How Ukraine’s Widows Are Shouldering Their Grief
The war in Ukraine has left thousands of widows, and some widowers, across the country struggling to find a way forward.
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Amsterdam Bars Protests After Antisemitic Attacks on Soccer Fans
Police patrolling in central Amsterdam on Friday after overnight violence.
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on November 2024
Trump’s Election Has Migrants Rethinking Plans to Head to the U.S.
Daniel García, a Venezuelan delivery worker living in Bogotá, Colombia, decided to stay there rather than migrate to the United States after Donald J. Trump became president-elect this month.
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Gazans Are Living Through a Yearlong Blackout
A Palestinian family gathering around a fire on the roof of their destroyed house in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, in September.
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on November 2024
Russia Sentences 2 Soldiers Over Killing of Ukrainian Family
Russian troops guarding a street in Volnovakha, Ukraine, in 2022.
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on November 2024
How We Found the Dangers Threatening Delhi’s ‘Green’ Energy Future
A truck hauling uncovered ash driving over by a neighborhood park in Khadda Colony, New Delhi.
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on November 2024
U.N.-Backed Panel Urges ‘Immediate Action’ in Gaza to Avert Famine
Palestinians trying to buy bread from a bakery in central Gaza in October.
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on November 2024
The Long Global Trail of Resentment Behind Trump’s Resurrection
President Ronald Reagan with the Soviet president, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, in 1987. As the Cold War ended, few considered how disorienting the world would become.
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on November 2024
Who Is Viktor Orban, Hungary’s Authoritarian Leader and Friend of Trump?
Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary and Donald J. Trump, then president, at the White House in 2019.
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on November 2024
Hungary’s Viktor Orban and European Far-Right Leaders Welcome Trump’s Return
Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary gambled heavily and publicly on a Trump victory.
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on November 2024
India Scraps Import Ban on Salman Rushdie’s ‘Satanic Verses’
Salman Rushdie in Frankfurt, Germany, last year.
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on November 2024
Elon Musk Joined Trump’s Call With Zelensky
Elon Musk provided the Trump campaign with financial and logistical support.
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on November 2024
Playing Favorites
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on November 2024
Canada Sends Mixed Signals With TikTok Shutdown Order
Canada has ordered TikTok to close its offices in Toronto and Vancouver.
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on November 2024
Train Station Suicide Bombing Leaves Dozens Dead or Wounded in Pakistan
Security personnel inspecting the blast area after an explosion at a railway station in Quetta, Pakistan, on Saturday.
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on November 2024
What to Know About the Attacks on Israeli Soccer Fans in Amsterdam
Police officers formed a security cordon around a bus after the soccer match in Amsterdam early Friday.
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on November 2024
America’s Wobbly Democracy
The Millennium Bridge in London.
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on November 2024
Playing Out a Dream, a Long, Long Way From Home
Are England’s lower leagues the new study abroad?
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on November 2024
Party Whose Leader Is Known for Antisemitism to Join Lithuanian Government
Remigijus Zemaitaitis, leader of a new party, gave up his seat in Parliament this year to avoid impeachment over antisemitic remarks.
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on November 2024
Notre-Dame’s Bells Ring Together for First Time Since Fire
Three new bells, donated by the organizing committee of the Paris Olympics, in front of the Notre-Dame Cathedral on Thursday.
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on November 2024
Russia Hits Ukraine with Drones, Missiles Overnight
People clear debris outside a school damaged by a Russian strike in Odesa, Ukraine, on Friday.
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on November 2024
With Trump Tariffs Looming, Businesses Try to ‘Run From a Moving Target’
Companies are reckoning with President-elect Donald J. Trump’s promises to remake international trade by raising the tariffs the United States puts on foreign products.
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on November 2024
Gazan Rescue Service Has Stopped Operating in the North
Palestinians inspected the damage outside a building that was struck during an Israeli bombardment in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, on Thursday.
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on November 2024
How My War Came Home
Ukrainians gathered at the site of a Russian strike on a residential area of Lviv, in western Ukraine, in September. The yellow apartment building in the background is where the reporter and his family live.
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on November 2024
Will Musk Influence Trump on Climate Change and Electric Vehicles?
Elon Musk is expected to have a direct line to the White House in the coming months.
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on November 2024
Friday Briefing
President-elect Donald Trump proposed an assortment of loosely defined tax cuts during his campaign, but lawmakers and his advisers are undecided about how much they will lower taxes again.
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on November 2024
Ireland to Hold Snap General Election: What to Know
Simon Harris, the prime minister of Ireland, in Washington last month.
