Diplomacy Over Ukraine War Is About Bolstering Forces
The British foreign secretary, David Lammy, left, watching as Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, center, shook hands with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Kyiv on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
Russia Expels 6 U.K. Diplomats as Tensions Mount Over Missiles
A British missile on display in Farnborough, England, in July. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has warned NATO countries not to permit Ukraine to use long-range missiles.
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on September 2024
Why the Fight for Control Over the Philadelphi Corridor?
The border between Gaza and Egypt in February, as seen from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
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on September 2024
China Raises Retirement Age for the First Time Since the 1950s
Playing Chinese chess at a park in Beijing. China on Friday said it would gradually raise its statutory retirement age.
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on September 2024
Pope’s Grueling Asia Tour Points Toward a Less-Western Church
Pope Francis waving to faithful in Dili, East Timor, on Tuesday.
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on September 2024
Pakistan Begins Vaccination Program Against Polio
A community health worker gave a boy a vaccination during an anti-polio campaign as his mother held him in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday.
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on September 2024
North Korea Reveals Weapons-Grade Uranium Factory
A photograph provided by North Korean state media showed the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, touring a plant producing weapons-grade nuclear materials at an undisclosed location in September.
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Biden Poised to Approve Ukraine’s Use of Long-Range Western Weapons in Russia
A police officer stands guard near a building in Ramenskoye, Russia, about 30 miles from Moscow, that was damaged in a Ukrainian attack.
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on September 2024
Red Cross Workers Killed in Ukraine in Shelling Attack
The aftermath of an attack that killed Red Cross workers, as shown in a photograph released by the Ukrainian police.
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on September 2024
The Contention Over Mexico’s Plan to Elect Judges, Explained
Demonstrating against a judicial overhaul outside the Senate building in Mexico City on Tuesday night.
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on September 2024
How a U.N. Agency Became a Flashpoint in the Gaza War
UNRWA tents for internally displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Nine out of 10 Gazans have had to leave their homes during the Israel-Hamas war.
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on September 2024
US Sanctions Venezuelan Officials in Response to Disputed Election
American sanctions have hobbled Venezuela’s oil industry, a crucial source of income for President Nicolás Maduro’s government.
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on September 2024
How Hamas Uses Brutality to Maintain Power
Women mourning three children who were killed in an Israeli attack targeting Muhammed Deif, a senior Hamas commander, that killed some 70 Palestinians in July.
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on September 2024
Robert Lewandowski on Fame, Frailty and the One Voice He Won’t Ignore
“OK, we are athletes,” Robert Lewandowski said, “but in the end we are also human.”
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on September 2024
Biden Administration Ratchets Up Tariffs on Billions of Dollars of Chinese Goods
The tariffs will apply to goods, including electric vehicles, that China has been selling at far cheaper prices than many American businesses.
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on September 2024
Typhoon Yagi Leaves at Least 110 Dead in Myanmar
The police help residents through high water in Pyinmana town in Myanmar’s Naypyidaw region on Friday.
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on September 2024
Toronto Film Festival Pulls Documentary on Russian Soldiers
A protest against “Russians at War” in front of a theater showing the documentary during the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday.
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on September 2024
Some Gazans Say Polio Drive Is Futile While Israel Keeps Bombing
A child receiving polio vaccine drops at a school turned shelter in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, last week.
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on September 2024
A Long Life, Thanks to Where You Live? Not Likely, Says Ig Nobel Winner.
The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday.
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on September 2024
Mexico Remakes Its Entire Judicial System as States Back Vast Overhaul
Judicial workers outside the Supreme Court in Mexico City last month. In recent weeks, more than 50,000 judges and court workers have protested a judicial plan.
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on September 2024
U.N. and Britain Denounce Israeli Attack in Gaza That Killed U.N. Workers
Palestinians searched on Wednesday for missing people under the rubble of a destroyed school turned shelter after an Israeli airstrike in the central Gaza Strip.
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on September 2024
Friday Briefing: U.S. May Let Ukraine Use Long-range Weapons
The aftermath of a Russian missile strike on a sports complex in Kharkiv, Ukraine, this month.
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on September 2024
WADA Report Concludes China Broke Rules in Doping Case
Chinese swimmers who had tested positive for a banned drug months earlier were allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
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on September 2024
U.S. Supports Africa’s Bid for U.N. Security Council Seats, With a Catch
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, during a Security Council meeting on the war in the Gaza Strip, last month.
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on September 2024
Israeli Commandos Carried Out Raid on Secret Weapons Site in Syria
Damage on the outskirts of Masyaf, Syria, after Israeli strikes this week.
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on September 2024
Russian Forces Are Stepping Up Attacks on Pokrovsk, Ukraine Says
Residents collected water from a new distribution point in the key eastern city of Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on Monday.
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on September 2024
Ukraine Says Russian Missile Hit Grain Ship in Black Sea
A cargo vessel being filled with grain at the port of Pivdennyi, Ukraine, in 2022.
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on September 2024
Turkish-American Activist Killed in West Bank to Be Buried in Turkey
Turkish flags outside the home of Aysenur Eygi’s grandfather, in Aydin, Turkey, on Thursday.
