Senior U.S. Diplomats in Syria to Meet With Governing Militias
A rebel fighter with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the most powerful militia group in Syria, at a presidential palace in the capital, Damascus.
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Trump Tariffs? Europe Braces but Has No Clear Strategy
Newly imported cars in Wilmington, Calif. In 2023, the United States and the European Union traded more than $1.5 trillion in goods and services.
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Russia’s Abrupt Setback in Syria Creates Headaches for Putin
A portrait of former President Bashar al-Assad, defaced after his ouster, hanging along a highway on the outskirts of Homs, Syria, on Monday.
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Coke, Pepsi and Other U.S. Companies Face Wall Street Pressure Over Labor Abuses in India
Sugar cane workers in Maharashtra, western India, in 2023. An investigation by The New York Times and The Fuller Project this year revealed a brutal, endemic labor system there.
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During Pelicot Trial, Avignon’s Ramparts Give a Platform to Denounce ‘Rape Culture’
The walls of Avignon, France, draped with a banner in French meaning “Rape is rape.” The Pelicot trial was occurring in the modern courthouse just across the road.
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French Court Convicts 8 Over Their Roles in Events Leading to Beheading of Teacher
A tribute ceremony in 2021 in northeastern France for Samuel Paty, a teacher who had been beheaded a year before.
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Matteo Salvini Acquitted After Blocking Rescue of Migrant Boat
Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister and the leader of the anti-immigrant League party.
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Cyclone Chido Death Toll Nearly Doubles in Mozambique
Destruction in Pemba, Mozambique, on Wednesday after Cyclone Chido made landfall.
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Australia Targets China’s Influence With Deals in Pacific Islands
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia announcing a deal on Friday to help the Solomon Islands expand its police force.
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Putin Glosses Over Russian Setbacks, Including Syria
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at his year-end news conference in Moscow, which has become an annual ritual.
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At 23, Surviving Scandal to Take a Green Seat in the E.U. Parliament
Lena Schilling speaking at the European Parliament in September. At 23, she is the youngest lawmaker in the legislative body.
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Musk Expresses Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s Election
Elon Musk has long made heavy use of X, which he bought in 2022, to express his views on politics in the United States and abroad.
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Five Books That Explain the Chaos of 2024
The International Court of Justice before the verdict announcement in a genocide case brought against Israel, in The Hague, the Netherlands, in January.
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Romanian Court Blocks Andrew Tate’s Case From Heading to Trial
Andrew Tate, left, and his brother Tristan at the Court of Appeals building in Bucharest, Romania, last month.
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Dennis Overbye on Retiring from The New York Times: A Solstice of the Soul
Dennis Overbye, The New York Times’s “cosmic affairs correspondent,” during a visit to The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., in 2011.
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Friday Briefing
Gisèle Pelicot leaving the courthouse in Avignon, France, yesterday.
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Looking for the Restless Soul of Nella Larsen in Copenhagen
Retracing the footsteps of Nella Larsen, an acclaimed and enigmatic Harlem Renaissance writer whose early years were spent in Copenhagen. Pictured is Queen Louise’s Bridge.
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Its Syrian Bases in Doubt, Russia Sends Cargo Flights to Libya
A Russian Ilyushin Il-76MD plane flies over Moscow in 2022. At least four Russian Il-76 cargo planes have made trips from Moscow or Minsk to Benghazi, in eastern Libya, and back since last Thursday.
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Peter Mandelson to Be Named UK Ambassador to US
Peter Mandelson served as a cabinet minister in the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
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Friday Briefing: 51 Men Convicted in French Rape Trial
Gisèle Pelicot leaving the courthouse in Avignon, France, yesterday.
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Gisèle Pelicot’s Testimony in France Rape Trial Becomes a Message of Hope
Gisèle Pelicot leaving the courthouse in Avignon, France, after judges sentenced her former husband on Thursday to 20 years for serially raping her.
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Trump’s Return May Worsen Financial Woes for Global Health Institutions
A health worker in Burkina Faso distributing malaria prevention drugs to children in 2019, part of an effort partially financed by the Global Health Fund.
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A Gaza Hospital Pleads for a Respite After Israeli Attacks
Treating a wounded person at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip after Israeli airstrikes this month.
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Zelensky Raises Prospect of European Peacekeepers in Ukraine
A destroyed Ukrainian tank hit by a Russian drone last May remained in pieces alongside the road between villages not far from the front line in the Kharkiv region, in northern Ukraine, this month.
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Who Are the 51 Men Convicted in the Gisèle Pelicot Rape Trial?
A lawyer for one of the accused, Paul Gontard, speaking to reporters after the verdict in Avignon, France, on Thursday.