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on November 2024
Argentina Drove Down Teen Pregnancy. Then Came Javier Milei.
Feminist-themed paintings in the small town of Oran, Province of Salta, Argentina.
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on November 2024
Prince William: Past Year Hardest of Life, After Kate and Charles’ Cancer Diagnoses
Prince William was greeted by crowds in South Africa during a visit to Kalk Bay Harbour in Cape Town on Thursday.
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on November 2024
Friday Briefing: Biden promises a peaceful transition
President Biden yesterday at the White House.
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on November 2024
Interpol Tightens Oversight After Autocrats Target Its Databases
The challenge of policing abuses of Interpol’s systems will fall to the organization’s new secretary general, Valdecy Urquiza of Brazil.
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on November 2024
Australia Moves to Ban Young Teens From Social Media
Australia has proposed a ban on teenagers from social media.
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on November 2024
European Leaders Meet Amid Trump Victory and Global Uncertainty
A session at the European Political Community in Budapest on Thursday. The meeting comes on the heels of recent political events in the United States and Germany.
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on November 2024
After a 2,000-Mile Trip, a Penguin Finds Itself on an Australian Beach
From ice to sand: The penguin who found its way Down Under.
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on November 2024
For Rent: 4-Bedroom London House. The Owner? Prime Minister Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer and his wife, Victoria Starmer, outside their north London home in 2020.
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on November 2024
What to Know About COP29 and How the U.S. Election Affects Climate Talks
Diplomats and heads of state from nearly 200 countries are gathering in Azerbaijan to update their plans to address climate change.
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on November 2024
What the Collapse of Germany’s Ruling Coalition Means
Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany fired his finance minister, who leads one of the three parties in the governing coalition.
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on November 2024
Why the Australian Ambassador Deleted Tweets Critical of Trump
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, center right, has defended the appointment of Kevin Rudd, center left, as envoy to the United States. They toured the U.S. Capitol last year.
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on November 2024
World Needs Much More Aid to Adapt to Climate Shocks, U.N. Says
Carrying supplies through a flooded area of Feni, Bangladesh, in August.
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on November 2024
Canada Could Use a New Approach to Dealing With Trump This Time
Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, shown in 2019, spoke by phone on Wednesday.
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on November 2024
Putin Lavishes Praise on Trump, Saying Russia Is ‘Open’ to Restored Ties
Presidents Donald J. Trump and Vladimir V. Putin in Helsinki in 2018.
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on November 2024
China Braces for a New Era of U.S. Rivalry With Trump’s Return
A passer-by in Beijing on Wednesday watching a state news broadcast of Donald J. Trump declaring victory in the U.S. presidential election.
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on November 2024
Trump Will Test European Solidarity on NATO, Ukraine and Trade
European officials at the Defense Ministers’ Council at NATO Headquarters in Brussels last month.
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on November 2024
Russia Keeps Hitting Ukrainian Cities With Waves of Drones
An apartment building in Kyiv, Ukraine, was damaged by debris last week. Attacks in the city by explosive-laden drones have become a near-nightly occurrence.
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on November 2024
Gulf States See Trump as Ally They Can Do Business With
During his first term as President, Donald J. Trump made his first overseas trip to Saudi Arabia, signaling the importance he placed on the relationship.
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on November 2024
Japan's Prime Minister Skillfully Managed Trump
Shinzo Abe, then the prime minister of Japan, with Donald J. Trump at the White House in 2018.
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on November 2024
Gaza’s Cease-Fire Talks Will Probably Wait Until After Trump’s Inauguration
New York after the election. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has welcomed Donald J. Trump’s win, but how Mr. Trump might rearrange the regional chessboard is unclear.
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on November 2024
Typhoon Yinxing Hits Philippines as a Powerful Storm
Villagers wade in floodwater in the town of Aparri in the Philippines on Friday.
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on November 2024
Thursday Briefing
Donald Trump on election night in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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on November 2024
2024 Temperatures Are on Track for a Record High, Researchers Find
The dry bed of the Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon, in northwestern Brazil in September.
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on November 2024
Special Edition: What a Trump Victory Means
Donald Trump on election night in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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on November 2024
Air Pollution in Pakistan’s Largest Province Leaves Hundreds Hospitalized
How World Leaders Are Prepping for a Second Trump Presidency
Is a ‘Green’ Revolution Poisoning India’s Capital?
A Messy Problem in Orderly Singapore: Keeping Track of Cats
Antisemitic Attacks Prompt Emergency Flights for Israeli Soccer Fans
Dozens Killed as Israeli Strikes Pound Lebanon, Health Ministry Says