Haiti Has Big Problems and Few Solutions
A small market in the downtown of Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital. Many streets are empty as people fear gang violence.
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on November 2024
Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles
Mr. Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to use Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, came in response to Russia’s decision to bring North Korean troops into the fight.
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on November 2024
Airstrikes Hit Central Beirut for First Time in Weeks
Residents and rescuers at the site of an Israeli airstrike on Sunday in central Beirut, Lebanon.
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on November 2024
What’s New in the Case of the Document Leaks Roiling Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, at the Israeli Parliament’s opening session last month in Jerusalem.
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on November 2024
Russia Bombards Power Grid in One of War’s Largest Attacks, Ukraine Says
Surveying a damaged roof on a residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday after a Russian strike.
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on November 2024
‘No Use for Hatred’: A Village Seeks to Move On From a U.S. Massacre
“I survived because the Americans shooting everyone ran out of bullets,” said Nguyen Hong Mang, who was 14 when American soldiers came to his village.
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on November 2024
Israeli Strikes in Central and Northern Gaza Kill More Than 30 People
Outside a hospital in central Gaza on Sunday, a woman mourned victims of an Israeli airstrike.
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on November 2024
Biden and Xi Meet, Delivering Messages Seemingly Intended for Trump
President Biden and the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, meeting on Saturday in Lima, Peru.
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on November 2024
China Stabbing Kills at Least 8 People
The city of Wuxi, China, where the stabbing attack happened on Saturday night.
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on November 2024
Bitter Infighting Divides Russian Opposition
Infighting and accusations between Russian opposition groups seem to be threatening the legacy of government opposition that Aleksei A. Navalny had long nurtured.
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on November 2024
Vladimir Shklyarov, Star Russian Ballet Dancer, Dies at 39
Vladimir Shklyarov performing in “Etudes” at the City Center in New York in 2008.
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on November 2024
South Africa Police Try Siege Tactics on Illegal Mining, Igniting Debate
A disused mine where hundreds of men accused of illegal mining are hiding in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Friday.
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on November 2024
Why Trump’s Space for Deal-Making in the Middle East Has Shrunk
Smoke from an Israeli airstrike over south Beirut this week. The political landscape of the Middle East has shifted considerably since the end of last Trump administration.
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on November 2024
Man Hiding Tarantulas, Centipedes and Ants Is Stopped From Boarding Flight
One of the tarantulas that were seized at the international airport that serves Peru’s capital, Lima.
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on November 2024
Conversations With Murray Sinclair
Murray Sinclair at his home north of Winnipeg in 2021.
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on November 2024
Israel Strikes Near Beirut as Two Medics Killed in South Lebanon
Smoke billowing south of Beirut after an Israeli strike on Saturday.
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on November 2024
Democrats’ Message at COP29 Climate Talks: Don’t Panic
The conference venue in Baku, Azerbaijan. The focus of this year’s U.N. climate summit is financing to help lower-income countries cope with global warming.
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on November 2024
Typhoon Man-yi Pounds the Philippines With Rain and High Winds
Residents securing a fishing boat ahead of Super Typhoon Man-yi’s arrival in Legazpi City, the Philippines, on Saturday.
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on November 2024
Ten Newborns Die in India Hospital Fire
A woman rushing to an emergency ward after a fire broke out in a neonatal intensive care unit at Jhansi Medical College hospital in Jhansi, India on Friday.
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on November 2024
North Korea Blasts Unbearable Sounds To South Korea
Large speakers in North Korea seen from from Ganghwa Island, Incheon City, South Korea in October. The residents of Dangsan village claim they can’t sleep due to the strange, uncomfortable and mysterious sounds from the speakers.
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on November 2024
As Xi and Biden Meet, Trump and Uncertainty Loom Large
President Biden and the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, meeting on Saturday in Lima, Peru.
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on November 2024
Biden Discusses With Allies ‘Dangerous’ Cooperation Between Russia and North Korea
President Biden during a meeting with the leaders of Japan and South Korea at a summit of Asian Pacific leaders in Lima, Peru, on Friday.
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on November 2024
Iran Told U.S. That It’s Not Trying to Kill Trump
A demonstration in Tehran for Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani in 2020. U.S. officials have said that Iran sought to kill Donald J. Trump for ordering the drone strike that killed General Suleimani.
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on November 2024
Trump Will Encounter a Very Different Middle East in His Second Term
President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday. The world has changed greatly since his first term.
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on November 2024
Princess Yuriko, Oldest Member of Japan’s Imperial Family, Dies at 101
Princess Yuriko of Japan in 2023, a few days before observing her 100th birthday.
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on November 2024
Taylor Swift to Tour in Canada After Trudeau Issues Plea on Social Media
Taylor Swift fans taking photos in front of the Rogers Center on the Thursday in Toronto, Canada before Ms. Swift’s sold out show.
