At Auschwitz, a Solemn Ceremony at a Time of Rising Nationalism
A Holocaust survivor, center, was comforted as she placed a candle during a ceremony on Monday marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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on January 2025
China’s Tibet Dam Project Has Its Neighbors Worried
China says it will build a dam in Medog, a remote county in Tibet, that could generate three times as much electricity as the Three Gorges Dam.
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on January 2025
As Trump and Putin Circle Each Other, an Agenda Beyond Ukraine Emerges
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk during a bilateral meeting at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019.
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on January 2025
Musk Says Germany Has ‘Too Much of a Focus on Past Guilt’
“It’s good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything,” Elon Musk told a gathering of the hard-right Alternative for Germany party on Saturday.
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on January 2025
E.U. to Cautiously Pare Back Sanctions on Syria
Kaja Kallas, the E.U.’s top diplomat, said in Brussels on Monday that the bloc was “ready to open” its embassy in Damascus, “to really have our eyes and ears on the ground.”
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on January 2025
Standoff at Ukrainian Procurement Agency Threatens to Disrupt Weapons Supply
Ukraine’s defense minister, Rustem Umerov, shown in November, said that he would not renew the contract of Maryna Bezrukova.
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on January 2025
Germany’s Likely Leader Flirts With a Taboo: Working With the Far Right
Thousands of people gather with candles for a silent vigil following Wednesday’s stabbing that left two dead, including a toddler in Aschaffenburg, Germany, last week.
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on January 2025
New Zealand Loosens Visitor Visas to Court Remote Workers
Wellington, the capital of New Zealand.
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on January 2025
Rising Prices Dashed Trudeau’s Promise to Canada’s Middle Class
A gas station this month in Peterborough, Ontario, a community near Toronto that has soured on Justin Trudeau and his party.
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on January 2025
Sweden Suspects ‘Gross Sabotage’ After Damage to Cable Under the Baltic Sea
The cargo ship Vezhen anchored outside Karlskrona, Sweden, on Monday.
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on January 2025
Inside Colombia’s Crisis Over Trump’s Deportations
President Gustavo Petro of Colombia at his inauguration in 2022.
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on January 2025
Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries
A shipment of medications in an AIDS clinic in Johannesburg. The freeze means many people with H.I.V. are facing abrupt interruptions to their treatment, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics awaiting distribution.
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on January 2025
Tuesday Briefing: A.I. From China Rattles Markets
The New York Stock Exchange last week.
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on January 2025
François Ponchaud, Who Alerted World to Cambodian Atrocities, Dies at 86
The Rev. François Ponchaud, a French Catholic priest, spent a decade in Cambodia and wrote “Cambodia: Year Zero,” a book that described the horrors of the communist Khmer Rouge rule.
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on January 2025
Arbel Yehud, Israeli Hostage, Is Seen in New Video Released by Islamic Jihad
A poster in Rishon LeZion, Israel, showing the portraits of Arbel Yehud, her brother, Dolev Yehud, and her partner, Ariel Cunio.
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on January 2025
Behind the Colombia Blowup: Mapping Trump’s Rapid-Escalation Tactics
The rapid-fire threat by President Trump to impose crushing tariffs and the quick surrender by President Gustavo Petro of Colombia are likely to encourage Mr. Trump to do the same against new targets.
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on January 2025
Denmark and Other Nations Under Pressure Seek Lobbyists With Trump Ties
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark, left, and Prime Minister Mute Egede of Greenland arriving in Copenhagen this month to discuss President Trump’s interest in Greenland.
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on January 2025
Gazans Crowd the Road North, Joyful but Anxious
A car loaded with mattresses and blankets crossing the Netzarim corridor from southern Gaza into northern Gaza.
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on January 2025
Israeli Forces Again Open Fire in Lebanon
A Lebanese soldier, left, filming as Israeli soldiers block a road in the southern Lebanese village of Aitaroun, on Monday.
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on January 2025
Anti-Immigrant Rioters Set a UK Library on Fire. The Community Rallied.
When Alex McCormick saw the images of the aftermath of the burning she started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to replace the books.
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on January 2025
Republicans in Congress Who Love Trump Now Disagree With Some of His Policies
Mr. Trump at a rally at the Circa Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
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on January 2025
Monday Briefing
Lebanese carry an injured man to safety after Israeli forces fired on crowds in Burj al-Muluk, southern Lebanon, on Sunday.
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on January 2025
Israeli Army Raids Home of Freed Hamas Member Amid Tensions Over Hostage Deal
Palestinians released from Israeli prisons arriving in Ramallah, in the West Bank, on Saturday.
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on January 2025
As Thousands Try to Return Home, Fragile Mideast Cease-Fires Are Tested
Displaced Palestinians with their belongings at a roadblock as they waited to return to their homes in northern the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
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on January 2025
Monday Briefing: Fragile Israeli Cease-Fires
Residents and Lebanese Army soldiers near a roadblock secured by Israeli forces on Sunday in Burj al-Muluk, Lebanon.
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on January 2025
Belarus’s Strong-Arm Leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Cruises to Re-election
Belarus’s president, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, enters a voting booth at a polling station during the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus, on Sunday.
