a cafe and synagogue that was shot by police officers.

Editorial. Focuses on the shame and horror the writer felt as a war correspondent in Kosovo. His witness to the devastation caused by Serbian forces and by the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); His resentment at having to defend NATO spokesman Jamie P. Shea to some Serbs; His attempt to convey the grief the Serbs feel.

Features the State Mariinsky Theater, otherwise known as Kirov in St. Petersburg, Russia. Design and seating capacity; Historical background; Lineup of fall 1995 productions; Contact information.

Recommends Cafe Begemot for dining during winter in Moscow, Russia. Description; Menu; Clientele; Business hours; Telephone number.