Israeli Threat to UNRWA Looms Over Gaza
Bags of flour at a distribution center for the main U.N. aid agency that aids Palestinians in Gaza, UNRWA, in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, in October.
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The Mozambique Song, and Rapper, Inspiring a Youth Uprising
Supporters of Mr. Mondlane demonstrating in Maputo last month.
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on January 2025
Debate Over U.S. Sanctions on Russia For Ukraine War Intensifies
Nearly three years of international sanctions have put a squeeze on Russian consumers.
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on January 2025
Montenegro Shooting Kills 12, Including 2 Children, Officials Say
The police outside the scene of the shooting at a restaurant in Cetinje, Montenegro, where a shooting rampage began.
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on January 2025
Ukraine Halts the Flow of Natural Gas From Russia to Europe
A Ukrainian soldier outside a gas metering station of the Russian energy giant Gazprom in Sudzha, in the Kursk region of Russia, in August.
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Why Did Ukraine Halt the Flow of Russia’s Natural Gas to Europe?
The Compressor and distribution station of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline, in the Kursk region of Russia.
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on January 2025
Rebels Easily Toppled Syria’s Army. Their Challenge Now: Rebuilding.
The rebel captured Mechanical Military Academy in Aleppo.
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on January 2025
Tensions Escalate After Pakistan Pounds Afghanistan With Airstrikes
A Pakistani soldier at the border with Afghanistan on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
A Mexican Mayor’s Odyssey: From Undocumented Migrant to Cartel Target
Armed men tried to kill Crispín Agustín Mendoza, mayor of Alcozauca, Mexico, in his home. But he fought back, and now is guarded at all times by six soldiers.
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on January 2025
At Trevi Fountain in Rome, Tourists’ Coins Go to Good Cause
A recent three-month restoration that cut off direct Trevi Fountain access was not a significant deterrent for visitors to Rome.
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on January 2025
A Staunch Ally in Africa Says French Forces Will Withdraw
Antiterrorism training in Ivory Coast in 2022. France and Ivory Coast jointly founded an antiterrorism academy in the country a year earlier.
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on January 2025
Germany’s Chancellor Scholz Takes a Jab at Musk in New Year’s Eve Address
Elon Musk on Capitol Hill this month. Mr. Musk’s support of the AfD, which has neo-Nazi links, has unsettled mainstream German lawmakers.
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on January 2025
He Didn’t Know His Father Was on Doomed South Korean Flight Until It Crashed
Oh Jaejin, 37, whose father died in the Jeju Air crash, at Muan International Airport in South Korea on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
Gaza Cease-Fire Before Trump’s Inauguration Looks Unlikely
Supporters of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip gathered in Tel Aviv on Wednesday at an event calling for action to secure the release of the captives.
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on January 2025
Thursday Briefing
A pickup truck crashed into a crowd in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
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on January 2025
Palestinian Authority Temporarily Bans Al Jazeera
At the Jazeera television network offices in Ramallah in the West Bank in May.
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on January 2025
What to Know About ISIS Terror Attacks
Members of the F.B.I. walk around Bourbon Street in New Orleans during their investigation of the fatal truck crash on New Year’s Eve.
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on January 2025
Thursday Briefing: An Attack in New Orleans
Officers working the scene of a deadly attack in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Wednesday.
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on January 2025
Vehicle Ramming Attacks: Using Cars and Trucks as Weapons Has Become Common
Police investigators surrounding a truck that crashed into a crowd in the French Quarter of New Orleans today.
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on January 2025
Zelensky Expresses Hope for 2025, but Russia Presses On With Attacks
Taking shelter in a subway station during an air-raid alarm in Kyiv, Ukraine, on New Year’s Eve.
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on January 2025
Gaza Residents Endure Harsh Conditions as Israel-Hamas War Continues Into 2025
Gazan children on Wednesday amid damage from an Israeli strike the previous night in Jabaliya.
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on January 2025
Wednesday Briefing
New Year’s Eve celebrations in Paris.
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on January 2025
Dada Masilo,Who Fused Ballet With African Dance, Dies at 39
Dada Masilo performing at the Byham Theater in Pittsburgh in 2016.
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on January 2025
Putin Declares ‘Everything Will Be Fine’ Despite Russia’s Growing Challenges
President Vladimir V. Putin’s address, given on the eve of Russia’s main public holiday, suggested that Russians’ hopes would easily be realized. “When we are together, everything will come true,” he said.
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on January 2025
New Year’s Eve 2025: Photos of Celebrations Around the World
Fireworks burst over the Quadriga at the Brandenburg Gate during New Year’s Day celebrations in Berlin.
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on January 2025
U.S. Carries Out Strikes on Houthis in Yemen
A cloud of smoke billowed on Tuesday after an airstrike on Yemen’s capital, Sana.
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on January 2025
New Year’s Eve Hogmanay Street Party Canceled in Edinburgh
Fireworks over Edinburgh Castle during last year’s Hogmanay New Year celebrations in Scotland.
