His Opponents Sidelined, Lukashenko Is Set for a 7th Term in Belarus
President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus in 2023. He has led the country since 1993.
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on January 2025
Gunfire and Bandits Make School an Impossible Dream for Haitian Children
A girl jumping rope at the Lycée Marie Jeanne, a school in the Lavaud neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, transformed in a camp for internally displaced people escaping violence.
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on January 2025
Israel Welcomes the Return of the Women Who Warned of a Raid From Gaza
Soldiers at a monument commemorating the lookouts who were killed or taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023, near Nahal Oz, Israel.
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on January 2025
Myanmar Rebels Are Opening Colleges
Dr. Myo Khant Ko Ko, left, the founder and president of Karenni Medical College, treating an injured rebel soldier at a secret hospital in Karenni State, Myanmar, in 2024.
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on January 2025
Israel Says UNRWA Has 6 Days to Halt Operations in East Jerusalem
UNRWA was ordered to vacate its offices in Jerusalem.
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on January 2025
Gaza at Last Welcomes More Aid. It Needs a Deluge.
Aid trucks crossing from Egypt into the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday.
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on January 2025
How Riad Sattouf Uses His Cartoons to Draw a Window Into the Middle East
Riad Sattouf signing his books in Rennes, France, last month. His masterwork series, “The Arab of the Future,” tells the story of his childhood, which was jarringly divided between the Middle East and France.
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on January 2025
Trump Says He Will Reach Out to North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un
President Trump with Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, in Vietnam in 2019. Talks ended without an agreement on how to roll back North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
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on January 2025
Israel Appears Poised to Keep Its Troops in Lebanon Beyond Deadline
Israeli soldiers inside a village in southern Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel, on Thursday.
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on January 2025
What Elon Musk’s Salute Was All About
Elon Musk speaking at the Inauguration Day event at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. on Monday.
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on January 2025
Did Ukraine Kill Its Own by Downing a Russian Plane? A Year Later, It Hasn’t Said.
A still from a video released in January 2024 by the Russian Investigative Committee of it said was the crash site of an IL-76 military transport plane.
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on January 2025
MeToo Outrage Leaves Japanese Broadcaster Without a Single Advertiser
Masahiro Nakai in 2013. He was a boy-band star before becoming a popular TV host.
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on January 2025
Libyan Sought by I.C.C. for War Crimes Is Released by Italy, Sparking Backlash
Angelo Bonelli and Nicola Fratoianni, opposition members of Italy’s Parliament, denounced the government’s release of Osama Elmasry Njeem at a news conference on Thursday.
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on January 2025
Changing Tunes
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on January 2025
Quebec’s Ban on Religious Symbols Will Be Tested at the Supreme Court
Defending Quebec’s secularism has been a key policy of Premier François Legault’s government.
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on January 2025
What to Know About the 4 Newly Released Israeli Hostages
Gathering in Tel Aviv to watch the release of hostages on Sunday.
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on January 2025
Arthur Blessitt, Who Carried a Cross Around the World, Dies at 84
Arthur Blessitt in 2009 with the cross he carried when he started his trek from Los Angeles to New York on Christmas Day 1969. He went on to carry a smaller version of the cross all over the world.
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on January 2025
In Response to Trump Tariff Threat, Ontario Premier Calls an Early Election
Ontario’s premier, Doug Ford, speaking in Ottawa last week. He has made clear that he plans to fight President Trump’s tariff plan.
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on January 2025
Greece Tightens Laws on Domestic Violence (but Not Enough, Critics Say)
A demonstration outside a courthouse in Athens in 2021 to protest domestic violence.
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on January 2025
She Was Faulted in Her Divorce for Refusing Sex. A European Court Disagreed.
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
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on January 2025
Ukraine Sends Volley of Drones at Russia, Hitting Oil Refinery
The Ryazan Airborne Command School in Ryazan, Russia, in 2022. Ukraine said it had struck oil facilities in the city.
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on January 2025
Hamas Names Four Hostages It Says Will Be Released Saturday
A list of hostages held in Gaza hanging on a wall in Tel Aviv this month.
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on January 2025
Storm Eowyn Leaves a Third of Ireland Without Power
Clearing fallen trees from the road during Storm Eowyn on Friday in Feighcullen, Ireland.
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on January 2025
China Cracks Down on Online Panda Advocacy
Visitors photographing a panda at the Beijing Zoo in September.
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on January 2025
French Crypto Entrepreneur and Wife Are Freed After Kidnapping
The gendarmes securing an area near the location where David Balland and his wife were kidnapped in France.
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on January 2025
I.C.C. Prosecutor Seeks Arrest of Taliban Leader for Persecuting Afghan Women and Girls
Images of women are disfigured on the facade of a beauty shop in Kabul, Afghanistan, in October 2021.
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on January 2025
Amanda Knox Slander Conviction Is Upheld by Italy’s Highest Court
Amanda Knox and her husband, Christopher Robinson, right, arrive at the court in Florence, Italy, last June.
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on January 2025
U.S. Security Contractors Going to Gaza to Oversee Truce, Officials Say
Palestinians heading back to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
What Prince Harry’s Settlement Means for Him and for Britain’s Royal Family
Prince Harry, who agreed on Wednesday to settle a long-running lawsuit with Rupert Murdoch’s tabloids over a phone hacking scandal.