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on January 2025
Who Is Arbel Yehud, the Israeli Hostage at the Center of a Cease-Fire Dispute?
Photographs of Israeli hostages, Arbel Yehud and Ariel Cunio, at their home in Nir Oz in southern Israel, in December last year.
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on January 2025
Italy Begins Shipping Migrants to Albania, Reviving Stalled Program
Migrants boarding an Italian coast guard vessel in Shengjin, Albania, in October, to leave for Italy after a court in Rome overturned orders that they be held in Albania.
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on January 2025
Trump Alarms Denmark in an Icy Exchange Over Greenland
A Trump plane in Nuuk, Greenland, earlier this month, as Donald Trump Jr. visited the country.
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on January 2025
Colombia Agrees to Accept Deportation Flights After Trump Threatens Tariffs
President Gustavo Petro of Colombia last year. On Sunday, he said the United States should not treat Colombian migrants as criminals.
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on January 2025
Thieves Blow Up a Dutch Museum Door to Steal a Golden Helmet
Harry Tupan, center right, director of the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands, at a news conference after a break-in at the museum on Saturday.
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on January 2025
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on January 2025
Trump Pushes Jordan and Egypt to Take in Palestinians to ‘Clean Out’ Gaza
Displaced Palestinians waiting to return to their homes on Sunday in northern Gaza.
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on January 2025
Israel Blocks Gazans From North, Saying Hamas Breached Cease-Fire Deal
Displaced Palestinians gathered with their belongings near a roadblock as they waited to return to their homes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
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on January 2025
South Korea’s President Yoon Is Indicted
South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, during the fourth hearing of his impeachment trial on Thursday in Seoul.
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on January 2025
A Storm, a Spill and a Disaster for the Black Sea’s Beaches
Volunteers clearing spilled oil on the coastline last month near the Black Sea resort of Anapa, Russia.
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on January 2025
Australia Day Protesters Vandalize Melbourne and Sydney Statues
A vandalized statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney on Friday.
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on January 2025
India, a Big Source of Illegal Migration, Hopes to Navigate the Trump Storm
A temple in the Mehsana district of the Indian state of Gujarat that was built with funding from villagers living abroad, including in the United States.
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on January 2025
As Hamas Releases More Israeli Hostages, It Puts on a Show of Force
A helicopter carrying the four female Israeli soldiers landing at Beilinson Hospital in Israel on Saturday. It was the second release of hostages as part of a cease-fire deal that went into effect nearly a week earlier.
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on January 2025
U.S. Halt to Foreign Aid Does Not Apply to Arms to Israel and Egypt
Israeli soldiers carry combat equipment near the Israel-Gaza border.
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on January 2025
They Were Waiting for Flights. Then Trump Closed a Door for Afghan Allies.
People hoping to flee Afghanistan arriving at the Kabul airport in August 2021, days after Taliban took over the country.
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on January 2025
Israel and Hamas Dispute Over Hostage Leaves Displaced Palestinians Waiting
Palestinians waiting in central Gaza on Saturday to return to northern Gaza.
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on January 2025
Israel Frees 200 Palestinian Prisoners in Second Cease-Fire Exchange
Palestinian prisoners arriving in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Saturday after they were released from an Israeli jail.
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on January 2025
Changing Tunes
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on January 2025
Hamas Choreographs a Show of Force as It Hands Over the Hostages
Hamas fighters escorting four Israeli hostages before handing them over to a team from the Red Cross in Gaza City on Saturday.,
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on January 2025
Quebec’s Ban on Religious Symbols Will Be Tested at the Supreme Court
Defending Quebec’s secularism has been a key policy of Premier François Legault’s government.
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on January 2025
Israel Welcomes the Return of the Women Who Warned of a Raid From Gaza
Soldiers at a monument commemorating the lookouts who were killed or taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023, near Nahal Oz, Israel.
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on January 2025
His Opponents Sidelined, Lukashenko Is Set for a 7th Term in Belarus
President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus in 2023. He has led the country since 1994.
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on January 2025
Gunfire and Bandits Make School an Impossible Dream for Haitian Children
A girl jumping rope at the Lycée Marie Jeanne, a school in the Lavaud neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, transformed in a camp for internally displaced people escaping violence.
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on January 2025
What to Know About the 4 Newly Released Israeli Hostages
Gathering in Tel Aviv to watch the release of hostages on Sunday.
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on January 2025
Myanmar Rebels Are Opening Colleges
Dr. Myo Khant Ko Ko, left, the founder and president of Karenni Medical College, treating an injured rebel soldier at a secret hospital in Karenni State, Myanmar, in 2024.
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on January 2025
Cease-Fires in Gaza and Lebanon Will Most Likely Hold for Now, Analysts Say
In Carts and on Foot, Gazans Make the Long Trek Home
Rebels Backed by Rwanda Announce Capture of Key City in Eastern Congo
A $35 Billion Loan Project, Led by World Bank, Aims to Expand Electricity in Africa
A Hardened Detective and an Angry Rock Star: How a Vast Art Fraud Was Cracked