From the Surf to the Sermon: The Christian Surfers of Costa Rica
A surfer riding a wave during a sunset in June in Pavones, Costa Rica, which is home to the second-largest left-hand wave in the world.
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Germany Searches for Motives in Christmas Market Attack
A memorial on Saturday for victims of the attack at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.
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Small Plane Crashes Into Buildings in Brazilian City, Killing 10
Firefighters working at the site of a plane crash on Sunday in Gramado, Brazil, in a photograph released by the Rio Grande do Sul Fire Department.
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‘Nutcracker’ Is a Casualty of a ‘Quarantine’ of Russian Culture in Lithuania
Lithuanian’s National Opera and Ballet Theater during intermission at the ballet “Les Millions d’Arlequin” in Vilnius this month.
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U.S. Fighter Jet Shot Down Over Red Sea by Apparent Friendly Fire
U.S. forces have carried out strikes against the Houthi militia, which has struck ships in the Red Sea.
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Inside the Final Days of the Assad Regime in Syria
A banner of former President Bashar al-Assad hanging north of Hama, Syria, was defaced after his ouster this month.
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Iran’s Energy Crisis Hits ‘Dire’ Point as Industries Are Forced to Shut Down
Women requesting taxis on a phone app this week during a blackout in Tehran.
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How Canada’s Voters Turned on Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada walking to the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
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A Restaurant Is More Than a Workplace for People Often Shunned by Employers
The staff of the Alamesa restaurant posed for a group photo in the kitchen after the first service during the grand opening in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Pope Uses Christmas Message to Chide Advisers About Gossiping
Pope Francis told Vatican employees in a Christmas message on Saturday that gossip “sickens people’s hearts.”
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Yemeni Missile Lands in Tel Aviv
An Israeli soldier at the site where a missile landed in the Tel Aviv area on Saturday. The Israeli military said the missile was launched from Yemen.
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Amid Russian Attacks, Ukraine Seeks New Ways to Power Its Cities
The control room of a thermal power plant — in November in an undisclosed location in Ukraine — that has been repeatedly targeted by Russian strikes.
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Surfers Return for Rare Big Wave Contest in Hawaii
Only 45 competitors and 25 alternates were invited to this year’s Eddie. The list is a who’s who of top professional surfers and local legends.
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Monday Briefing: Al-Assad’s Final Days in Power
A banner of former President Bashar al-Assad hanging north of Hama, Syria, was defaced after his ouster this month.
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Removing Carbon From the Sky Could Be the Next Climate Gold Rush
A welder this month at the Deep Sky carbon capture facility under construction in Innisfail, Alberta.
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on December 2024
Germany Bulked Up Christmas Market Security. An Attack Still Happened.
Police officers standing guard on Saturday at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, where a car plowed into a crowd on Friday evening.
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In Top Minister’s Resignation, Shades of an Earlier Political Crisis for Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaving Parliament’s West Block on Friday afternoon.
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3-Minute Christmas Market Rampage Shakes Germany
Security guards early Saturday in front of the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, where an S.U.V. plowed into a crowd on Friday evening.
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Pakistan Faces Resurgance of Terrorism
Shagufta Tahir, the mother of Muhammad Shaheer Khan, one of the students killed in a militant attack on a school in December 2014 in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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Raid on Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Compound in Guatemala
Members of law enforcement took part in a raid on Friday at a farm in the municipality of Oratorio, Guatemala.
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Cyclone’s Death Toll in Mayotte Is Still Unclear
An aerial view of the destroyed Passamaïnty neighborhood in the suburbs of Mamoudzou, the capital of the French territory of Mayotte Island.
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Toronto Jewish School Attacked Again, Prompting Canada to Investigate Antisemitism
Shots were fired at Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School in Toronto early Friday morning, marking the third shooting at the school this year.
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Why Have So Many Canadians Turned on Justin Trudeau?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada reshuffled his cabinet on Friday.
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Jagmeet Singh, Key Trudeau Ally, Abandons Him in Fresh Blow to Canada’s Government
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a cabinet swearing-in ceremony on Friday in Ottawa.
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Driver Rams Into Christmas Market in Germany, Killing at Least 2 and Injuring Dozens
Emergency services at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday.
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French Court Convicts 8 People Tied to Events Leading to Teacher’s Beheading
A tribute ceremony in 2021 in northeastern France for Samuel Paty, a teacher who had been beheaded a year before.
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Five Books That Explain the Chaos of 2024
The International Court of Justice before the verdict announcement in a genocide case brought against Israel, in The Hague, the Netherlands, in January.
