Blinken and U.S. Allies Struggle with Wars as Biden’s Presidency Wanes
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Tuesday at the end of the Group of 7 Foreign Ministers meeting in Fiuggi, Italy.
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Israeli Leaders Blamed by Independent Inquiry for Oct. 7 Failures
Marking the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks at the site of the Nova Festival massacre.
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Mexican President Mulls Retaliatory Tariffs After Trump’s Threats
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico addressing supporters in October. On Tuesday, she pushed back against U.S. President-elect Trump’s threat of a tariff on Mexican exports.
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Israeli Strikes Threaten Lebanon’s Archaeological Treasures
The ruins of a building close to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Baalbek. The hotel and shops were destroyed in an Israeli airstrike earlier this month.
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Russia Fires Record Number of Drones in Overnight Assault, Ukraine Says
Taking shelter inside a metro station during a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
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Colombia and Venezuela Have a Beef: Who Owns the, or Makes the Best, Arepa?
Gustavo Zapata, a chef at the Sancho Paisa restaurant chain in Medellín, Colombia, prepares several types of arepas at the restaurant in September.
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7 Still Missing After Tourist Boat Sinks in Egypt
Waiting for possible survivors of the accident in the Red Sea harbor town of Marsa Alam, Egypt, on Monday.
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Pakistan Deploys Army as Deadly Clashes Erupt with Imran Khan Supporters
The police used tear gas against supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday.
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Fentanyl Rises Again, This Time as Trump’s Diplomatic Weapon Against China
China is the main source of chemicals used to make fentanyl.
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A Misstep by Ireland’s Prime Minister Simon Harris Muddies Election
Simon Harris, Ireland’s prime minister and the leader of Fine Gael, met with women at a sewing club in Skerries, Ireland, on Thursday. He has apologized after a brusque exchange with a voter was caught on camera a day later and went viral on social media.
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Hong Kong’s Top Court Upholds Rights of Same-Sex Married Couples
The plaintiff Nick Infinger outside the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong on Tuesday, after the court upheld earlier rulings granting public housing benefits and inheritance rights to same-sex married couples.
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Surge of Gang Violence in Haiti Leads U.N. Workers to Flee
A clinic in Port-au-Prince run by Doctors Without Borders was closed after the organization announced that it was suspending operations in the capital.
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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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Compassion or Coercion? 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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Israel Approves Cease-Fire With Hezbollah to Halt War in Lebanon
Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon continued on Tuesday, ahead of the proposed cease-fire.
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Biden Announces Cease-Fire Deal Between Israel and Lebanon
President Biden said the agreement would allow hundreds of thousands of civilians in both Israel and Lebanon to return home, provide security guarantees for Israel and create the possibility of renewed sovereignty for Lebanon.
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Saudi Arabia and Russia Block Mention of Fossil Fuel Exit in Climate Resolution
Sultan al-Jaber, the president of the COP28 summit in Dubai last year, center, with other officials. The Dubai summit yielded a resolution that for the first time called for decarbonizing the world’s energy system.
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Tariff Threats Show Trump’s Commitment to Upending Global Trade
Trucks waiting to cross into the United States in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on Tuesday. Many multinational producers have set up supply chains that snake between North American countries.
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Intense Israeli Airstrikes Send People Fleeing Beirut in Panic
Smoke rises over a building after a strike in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday.
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Breyten Breytenbach, Dissident South African-Born Writer, Dies at 85
Breyten Breytenbach, who was also a painter, at his Paris studio in 1989. He lived in exile in Paris after his wife, who was from Vietnam, was barred from South Africa because of the country’s race laws.
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Fury Unfolds in Pakistan
A supporter of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party gesturing after tear gas was fired by the police in Islamabad on Tuesday.
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FIFA President’s Bet on Club World Cup Meets Reality
Questions about funding still surround the Club World Cup, which is the signature innovation of Gianni Infantino’s tenure as FIFA president.
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Rocket Engine Fire Stalls Japan’s Ambitions to Launch Satellites
A fire broke out at the launch site of the Japanese rocket Epsilon S at Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, on Tuesday.
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Rescuers Walk 14 Hours to Save Sole Survivor of Costa Rica Plane Crash
Emergency workers near the crash site in Costa Rica on Monday night.
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Tuesday Briefing
Smoke billowing over Beirut on Monday, after Israeli airstrikes hit the Lebanese capital. Israel and Hezbollah could agree a cease-fire this week.
