In Latin America, From Nasty Personal Insults to an Embassy Raid
Police and military officials outside the Mexican Embassy in Quito, Ecuador, where they forcibly removed a former Ecuadorean vice president, Jorge Glas.
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on April 2024
World Central Kitchen Let Him Serve Gaza. He Paid With His Life.
Relatives and friends carrying the body of Saifeddin Abutaha, an aid worker for World Central Kitchen in Gaza, during his funeral last week in Rafah.
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on April 2024
Why Xi Jinping is Meeting Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwan’s Ex-President
Coverage of the meeting between Ma Ying-jeou, the former President of Taiwan, and Xi Jingping, China’s leader, in Beijing on Wednesday.
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on April 2024
Jacob Zuma Will Run Again in South Africa’s Presidential Election
Former South African President Jacob Zuma, in blue, at an event near Cape Town, last month. He has broken with the governing African National Congress, and is heading a new political party.
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on April 2024
Floods in Russia and Kazakhstan Force Thousands to Evacuate
Emergency workers near a flooded street in Orsk, Russia, on Monday after a dam burst on the Ural River, near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan.
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on April 2024
Paris F.C. Set Tickets To $0. Should Others Do the Same?
Paris F.C. fans at the Stade Charléty, where attendance is up by more than a third this season.
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on April 2024
Death Toll Likely to Rise After Explosion at Hydroelectric Plant in Italy
The Enel hydroelectric power plant, after a fatal explosion and fire south of Bologna on Wednesday.
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on April 2024
Hong Kong Detains and Expels Journalism Advocate, Group Says
Reporters outside the entrance to the Hong Kong court where Jimmy Lai began standing trial last year.
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on April 2024
E.U. Migration Overhaul Clears Final Hurdle
Members of the European Parliament voting on the migration overhaul in Brussels on Wednesday.
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on April 2024
South Korean Election to Set Tone for Remainder of President’s Term
Casting a ballot in Seoul on Wednesday. The parliamentary election is seen as a referendum on President Yoon Suk Yeol.
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on April 2024
A Drone Strike in Odesa, Ukraine, Shatters a Family’s Life
Yelyzaveta Gaidarzhi, 2, wakes up from a nap in Odesa, Ukraine, last month. Yelyzaveta lost her mother Anna Gaidarzhi, and her 4-month-old brother Tymofii in a Russian drone strike.
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on April 2024
A Reverse Art Heist? Museum Finds Employee’s Painting on Its Wall
The Pinakothek der Moderne in 2020. The museum said the worker had hung the painting when he was helping install an exhibition in the architecture section.
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on April 2024
Thursday Briefing: Japan’s Leader Visits Washington
President Biden and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida celebrated the U.S.-Japan relationship.
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on April 2024
Biden Says U.S. Is Considering Dropping Assange Case
Julian Assange in London in 2011. He has been jailed for nearly five years after being indicted by the United States with 18 counts of violating the Espionage Act.
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on April 2024
Few Signs of Progress on Aid to Gaza, After Israeli Pledges
Aid was unloaded at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza on Saturday.
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on April 2024
Which Countries Fund and Supply Israel’s Military?
Israeli soldiers in Gaza last month.
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on April 2024
Biden Says Netanyahu Is Making ‘a Mistake’ in Gaza
President Biden’s frustration over Israel’s conduct in the war has hit a peak in recent weeks, an administration official has said.
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on April 2024
Trudeau to Testify in Foreign Election Interference Inquiry
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to testify at a public hearing of the foreign interference inquiry in Ottawa on Wednesday.
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on April 2024
Iran Says Israel ‘Will Be Punished’ for Strike in Syria
Trucks carrying the coffins of seven Iranian commanders killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria passed by mourners in Tehran on Friday.
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on April 2024
Wednesday Briefing
The climate-related lawsuit against Switzerland was brought by a group of older women.
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on April 2024
Germany Rebuffs Claim Its Arms Sales to Israel Abet Genocide in Gaza
The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis on Tuesday.
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on April 2024
Wednesday Briefing: A Divided South Korea Votes
South Korea’s politics are more divided than ever.
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on April 2024
David Cameron Reaches Out to Trump, Taking a Risk on His U.S. Trip
The British foreign secretary, David Cameron, speaking during a joint news conference with the U.S. secretary of state, Antony J. Blinken, at the State Department in Washington on Tuesday.
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on April 2024
Austin Pushes Back on Claims of Israel Carrying Out Genocide in Gaza
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III testifying before a Senate committee on Tuesday.
