Behind the Dismantling of Hezbollah: Decades of Israeli Intelligence
Hezbollah supporters gathered in November at the site where the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in Israeli airstrikes in September.
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Ignoring Warnings, a Growing Band of Tourists Venture to Afghanistan
Marino Sakata, a Japanese tourist, at the Sakhi Shah-e Mardan Shrine in Kabul. She wore a chador lent by an employee at the shrine.
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Ukrainian Aid Workers Risk Life and Limb to Get Civilians to Safety
Vasyl Pipa speeding through the ruins of Kurakhove, in eastern Ukraine. He is helping civilians escape the town as part of the White Angels police unit.
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Netanyahu to Have Prostate Removal Surgery
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, center, arriving at the district court in Tel Aviv this month for his long-running trial on corruption charges.
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Putin Apologizes but Does Not Take Responsibility for Azerbaijani Plane Crash
The wreckage of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane after a deadly crash on Wednesday in Kazakhstan.
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Elon Musk Doubles Down on Support for German Far-Right AfD
Elon Musk on Capitol Hill earlier this month. His endorsement of Germany’s far-right AfD party is not the first time he has meddled in the elections of other countries.
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Gaza Humanitarian Crisis Worsens Amid Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire Push: What to Know
Children sit inside their family’s tent at a camp in the central Gaza Strip. Over the last 14 months, at least 90 percent of Gaza’s population has been displaced at least once.
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Myanmar’s Long-Suffering Rohingya Face More Abuse From New Persecutors
Rohingya refugees Shamshida, 25, left, and Manwara, 19, in their tent in Teknaf, Bangladesh.
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Greeks Are Defying an Indoor Smoking Ban
As the European Union seeks to extend smoking restrictions to outdoor spaces, Greece’s official response has been: No, thanks.
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Has Russia’s Shadow Fleet Added Sabotage to Its List?
A Finnish Coast Guard vessel watching over the oil tanker Eagle S on Friday, in an image provided by the Finnish Border Guard.
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What We Know About the Plane Crash in Kazakhstan
The wreckage of an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 after a deadly crash near the airport at Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday.
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South Korea’s Acting President Has Only Been in Office Since Friday
Choi Sang-mok, South Korea’s acting president, after an emergency meeting in Seoul on Sunday.
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Shigeko Sasamori, Hiroshima Survivor Who Preached Peace, Dies at 92
Shigeko Sasamori in 1985. “I have a mission to tell people that this should not happen again,” she told a Senate subcommittee investigating the effects of nuclear war on human health in 1980.
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Syria’s New Government Steps Up Pursuit of Assad Loyalists
A member of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham directing traffic in Damascus, Syria, on Friday.
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Playing to Win: How a First Nation Turned Around Its Fortunes
Chief Terry Paul of Membertou First Nation was re-elected in June, his 40th consecutive year leading the community.
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Takeaways From a Times Correspondent’s Return to Afghanistan
Taliban fighters last year in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan.
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Trucks Carrying Aid Finally Reach Sudan’s War-Torn Capital Region
A photograph released by the World Food Program showing one of its aid trucks in Sudan, last month.
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Kazakhstan Plane Crash Survivors Describe Chaos on Azerbaijan Airlines Flight
“Thank God I’m alive,” said Zulfugar Asadov, a flight attendant on the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan. He spoke from a hospital in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Friday.
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In a Political Year, Some Deaths Spoke to the Struggles for Democracy
Top row, from left: Ethel Kennedy, Alexei Navalny, Faith Ringgold and Donald Sutherland. Middle row, from left: Shafiqah Hudson, Carl Weathers, Sheila Jackson Lee, Chita Rivera, Françoise Hardy and Willie Mays. Middle left: James Earl Jones. Bottom row, from left: Richard Simmons, Kris Kristofferson and Maggie Smith.
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Canadian Ministers Meet Trump Aides at Mar-a-Lago to Discuss Border, and Tariffs
Mélanie Joly, Canada’s foreign minister, and Dominic LeBlanc, who recently became finance minister, last year in Ottawa.
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What We Know About the Ship Finland Seized Over Fears of Russian Sabotage
A Finnish ship watched over the oil tanker Eagle S outside Porkkalanniemi, Finland, on Thursday in an image provided by the Finnish Border Guard.
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A Month On, a Tenuous Cease-fire Holds Between Israel and Hezbollah
In the suburb of Dahiya, a Hezbollah stronghold on the southern outskirts of Beirut, the announcement of cease-fire last month was celebrated.
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Italian Journalist Is Detained While Reporting in Iran
Cecilia Sala, a journalist who has been detained in Iran, speaking in Milan, Italy, in February.