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on September 2024
The Grenfell Fire and the Unbearable Slowness of Public Inquiries
The fire at Grenfell Tower in west London on June 14, 2017, killed 72 people. “The simple truth is that the deaths that occurred were all avoidable,” the chairman of a public inquiry said last week.
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on September 2024
Should Ukraine Launch Western Weapons Deep Into Russia?
Ukrainian rescue workers carrying a man injured in a Russian missile strike on a sports complex in Kharkiv, Ukraine earlier this month.
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on September 2024
Mexico Is Split on Judicial Overhaul as Plan Inches Toward Becoming Law
Protesters outside of the Senate in Mexico City on Tuesday.
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on September 2024
After Being Shot, Slovakia’s Leader Targets His Enemies
Prime Minister Robert Fico in July. The Slovakian leader, who has been purging his opponents from a wide range of institutions, survived an assassination attempt in May.
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on September 2024
U.N. Says Gaza’s Anti-Polio Campaign Is Ending With High Hopes
Children receiving doses of the polio vaccine, in Gaza City on Tuesday.
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on September 2024
Deepfake Sex Videos in South Korea Seen as Old Misogyny With New Tech
A protest against deepfake pornography in Seoul last week.
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on September 2024
Citing Gaza Help, Blinken Waives Human Rights Conditions on Aid to Egypt
The decision by Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was based on Egypt’s monthslong role as an intermediary between Hamas and Israel as the two sides negotiate an elusive cease-fire deal.
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on September 2024
Alberto Fujimori, 86, Leader of Peru Imprisoned for Rights Abuses, Dies
Alberto Fujimori, left, Peru’s president from 1990 to 2000, at a military celebration in 1998 that honored the country’s independence.
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on September 2024
Debate Puts Trump’s Affinity for Putin Back in the Spotlight
A gas pipe explosion from a Russian missile strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine, this month.
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on September 2024
Israeli Strike in Gaza Kills 18, Officials Say, Including 6 U.N. Workers
Israeli soldiers during a raid on Wednesday in Tulkarm, in the West Bank.
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on September 2024
U.K.’s Revered NHS Is in Deep Trouble, Darzi Report Finds
The emergency room at Queen’s Hospital in Romford, England, last year. A new report said the National Health Service had been “starved of capital.”
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on September 2024
Islamists Gain in Jordan, Reflecting Public Anger Over Gaza War
A voter arriving to cast her ballot in Amman on Tuesday.
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on September 2024
4 Climbers Are Found Dead on Mont Blanc in the French Alps
There have been several deaths this year on Mont Blanc, where climate change and overcrowding have contributed to adverse conditions for climbers.
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on September 2024
North Korean Missiles Rain Down on Ukraine Despite Sanctions
Part of the tail section of a North Korean Hwasong-11 short-range ballistic missile examined by weapons investigators in Kyiv on Jan. 11.
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on September 2024
The No. 1 Breaker in the World Is … Raygun?
Raygun, the world’s greatest breaker, apparently.
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on September 2024
Where Do Trump and Harris Stand on Israel-Gaza Conflict?
Watching the debate between Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris in Manhattan on Tuesday.
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on September 2024
French Prime Minister Barnier Takes Out Differences With Macron
France’s new prime minister, Michel Barnier, center, at a hospital in Paris on Saturday. It was his first official visit in his new role.
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on September 2024
Biden Says He Is ‘Outraged’ Over Killing of American Activist in West Bank
Mourners took part in a funeral procession for Aysenur Eygi in Nablus in the occupied West Bank on Monday.
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on September 2024
Violence Resurges in Manipur, Indian State Locked in Bloody Conflict for 16 Months
Security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters in Imphal, a city in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, on Tuesday.
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on September 2024
Death Toll in Vietnam From Typhoon Yagi Rises to 143
Yagi was the strongest typhoon to hit Vietnam in decades. Several neighborhoods in the capital, Hanoi, flooded.
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on September 2024
Blinken Visits Kyiv During Precarious Moment in Ukraine War and U.S. Politics
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, center, walking beside his British counterpart, David Lammy, as they arrived via train in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
Iran’s New President Visits Iraq, Tending to an Old Alliance
A handout photo from the Iraqi prime minister’s press office showing Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani of Iraq, left, and President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran, center, in Baghdad on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
Why Nearly All Judges in Mexico Could Soon Be Chosen by Voters
Judiciary workers protesting the contentious legislation last month in front of the Supreme Court in Mexico City.
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on September 2024
Defying Protests, Mexico’s Senate Approves Judicial Overhaul
Protesters outside the Senate in Mexico City on Tuesday night, protesting legislation that would dramatically change Mexico’s judiciary.
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on September 2024
Cholera Deaths Soar Worldwide Despite Being Easily Preventable
A patient in an isolation tent being treated for cholera last year in Malawi. The spread of the disease there was driven by catastrophic weather events.
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on September 2024
Dejected Social Media Users Call ‘Garbage Time’ Over China’s Ailing Economy
Middle East Crisis: Raids Ease in West Bank but Palestinians Fear Israelis’ Return
Pedro Almodóvar, Master of Mystifying Films, Wrote a Book He Can’t Classify
Thursday Briefing: Who Won the Harris-Trump Debate?