As Saudi Arabia Cracks Down on Drugs, Executions Near a Record High
A square in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where public executions took place not long ago. The kingdom applies the death penalty for a wide range of offenses.
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Russian Sanctions Risk Straining Trump’s Chummy Relationship With Hungarian Leader
President Trump and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary at a meeting in the Oval Office in 2019.
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Why Germany Is Still Divided When It Comes to Russia
Part of the wall that used to divide West and East Germany before reunification in 1990. Cultural divides, especially over views about Russia, remain.
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Philippines Faces Grim Typhoon Aftermath as Another Storm Nears
Destruction in Liloan, Cebu Province, on Thursday.
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Serbian Lawmakers Approve Luxury Trump Hotel on Historic Bombing Site
The former General Staff military complex in Belgrade, Serbia, was devastated by NATO airstrikes in 1999.
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China’s New Aircraft Carrier Enters Service, a Sign of Naval Ambitions
In a photo released by Xinhua News Agency, China’s third and newest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, conducted a maiden sea trial in May 2024.
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Former King of Spain, Juan Carlos, Details Death of Brother in Memoir
The former king of Spain, Juan Carlos, published a memoir on Wednesday. The former monarch speaks about the shooting accident that killed his brother and his decades in power.
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Russian Jailed for Placing Tiny Antiwar Signs in a Market Says She Would Do it Again
Aleksandra Skochilenko, during a musical jam session she organized in Berlin in September, has just published a memoir, “My Prison Trip.”
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Canada Is About to Lose Its Status as Having Eliminated Measles
The western province of Alberta has reported the highest concentration of measles in Canada.
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Paramilitary Accepts Sudan Truce Plan, but the Military Has Not
A man who fled violence in El Fasher, at a makeshift clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in North Darfur, Sudan, on Monday.
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Russia Close to Its Biggest Capture of a Ukrainian City Since 2023
In September, a Ukrainian soldier ran past the site where a Russian glide bomb exploded minutes earlier, damaging buildings in the area near the embattled city of Pokrovsk.
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‘Broken My Hope’: Trump’s Move to Slash Refugee Arrivals Ricochets Widely
An aerial view of a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in March. Under new Trump administration rules, far fewer refugees will have the chance to resettle in the United States.
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Fatos Nano, Albanian Leader in Era of Chaos and Transition, Dies at 73
Fatos Nano in 2005. He led the Albanian Socialist Party from its founding in 1991 and served three times as his country’s prime minister.
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U.N. Security Council Removes Syria’s President From Sanctions List
President Ahmed al-Shara of Syria is expected to visit Washington next week.
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U.S. Sends Attack Aircraft to El Salvador Amid Regional Troop Buildup
The AC-130J Ghostrider that later appeared in El Salvador taxied near a runway in Ceiba, P.R., in late October.
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Sexual Assault of Mexico’s President Exposes Challenges of Her Equality Push
President Claudia Sheinbaum during a news conference in Mexico City on Monday.
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COP30 Begins With U.S. Allies and Rivals Alike Calling for Action
Leaders meeting on Thursday in Belém, Brazil. The conference is scheduled to run through Nov. 21.
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Climate Diplomacy and Hardball Tactics
The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, at the climate summit in Belém, Brazil, on Thursday.
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Lula Hitches a Ride to the COP30 Climate Talks in a Chinese E.V.
A factory in Camaçari, Brazil, assembling vehicles for BYD, the Chinese manufacturer of the electric car that took President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil.
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Angelina Jolie’s Driver in Ukraine Is Taken Away for the Draft
Angelina Jolie in Rome last month for a film festival. She has visited many conflict zones around the world in the past two decades.
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The U.S. Is Skipping This Year’s Climate Summit. For Many, That’s OK.
The conference venue in Belém, Brazil, this week. The talks, known as COP30, are scheduled to run through Nov. 21.
