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A portrait of a Hezbollah cleric at a destroyed Ottoman-era market in Nabatieh, Lebanon, last month.

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Smoke rises from the site of an airstrike in Sana, Yemen, on Friday.

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President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela during a swearing in ceremony for militia members this month in the country’s capital.

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President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, shown in July, has spent the last six months detaining foreigners, who experts say he plans to use as bargaining chips.

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Shiu Ka-chun at Baptist University in Kowloon Tong in 2016.

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A banner showing Youssef Ziyadne and his son Hamza in Rahat, southern Israel, on Thursday.

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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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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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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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Selling Sudanese goods in Giza, Egypt, in September. Egypt’s relatively lax immigration rules have attracted foreigners of all kinds for decades.

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Gisèle Pelicot leaving the courthouse in Avignon, France, after a hearing in November.

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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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Mauro Morandi on Budelli in 2017. He said he had fallen in love with the island at first sight.

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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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A firefighting aircraft dropping fire retardant near the Palisades Fire in California on Tuesday.

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Extinguishing hot spots from the Eaton fire on Thursday.

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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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María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, was briefly detained on Thursday after appearing at a protest in Caracas.

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A prisoner at Guantánamo in 2019. Fifteen inmates remain at the military base.

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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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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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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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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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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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Members of the Ukrainian National Guard preparing to fire from their position, near Selydove, Ukraine, last October.

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Col. Park Jung-hun after being cleared of defamation and insubordination charges on Thursday. He had accused President Yoon Suk Yeol of whitewashing his findings about the death of a marine in 2023.

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Firefighters battling the Eaton fire in Los Angeles County on Wednesday.

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Hadi Nazari, shirtless in center, was lost for nearly two weeks after going hiking in Kosciuszko National Park.

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Israeli soldiers looking toward Beit Hanoun, in the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday.

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Relatives and friends of Youssef Ziyadne and his son Hamza, two Bedouins who were taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023, gathered at the family home in the southern Bedouin city of Rahat, Israel on Wednesday.

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A pro-Hezbollah billboard near a taxi station in Valiasr Square in Tehran. Brig. Gen. Behrouz Esbati gave a speech about Syria in the city on Dec. 31.

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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and France’s foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, in Paris on Wednesday.

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TKO owns Ultimate Fighting Championship, which has become a $10 billion company.

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President-elect Donald J. Trump during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., on Tuesday.

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The Gulf of Mexico, as seen from Sarasota, Fla.

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Ozempic is manufactured at a Novo Nordisk factory in Denmark. The drug is among the Danish products that are popular in America.

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British troops returning from Afghanistan during a ceremony in Scotland in 2013.

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The aftermath of an Israeli raid in the village of Tamoun, in the Israeli occupied West Bank, on Wednesday.

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The city of Ghent in Belgium.

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A view of Ilulissat, Greenland. It is the world’s largest island and has growing strategic value.

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Laura Loomer, a far-right activist, has raised alarms about Elon Musk’s influence on President-elect Donald J. Trump.

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Jean-Marie Le Pen speaking at a National Front congress in 2014. His daughter ousted him the following year, and the party was renamed the National Rally in 2018.

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Inspecting the damage in a building in Deir al Balah, Gaza, on Wednesday after an Israeli airstrike.

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Firefighters work at the site of an administrative building damaged by Russian air and missile strikes, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine on Wednesday.

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A photograph released by the Palazzo Chigi press office on Wednesday showing Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, who had been jailed in Iran since December, arriving in Rome following her release.

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Herbert Kickl, the leader of the far-right Freedom Party, after speaking with reporters on Tuesday in Vienna.

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President-elect Donald J. Trump has said Panama charges U.S. vessels “exorbitant prices” to travel the Panama Canal.

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Justin Trudeau burst onto the international scene in 2015, a newly elected leader of Canada who was born while his father was in his first of four terms in office.

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The empty presidential chair of Lebanon after Michel Aoun’s six-year term in the office ended, at the presidential palace in Baabda in 2022.

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Lim Kimya was shot on a busy street in Bangkok on Tuesday, in what appeared to be a planned killing.

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Security personnel at the Seoul residence of Yoon Suk Yeol, the suspended president of South Korea. Mr. Yoon was impeached after a short-lived martial law declaration last month.

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Rescue workers conducting search and rescue for survivors in the aftermath of an earthquake in Changsuo Township of Dingri County in Tibet on Tuesday.

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Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta.

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President-elect Donald J. Trump speaking to reporters at his resort on Tuesday.

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Taliban flags in Kabul, the Afghan capital. The Taliban have acknowledged holding two Americans but have refused to say whether they are holding a third whose return the U.S. government is also seeking.

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The battle-scarred streets of Omdurman, part of the Khartoum metropolis, in April.

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President-elect Donald J. Trump declined to provide details about what he or his advisers are doing to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza.

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As President-elect Donald J. Trump continued to stress his desire for the United States to purchase Greenland, Donald Trump Jr. flew into the territory for a visit on Tuesday.

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Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza who is now in Israeli detention, supervising the treatment of a Palestinian injured in an Israeli strike in November.

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