Lebanon’s Economy Reels From Israel-Hezbollah War
Destruction in the Dahiya neighborhood, south of Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday.
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Where Is Russia Finding New Soldiers? Wherever It Can.
Russian troops boarding a military aircraft last year in Grozny, Russia.
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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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5 Babies Die From the Cold in Gaza as Temperatures Drop
An imam prays over the bodies of Jumaa al-Batran and another baby who died at birth, before their burial at the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza on Sunday. Jumaa died from the cold, the territory’s health ministry said.
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South Korean Plane Crash Questions Center on Four Fateful Minutes
Paying their respect on Monday at a memorial for those killed in the plane crash at Muan International Airport in South Korea.
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Dominique Pelicot, Convicted in Mass Rape Trial in France, Will Not Appeal
Dominique Pelicot’s lawyer, Béatrice Zavarro, at the criminal court in Avignon, France, this month.
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Syria’s Top Rebel Offers Hint of Timetable for Potetial 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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Behind the Dismantling of Hezbollah: Decades of Israeli Intelligence
Hezbollah supporters gathered in November at the site where the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in Israeli airstrikes in September.
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Israel Struggles to Halt Attacks From Houthis in Yemen, Once Off Radar
People took cover last week in Ashkelon, Israel, while sirens sounded amid an attack from Yemen.
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Ignoring Warnings, a Growing Band of Tourists Venture to Afghanistan
Marino Sakata, a Japanese tourist, at the Sakhi Shah-e Mardan Shrine in Kabul. She wore a chador lent by an employee at the shrine.
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Azerbaijan Blames Russia for Plane Crash and Rebukes Kremlin
Mourning in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, on Sunday for Hokuma Aliyeva, a flight attendant killed in the crash.
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A Year Both Brutal and Bright: 13 Favorite Dispatches From 2024
Clockwise from top left, giant puppets of music legends for Carnival in Brazil; the two lead actors in “Io Capitano”; a moose statue in Newfoundland; dancing at the Louvre; a possibly haunted English churchyard; patients at a health spa in Azerbaijan.
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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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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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Monday Briefing
Jimmy Carter in 2007. He was the longest-living president in American history.
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Jimmy Carter, Peacemaking President Amid Crises, Is Dead at 100
Mr. Carter brokered peace between Israel and Egypt with the Camp David accords, one of his major presidential accomplishments.
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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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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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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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Georgia Inaugurates Mikheil Kavelashvili as President Amid Anti-Western Drift
Journalists watched a giant screen on Sunday showing Mikheil Kavelashvili taking the oath of office as Georgia’s new president in Tbilisi, the capital.
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Anger and Agony in South Korea After Jeju Air Passenger Jet Crashes, Killing 179
Firefighters and investigators at the scene of the crash in Muan, South Korea.
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What to Know About South Korea’s Worst Plane Crash in Decades
Firefighters and investigators at the scene of the crash on Sunday in Muan, South Korea.
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South Korea’s Acting President Has Only Been in Office Since Friday
Choi Sang-mok, South Korea’s acting president, after an emergency meeting in Seoul on Sunday.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Have Prostate Removal Surgery
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, center, arriving at the district court in Tel Aviv this month for his long-running trial on corruption charges.
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Elon Musk Doubles Down on Support for German Far-Right AfD
Elon Musk on Capitol Hill earlier this month. His endorsement of Germany’s far-right AfD party is not the first time he has meddled in the elections of other countries.
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Shigeko Sasamori, Hiroshima Survivor Who Preached Peace, Dies at 92
Shigeko Sasamori in 1985. “I have a mission to tell people that this should not happen again,” she told a Senate subcommittee investigating the effects of nuclear war on human health in 1980.
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Putin Apologizes for Azerbaijani Plane Crash but Does Not Take Responsibility
The wreckage of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane after a deadly crash on Wednesday in Kazakhstan.
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Syria’s New Government Steps Up Pursuit of Assad Loyalists
A member of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham directing traffic in Damascus, Syria, on Friday.
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Playing to Win: How a First Nation Turned Around Its Fortunes
Chief Terry Paul of Membertou First Nation was re-elected in June, his 40th consecutive year leading the community.
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Gaza Humanitarian Crisis Worsens Amid Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire Push: What to Know
Children sit inside their family’s tent at a camp in the central Gaza Strip. Over the last 14 months, at least 90 percent of Gaza’s population has been displaced at least once.
