Israel and Hamas Near Agreement on Cease-Fire Deal, Qatar Says
The aftermath of an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.
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How Mexico Cracked Down on Its Immigration Chief to Defuse a US Migrant Crisis
Francisco Garduño Yáñez, head of Mexico’s National Migration Institute, has defended his approach to migration control as “a humanitarian policy of integration and brotherhood.”
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Ukraine Launches ‘Massive’ Drone Attacks Inside Russia, Officials Say
Kazan, the capital of the republic of Tatarstan in Russia, last October. Local news media in Kazan reported on Tuesday that a tanker at a liquefied natural gas base was struck by a Ukrainian drone attack.
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The British Public Dislikes Elon Musk. He Can Still Sway Politics.
Elon Musk at an event hosted by President-elect Donald J. Trump in Palm Beach, Fla., shortly after the U.S. election.
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Greenland to Trump: Not for Sale but Let’s Talk Business
A statue commemorating Hans Egede, the Danish missionary who founded Nuuk in 1728, stands on a hill overlooking the town.
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A Neo-Nazi Helped Incite U.K. Riots. Elon Musk Criticized His Sentencing.
Riot police in Southport, England, last July after a deadly knife attack. Andrew McIntyre took part in the riot, and his posts on Telegram encouraged others to participate in violent disorder.
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South Korean Leader Shuns Trial as He Tries to Hold Off Detention
Judges on South Korea’s Constitutional Court sat for the first formal hearing Tuesday in a trial to decide the validity of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment by the National Assembly.
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Lebanon Names Nawaf Salam, a Diplomat and Jurist, as Prime Minister
Nawaf Salam, center, who currently leads the International Court of Justice in The Hague, in the Netherlands, was named prime minister of Lebanon on Monday.
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Israel-Gaza Cease-Fire Talks and Hostage Release Negotiations Gain Momentum: What to Know
Buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.
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What an Upended Mideast Means for Trump and U.S. Gulf Allies
President Donald J. Trump visiting Saudi Arabia in 2017. The region has shifted drastically since his first term.
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Syria Faces Big Challenge in Seeking Justice for Assad Regime Crimes
A stadium in Damascus, the Syrian capital, last month. The site was used by the Assad regime’s military to fire mortars at rebel neighborhoods.
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Pope Francis’ Autobiography, Long in the Making, Arrives in Bookstores
Pope Francis delivered a blessing from the window of his private library overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in 2020.
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on January 2025
Maha Kumbh Mela: World’s Largest Gathering Begins in India
Hindu pilgrims taking a holy dip in Prayagraj, India, on Monday.
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Tuesday Briefing
Destruction in the Pacific Palisades yesterday.
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Tuesday Briefing: Death Toll Rises in L.A. Fires
Destruction in the Pacific Palisades yesterday.
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Biden Aides Warned Putin as Russia’s Shadow War Threatened Air Disaster
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday. U.S. officials engaged in a major effort to warn Mr. Putin to end an air-cargo sabotage plot.
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Biden Will Deliver Final Foreign Policy Speech on Monday
President Biden at the State Department on Monday. He said in a speech that he had improved America’s position in the world by making it stronger at home and by bolstering its ties with foreign allies.
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Troops Detained in Ukraine Give Rare Glimpse Into North Korea’s Military
A South Korean news program in October showed an image of soldiers, believed to be from North Korea, standing in line to receive Russian supplies.
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Russia and Ukraine Battle Inside Kursk, With Waves of Tanks, Drones and North Koreans
A destroyed Ukrainian tank on Thursday a few miles from the border with Russia’s Kursk region.
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A New Age of American Interference in Europe
The co-leader of the far-right AfD party and chancellor candidate Alice Weidel in her office in Berlin, before a live discussion with Elon Musk on his social network X, on Thursday.
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How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence
Polio patients in New York in 1954. Before the vaccine’s introduction in 1955, polio disabled more than 15,000 Americans each year and hundreds of thousands more worldwide.
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With South Korea in Crisis, Eight Justices Will Decide President’s Fate
South Korea’s Constitutional Court in Seoul, which on Tuesday will begin deliberating whether to remove or restore President Yoon Suk Yeol to office.
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Monday Briefing
Covering a utility pole with a fire-retardant foam, near Los Angeles.
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Druse Leader Aims to Secure Place for Syrian Minorities
Members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham patrolling in Damascus, Syria, last month.
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Monday Briefing: Number of Missing Rises in L.A.
Mandeville Canyon Road during the Palisades fire on Sunday.
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Italian Justice Ministry Moves to Release Iranian Man Sought by the U.S.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy last month in Rome.
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Israeli Security Chiefs Join Critical Talks for a Cease-Fire in Gaza
A demonstration on Saturday in Tel Aviv calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas.
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on January 2025
Brazil’s Mafia-Run Animal Lottery Was Invincible. Online Games Changed That.
Online gambling is booming in Brazil since it was legalized in 2018.
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on January 2025
A French Cathedral Turned to Hams to Restore Its Organ
A view of the cathedral in the Cantal area of France whose bell tower was used for curing hams.
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on January 2025
Sudan’s Military Recaptures Key City From Paramilitary Accused of Genocide
Sudanese people celebrated in Meroe, in Sudan’s northern state, on Saturday, after the army announced entering Wad Madani.
