Middle East Crisis: Top U.N. Court Orders Israel to Allow ‘Unhindered’ Aid Into Gaza
Members of the U.S. Air Force loaded aid packages onto a plane at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar on Friday to be airdropped into Gaza.
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A Very Royal Scavenger Hunt
Catherine, Princess of Wales; her husband, William; their three children and a niece walking to church on Christmas Day. It was her last public appearance before an abdominal operation in January.
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From New England to Notre-Dame, a U.S. Carpenter Tends to a French Icon
Hank Silver in Paris this month. The opportunity to work on a project like the renovation of Notre-Dame Cathedral comes “once in a millennium,” the carpenter said.
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‘Cataclysmic Situation’ in Haiti Leaves 1,500 Dead in Gang Violence
Police officers monitoring a street after gang violence last week in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Putin Offers Both Reassurance and Threat on a Wider War
Crocus City Hall, the site of the terrorist attack in Moscow.
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Why Russia’s Vast Security Services Fell Short on Deadly Attack
Security forces on the street after Friday’s attack on a concert hall outside Moscow that killed at least 143 people.
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Saudi Arabia, Lagging on Women’s Rights, Is to Lead U.N. Women’s Forum
Women working at a hotel in Bisha, Saudi Arabia, in 2019. Saudi women used to be barred from driving but recently have been pouring into the workplace in record numbers.
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Outcry in France as Principal Steps Down Over Head Scarf Incident
Students outside the Lycée Maurice-Ravel in Paris in 2018.
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Senegal’s New President Was Unknown, but ‘This Family is Not New to Ruling’
The top opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye flanked by his two wives after voting in the presidential election in the West African nation of Senegal last Sunday, in his hometown, Ndiaganiao. He won resoundingly.
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As Space Threats Mount, U.S. Lags in Protecting GPS Services
In this long exposure, a string of SpaceX Starlink satellites passed over an old stone house in 2021 near Florence, Kan.
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What We Know About Palestinians Detained in Israel
Israeli soldiers with bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees in Gaza on Dec. 8, in a photograph that the Israeli military reviewed as part of the conditions of the photographer’s embed.
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Taiwan’s Top Diplomat Says U.S. Aid to Ukraine Is Critical for Deterring China
Joseph Wu, the foreign minister of Taiwan, said that if the United States abandoned Ukraine, China would “take it as a hint” that sustained action against Taiwan will cause the United States and its allies to back off.
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Germany’s Beloved Dachshund Could Be Threatened Under Breeding Bill
Dachshunds have long been a national symbol in Germany.
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After U.N. Cease-Fire Resolution, What’s Changed in Gaza War?
Palestinians amid debris on Wednesday after an overnight bombardment in Rafah.
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Wanted in South Korea: Imperialism-Free Cherry Blossoms
Shin Joon Hwan, in a gray hat, examining cherry trees in southern Korea this month. He leads a group urging that a variety cultivated during the 20th-century Japanese occupation should be supplanted by one native to the peninsula.
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Harsh Mongolian Winter Leaves Over 5 Million Animals Dead
A pile of sheep and goat carcasses in Bayanmunkh, in Mongolia’s Khentii Province. Nearly six million livestock have died in Mongolia this winter because of the dzud weather phenomenon.
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Friday Briefing
The detention of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who has been behind bars in Russia for a year, has been extended for a fifth time.
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Fighting Rages Around Two Gaza Hospitals as Pressure on Israel Rises
In a battle that has raged for 11 days, Israeli conducted strikes in the vicinity of the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Thursday.
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Friday Briefing: Sam Bankman-Fried Gets 25 Years
Bankman-Fried was also ordered to forfeit $11.2 billion in assets.
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U.K. Backsliding on Civil and Political Rights, U.N. Body Says
Britain’s Conservative government has argued that the best way to stop the arrival of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers was to ensure they could not remain in the country.
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Methane From Landfills Is a Big Driver of Climate Change, Study Says
Landfills are the third-largest source of human-caused methane emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Ireland to Intervene in South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel at the ICJ
Micheál Martin, Ireland’s foreign minister, in Berlin in January.
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The Japanese Sensei Bringing Baseball to Brazil
Yokihiro Shimura teaching a group of students at one of the few public baseball diamonds in Rio de Janeiro.
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on March 2024
New ‘Serial’ Podcast Explores Life at Guantánamo Bay
The U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, which opened after 9/11, still has 30 detainees.
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Thursday Briefing
A Ukrainian soldier loading a howitzer, near Bakhmut last year.
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Israel and Hezbollah Trade Fire, With Deaths Reported on Both Sides
The aftermath of an Israeli strike on Wednesday in al-Habbariyeh, in southern Lebanon. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said it hit an emergency medical center and killed seven people.