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on January 2025
Trump Is Leading a Global Surge to the Right
President Trump before his swearing-in on Monday in Washington.
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on January 2025
Trump Re-Labels Yemen’s Houthi Rebels as Terrorists
The shadows of Houthi fighters carrying weapons during a mobilization campaign, in Sana, Yemen, last month.
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on January 2025
Ukraine Is Losing Fewer Soldiers Than Russia — but It’s Still Losing the War
A memorial park in Kursk, Russia, for soldiers killed in World War II is now also used for burials of soldiers killed in the war in Ukraine.
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on January 2025
Rebels Backed by Rwanda Close In on Major City in Congo
Thousands of children have been killed and maimed in recent clashes between M23 rebels and Congolese forces.
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on January 2025
Passengers Fled a Train Over Fears of a Fire. Then Another Train Hit Them.
India has launched a program to modernize its railways in recent years, but its system has been marred by several accidents.
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on January 2025
As Axel Rudakubana Is Sentenced, Court Hears of Acts of Heroism During Southport Attack
Police officers this week outside the court in Liverpool, England, where the case is being heard.
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on January 2025
South Korea Tells Budget Airlines to Tighten Safety After Crash
The scene of the Jeju Air plane crash in December.
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on January 2025
Zelensky Could Face Tough Re-election Prospects, Polls Show
A new trouble spot for President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has emerged: the revival of a political opposition animated by the prospects of a cease-fire and the elections that could soon follow.
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on January 2025
Mexico’s Ambitious Plan to Prepare to Receive Its Citizens Deported From the US
Migrants from Mexico waiting for asylum application interviews at the Paso Del Norte International bridge in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on Monday.
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on January 2025
Hamas Takes Charge in Gaza After 15 Months of War
Hamas militants paraded in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on the first day of the cease-fire on Sunday.
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on January 2025
Victor Wembanyama Prepares to Become ‘Genuine’ Face of the N.B.A.
The N.B.A. is banking on Victor Wembanyama’s international appeal to help spread its global popularity.
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on January 2025
Thailand Starts Recognizing Same-Sex Marriage
Phanlavee Chongtangsattam and Rungtiwa Thangkanopast, at center in the second row, at a mass wedding in Bangkok on Thursday. They had been rebuffed in an earlier attempt to get married.
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on January 2025
Trump Administration Cancels Flights for Refugees Already Approved for Travel
Afghan refugees boarding planes in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021. The Trump administration canceled travel for previously approved refugees.
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on January 2025
Why Is Israel Targeting Jenin, West Bank?
Israeli soldiers transfer Palestinian men arrested during a military raid on Jenin, West Bank, on Wednesday.
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on January 2025
An Ancient Headless Statue Is Found Amid Trash in Greece
A statue believed to be over 2,000 years old was found in a black plastic bag near garbage cans on a street in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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on January 2025
Britain Says Russian Spy Ship Returned to U.K. Waters in Sign of Kremlin Threat
A handout picture released by Britain’s Ministry of Defense shows the Royal Navy’s RFA Proteus, right, patrolling near a Russian vessel, the Yantar, in November 2024.
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on January 2025
Clinton Bailey, Who Documented a Vanishing Bedouin Culture, Dies at 88
Clinton Bailey at home in Jerusalem in 2021. A native of Buffalo, he spent 50 years recording the oral poetry, wisdom of elders, weddings and othere rituals of the tribes of southern Israel and the Sinai Peninsula.
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on January 2025
Houthis Free the Crew of a Cargo Ship They Hijacked 14 Months Ago
An armed Houthi fighter walks along the beach with the Galaxy Leader cargo ship in the background, in the province of Hodeidah, Yemen, in 2023.
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on January 2025
Deadly Hotel Fire at Turkish Ski Resort Stirs Grief and Outrage
An aerial photo of the fire aftermath at the Grand Kartal Hotel in Bolu, Turkey, on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
Two Industry Executives Join E.P.A. to Help Oversee Chemical Rules
Nancy Beck in 2017. She is expected to return to the E.P.A.
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on January 2025
Israeli Raids in West Bank Focus on Jenin, Long a Resistance Hub
An Israeli military vehicle in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
Single Parents Should Get as Much Paid Leave as Couples, Spanish Court Rules
Pushing a stroller in Madrid. A regional court in Spain ruled that solo parents are entitled to the same total amount of paid leave as couples.
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on January 2025
Spate of Violent Antisemitic Attacks Rattles Australia
Outside the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne in December after an arson attack.
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on January 2025
Trump’s Hint at Deal Making Gives China a Little Breathing Room
President Trump in Washington on Monday. He has said he expects to be invited to China for a visit.
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on January 2025
Hamas Releases 4 Israeli Soldiers in Exchange for Palestinian Prisoners
Friday Briefing: Trump Criticizes Europe
Israeli Forces Kill 2 Palestinian Militants Wanted in Deadly Attack
Migrants Left Stranded After Trump Cancels Asylum Claims at Border
Thursday Briefing: Trump’s Immigration Crackdown