Netanyahu Aide Is Indicted Over Leaked Document on Hamas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has accused Israeli prosecutors of aggressively cracking down on his aide while ignoring his critics’ leaks to the news media.
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Brazilian Police Accuse Bolsonaro of Plotting a Coup
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former right-wing president, at a rally in February. The authorities say he encouraged supporters to storm the country’s capital in early 2023.
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on November 2024
Putin Escalates Threats to the West With New Ballistic Missile Launch
Ukrainian soldiers in eastern Ukraine last week.
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on November 2024
Mali’s Junta Replaces Civilian Prime Minister With One of Its Own
Abdoulaye Maiga delivering remarks at the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September. He was appointed as the new prime minister of Mali on Thursday after his predecessor made comments criticizing the junta.
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on November 2024
At Least 38 Killed as Gunmen Ambush Shiite Convoys in Pakistan
Local residents and volunteers gathering for the arrival of victims at a hospital in Parachinar, in Pakistan’s Kurram district, on Thursday.
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on November 2024
Israel and Iran Seemed on the Brink of a Bigger War. What’s Holding Them Back?
People stand near the remains of a missile near the Dead Sea, in Israel, in October.
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on November 2024
Abused Workers in India’s Sugar Industry Face Worse Fates if They Quit
Prahlad Pawar, 34, right, with his wife, Pushpa Pawar, 31, in Kolgaon, western India. The Pawars say their employer made them work as his personal servants in the off-season. They eventually escaped, hiking for days back to their village.
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on November 2024
Spain Looks to Grant Residency to Nearly 1 Million Migrants
Migrants having breakfast on the roof of an abandoned factory in Barcelona in 2018. People who have been living in Spain for at least two years are eligible to apply for legal status.
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Israel Strikes Near Beirut as U.S. Envoy Pushes for a Cease-Fire in Lebanon
Smoke rising after an Israeli airstrike on the Dahiya, south of Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday.
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Russia Gifts Bears and a Lion to North Korea
A lion at the Pyongyang Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Wednesday, after being transferred from the Moscow Zoo, in a handout photo from Russia’s natural resources ministry.
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on November 2024
Captain Tom’s Daughter Profited From the Charity in His Name
Captain Tom Moore raised nearly 40 million pounds, or $50.5 million, for the National Health Service during the coronavirus pandemic.
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on November 2024
Why Mexico Isn’t Panicking About Another Trump Presidency
President-elect Donald J. Trump speaks during a meeting of the House of Representatives G.O.P. Conference at the Hyatt Regency in Washington, on Nov. 13.
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on November 2024
At COP29, ‘Sewage Beer’ Is Just Fine
The Singaporean pavilion this week at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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on November 2024
Friday Briefing
President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Pam Bondi to be attorney general after Matt Gaetz, his first choice, withdrew from consideration.
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on November 2024
The UK Faces a Dilemma: Cozy Up to Trump or Reconnect With Europe?
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain joined President Emmanuel Macron of France in Paris last week to celebrate Armistice Day.
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on November 2024
China’s Hacking Reached Deep Into U.S. Telecoms
“The barn door is still wide open, or mostly open,” Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, a former telecommunications executive, said in an interview.
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on November 2024
West Bank Settlement Supporters Have Big Hopes for Trump’s Presidency
Construction in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank in December.
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on November 2024
6 Airports in Northern Haiti Are Reopened to U.S. Flights
Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince has been closed to U.S. airlines since Nov. 12, but six airports in northern Haiti were reopened to American flights on Thursday.
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on November 2024
I.C.C. Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant Over Gaza War
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Yoav Gallant attending a military ceremony last month. Mr. Netanyahu removed Mr. Gallant as defense minister earlier this month.
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on November 2024
Friday Briefing: Gaetz Ends Bid for Attorney General
Matt Gaetz, left, on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
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on November 2024
U.N. Watchdog Censures Iran Over Nuclear Program Secrecy
The headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday.
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on November 2024
Man Who Faked Kayaking Death Says in Video He’s ‘Safe’
Sheriff Mark A. Podoll of Green Lake County, Wis., played a video at a news conference on Thursday in which the man accused of faking his own death says that he is “safe, secure, no problem.”
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on November 2024
Trump’s Vow to End the War Could Leave Ukraine With Few Options
A Ukrainian artillery unit firing at Russian troops in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine last month. The election of Donald J. Trump as Ukraine suffers losses on the battlefield means less room for Ukraine to maneuver.
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on November 2024
Why Some Countries, Including the U.S., Won’t Join the I.C.C.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2022.
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on November 2024
Netanyahu, Wanted by a Landmark Warrant, Now Faces a Smaller World
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel after a speech to the U.N. General Assembly in September in New York City.
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on November 2024
U.S. Defense Firms Are Warned About Russia’s Sabotage Campaign
Red Square in Moscow. Russia’s campaign increases the risk to American companies overseas, U.S. officials said.
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on November 2024
Why the ICC Issued Arrest Warrants for Israeli and Hamas Leaders
The exterior of the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, in September.
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on November 2024
Who Has the ICC Charged With War Crimes?
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, left, with Maria Lvova-Belova, also subject to an I.C.C. arrest warrant, in a photo released by Russian state media.
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ICC Had Sought Warrants for 3 Hamas Leaders. At Least 2 Are Now Dead.
The court’s chief prosecutor initially sought arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders. From left to right: Ismail Haniyeh, Muhammad Deif and Yahya Sinwar.