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Israeli Military Forces Patients and Staff to Leave Hospital in Northern Gaza
Outside Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip in October.
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Ukraine Slows Missile Fire Into Russia as Trump Prepares to Take Office
A photograph released by Russia’s defense ministry on Nov. 26 purporting to show the remains of a U.S.-produced ATACMS missile at the Kursk-Vostochny airport in the Kursk region of Russia.
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10 Years After Obama’s Opening to Cuba, Despair Replaces Hope
Luis Manuel Perez, 57, (with hat) waits in front of Havana’s Central Park with other drivers, sometimes for hours, hoping that a tourist will hire him for a classic car ride around Havana.
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The Children Who Left Gaza
Italian summer camp kids peppered Shaymaa Shady, 6, with questions about how she lost her leg. “Ha fatto la guerra,” one child said. She went to war.
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Some African Leaders Are Optimistic About Trump
President-elect Donald J. Trump during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, FL this month.
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Friday Briefing
Ilkka Koskimäki, right, Finland’s national police commissioner, at a news conference in Helsinki.
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Two Sailors Die in Separate Incidents in Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
Yachts during the start of the Sydney to Hobart race on Thursday.
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South Korean Lawmakers Impeach Acting President as Crisis Deepens
South Korea’s National Assembly Speaker Woo Won Shik, top, spoke as lawmakers of the ruling People Power Party protested during a plenary session for the impeachment motion against the country’s acting President Han Duck-soo at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday.
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Friday Briefing: How Israel Weakened Civilian Protections
One of the first buildings destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Trump Wants U.S. Control of the Panama Canal. Here Are 3 Things to Know.
President-elect Donald J. Trump has said Panama charges U.S. vessels “exorbitant prices” to travel the Panama Canal.
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Holiday Briefing: A Day to Celebrate
These little gnomes are part of a Swedish Christmas tradition.
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Mozambique Unrest: What to Know
A burning barricade in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, when protests broke out again on Monday after a court confirmed the ruling party candidate as the winner of a disputed presidential election.
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Manmohan Singh, Indian Prime Minister, Dies at 92
Manmohan Singh in 2009. India’s first prime minister from the Sikh minority, he led the government from 2004 to 2014.
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Norway Bus Plunges Into Lake, Killing at Least 2
A bus overturned on Thursday in snowy conditions in northwestern Norway.
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Syrian Rebel Government Hunts for Senior Assad Official, Prompting Deadly Clashes
Members of the rebel group that led the offensive to topple the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday.
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Biden and Aides Courted Allies Who Undermined U.S. Goals
President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea with President Biden at Camp David in August 2023. Mr. Yoon was impeached by his country’s legislature after declaring martial law this month.
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Finland Seizes Ship After Undersea Power Cable to Estonia Is Cut
Ilkka Koskimäki, right, Finland’s national police commissioner, and other Finnish officials discussed the cutting of undersea cables on Thursday at a news conference in Helsinki.
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Israel Strikes Houthi Targets in Yemen, Hitting Airport and Ports
Israeli strikes near the international airport in Sana, Yemen, on Thursday.
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Azerbaijan Airlines Crash Investigators Focus on Russian Defenses as Possible Cause
A still image from a video made available by the administration of Kazakhstan’s Mangystau region of a part of Azerbaijan Airlines’ Embraer 190 near the Aktau airport on Thursday.
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Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians
One of the first buildings destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Prosecutors in Taiwan Indict Ko Wen-je, Former Presidential Candidate
Ko Wen-je, center, during the presidential election in Taipei in January.
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20 Years Since the Deadly Tsunami in Asia
A woman mourning a relative killed in the tsunami in Cuddalore, India, on Dec. 28, 2004.
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Thursday Briefing
Rescuers tried to put out a fire on Wednesday after a drone strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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Still Sounding Young at 85, She Is the Voice of Old Japan
Midori Kato has been voice acting the character Sazae Fuguta in the TV animation series Sazae-san since it started in 1969.
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How An Underground Church for L.G.B.T. Africans Has Thrived in Kenya
Boeing 737-800, a Precursor to the 737 Max, Is Used Widely.
Syria’s Alawite Minority, Favored by the Assads, Looks Nervously to the Future
Live Updates: Jeju Air Flight Crashes in South Korea, Killing More Than 160
Amid Israel-Hezbollah Crossfire, Fish Farmers Stay Put
In Syria, U.S. Hopes to Avoid Replay of Afghanistan
E.P.A. Promotes Fertilizer Carrying PFAS, Long After 3M Shared Risks
A Century of Human Detritus, Visualized
How Mexican Cartels Test Fentanyl on Vulnerable People and Animals
A Young Sudanese Trapped by War Makes Painful Choices and Is Viewed With Suspicion