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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
Troops Detained in Ukraine Give Rare Glimpse Into North Korea’s Military
A TV screen at Seoul Railway Station in South Korea, showing an image of soldiers believed to be from North Korea standing in line to receive supplies from Russia, in October.
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on January 2025
Oliviero Toscani, Driving Force Behind Provocative Benetton Ads, Dies at 82
Oliviero Toscani in 2022 with a photo from one of his provocative ads.
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on January 2025
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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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
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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on January 2025
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
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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on January 2025
Tuesday Briefing: Death Toll Rises in L.A. Fires
Destruction in the Pacific Palisades yesterday.
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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
Biden Will Deliver Final Foreign Policy Speech on Monday
President Biden at the State Department in Washington on Monday.
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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
Monday Briefing
Covering a utility pole with a fire-retardant foam, near Los Angeles.
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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
Monday Briefing: Number of Missing Rises in L.A.
Mandeville Canyon Road during the Palisades fire on Sunday.
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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
Biden Issues Sweeping Deportation Protections Before Trump Takes Office
Migrants waiting at a welcome center in El Paso last month.
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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
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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on January 2025
Guantánamo Bay Explained: The Costs, the Captives and Why It’s Still Open
A prisoner at Guantánamo in 2019. Fifteen inmates remain at the military base.
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on January 2025
House Passes Bill to Impose Sanctions on I.C.C. Officials for Israeli Prosecutions
Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, in Paris last year. Congressional Republicans have been trying to crack down on the court since May, when Mr. Khan announced he was seeking warrants for Israeli leaders.
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on January 2025
France Indicts Founder of Notorious Website Used in Pelicot Rape Case
Gisèle Pelicot leaving the courthouse in Avignon, France, after a hearing in November.
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on January 2025
With Trump Arriving, Zelensky Urges Allies Not to ‘Drop the Ball’
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at the U.S. air base in Ramstein, Germany, on Thursday.
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on January 2025
Elon Musk Is Trying to Break Germany’s Quarantine on the Far-Right AfD
Elon Musk is hosting an interview with Alice Weidel, the leader of the far-right party Alternative for Germany, on X, his social media platform.
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on January 2025
Lebanon Elects Army Chief Joseph Aoun as President
Gen. Joseph Aoun, the commander of the Lebanese military, is considered by analysts to be widely respected and to have U.S. support.
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on January 2025
Putin Gets a Snub in the Vast Wine Cellars of a Former Soviet Republic
Visiting the cellars of the Cricova Winery in Moldova. It has previously hosted world leaders including President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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on January 2025
Who Is Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Leader on a Path to Become Canada’s Next Prime Minister?
Pierre Poilievre and his Conservative Party have enjoyed a double-digit lead in the polls over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party.
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on January 2025
U.S. Efforts to Cut Emissions Stalled in 2024 as Power Demand Surged
Construction of wind turbines for an offshore on the State Pier in New London, Conn., in November. The nation’s demand for electricity increased by roughly 3 percent in 2024.
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on January 2025
U.S. Saw an Opportunity While It Pushed to Arm Ukraine
Members of the Ukrainian National Guard preparing to fire from their position, near Selydove, Ukraine, last October.
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on January 2025
This Part of Mozambique Was Like Paradise. Now It’s a Terrorist Hotbed.
Friday Briefing: Racing to Control Los Angeles Fires