South Korea Fails to Detain Impeached President in Standoff at His Home
Protesters rally against President Yoon Suk Yeol near his residence in Seoul in Friday.
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on January 2025
South Korea’s Dueling Protests
Thousands of people showed up on Friday near the residence of the impeached South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, to call for his arrest. Others were there to defend him.
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on January 2025
A Long Fight to Keep a Closer Eye on Madrasas Unravels in Pakistan
Reading the Quran at a madrasa in Balakot, Pakistan, in 2019.
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on January 2025
Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. Tread Cautiously With Syria’s New Leaders
A Syrian fighter of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham patrols the gate as men wait outside a reconciliation center in Damascus on Monday.
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on January 2025
European Ministers Visit Syria to Strengthen Ties With New Government
Annalena Baerbock, the foreign minister of Germany, and her French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, visiting the Sednaya prison north of Damascus.
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on January 2025
More Than 300 People Flee Building Fire in South Korea
Firefighters working at the scene of a fire in Seongnam, South Korea, on Friday.
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on January 2025
Dinosaur Footprints Found in England by Quarry Workers
An undated photo provided by the University of Birmingham, showing work along the so-called “dinosaur highway” at a quarry in Oxfordshire, England.
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on January 2025
Elon Musk Trolls Britain and Defends Tommy Robinson in Flurry of Social Media Posts
Elon Musk has moved on from his enthusiastic boosting of a far-right party in Germany to targeting Britain in a fusillade of social media posts.
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on January 2025
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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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
Which Countries Warn That Alcohol May Cause Cancer?
Shelves of alcohol for sale in a supermarket in Galway, Ireland.
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on January 2025
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
Honduran Leader Threatens to Push U.S. Military Out of Base if Trump Orders Mass Deportations
President Xiomara Castro of Honduras on Wednesday, in an image released by the Honduran Presidency. She warned that she would oust the U.S. military from Honduras if President-elect Donald J. Trump made good on his threat to order massive deportations of Hondurans.
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on January 2025
U.S. Hits Chinese Cybersecurity Company With Sanctions After Breach
In September, the F.B.I. said it had taken down a network of 200,000 consumer devices in the U.S. and abroad that had been compromised with malware and weaponized by Flax Typhoon, a Chinese hacking group.
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on January 2025
Britt Allcroft, Who Brought Thomas the Tank Engine to TV, Dies at 81
Britt Allcroft in 1973, more than a decade before “Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends” debuted on British television.
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on January 2025
After Fierce Lobbying, Treasury Sets Rules for Billions in Hydrogen Subsidies
Moving an electrolyzer, a piece of equipment that generates hydrogen from water using electricity, from a train to a truck at a hydrogen production and storage facility in Delta, Utah, in 2023.
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on January 2025
Friday Briefing
Bourbon Street in New Orleans reopened to tourists, with extra security.
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on January 2025
Biden Blocks Takeover Bid of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon
U.S. Steel, the iconic American company whose metal has been used to build some of the nation’s most famous bridges and buildings, is based in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
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on January 2025
Trump’s Falsehoods Aside, China’s Influence Over Global Ports Raises Concerns
An aerial view of containers moving through the Panama Canal in July 2024. Chinese companies and the Chinese government have a growing influence over global ports and shipping.
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Thomas
on January 2025
What Happened to Carter’s White House Solar Panels? They Lived On.
President Jimmy Carter at a dedication ceremony for the White House solar array on June 20, 1979.
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on January 2025
Friday Briefing: F.B.I. Said the New Orleans Attacker Acted Alone
Increased security at a football stadium in New Orleans yesterday.
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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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Thomas
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
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
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
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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Thomas
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
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
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
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
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
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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on January 2025
Wednesday Briefing
New Year’s Eve celebrations in Paris.
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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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Thomas
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
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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Thomas
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
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
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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Thomas
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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Thomas
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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Thomas
on January 2025