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on January 2025
Chinese Companies Have Sidestepped Trump’s Tariffs. They Could Do It Again.
Kent International imports some bicycles from China and makes others at a South Carolina factory.
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on January 2025
On E-Scooters and ATVs, Russian Forces Swarm Ukrainian Positions in the East
Damage in November in Myrnohrad, eastern Ukraine, on the road to Pokrovsk, a strategic city that is a main target of the Russian offensive in the Donetsk region.
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on January 2025
Tuesday Briefing
A funeral for an Israeli soldier killed in northern Gaza on Sunday.
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on January 2025
Syrian Refugees in Germany Are Glad They Can Visit Home. But Just Visit.
Iman Mohammed and her husband, Baha Mefleh, refugees from Syria, outside their home in a village near Berlin.
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on January 2025
Myanmar’s War Has Made It the Global Crime Capital
An opium poppy farm in Pekon Township in Shan State, Myanmar, in November.
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on January 2025
Migrants Arrested in Killing of Mexican Immigration Agent
Mexican rescuers on Monday carrying the body of an immigration agent. The state police arrested suspects in the killing, according to an official from Chihuahua state.
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on January 2025
South Korea Clears Way to Detain President in Martial Law Inquiry
President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea said after declaring martial law early this month that he had done so out of desperation.
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on January 2025
Trinidad and Tobago Declares State of Emergency Over Rising Crime
Acting Attorney General Stuart Young, left, and National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds announced the state of emergency in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on Monday.
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on January 2025
Israel and Hamas Each Claim Wins in Fierce Fighting in Northern Gaza
A funeral for an Israel soldier killed in northern Gaza on Sunday.
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on January 2025
China Hacked Treasury Dept. in ‘Major’ Breach, U.S. Says
The Treasury Department said it had worked with the F.B.I., the intelligence community and other investigators to determine the impact of the breach.
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on January 2025
Russia and Ukraine Swap More Than 300 Prisoners Ahead of U.S. Transition
A demonstration in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, last year to call attention to the plight of prisoners of war.
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Syria’s Top Rebel Offers Hint of Timetable for Potential Elections
Ahmed al-Shara in Damascus, Syria. Since toppling the Assad government on Dec. 8, the rebels led by Mr. al-Shara have been working to assert authority from Damascus and build a system of governance.
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Biden Announces $2.5 Billion in Security Aid to Ukraine
A destroyed Ukrainian tank in the country’s Kharkiv region this month. The latest tranche of U.S. aid will include air defense, artillery and other critical weapons systems, President Biden said on Monday.
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Appeals Are Filed in Mass Rape Case in France, Bringing New Trial for 17 Men
Dominique Pelicot’s lawyer, Béatrice Zavarro, at the criminal court in Avignon, southern France, this month.
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on January 2025
South Korean Plane Crash Questions Center on Four Fateful Minutes
Paying their respects on Monday at a memorial for those killed in the plane crash at Muan International Airport in South Korea.
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on January 2025
5 Babies Die From the Cold in Gaza as Temperatures Drop
An imam praying over the bodies of Jumaa al-Batran and another baby who died at birth, before their burial at Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza on Sunday. Jumaa died from the cold, the territory’s health ministry said.
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on January 2025
Hydropower Was Ecuador’s Answer to Climate Change. Until the Drought Hit.
A car passed through a neighborhood in Quito, Ecuador’s capital, last month.
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on January 2025
Where Is Russia Finding New Soldiers? Wherever It Can.
Russian troops boarding a military aircraft last year in Grozny, Russia.
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on January 2025
Lebanon’s Economy Reels From Israel-Hezbollah War
Destruction in the Dahiya neighborhood, south of Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday.
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on January 2025
Jimmy Carter’s Quiet but Monumental Work in Global Health
Former President Jimmy Carter visited a village in what is now South Sudan in 2011 to inspect progress in efforts to eradicate Guinea worm disease, supported by The Carter Center.
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on January 2025
Monday Briefing
Jimmy Carter in 2007. He was the longest-living president in American history.
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on January 2025
Video of South Korea Plane Crash Offers Clues to Cause, but No Immediate Answers
Investigators at Muan International Airport in South Korea after a passenger plane crashed on Sunday.
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on January 2025
Monday Briefing: A Plane Crash in South Korea killed 179
The scene of the crash at Muan International Airport on Saturday.
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on January 2025
Bird Strikes Are a Common Problem for Flights
A Boeing 737-800 passenger plane crashed while landing at an airport in South Korea on Sunday. The airport in Muan had warned the plane’s pilots about a potential bird strike as they were landing.
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Naples, Italy: A Popular Tourist Destination Suffering from Violence and Unemployment
Holiday Briefing: Welcome to 2025
How ‘Trophy’ Videos Link Paramilitary Commanders to War Crimes in Sudan
Tuesday Briefing: Remembering Jimmy Carter
For South Korean Families, a Grim Wait for Bodies After Plane Crash
Jimmy Carter, Peacemaking President Amid Crises, Is Dead at 100