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Israel Launches Airstrikes Against Houthis in Yemen as Netanyahu Issues Warning
The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike at a power station in Sana, the Yemeni capital, on Thursday.
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4 Reasons China Meddles in Local U.S. Politics
Governor Gavin Newsom of California, center, with the Chinese ambassador to the United States, Xie Feng, at an event in August welcoming pandas to the San Diego Zoo.
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‘Pandas Become the Bait’: How China Seeks Influence in U.S. Cities
Chinese and Californian officials at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in August at the San Diego Zoo.
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Biden, Headed to the Exit, Sets an Aggressive Climate Goal for the U.S.
The Naughton coal-fired power plant in Kemmerer, Wyo., in 2023.
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China Says Astronauts Break Record with 9 Hour Spacewalk
SHENZHOU-19 ASTRONAUTS CONDUCTING SPACE WALK OUTSIDE TIANGONG SPACE STATION
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Thursday Briefing
A former member of Bashar al-Assad’s security forces handing over his weapons.
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Europe Has a Leadership Vacuum. How Will it Handle Trump?
U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump, left, with President Emmanuel Macron of France, center, and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Paris last week.
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A Timeline of Dominique Pelicot’s Rape Trial in France
Gisèle Pelicot, center, allowed the trial to be public, saying she wanted society to change the way it dealt with rape.
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Google Street View Captures a Man Loading a Bag Into a Trunk. Arrests Follow.
An image captured by a Google Street View vehicle shows a man hunched over the trunk of a car in the hamlet of Tajueco, in the northern Spanish province of Soria.
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Wednesday Briefing: Russia Arrests a Suspected Assassin
Near the scene of the explosion that killed Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov in Moscow on Tuesday.
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U.K. Court Rules Police Can Seize £2 Million From Andrew Tate
Andrew Tate, left, and Tristan Tate at a court in Bucharest, Romania, in October.
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Killing of Russian General Sends a Message, but Doesn’t Change the War for Ukraine
Men loading the body of a Russian general, Igor Kirillov, onto a bus after he and an aide were killed on a Moscow street on Tuesday.
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Cease-Fire Between Kurdish and Turkish-Backed Forces Is Extended in Northern Syria
Celebrating the fall of the government of Bashar al-Assad in Manbij, Syria, this month.
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China’s Nuclear Buildup Is on Track Despite Graft Scandals, Pentagon Says
Sailors at a naval museum in the Chinese city of Qingdao. China’s navy “continues to develop into a global force,” according to a Pentagon report.
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Who Is Dominique Pelicot, the Man at the Center of France’s Mass Rape Trial?
Demonstrating against sexual violence last month outside the court in Avignon, France, where Dominique Pelicot was standing trial.
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Zelensky to Meet With E.U. Leaders to Discuss Ukraine’s Future
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, left, with Mark Rutte, the head of NATO, in Brussels, in October.
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In Syria, First Domestic Flight Since Assad’s Overthrow Lands in Aleppo
Fire trucks spraying water on a Syrian Air jet arriving at the airport in Aleppo on Wednesday.
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Who Is Friedrich Merz of Germany?
Friedrich Merz, right, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union, addressing Germany’s lower house of Parliament ahead of a no-confidence vote against Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, on Monday.
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Al-Assad’s Soldiers Hope for Amnesty. First, They Have to Take a Number.
Former soldiers and police officers were also asked to hand in their weapons.
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Tiny Coffins: Measles Is Killing Thousands of Children in Congo
Werra Maulu Botey, in black polo shirt, with the coffin of his daughter, Olive, who had just died of measles, as they waited to bury her in Équateur Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The Once Booming Drug Town Going Bust Under Taliban Rule
Men praying on a small patch of grass last year in Shagai, in Afghanistan’s Bakwa District. The district became a booming hub of production and trade for opium, heroin and methamphetamines.
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Suspect in Russian General’s Killing Detained Outside of Moscow
Investigators at the site where Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov and an aide were killed in Moscow on Tuesday.
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Wednesday Briefing
Igor Kirillov, a general, and an aide were killed by a bomb on a Moscow street yesterday.
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U.K. Police Chiefs Were Too Slow to Respond to Summer Riots, Report Says
Rioters attacking a hotel that was housing asylum seekers in Rotherham, Britain, on Aug. 4. “Intelligence assessments didn’t predict the rising tide of violent disorder well enough,” a report said Wednesday.
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Ukrainians Mourn the Loss of Viktoria Roshchyna and Her Stories
Scenes of a Cyclone’s Destruction in Mayotte, France
Nvidia’s Global Chips Sales Could Collide With US-China Tensions
Gisèle Pelicot Speaks After France Rape Trial Verdict: ‘We Share the Same Struggle’
In Homs, Smiles and Tears Amid a Ravaged Landscape After al-Assad’s Fall