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COP30 U.N. Climate Talks Are Starting in Brazil. Here’s What to Know.
The COP30 venue in Belém, Brazil, this week. World leaders will address the meeting starting on Thursday.
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Miss Universe Organizer Apologizes After Tirade at Miss Mexico
Miss Mexico, Fátima Bosch, on stage during a Miss Universe 2025 event in Bangkok on Wednesday.
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Boiler Tower at Power Plant in South Korea Collapses
The boiler tower was at a power plant in the southeastern city of Ulsan in South Korea.
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In China, Victims of Abuse Are Told to ‘Keep It in the Family’
Ms. Xie, holding flowers, entering a court in Chengdu, China, last year. Ms. Xie, who chose not to disclose her first name, said she was attacked by her husband more than a dozen times over her three-year marriage and that she had repeatedly asked the police to detain him.
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Analysis Finds Global Warming Made Hurricane Melissa More Damaging
Clearing fallen trees in Westmorelands Parish, in western Jamaica, on Sunday.
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Remains of the Last American Hostage Held in Gaza Returned to Israel
Ruby Chen commemorating his son Itay Chen at a candlelight vigil on the steps of the U.S. Capitol last year.
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Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
President Claudia Sheinbaum during a news conference in Mexico City on Monday.
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Libya Detains Prison Director Wanted for Crimes Against Humanity
The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.
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Mamdani’s Global Roots
Zohran Mamdani in Queens, N.Y. yesterday.
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FIFA Will Award Its Own Peace Prize Next Month in Washington
Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, has cultivated a close relationship with President Trump, visiting the White House several times this year and presenting him with gifts.
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U.S. Military Draws Up Nigeria Plans, With Limited Options to Quell Violence
Nigerian troops during a training exercise in July in Borno State, in the country’s northeast, which has experienced a surge of attacks.
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Deadly Louisville Air Crash Disrupts One of World’s Busiest Cargo Hubs
Smoke rising from the crash site of a UPS flight near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport on Wednesday.
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Zohran Mamdani’s Triumph in the NYC Mayoral Race Evokes Intense Reaction in Israel
Zohran Mamdani at his election night event at the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn.
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Fire at Retirement Home in Bosnia Kills at Least 11
The fire broke out on Tuesday evening and engulfed the top floors of a retirement home in the city of Tuzla, about 75 miles northeast of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.
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Mamdani Walks Offstage to Bollywood Song After Victory Speech
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani with his mother Mira Nair at an election party at the Brooklyn Paramount theater.
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What to Know About Kataib Hezbollah, the Iraqi Militia That Held Tsurkov Captive
A flag of the Kataib Hezbollah militia group was hoisted outside the American Embassy in Baghdad in 2019 during a protest to condemn airstrikes on their bases.
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Brazil Proposes a New Type of Fund to Protect Tropical Forests
Morning mist in Carajás National Forest, Brazil. The proposal comes as global climate talks start this week in Brazil.
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Elizabeth Tsurkov Recounts 2 1/2 Years of Captivity
Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli Russian doctoral student at Princeton University, endured two and a half years of captivity in Iraq, held in solitary confinement by a militia backed by Iran.
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Scars in the Blue Mosque Reveal Afghanistan’s Rifts
A few passers-by examine the Blue Mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif on Monday.
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What to Know About Canada’s New Budget
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada arriving at Parliament Hill on Tuesday in Ottawa.
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What to Know About the Legal Scandal in Israel Over Accusations of Abuse
The Israeli military’s former chief legal officer, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in October 2014.
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Trump’s Tariffs Scar Canadian City Where Cars Have Been Made for Decades
Scores of Palestinian Militants Still in Israeli-Controlled Parts of Gaza, Officials Say
Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure
What Scientists Are Learning From Brain Organoids
Her Research Could Improve Training For Service Dogs
A Harrowing Escape From the Drone-Infested Hellscape of Ukraine’s Front Lines