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on November 2024
Should Olaf Scholz Step Aside in the New Race for German Chancellor?
Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany, left, with Boris Pistorius, the country’s defense minister, during a session of Parliament earlier this month in Berlin.
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on November 2024
Bathing in Oil at a Climate Summit? It Leaves a Stain.
People from across the former Soviet Union flock to the health resorts in Naftalan, Azerbaijan, to bathe in the area’s oil.
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on November 2024
How Forced Labor and Hysterectomies Are Darkly Linked in India
Pushpa Pawar, 31, standing with relatives in the village of Kolgaon, India. Ms. Pawar’s husband, Prahlad Pawar, a cane cutter, said that the couple and their children had been detained by a contractor and forced to work as servants.
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on November 2024
Canada Prepares for Immigration Surge After Trump Vows Mass Deportation
Migrants who had crossed the border from Canada, many of them from India, talking to taxi drivers in Plattsburgh, N.Y., who were offering rides to New York City.
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COP29 Climate Talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, Are Teetering
The Chinese delegation pavilion in Baku, Azerbaijan. Newly industrialized countries like China and India are part of an effort to secure trillions in climate financing.
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on November 2024
Thursday Briefing
Matt Gaetz appeared with Senator JD Vance in Washington.
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on November 2024
Accusations of “Race-Shifting” Prompt Canadian Cabinet Minister to Resign
Randy Boissonnault stepped down as Canada’s employment minister on Wednesday, dealing another blow to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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on November 2024
Senate Rejects Bernie Sanders’s Bills to Block Weapons Transfers to Israel
People running toward humanitarian aid packages dropped over the northern Gaza Strip in April.
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on November 2024
Thursday Briefing: U.S. Anti-Personnel Mines for Ukraine
A Ukrainian soldier outside Toretsk, in October.
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on November 2024
U.S. Casts Sole Vote Against Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution
Robert A. Wood, the American ambassador to the U.N., raising his hand to veto a draft resolution calling for a cease fire in Gaza, on Wednesday at UN headquarters in New York City.
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on November 2024
What Are Anti-Personnel Mines?
An emergency services worker holds a sign warning that the nearby forest is mined as his colleague clears a path in Sosnove, Ukraine.
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on November 2024
Vatican Sets Out New Rules to Simplify Papal Funerals
Pope Francis during the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI last year. From the beginning of his papacy, Francis has used symbols to break from the formality and pomp that has long marked the Roman Catholic Church.
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on November 2024
U.S. and Europeans Move to Censure Iran for Nuclear Secrecy
The Bushehr nuclear power plant in Bushehr, Iran, in April.
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on November 2024
Is Trump More Flexible on China Than His Hawkish Cabinet Picks Suggest?
Many top officials in China see the United States as a superpower in decline.
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on November 2024
U.S. Vetoes Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution at U.N. Security Council
Robert A. Wood, the American ambassador to the U.N., raising his hand to veto a draft resolution calling for a cease fire in Gaza, on Wednesday at UN headquarters in New York City.
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on November 2024
Ugandan Opposition Leader Charged After Being ‘Kidnapped’ in Kenya
Kizza Besigye, left, and an associate, Haji Obeid Lutale, in the steel dock of the Uganda Military General Court in Kampala on Wednesday.
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on November 2024
A Travel Writer Remembers Arthur Frommer
Arthur Frommer in Trafalgar Square in London in 1976.
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on November 2024
Biden Agrees to Supply Ukraine With Anti-Personnel Mines
A Ukrainian soldier outside Toretsk, in October. The Biden administration has approved supplying Ukraine with anti-personnel mines to bolster defenses against Russia’s increasing reliance on foot soldiers to lead their assaults.
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on November 2024
Middle East Airlines Has Become an Unlikely National Hero in Lebanon
A Middle East Airlines flight over the outskirts of Beirut last month.
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on November 2024
U.S. Envoy Will Head to Israel, Citing Progress on Lebanon Cease-Fire
Amos Hochstein, center, a top U.S. envoy to the Middle East, was in Beirut, Lebanon, for talks on Tuesday.
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on November 2024
Trump Promises Clean Water. Will He Clean Up PFAS?
A geologist collected samples of treated Lake Michigan water in a laboratory in Illinois in 2021 that were found to have PFAS contamination.
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on November 2024
What Trump’s Return Could Mean for Animals
Caribous graze near ConocoPhillips oil pipelines on the North Slope of Alaska. During his first term, President Trump moved to open up the state’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development.
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on November 2024
Long Tied to Russia, Georgia’s Winemakers Look to the West
The wine harvest in Georgia’s Kakheti region in October. Wine has been cultivated continuously in Georgia for more than 8,000 years.
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on November 2024
U.S. Pauses Operations at Kyiv Embassy, Warning of ‘Significant Air Attack’
Searchlights in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, early Wednesday.
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on November 2024
Smog in Pakistan Smothers Lahore, Breaking a Vibrant City’s Rhythms
Full weekend lockdowns, reminiscent of Covid-19 restrictions, are being imposed in Lahore, Pakistan, because of the intense air pollution.
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on November 2024
John Prescott, Former UK Deputy Prime Minister, Dies at 86
Deaths of at Least 5 Tourists in Laos Raise Alarm About Tainted Drinks
Netanyahu’s Arrest Sought by International Criminal Court
Ukraine Strikes Inside Russia With U.S. Missiles
Russia Intensifies Assaults on an Exhausted Ukraine