Richard Pérez-Peña

Nov 27, 2024 | nytimes.com | Euan Ward |Ben Hubbard |Aaron Boxerman |Richard Pérez-Peña

Thousands of civilians began the journey back to their war-ravaged, mostly abandoned communities around Beirut and in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, as a U.S.-backed cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah took tenuous hold after more than 13 months of bloodshed. Vehicles stuffed with whatever items people took as they fled Israeli bombing crawled bumper to bumper on roads heading south from Beirut, the capital.

Oct 28, 2024 | nytimes.com | Leily Nikounazar |Richard Pérez-Peña

Iran on Monday executed an Iranian-born opponent of the government who had German citizenship and lived in the United States, the country's judiciary announced, four years after Iranian agents abducted him in Dubai, according to members of his family. Iranian authorities had accused the man, Jamshid Sharmahd, 69, of helping orchestrate a deadly terrorist bombing in Iran in 2008, a charge he and his family denied.

May 24, 2024 | nytimes.com | Richard Pérez-Peña

Un restaurante de playa en la isla española de Mallorca se derrumbó parcialmente el jueves. El derrumbe mató al menos a cuatro personas e hirió a 16, dijeron las autoridades, y se teme que otras estén atrapadas entre los escombros. Las fotos anteriores al accidente mostraban que el restaurante, Medusa Beach Club, tenía tres niveles, con grandes terrazas en las plantas intermedia y superior que estaban sostenidas por pilares.

May 23, 2024 | nytimes.com | Richard Pérez-Peña

A beachfront restaurant on the Spanish island of Majorca partly collapsed on Thursday, killing at least four people and injuring more than 20, officials said, with others feared trapped in the wreckage. Photos predating the accident showed that the restaurant, Medusa Beach Club, had three levels, with large terraces on the middle and upper floors that were supported by pillars.

May 15, 2024 | nytimes.com | Cassandra Vinograd |Andrew Higgins |Richard Pérez-Peña

A gunman shot Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia, who is known for defying his fellow leaders in the European Union, multiple times at close range on Wednesday, in the most serious attack on a European leader in decades. Mr. Fico was shot after emerging from the House of Culture in Handlova, a town in central Slovakia, as he greeted a small crowd in Banikov Square. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, then airlifted to another hospital for emergency surgery.