WORLD NEWS

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Israelis protested in Tel Aviv on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and called for the release of hostages held in Gaza.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Residents of the Dahiya, south of Beirut, celebrated the announcement of a U.S.-backed cease-fire on Wednesday.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Co-defendants going through security at the court in Avignon, France, last week.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

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.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

A Ukrainian investigator with parts of a ballistic missile that Russia used in a strike on Dnipro.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Election posters in Windhoek, Namibia, days before the polls opened on Wednesday.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

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.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

A damaged site in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, on Wednesday after an Israeli strike.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

The prisoner swap negotiated by the Biden administration has been in the works for months, officials said.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

A displaced Palestinian man gets a fire going next to a tent in Deir al Balah, central Gaza, on Monday.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

William Hague at the Wimbledon tennis championships in England in July.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing attending a military parade in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, in 2021.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

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.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel stands next to President Emmanuel Macron, with hand raised, in Paris in 2023.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Celebrating the cease-fire on Wednesday in the Dahiya, an area just south of Beirut, which has been pounded by Israeli airstrikes in recent weeks.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

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.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Without waiting to move into the White House, President-elect Donald J. Trump effectively declared a trade war this week.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

The site of an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on Tuesday.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Chan Po-ying posed for photographs in Hong Kong on Friday.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

President-elect Donald J. Trump with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada during a Group of 7 summit in Quebec in 2018.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon continued on Tuesday, ahead of the proposed cease-fire.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

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.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Beirut, yesterday.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

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.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

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.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Tuesday at the end of the Group of 7 Foreign Ministers meeting in Fiuggi, Italy.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Marking the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks at the site of the Nova Festival massacre.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Smoke rises over a building after a strike in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

A Starbucks store in New York.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

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.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

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.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Taking shelter inside a metro station during a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Waiting for possible survivors of the accident in the Red Sea harbor town of Marsa Alam, Egypt, on Monday.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

A supporter of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party gesturing after tear gas was fired by the police in Islamabad on Tuesday.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

China is the main source of chemicals used to make fentanyl.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Questions about funding still surround the Club World Cup, which is the signature innovation of Gianni Infantino’s tenure as FIFA president.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Gustavo Zapata, a chef at the Sancho Paisa restaurant chain in Medellín, Colombia, prepares several types of arepas at the restaurant in September.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

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.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

The police used tear gas against supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

A fire broke out at the launch site of the Japanese rocket Epsilon S at Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, on Tuesday.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Emergency workers near the crash site in Costa Rica on Monday night.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Smoke billowing over Beirut on Monday, after Israeli airstrikes hit the Lebanese capital. Israel and Hezbollah could agree a cease-fire this week.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

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.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

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.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

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.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

Jack Smith, the U.S. prosecutor who investigated and charged Donald Trump.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

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.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024

A kosher supermarket in Dubai managed by Rabbi Zvi Kogan, who was kidnapped and murdered. Three Uzbeks have been charged with his death.

Posted by Thomas on November 2024