With Trump Returning and Hezbollah Weakened, Iran Strikes a Conciliatory Tone
A billboard in Tehran showing Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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Daniel Khalife, UK Prison Escapee, Is Convicted of Spying for Iran
A police van believed to be transporting former soldier Daniel Khalife leaving Westminster Magistrates Court in London in September 2023.
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Romania Court Orders a Recount After Surprise Election Result
Calin Georgescu, who won the most votes in the first round, speaking to reporters on Tuesday in Izvorani, Romania.
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850-Year-Old Smithfield Meat Market in London to Close
Smithfield has been the site of a market since at least 1174. The current market was built in the 1860s.
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What a Deadly Offensive in Syria Means for a Stalled Civil War
Rebel fighters in Syria’s Aleppo Province on Thursday.
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Bangladesh Ties with India Plunge Further After Arrest of Hindu Leader
Chinmoy Krishna Das, a Hindu leader in Bangladesh, has been accused of sedition under a colonial-era law.
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Chinese Women Mobilize Against Subpar Sanitary Pads
A shelf of feminine hygiene products in a Beijing 7-Eleven convenience store.
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Australia Bans Social Media for Everyone Under 16
In Melbourne on Wednesday. Australia passed a social media ban for children despite feasibility concerns.
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E.U. Vessels Surround Anchored Chinese Ship After Cables Are Severed in Baltic Sea
A bulk carrier called the Yi Peng 3 traveling under a Chinese flag was being monitored by Danish naval patrol vessels.
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India’s Exam Leaks Underline the Nation’s Bigger Problem
Indian police officers checking the documents of people preparing to take exams to join the police force outside the examination center in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, in August.
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Russia Strikes Ukraine’s Energy Sector as Putin Signals More to Come
Customers used phones as lights at a restaurant with no electricity in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday after Russian strikes.
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Why Mexico Is Eliminating Independent Watchdog Agencies
A protest in Mexico City last year in support of Mexico’s freedom of information body, known as INAI, after the president at the time, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, backed a proposal to scrap it.
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Canada Accuses Google of Creating Advertising Tech Monopoly
Canada’s competition authority said that Google owned four of the largest online advertising tech services in the country and that they control 40 percent to 90 percent of their market.
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Friday Briefing: Day 2 of Lebanon’s Cease-fire
Residents driving past a mosque in southern Lebanon, yesterday.
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Lebanese Residents of Baalbek Return to a Bombed-Out City
The ancient city of Baalbek, Lebanon, has been bombed and many buildings flattened.
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What to Know About Australia’s Social Media Ban for Children Under 16
The Australian government has called the legislation a “world leading” move to protect young people online.
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A Top Military Official in China Is Suspended Under Suspicion of Corruption
Adm. Miao Hua arriving at the Pyongyang Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, in 2019. Until recently, he was in charge of a group that helps enforce Communist Party discipline in the military.
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President João Lourenco of Angola Discusses Biden’s Upcoming Visit
Joao Lourenco, the president of Angola, at the presidential palace in Luanda, Angola.
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Hamas Faces a Future Without Its Most Important Ally
A mosque in Gaza damaged by an Israeli airstrike. The Biden administration has tried to increase pressure on Hamas to make a deal with Israel and release the hostages it holds in Gaza.
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Thursday Briefing
Cars moving south on a busy road near Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. There are hopes that a cease-fire agreement will end 13 months of bloodshed.
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As Plastic Talks Continue, a Reminder of What We’re All Exposed To
Scientists can use silicone wrist bands to measure a person’s exposure to chemicals.
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Syrian Rebel Groups Launch Largest Offensive in Years
Clashes between fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the Syrian Army in Aleppo on Wednesday.
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How Have Israel and Lebanon Responded to the Cease-Fire?
A street in Tyre, Lebanon, on Wednesday, hours into the start of the cease-fire.
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As Israel-Hezbollah Cease-Fire Takes Hold, Thousands in Lebanon Head Home
People celebrating as they drove south of Beirut, Lebanon, on Wednesday.
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Northern Israel Somber as a Few Soldiers and Residents Trickle Through
Some Israeli troops have begun to return to Israel from Lebanon, but many remain.