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Far From the Fires, the Deadly Risks of Smoke Are Intensifying
Pacific Palisades, Calif., on Tuesday. By some estimates, wildfire smoke causes some 675,000 premature deaths annually.
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on January 2025
Ukraine Says It Captured 2 North Korean Soldiers Fighting for Russia
A Ukrainian military vehicle in the country’s northern Sumy region, close to the border with Russia’s Kursk region, on Thursday.
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Lebanon’s Prime Minister Meets With Syrian Leader
Three men chatting last month atop Mount Qasioun, which overlooks the city of Damascus, Syria’s capital.
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Reading Aloud
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Out in the Cold With Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing his resignation in Ottawa on Monday.
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Jeju Air Flight Recorder Stopped Working 4 Minutes Before Plane Crash
Jeju Air Flight 7C 2216 crashed in late December at Muan Airport in South Korea, killing all but two of the 181 people onboard.
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Israel’s Campaign in Syrian Border Area Prompts Fears It Plans to Stay
Israeli military vehicles leaving the Syrian side of the de facto border in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights last month.
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on January 2025
Photograph Revives Ukraine-Russia Culture War
Émeric Lhuisset, a French photographer, with Ukrainian soldiers. The image he created was inspired by a painting and was briefly displayed at the Ukrainian House in Kyiv, the capital.
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on January 2025
Why Singapore’s First Family Is Locked in a Bitter Feud Over a House
Lee Hsien Yang says he sought asylum in Britain because of a dispute with his brother, a former prime minister of Singapore. He now lives in London, where he was photographed in November.
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ISIS Says It Inspired New Orleans Attack, but Doesn’t Claim Responsibility
Mourners in New Orleans attend a vigil on Saturday remembering the 14 people killed in the terrorist attack on Bourbon Street early on New Year’s Day.
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Vatican Allows Italian Gay Men to Enter Seminaries, if They Remain Celibate
Priests at a Mass presided over by Pope Francis at the Vatican last month.
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on January 2025
Biden Officials Say the Truth About Havana Syndrome Is Still Unknown
The U.S. Embassy in Havana in December 2023. The symptoms of what is now called Havana Syndrome were first reported in Cuba in 2016.
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Biden Issues Sweeping Deportation Protections Before Trump Takes Office
Migrants waiting at a welcome center in El Paso last month.
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Mauro Morandi, Italy’s Robinson Crusoe, Dies at 85
“A simple life made up of big and small pleasures,” Mr. Morandi said. “The most important thing is that I have a serene relationship with time.”
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U.K.’s First Drug Consumption Center Is Set to Open in Glasgow
Injection bay areas in The Thistle drugs consumption room in Glasgow. There are now more than 100 drug consumption rooms worldwide, including in Europe, Canada, the United States and Australia.
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Biden Raises Bounty For Nicolás Maduro to $25 Million
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela during a swearing in ceremony for militia members this month in the country’s capital.
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on January 2025
Israel Strikes Ports and a Power Plant in Houthi-Controlled Parts of Yemen
Smoke rises from the site of an airstrike in Sana, Yemen, on Friday.
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U.S. Imposes New Sanctions to Squeeze Russia’s Energy Sector
An oil tanker that Finnish authorities said might have been part of Russia’s “shadow fleet” of tankers that Moscow has used to evade existing oil sanctions. The new U.S. sanctions target more than 180 vessels from the fleet.
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Kremlin Confirms Readiness for Putin to Meet Trump
President-elect Donald J. Trump at his Mar-a-Lago Club, on Thursday. Mr. Trump has repeatedly said that he could resolve the Russia-Ukraine war within 24 hours, without saying how.
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Israeli Hostage Hamza Ziyadne Is Declared Killed in Gaza
A banner showing Youssef Ziyadne and his son Hamza in Rahat, southern Israel, on Thursday.
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on January 2025
Shui Ka-chun, Hong Kong Activist, Dies
Shiu Ka-chun at Baptist University in Kowloon Tong in 2016.
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on January 2025
Lebanon Turns a Political Page as Hezbollah’s Hold Is Weakened
A portrait of a Hezbollah cleric at a destroyed Ottoman-era market in Nabatieh, Lebanon, last month.
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Venezuela’s Autocrat Detains U.S. Citizens As He Tightens Grip on Power
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, shown during a swearing-in ceremony for militia members this week, has spent the last six months detaining foreigners, who experts say he plans to use as bargaining chips.
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on January 2025
Is the Pink Fire Retardant That Planes Are Dropping on the California Fires Safe?
A firefighting aircraft dropping fire retardant near the Palisades Fire in California on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
Friday Briefing
Extinguishing hot spots from the Eaton fire on Thursday.
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Venâncio Mondlane Returns to Mozambique, Declaring Himself President
Venâncio Mondlane, the opposition leader in Mozambique, spoke to the press upon his arrival at the Maputo International Airport on Thursday.
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Venezuela’s Opposition Leader, Maria Corina Machado, Is Freed After Being Detained
María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, was briefly detained on Thursday after appearing at a protest in Caracas.
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This Part of Mozambique Was Like Paradise. Now It’s a Terrorist Hotbed.
‘They Barricaded Everything’: Living Inside an Evacuation Zone
Friday Briefing: Racing to Control Los Angeles Fires