Thomas Fuller

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Jeanna Smialek |Zolan Kanno-Youngs |Matthew Bigg |Thomas Fuller

BRUSSELS — President Donald Trump on Thursday offered reassurances that Ukraine would be involved in negotiations to end the war with Russia, a day after his remarks left that prospect in doubt and alarmed officials in Kyiv and Ukraine’s European allies that they would be left out of peace talks. “Of course they would,” Trump said in response to a reporter’s question in the Oval Office in Washington about whether Ukraine would have a place at the table. “I mean, they’re part of it.

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Lara Jakes |Adam Rasgon |Thomas Fuller

The Trump administration’s envoy to the Middle East made a rare visit to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to a White House official, aiming to reinforce a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas that has allowed thousands of displaced Palestinians to return to their homes. The envoy, Steven Witkoff, who is the most senior US official to visit Gaza in many years, also met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Wednesday, the eve of another round of hostage releases.

Jan 11, 2025 | spokesman.com | Thomas Fuller |Alexandra Berzon |Kellen Browning |Shawn Hubler

LOS ANGELES — The alert came in blaring, hot-pink, all-caps: Be prepared for a “LIFE THREATENING & DESTRUCTIVE WINDSTORM!!!”The notice Monday was one in a series of warnings issued by the National Weather Service about the powerful Santa Ana winds that were about to blow through Southern California, which hadn’t seen serious rain in months. Officials in Los Angeles, a city that is accustomed to treacherous fire conditions, turned to a well-worn playbook.

Jan 9, 2025 | bostonglobe.com | Corina Knoll |Thomas Fuller

LOS ANGELES — A series of firestorms raging out of control in Los Angeles on Wednesday decimated the affluent neighborhood of Pacific Palisades and was threatening an ever wider swath of America’s most populous county as night fell. Propelled by howling, hurricane-force winds that served as a kind of hellish bellows, the blazes came with the terrifying prospect for the 10 million residents of Los Angeles County that further infernos could erupt in any place at any moment.

Dec 5, 2024 | post-gazette.com | Choe Sang-Hun |John Yoon |Victoria Kim |Thomas Fuller

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's military, agents of terror and violence in the 1970s and '80s, spent decades scrupulously cleaning up its image to become what many people in the country came to see as a modern and disciplined force. But that image was shattered Thursday when the general who led a short-lived spasm of martial law this week was grilled in parliament, a rambling appearance that cast the military as ill-prepared and disorganized from the top down.