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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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ICC Had Sought Warrants for 3 Hamas Leaders. At Least 2 Were Killed.
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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Israel Strikes Near Beirut as U.S. Envoy Pushes Ahead on Cease-Fire Talks
Smoke rising after an Israeli airstrike on the Dahiya, south of Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday.
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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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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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Thursday Briefing
Matt Gaetz appeared with Senator JD Vance in Washington.
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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
Democrats Split as Senate Rejects 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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Thursday Briefing: U.S. Anti-Personnel Mines for Ukraine
A Ukrainian soldier outside Toretsk, in October.
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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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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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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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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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A Travel Writer Remembers Arthur Frommer
Arthur Frommer in Trafalgar Square in London in 1976.
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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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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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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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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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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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U.S. Pauses Operations at Kyiv Embassy, Warning of ‘Significant Air Attack’
Searchlights in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, early Wednesday.
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Wednesday Briefing
A test of the Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS.
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Hong Kong Media Mogul Jimmy Lai Takes Stand in National Security Trial
Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong in 2019. He has long been one of Hong Kong’s most vocal critics of China’s ruling Communist Party.
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Iran Suggests Pausing High Levels of Uranium Enrichment to Avoid Censure, Monitor Says
A reactor building at the Bushehr nuclear power plant just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, in 2010.
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Activist Kianoosh Sanjari’s Final Act Stuns Iran
Kianoosh Sanjari speaking at an Amnesty International concert in New York in 2014.
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Netanyahu Offers $5 Million for Each Hostage Freed in Gaza
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has offered a $5 million reward and safe passage out of Gaza to anyone who returns an Israeli captive held in the enclave.
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Biden Fades Out of the Picture in Talks With World Leaders
President Biden and Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, met on Tuesday during a working lunch at the Group of 20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.
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Wednesday Briefing: Ukraine hits Russia with U.S. Missiles
The U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS.
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Son of Norway’s Crown Princess Is Arrested on Suspicion of Rape
Marius Borg Hoiby in 2022. He was 4 when his mother, Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway, married Crown Prince Haakon in 2001.
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Sweden, Finland and Norway Update Crisis Advice as Ukraine-Russia War Grinds On
Soldiers in a military camp near Heinujarvi, in northern Finland, on Tuesday.
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Brazilian Police Arrest Soldiers in Alleged Plot to Kill President Lula
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil defeated Jair Bolsonaro in a close election in 2022.
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The Perfect Novel for the Baku Climate Summit: Lydia Kiesling’s Mobility
Oil fields on the outskirts of Baku, Azerbaijan, in view of the stadium, left, where the U.N. climate summit is taking place.
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on November 2024
Delhi Trudges Through Another Air Pollution Nightmare
India Gate in New Delhi was enveloped with smog on Tuesday.
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As Pelicot Rape Trial Nears End in France, Wife Speaks of ‘Banality’
Gisèle Pelicot entering the courthouse with her lawyers Stephane Babonneau, center, and Antoine Camus in Avignon, France, on Tuesday.
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Ukraine Fired U.S.-Made Missiles Into Russia for First Time, Officials Say
President Biden on Sunday gave Ukraine authorization to use the U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, to strike inside Russia.
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U.S. Envoy Visits Lebanon, Seeking Truce Between Israel and Hezbollah
Damage at the site of an Israeli strike in the Zuqaq al-Blat neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday.
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Putin Lowers Nuclear Weapons Threshold After U.S. Allows Ukraine to Use Missiles Against Russia
President Vladimir V. Putin in Sochi, Russia, this month. His decree on nuclear weapons seemed timed to show that the Kremlin could respond aggressively to Ukrainian strikes with American missiles.
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U.K. Farmers Protest in London Over Inheritance Tax Change
Tractors drove past Britain’s Parliament on Tuesday morning, as part of a broader protest by some farmers.
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Magicians Mount Search for Woman Behind Decades-Old Deception
The Magic Circle, a society of magicians, expelled a woman who had posed as a man to gain membership. Now the society is trying to track her down.
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on November 2024
Tuesday Briefing
Ukrainian soldiers heading toward the Kursk region of Russia.
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Is the Russian Army Depleted From Fighting in Ukraine?
A cemetery for fallen Russian soldiers in Ulan-Ude, Russia, last year.
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on November 2024
Ukraine Says Russia Struck It With New Missile; ICBM Claim Is Disputed
Deaths of at Least 4 Tourists in Laos Raise Alarm About Tainted Drinks
Live Updates: I.C.C. Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
Russia Intensifies Assaults on an Exhausted Ukraine
Ukraine Strikes Inside Russia With U.S. Missiles
Man Drives Car Into Crowd Outside Primary School in China
Why Michael Learns to Rock Is Big in Asia
Maori Protest Bill That Is Part of Sharp Rightward Shift in New Zealand