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Ukrainian Aid Workers Risk Life and Limb to Get Civilians to Safety
Vasyl Pipa speeding through the ruins of Kurakhove, in eastern Ukraine. He is helping civilians escape the town as part of the White Angels police unit.
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Has Russia’s Shadow Fleet Added Sabotage to Its List?
A Finnish Coast Guard vessel watching over the oil tanker Eagle S on Friday, in an image provided by the Finnish Border Guard.
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Myanmar’s Long-Suffering Rohingya Face More Abuse From New Persecutors
Rohingya refugees Shamshida, 25, left, and Manwara, 19, in their tent in Teknaf, Bangladesh.
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Takeaways From a Times Correspondent’s Return to Afghanistan
Taliban fighters last year in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan.
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Greeks Are Defying an Indoor Smoking Ban
As the European Union seeks to extend smoking restrictions to outdoor spaces, Greece’s official response has been: No, thanks.
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Trucks Carrying Aid Finally Reach Sudan’s War-Torn Capital Region
A photograph released by the World Food Program showing one of its aid trucks in Sudan, last month.
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Kazakhstan Plane Crash Survivors Describe Chaos on Azerbaijan Airlines Flight
“Thank God I’m alive,” said Zulfugar Asadov, a flight attendant on the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan. He spoke from a hospital in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Friday.
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In a Political Year, Some Deaths Spoke to the Struggles for Democracy
Top row, from left: Ethel Kennedy, Alexei Navalny, Faith Ringgold and Donald Sutherland. Middle row, from left: Shafiqah Hudson, Jimmy Carter, Sheila Jackson Lee, Chita Rivera, Françoise Hardy and Willie Mays. Middle left: James Earl Jones. Bottom row, from left: Richard Simmons, Kris Kristofferson and Maggie Smith.
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Canadian Ministers Meet Trump Aides at Mar-a-Lago to Discuss Border, and Tariffs
Mélanie Joly, Canada’s foreign minister, and Dominic LeBlanc, who recently became finance minister, last year in Ottawa.
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What We Know About the Ship Finland Seized Over Fears of Russian Sabotage
A Finnish ship watched over the oil tanker Eagle S outside Porkkalanniemi, Finland, on Thursday in an image provided by the Finnish Border Guard.
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A Month On, a Tenuous Cease-fire Holds Between Israel and Hezbollah
In the suburb of Dahiya, a Hezbollah stronghold on the southern outskirts of Beirut, the announcement of cease-fire last month was celebrated.
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Italian Journalist Is Detained While Reporting in Iran
Cecilia Sala, a journalist who has been detained in Iran, speaking in Milan, Italy, in February.
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What We Know About the Azerbaijani Plane Crash in Kazakhstan
The wreckage of an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 after a deadly crash near the airport at Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday.
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Israeli Military Forces Patients and Staff to Leave Hospital in Northern Gaza
Outside Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip in October.
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Ukraine Slows Missile Fire Into Russia as Trump Prepares to Take Office
A photograph released by Russia’s defense ministry on Nov. 26 purporting to show the remains of a U.S.-produced ATACMS missile at the Kursk-Vostochny airport in the Kursk region of Russia.
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10 Years After Obama’s Opening to Cuba, Despair Replaces Hope
Luis Manuel Perez, 57, (with hat) waits in front of Havana’s Central Park with other drivers, sometimes for hours, hoping that a tourist will hire him for a classic car ride around Havana.
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The Children Who Left Gaza
Italian summer camp kids peppered Shaymaa Shady, 6, with questions about how she lost her leg. “Ha fatto la guerra,” one child said. She went to war.
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Some African Leaders Are Optimistic About Trump
President-elect Donald J. Trump during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, FL this month.
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Friday Briefing
Ilkka Koskimäki, right, Finland’s national police commissioner, at a news conference in Helsinki.
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Plane That Crashed in South Korea Was a Boeing 737-800, a Precursor to the 737 Max
Church in Kenya for L.G.B.T.Q. Africans Thrives Despite Attacks
Syria’s Alawite Minority, Favored by the Assads, Looks Nervously to the Future
For South Korean Families, a Grim Wait for Bodies After Plane Crash
Inside a Sinaloa Cartel Fentanyl Lab in Mexico
Amid Israel-Hezbollah Crossfire, Fish Farmers Stay Put
In Syria, U.S. Hopes to Avoid Replay of Afghanistan
E.P.A. Promotes Fertilizer Carrying PFAS, Long After 3M Shared Risks
A Century of Human Detritus, Visualized