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on November 2024
Putin Talks With German Chancellor, Breaking Ice With the West
President Vladimir Putin of Russia at the Kremlin in Moscow on Thursday, in a photo released by Russian state media. Mr. Scholz called on Mr. Putin to end the war, saying that Russia had not achieved any of its goals.
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on November 2024
A Whole New Ballgame
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on November 2024
Gaza War Strains Europe’s Efforts at Social Cohesion
Pro-Palestinian protesters opposing Israel’s participation in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, in May.
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on November 2024
Nuclear Power Was Once Shunned at Climate Talks. Now, It’s a Rising Star.
Cooling towers at the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pa., last month. One reactor will be brought back online in 2028.
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on November 2024
Moldova Uncovers Fraudulent Scheme to Get Criminals Off Interpol Blacklist
The Interpol office in Chisinau, Moldova’s capital. Prosecutors say corrupt officials working there assisted a scheme to remove fugitives from a wanted list.
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on November 2024
Israel Pounds Area Near Beirut Amid Signs of a Widening Offensive
Residents searched for their belongings in the rubble of a destroyed apartment building after an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday.
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on November 2024
Court Hears New York Times Case Against European Commission Over Vaccine Deal
A spokeswoman for The New York Times said a lawsuit by the company raised key issues about democratic oversight in the European Union.
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on November 2024
Lebanese Fear That Wherever the Displaced Go, Israeli Bombs Will Follow
The aftermath of an Israeli strike in the Christian village of Aitou, northern Lebanon, in October.
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on November 2024
Can These Ex-Hollywood Chimps Find a Place Among the Apes?
Zachary, raised at a roadside zoo, out of the public eye at the Lincoln Park Zoo in September.
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on November 2024
Fire in Retirement Home in Spain Leaves at Least 10 Dead
Residents were evacuated from a retirement home where a fire broke out in Villafranca de Ebro, northern Spain, on Friday.
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on November 2024
New Zealand Parliament Suspended as Maori Lawmakers Perform Haka to Protest Bill
Māori members of the New Zealand parliament speak to the media.
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on November 2024
Why North Korea Is Building Drones
Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, in a photo released by state media, which said it showed him supervising drone tests on Thursday.
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on November 2024
Friday Briefing
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaigning with Donald J. Trump in October.
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on November 2024
In Moscow, Trump’s Victory Is Welcomed, But Warily
A cardboard cutout depicting Donald J. Trump in the window of a bar in St. Petersburg, Russia, three days after he was re-elected.
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on November 2024
Argentina Mulls Exiting Paris Climate Deal
President Javier Milei of Argentina is considering withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, according to the country’s foreign minister.
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on November 2024
Murray Sinclair, 73, Who Reframed Indigenous Relations in Canada, Dies
Murray Sinclair in 2021. “We needed individual Canadians to understand not only were Indigenous people mistreated throughout history, but you were lied to as well,” he said.
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on November 2024
Yiannis Boutaris, Vintner, Animal Defender and Greek Mayor, Dies at 82
Yiannis Boutaris, the mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece, outside his office in 2012. He said he never thought of himself as a career politician.
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on November 2024
Elon Musk Met With Iran’s U.N. Ambassador, Iranian Officials Say
Elon Musk after a meeting in Washington on Wednesday.
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on November 2024
Friday Briefing: Dismay Over Trump’s Picks
Former Representative Matt Gaetz.
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on November 2024
France-Israel Soccer Match is Overshadowed by Amsterdam Attack
President Emmanuel Macron of France (front row, second from the right), Prime Minister Michel Barnier (front left), and former presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande (behind Mr. Macron) attended the France-Israel soccer match amid heavy security.
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on November 2024
New York Joins a Global City Club, With a Deal on Congestion Pricing
New York City is joining many other global cities that have congestion pricing. In most, those fees have become an ordinary part of city life.
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on November 2024
Pope Francis Wants to Save the Environment. He Can Start With a Tree.
Pope Francis appearing before crowds from the window of his office overlooking Saint Peter’s Square in December 2023.
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on November 2024
Norway Apologizes for Forced Assimilation of Sami and Other Minorities
Gathering for a reindeer sleigh ride at a Sami Easter Festival in Kautokeino, Norway, in 2018. Norway long had an official policy of suppressing Sami culture.
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on November 2024
Israel Bombs Targets in Syria, and Keeps Up Strikes in Lebanon
Rescuers evacuating bodies from the site of an airstrike that targeted a house in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek on Thursday.
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on November 2024
Investigators Assess if Netanyahu’s Aides Forged Oct. 7 Phone Records
The inquiry is seen as sensitive in Israel, where the question of what the prime minister knew in advance of Hamas’s invasion could prove crucial to his political future.
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on November 2024
At a Ukraine Maternity Clinic, Deaths From an Airstrike Shatter a Community
Sri Lankan Leader’s Leftist Coalition Wins Elections
Engineers Discover a 132-Year-Old Message in a Bottle in a Scottish Lighthouse