Secret Documents Show Hamas Tried to Persuade Iran to Join Its Oct. 7 Attack
A house in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Israel, last December that was among those attacked on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Canada Tightens Immigration Policy And Leaves Thousands in Limbo
International students and others line up for busses, in Brampton, Canada, on Monday. Canada’s post-pandemic experiment at large-scale import of foreign students and temporary workers is heading for a rapid overhaul.
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How South Korea’s Dogs Became Members of the Family
O Hanna, a teacher, at Dogkingabout, a “total dog care center” in Seoul.
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on October 2024
Rise of the Dragons: Fire-Breathing Drones Duel in Ukraine
Ukrainian drone operators preparing to test a new drone last month in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.
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on October 2024
Israeli Strikes on Northern Gaza Kill at Least 20, Aid Workers Say
Mourning on Saturday over the bodies of Palestinian relatives killed overnight in the Jabaliya area of the northern Gaza Strip.
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China Vows to Unleash More Borrowing to Spur Economy and Strengthen Banks
Consumer spending in Shanghai and elsewhere in China has weakened as confidence in the economy has plummeted. Apartment prices and sales of luxury goods have plunged.
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on October 2024
Fitch Ratings Issues Warning About France’s Finances
Fitch Ratings warned that it could lower France’s sovereign credit rating if the government’s budget plans fall apart.
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Is Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon Legal? Here’s What International Law Says.
The aftermath on Friday of an overnight strike in the Ras el-Nabaa neighborhood in central Beirut that killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 100.
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on October 2024
North Korea Accuses the South of Sending Drones Over Pyongyang
South Korean reconnaissance drones during a ceremony earlier this month at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, South Korea.
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on October 2024
A Woman Won South Korea’s First Literature Nobel. That Says a Lot.
Han Kang, shown in 2016, is both the first South Korean and the first Asian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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on October 2024
Who Are Nihon Hidankyo and the Hibakusha of Japan?
Nagasaki Peace Park in southwestern Japan on Friday.
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on October 2024
Ukrainian Journalist Viktoria Roshchina Dies in Russian Captivity, Ukraine Says
Viktoria Roshchina, 27, speaking in a broadcast interview for Hromadske’s television channel. She reported at great risk from areas in southern Ukraine to document the Russian occupation there.
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Love Lessons
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Boris Johnson Makes a Case for Trump’s Return, and Perhaps, His Own
The epigraph for Boris Johnson’s memoir is “Hasta la vista, baby,” an Arnold Schwarzenegger line from a “Terminator” film.
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Lebanon’s Leader Calls on U.N. for Cease-Fire as Beirut Searches for Airstrike Survivors
The aftermath in Ras el-Nabaa, in central Beirut, on Friday after overnight Israeli airstrikes killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 100.
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Evan Gershkovich, U.S. Journalist Imprisoned in Russia, Will Publish a Memoir
Evan Gershkovich was freed as part of a complex prisoner swap after 16 months in a Russian prison.
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on October 2024
Northern Lights Animate Night Skies Around the Globe: Photos
The light of the aurora borealis shining brightly over what are known as the Kissing Trees, near the town of Kinghorn, in Fife, Scotland.
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Nobel Peace Prize Is Awarded to Nihon Hidankyo For Its Efforts to Rid of Nuclear Weapons
The devastation of Hiroshima in the aftermath of the atomic bombing in 1945, in a photo released by the United States government.
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Israeli and U.S. Defense Ministers Discuss Israel’s Expanding Military Operations in Mideast
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of Israel at the Pentagon in June. Mr. Gallant and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had been scheduled to meet in Washington this week, but the visit was postponed.
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Lebanon’s Leader Calls for U.N. Resolution on an ‘Immediate’ Cease-Fire
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, speaking on Friday, in a handout photo provided by the Lebanese prime minister’s press office.
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on October 2024
The Premier League’s Fight With Manchester City Won’t End Well for Anyone
Erling Haaland after reading City’s latest legal filing.
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on October 2024
U.S. Aims to Revive Failed U.N. Plan for Israel-Lebanon War
Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Monday. A 2006 U.N. resolution was meant to withdraw Israeli and Hezbollah forces from the area.
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on October 2024
For Atomic Bomb Survivors, Nobel Peace Prize Is a Bittersweet Victory
Shigemitsu Tanaka, a member of Nihon Hidankyo, reacting in Nagasaki, Japan, after the Nobel announcement on Friday.
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on October 2024
Israel Orders Gazans to Leave the North, but Most Are Staying Put
Smoke rising as seen from a shelter in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, on Wednesday.
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on October 2024
Rescuers Search for Survivors After Strikes Hit Central Beirut
After a strike in Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday.
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on October 2024
In Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, a Lone Gas Station Is a Lifeline
Abdul Latif fills a customer’s car at Ali Jawad’s gas station, in Baalbek, Lebanon this week.
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on October 2024
Conflict Between Israel and Iran Adds to Oil Market Volatility
Isfahan is home to one of the largest refineries in Iran.