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U.S. Says Israel Seeks to Reschedule Canceled Meeting on Rafah
President Biden, middle, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Tel Aviv in October.
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Thursday Briefing: Russia’s Online Attack on Ukraine Aid
The techniques are subtle and far more skillful than what Russia attempted in 2016.
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Russia Amps Up Online Campaign Against Ukraine Before U.S. Elections
A Ukrainian soldier after loading shells into an American-made Paladin howitzer near Bakhmut last year. Russian operatives are laying the groundwork for what could be a stronger push to support U.S. candidates who oppose aiding Ukraine.
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Russian Group Spread Disinformation About Kate Middleton, Experts Say
Conspiracy theories have swarmed around Catherine, Princess of Wales.
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London Boat Race Marred by High Levels of E. Coli in Thames
The Oxford women’s team during practice on Thursday on the River Thames.
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Majority of Americans Disapprove of Israel’s Actions in Gaza, New Poll Shows
Protesters at the New York Public Library in December called for a cease-fire in Gaza.
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After the U.N. Cease-Fire Resolution, Israeli Strikes on Gaza Haven’t Let Up
Smoke rising above the Gaza Strip, near the border with Israel, on Wednesday.
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Russia Has No Formal Death Penalty. Some Want to Change That.
Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda, one of the men accused of the attack at a concert hall near Moscow that killed 139 people, in a Moscow courtroom.
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It’s a Statue of Prince Philip. Really. But Now It Has to Go.
A statue of (allegedly) Prince Philip in Cambridge, England.
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Security Forces Clash With Pro-Palestinian Protesters in Jordan, Video Shows
Demonstrators protesting in support of Gaza near the Israeli Embassy in Amman, Jordan, early on Wednesday.
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Kremlin Treads Carefully After Moscow Attack Over Fears of Ethnic Strife
Crowds in Moscow, including men wearing traditional Kyrgyz hats, leaving floral tributes at the concert hall that was the site of the attack.
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Life-Saving ECPR v CPR: What to Know
An emergency medical team arriving at the M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center.
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Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza
Displaced Palestinians arriving at a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip this month. Israel has deployed facial recognition technology at checkpoints along roads in Gaza, according to military officials.
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Thailand Lawmakers Pass Bill to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
L.G.B.T.Q. couples took part in a “mock marriage” ceremony on Valentine’s Day in Bangkok.
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Wednesday Briefing
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Inside the Garrick, the Men-Only London Club Rocked by Criticism
The Garrick Club in London’s theater district counts among its roughly 1,300 members judges, actors, Britain’s deputy prime minister and King Charles III.
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How Elon Musk Became ‘Kind of Pro-China’
Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, dancing onstage during a delivery event for Tesla’s China-made Model 3 cars in Shanghai in 2020.
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Tesla’s Pivot to China Saved Musk. It Also Binds Him to Beijing.
Elon Musk dancing in 2020 as his company, Tesla, unveiled the first cars made at its factory in Shanghai.
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Happy-Go-Lucky Australia Is Feeling Neither Happy, Nor Lucky
The harbor in Sydney. Millions of Australians are experiencing levels of economic hardship not seen in many decades.
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ISIS Claimed the Moscow Concert Hall Attack. Russian Officials Blame Others.
President Vladimir V. Putin in the Grand Kremlin Palace two days before a terrorist attack on a concert hall in Moscow.
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Wednesday Briefing: U.S.-Israel Divisions Grow
President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Tel Aviv in October.
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Turkey Details Visits by Accused Moscow Attackers to Istanbul
Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, a suspect in the Moscow terrorist attack, in court on Sunday.
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Russia Extends Evan Gershkovich’s Detention for a Fifth Time
Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who has been behind bars in Russia for a year, had his detention extended for a fifth time.
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Venezuelan Opposition Blocked from Election, Dimming Democratic Hopes
Corina Yoris, an opposition candidate, during a news conference in Caracas on Monday announcing that she was unable to register to run for president.
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Gazans Drown Trying to Retrieve Aid From Sea, Authorities Say
Palestinians collecting aid airdropped in northern Gaza on Monday.
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Israeli Hostage Says She Was Sexually Assaulted and Tortured in Gaza
Amit Soussana in Israel in March, after she was released by Hamas.
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British Conservative Ad About London Crime Used New York Footage
In 2017, Penn Station commuters were captured on video running after hearing what they mistakenly believed to be gunfire. The footage was used in a British Conservative Party ad about crime in London.
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Rocked by Deadly Terror Attack, Kremlin Amps Up Disinformation Machine
A makeshift memorial on Tuesday in front of the burned-out Crocus City Hall, the site of the deadly terrorist attack.
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