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Thursday Briefing: A Fragile Cease-fire in Lebanon
Residents of the Dahiya, south of Beirut, celebrated the cease-fire announcement yesterday.
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Who Is Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing of Myanmar?
Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, chief of Myanmar’s military junta, at a meeting in Moscow in 2022.
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Pakistan’s Capital Is Turned Upside Down by Unending Protests
Supporters of Imran Khan marching toward Islamabad on Monday after clearing shipping containers placed by the authorities to block them.
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Moscow Expels 2 German Journalists Over Allegations of Closing Russian TV Bureau
The logo of ARD, the German public broadcaster, on the facade of its studio in Berlin.
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French Intellectuals Decry Dissident Writer Boualem Sansal’s Arrest in Algeria
Boualem Sansal in Paris in 2015. The Algerian-born writer became a French citizen this year.
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Israeli Forces Keep Striking in Gaza Alongside Cease-Fire in Lebanon
A damaged site in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, on Wednesday after an Israeli strike.
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A Battered and Diminished Hezbollah Accepts a Cease-Fire
Residents of the Dahiya, south of Beirut, celebrated the announcement of a U.S.-backed cease-fire on Wednesday.
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France Suggests It Would Not Immediately Arrest Netanyahu Despite I.C.C. Warrant
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, left, with President Emmanuel Macron of France in Paris in 2023.
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Oxford University Names William Hague Its New Chancellor
William Hague at the Wimbledon tennis championships in England in July.
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3 Americans Are Said to Be Freed From China in Prisoner Swap
The prisoner swap negotiated by the Biden administration has been in the works for months, officials said.
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Mystery Drones Spotted Over U.S. Air Bases in Britain
An American jet at R.A.F. Lakenheath, an air base in Suffolk, England, in 2020. Lakenheath was among the bases that drones have been detected flying over recently.
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Cease-Fire Deal Leaves Beleaguered Palestinians in Gaza Feeling Forgotten
A displaced Palestinian man gets a fire going next to a tent in Deir al Balah, central Gaza, on Monday.
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I.C.C. Prosecutor Seeks Arrest Warrant for Myanmar Junta Leader
Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing attending a military parade in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, in 2021.
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Will the Hezbollah Cease-Fire Draw Back Northern Israel Residents Displaced by War?
Orly Gavishi-Sotto has been living in a rented house since leaving her hometown, Hanita, which is in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon.
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Will Lebanon Deal Break Gaza Deadlock? Experts Doubt It
Israelis protested in Tel Aviv on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and called for the release of hostages held in Gaza.
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on November 2024
Two Presidents, Two Policies, One Superpower: America in Transition
Without waiting to move into the White House, President-elect Donald J. Trump effectively declared a trade war this week.
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on November 2024
What Is Russia’s Oreshnik Ballistic Missile?
A Ukrainian investigator with parts of a ballistic missile that Russia used in a strike on Dnipro.
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Protesters Supporting Pakistani Ex-Leader Are Dispersed in Crackdown
Police officers standing guard after conducting an overnight crackdown against protesters in Islamabad who demanded the release of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan, on Wednesday.
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Wednesday Briefing
The site of an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on Tuesday.
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Britain’s Emotional Debate Over Assisted Dying
Sarah Tarlow, whose husband Mark took his own life in 2016 after suffering a debilitating neurological illness. “I think it is cruel to make people die horrible, prolonged deaths against their will and that’s what the present situation currently does,” she said.
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Namibia Election: What to Know
Election posters in Windhoek, Namibia, days before the polls opened on Wednesday.
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Meet One of Hong Kong’s Last Few Pro-Democracy Activists
Chan Po-ying posed for photographs in Hong Kong on Friday.
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Trump’s Tariff Threat Pits Canada Against Mexico
President-elect Donald J. Trump with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada during a Group of 7 summit in Quebec in 2018.
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With Joy and Tears, Lebanese Return Home: ‘Look at All the Destruction’
Lebanon Cease-Fire Appears to Hold Despite Israeli Strike
Indian Thieves See a Gold Mine in Exams for Government Jobs
The U.S. Is Building an Early Warning System to Detect Geoengineering
Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds
Record Snowfall Hurls Seoul Into Winter