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on October 2024
How The Times Investigated Indian Political Ties to Labor Abuse in the Sugar Industry
Workers in a sugar cane field last December in Pandharpur, India.
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on October 2024
What Flying in a Wind Tunnel Reveals About Birds
A western sandpiper taking flight in the wind tunnel of Western University’s Advanced Facility for Avian Research in Ontario.
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on October 2024
Why Lawmakers Ignore Human Rights Abuses in India’s Sugar Fields
Jaywant Sugars Ltd. in Karad, India, before the start of the sugar season, in September.
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on October 2024
‘Relentless’ Israeli Attacks on Gaza Medical Workers Are War Crime, U.N. Panel Says
A medical worker near a destroyed hospital in Gaza City in September.
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on October 2024
Friday Briefing: Florida Hurricane Kills at Least 7
Residents of an apartment complex in Clearwater, Fla., were rescued from floodwaters.
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on October 2024
Airstrikes in Beirut Kill at Least 22 and Injure Over 100, Lebanon Says
Several buildings in central Beirut were hit by airstrikes on Thursday.
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on October 2024
The Forecast: 832 Degrees in Brazil? Weather App Glitch Sends Extreme Weather to New Heights
The BBC apologized on Thursday for its inaccurate weather predictions that showed wild winds and insanely high temperatures for cities around the world.
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on October 2024
Who Are the U.N. Peacekeepers at Lebanon-Israel Border?
An Italian member of the U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon in July.
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on October 2024
Israel’s Security Cabinet Met to Discuss Response to Iran Attack
An Israeli soldier inspects the remains of an Iranian ballistic missile in southern Israel on Wednesday.
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on October 2024
Ukraine’s Parliament Approves Biggest Tax Increase of War to Support the Army
Firing from a position near Selydove, eastern Ukraine, this month. The tax rise is likely to hit hard in the country, where people have already seen their economic well-being plummet because of the war.
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on October 2024
Israel Fired on Peacekeepers in Lebanon, U.N. Says
Carrying a body amid destroyed buildings in central Beirut that Lebanon said had been hit by an Israeli airstrike on Thursday night.
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on October 2024
In One Photo: Lebanon’s Dahiya Area After Strikes
In One Image Rubble, and Defiance By David Guttenfelder
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on October 2024
Why the NBA Is Making Abu Dhabi Its Middle East Hub
Jaden Springer with the ball in the second game, played at Etihad Arena on Sunday.
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on October 2024
Black Girls Hike Founder Seeks to Make U.K. Hiking More Inclusive
Rhiane Fatinikun, the founder of Black Girls Hike, on Ingleborough, a peak in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in England, after climbing it with a group of hikers this year.
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on October 2024
Faced With Regional Setbacks, India Flexes Its New Economic Muscle
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, right, with President Mohamed Muizzu of the Maldives in New Delhi on Monday. Mr. Muizzu called India, which offered more than $750 million in aid, “a key partner.”
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on October 2024
Nima Rinji Sherpa Becomes Youngest Climber to Summit 14 Highest Mountains
The mountaineer Nima Rinji Sherpa at Annapurna Base Camp in Nepal in March.
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on October 2024
Latest WWF Wildlife Survey Points to ‘Alarming’ Declines
In the Colombian Amazon. The Living Planet Index found a reduction of 73 percent in the average size of monitored wildlife populations worldwide from 1970 to 2020.
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on October 2024
Nearly a Million in Lebanon Flee Israel-Hezbollah Conflict, U.N. Says
Emergency personnel at work after a fire at a residential building caused by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, on Wednesday.
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on October 2024
Democracy Struggles in an Era of Mistrust and Upheaval
Achilles Tsaltas, the president of the Democracy & Culture Foundation, which organizes the Athens Democracy Forum, at the 2024 event last week.
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on October 2024
Man Charged for South Africa Mass Shooting that Killed 18 People
A photo supplied by the South Africa Police Services showing where 18 people were slain last month at a family gathering near the rural town of Lusikisiki, South Africa.
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on October 2024
Conditions in Gaza Worsen Amid Israeli Strikes
Palestinians inspecting a destroyed school after an airstrike on Thursday in Deir al Balah, in central Gaza.
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on October 2024
Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary Gets a Hostile Serenade in Strasbourg
Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary spoke Wednesday at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.
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on October 2024
Biden and Netanyahu Speak as Israel Weighs Retaliation Against Iran
President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the White House in July. Their call on Wednesday came at a moment when U.S. national security officials believe the Middle East is on a knife’s edge.
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on October 2024
Biden and Netanyahu Speak for First Time Since August
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of Israel, center, in Washington in March.
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on October 2024
Prestigious U.S.-Ireland Mitchell Scholarship Paused Amid Funding Woes
Trinity College Dublin, where some of this year’s George J. Mitchell scholarship students are studying.
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on October 2024
Alex Salmond, Scotland’s Former First Minister, Dies at 69
Thursday Briefing: Florida Braces for Hurricane Milton