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on April 2024
When Is Eid This Year? How the Solar Eclipse Obscured Moon Sighting
Indonesian Muslims in Gresik, Java, use a telescope to see the new crescent moon and determine the end of Ramadan.
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on April 2024
Champions League: Security Increased After ISIS Threats
Police officers and fans in Madrid, where Real Madrid will play Manchester City in a Champions League quarterfinal on Tuesday.
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on April 2024
Turkey Restricts Exports to Israel in Protest of War in Gaza
A cargo ship sailing in the Bosporus, seen from Istanbul.
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on April 2024
Xi of China Meets With Russia’s Foreign Minister, Reaffirming Ties
A photo released by the Russian Foreign Ministry of Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov in Beijing, where he also met with his Chinese counterpart.
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on April 2024
Iran Smuggles Arms to West Bank, Officials Say, to Foment Unrest With Israel
A damaged building in Syria. Airstrikes in Syria last week targeted units from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps overseeing smuggling, according to officials.
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on April 2024
Switzerland’s Climate Shortfalls Violate Human Rights, European Court Rules
Supporters for the group of older women bringing a climate-related lawsuit against Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday.
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on April 2024
The U.S. Urgently Needs a Bigger Grid. Here’s a Fast Solution.
Replacing existing power lines with cables made from state-of-the-art materials could roughly double the capacity of the electric grid in many parts of the country.
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on April 2024
Canada Wants to Regulate Online Content. Critics Say It Goes Too Far.
Arif Virani, the justice minister and attorney general of Canada, speaking about the Online Harms Act during a news conference in Canada in February.
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on April 2024
At UN Court, Germany Fights Allegations of Aiding Genocide in Gaza
Members of Germany’s delegation, Tania von Uslar-Gleichen and Christian J. Tams, during hearings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Tuesday.
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on April 2024
Netanyahu Doubles Down on Rafah Invasion as Fighting Ebbs in Gaza
Palestinian women walking among the rubble of destroyed buildings in Khan Younis on Monday, after Israel pulled its ground forces out of the southern Gaza Strip.
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on April 2024
Tuesday Briefing
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New Method That Pinpoints Wood’s Origin May Curb Illegal Timber
Timber being moved down the Angara River in the Krasnoyarsk region, in Russia.
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on April 2024
Simon Harris Just Became Ireland’s Prime Minister. Who Is He?
Simon Harris, the new prime minister, or taoiseach, of Ireland, in Dublin on Tuesday. He said he was “ready for the challenge.”
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on April 2024
German Business Is Tangled in Red Tape
In Germany, a spate of new rules means that Technotherm Heat Treatment Group must prove it complies with the same standards it has been certified as reaching since 2012.
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on April 2024
Active Fighting Subsides in Gaza, but the War Is Not Over, Officials Say
Damaged buildings in Khan Younis on Monday, after Israel pulled its ground forces out of the southern Gaza Strip.
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on April 2024
Tuesday Briefing: A Total Solar Eclipse
Spectators gasped in Mazatlán, Mexico.
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on April 2024
Ex-Ecuadorean Vice President, Arrested at Mexican Embassy, Is Hospitalized
Jorge Glas, a former vice president of Ecuador, in Quito, the capital, in 2018.
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on April 2024
For Nicaragua, International Case Against Germany Is Déjà Vu
Ambassador Carlos J. Argüello Gómez of Nicaragua, center, waiting on Monday for the start of a hearing at The Hague.
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on April 2024
‘Hardest Geezer’ Finishes Running the Length of Africa
Russ Cook crossed the finish line in Cape Angela, Tunisia, on Sunday after running the length of Africa. He completed the journey in a little under a year after setting off from Cape Agulhas, South Africa.
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on April 2024
Yair Lapid Calls for Close Ties With U.S. in Visit to Washington
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid speaks to reporters after meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the US State Department on Monday.
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on April 2024
Takeaways From the Vatican’s Document on Human Dignity
Pope Francis’ inclusive message in the Roman Catholic Church has a limit: Catholic doctrine.
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on April 2024
Gazans Find Khan Younis ‘Unrecognizable’ After Israeli Withdrawal
A Palestinian family rides on a cart through Khan Younis, Gaza, on Monday.
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on April 2024
PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Pervasive in Water Worldwide, Study Finds
The study “sets off alarm bells,” one of the authors said.
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on April 2024
Israel’s Account of World Central Kitchen Strike Raises Wider Legal Questions, Experts Say
A vehicle with the logo of World Central Kitchen that was damaged in an Israeli strike in Deir al Balah, Gaza. The Israeli military says a string of errors led to the fatal attack.
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on April 2024