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Trump Plans Tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico That Could Cripple Trade
An aerial view of Port of Savannah, in Georgia, last month. Canada, China and Mexico account for more than a third of the goods and services both imported and exported by the United States.
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Tuesday Briefing: Trump’s Criminal Cases Likely to Be Dismissed
Jack Smith, the U.S. prosecutor who investigated and charged Donald Trump.
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Protesters Defy Pakistan Crackdown to Demand Imran Khan’s Release
Supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan marched toward the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Monday, after moving aside shipping containers placed by authorities to block them.
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UAE Arrests 3 in Connection With Murder of Israeli Rabbi
A kosher supermarket in Dubai managed by Rabbi Zvi Kogan, who was kidnapped and murdered. Three Uzbeks have been charged with his death.
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An A.I. Granny Is Phone Scammers’ Worst Nightmare
An O2 store in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. The company is taking a different approach to disrupting the operations of scammers who prey on its customers.
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U.K. Man Fighting for Ukraine Is Said to Be Captured in Russia
A Ukrainian military vehicle passing into Russia in August, when the surprise assault in the Kursk region began.
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Storm Bert Batters UK With Rain and Fierce Winds, Killing at Least 3
A mud-covered street after flooding from Storm Bert in Cwmtillery, Wales, on Monday.
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Netanyahu Signals Openness to Israel-Hezbollah Cease-Fire, Officials Say
Smoke billowing after Israeli airstrikes in the Dahiya area south of Beirut on Monday.
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Crowds Watch Israeli Airstrikes from a Beirut Hillside
Watching an airstrike on the cluster of Lebanese neighborhoods known as Dahiya. Crowds of civilians and news reporters gather on a hillside with phones and cameras to observe from a distance.
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Philippines President Slams Vice President’s Assassination Plot
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. of the Philippines with Vice President Sara Duterte in 2022, after their election victory. The alliance of their powerful political dynasties was supposed to be formidable, but it hasn’t lasted long.
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Hard-Right Candidate Wins First Round of Romania’s Presidential Election
Calin Georgescu, a dark-horse candidate without a party, has denounced Ukraine, NATO and the European Union.
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DHL Cargo Plane Crashes Near Airport in Lithuania, Killing 1
Rescuers at the site where a DHL cargo plane crashed near Vilnius Airport in Lithuania on Monday.
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Monday Briefing
The entrance to the U.N. climate summit known as COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan. The talks went deep into overtime.
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Uruguay’s Center Left Reclaims Power in Presidential Election
Álvaro Delgado, the candidate of the incumbent National Party, conceded defeat in Uruguay’s presidential election on Sunday.
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Israel Conducts Widespread Strikes Near Beirut
Smoke billowing over Beirut’s southern suburbs after an Israeli strike on Sunday.
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Monday Briefing: U.N. Climate Talks End With a Deal
A demonstration at the summit in Baku on Saturday.
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World Seeks an End to Plastic Pollution at Talks in South Korea
Volunteers collecting plastic waste in Manila last year. Nations around the world produce nearly half a billion tons of plastic each year, more than double the amount from two decades ago.
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Hezbollah Fires Waves of Projectiles Into Israel After Deadly Strike in Lebanon
Residents in Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv check the damage after rockets were fired from Lebanon on Sunday.
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Egypt Feuds With Travel Blogger, Issuing 1,100-Word Response to Complaints
Cairo International Airport in 2022. Egypt’s Civil Aviation Ministry said it had “nearly” four stars from an independent evaluator.
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The Amsterdam Attacks and the Long Shadow of ‘Pogroms’
Demonstrators holding a Palestinian flag in Amsterdam on Nov. 7.
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The Lyrics to “+57” Cause Backlash in Colombia, a Reggaeton Hot Spot
Medellín, Colombia’s second-largest city, has emerged as an epicenter of reggaeton, a genre with dance hall and hip-hop elements that was born in Panama and popularized by Puerto Rican artists.
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Wednesday Briefing: Israel Approves Hezbollah Cease-Fire Deal
Starbucks Among Companies Affected by Ransomware Attack
Live Updates: Cease-Fire in Lebanon Takes Effect
As Russia Advances in Ukraine, a Cop Has to Flee City After City
Taxing Farm Animals’ Farts and Burps? Denmark Gives It a Try.