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Matteo Salvini Acquitted After Blocking Rescue of Migrant Boat
Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister and the leader of the anti-immigrant League party.
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Musk Expresses Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s Election
Elon Musk has long made heavy use of X, which he bought in 2022, to express his views on politics in the United States and abroad.
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Cyclone Chido Death Toll Nearly Doubles in Mozambique
Destruction in Pemba, Mozambique, on Wednesday after Cyclone Chido made landfall.
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Romanian Court Blocks Andrew Tate’s Case From Heading to Trial
Andrew Tate, left, and his brother Tristan at the Court of Appeals building in Bucharest, Romania, last month.
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Australia Targets China’s Influence With Deals in Pacific Islands
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia announcing a deal on Friday to help the Solomon Islands expand its police force.
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Dennis Overbye on Retiring from The New York Times: A Solstice of the Soul
Dennis Overbye, The New York Times’s “cosmic affairs correspondent,” during a visit to The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., in 2011.
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Coke, Pepsi and Other U.S. Companies Face Wall Street Pressure Over Labor Abuses in India
Sugar cane workers in Maharashtra, western India, in 2023. An investigation by The New York Times and The Fuller Project this year revealed a brutal, endemic labor system there.
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At 23, Surviving Scandal to Take a Green Seat in the E.U. Parliament
Lena Schilling speaking at the European Parliament in September. At 23, she is the youngest lawmaker in the legislative body.
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Trump Tariffs? Europe Braces but Has No Clear Strategy
Newly imported cars in Wilmington, Calif. In 2023, the United States and the European Union traded more than $1.5 trillion in goods and services.
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Senior U.S. Diplomats Meet With Governing Militias in Syria
A rebel fighter with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the most powerful militia group in Syria, at a presidential palace in the capital, Damascus.
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Friday Briefing
Gisèle Pelicot leaving the courthouse in Avignon, France, yesterday.
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During Pelicot Trial, Avignon’s Ramparts Give a Platform to Denounce ‘Rape Culture’
The walls of Avignon, France, draped with a banner in French meaning “Rape is rape.” The Pelicot trial was occurring in the modern courthouse just across the road.
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Looking for the Restless Soul of Nella Larsen in Copenhagen
Retracing the footsteps of Nella Larsen, an acclaimed and enigmatic Harlem Renaissance writer whose early years were spent in Copenhagen. Pictured is Queen Louise’s Bridge.
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Its Syrian Bases in Doubt, Russia Sends Cargo Flights to Libya
A Russian Ilyushin Il-76MD plane flies over Moscow in 2022. At least four Russian Il-76 cargo planes have made trips from Moscow or Minsk to Benghazi, in eastern Libya, and back since last Thursday.
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Peter Mandelson to Be Named UK Ambassador to US
Peter Mandelson served as a cabinet minister in the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
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Friday Briefing: 51 Men Convicted in French Rape Trial
Gisèle Pelicot leaving the courthouse in Avignon, France, yesterday.
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Gisèle Pelicot’s Testimony in France Rape Trial Becomes a Message of Hope
Gisèle Pelicot leaving the courthouse in Avignon, France, after judges sentenced her former husband on Thursday to 20 years for serially raping her.
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Trump’s Return May Worsen Financial Woes for Global Health Institutions
A health worker in Burkina Faso distributing malaria prevention drugs to children in 2019, part of an effort partially financed by the Global Health Fund.
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on December 2024
A Gaza Hospital Pleads for a Respite After Israeli Attacks
Treating a wounded person at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip after Israeli airstrikes this month.
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Zelensky Raises Prospect of European Peacekeepers in Ukraine
A destroyed Ukrainian tank hit by a Russian drone last May remained in pieces alongside the road between villages not far from the front line in the Kharkiv region, in northern Ukraine, this month.
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Who Are the 51 Men Convicted in the Gisèle Pelicot Rape Trial?
A lawyer for one of the accused, Paul Gontard, speaking to reporters after the verdict in Avignon, France, on Thursday.
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Putin Glosses Over Russian Setbacks, Including Syria
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at his year-end news conference in Moscow, which has become an annual ritual.
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Ukrainians Mourn the Loss of Viktoria Roshchyna and Her Stories
Nvidia’s Global Chips Sales Could Collide With US-China Tensions
Scenes of a Cyclone’s Destruction in Mayotte, France
Gisèle Pelicot Speaks After France Rape Trial Verdict: ‘We Share the Same Struggle’