Humbled in Syria, Putin Seeks Vindication in Ukraine
Soldiers from Ukraine’s Herkules mobile air defense unit at a shooting range in Kyiv last month. The war is now “all or nothing” for Vladimir V. Putin, one analyst said.
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How America Turned Allies into Enemies in Afghanistan
Mullah Osman Jawhari at his home in Waygal, in Nuristan Province in Afghanistan.
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South Korea President Yoon Defends Martial Law Decree in Defiant Speech
Watching President Yoon Suk Yeol’s address at a railway station in Seoul on Thursday.
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As Europe Looks for a Leader, Italy Thrives While France and Germany Teeter
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy has worked to dispel fears about her party’s post-fascist roots by aligning with her European partners on key issues like support for Ukraine.
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Milei Tames Inflation in Argentina With Painful Policies, Sparking Applause and Anger
President Javier Milei of Argentina speaking at an America First Policy Institute gala at Mar-a-Lago in Florida last month. President-elect Donald J. Trump has lauded Mr. Milei’s tenure in office.
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Syria After al-Assad’s Overthrow: What’s Happening and What Comes Next
A fighter from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on Tuesday near an entrance to Bashar al-Assad’s abandoned presidential palace in Damascus.
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Tangled and Troubling Legacy Pushes Romanians Further to the Right
A woman holding a flag of the antisemitic Legionary Movement during a commemoration for its founder last month in a forest near Bucharest, Romania.
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The Gold Rush at the Heart of a Civil War
Sudanese soldiers drove through a destroyed market in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, in April.
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U.K. Bans Puberty Blockers for Teens Indefinitely
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, said he had received advice from medical experts that there was an unacceptable risk in prescribing puberty blockers without further research into their impact.
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How ‘Her Story,’ a Feminist Comedy, Came to Rule China’s Box Office
Shao Yihui, right, the director of “Her Story,” a feminist-themed comedy that has become a box office hit in China, along with members of the cast at a premiere in Beijing.
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Explosion in Afghanistan Kills Minister in Highest-Profile Blast Since Taliban’s Return
Khalil Haqqani delivering remarks after Friday Prayer in Kabul in 2021. He was a leading figure in the Taliban’s rise to power in 2021.
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Biden Is Pardoning Nearly 1,500 Americans, a Record for a U.S. President
The White House said that the commutations represented President Biden’s commitment to “help reunite families, strengthen communities, and reintegrate individuals back into society.”
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What I Learned From a Reclusive Taliban Commander
Mullah Osman Jawhari in the hills above his home. “There was no Taliban here when the war started,” he said.
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Assad’s Fall in Syria Renews Push for Justice on Crimes Committed by His Regime
People celebrated in the center of Damascus, Syria’s capital, on Monday. The Assad family ruled the country brutally for more than 50 years.
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Thursday Briefing
In Damascus, Syria, yesterday.
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How to Pack a ‘Go Bag’ for Extreme Weather
An extreme-weather go bag will eliminate the panic of wondering what to bring with you, and it may end up saving your life.
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Canada’s Plan To Avoid Trump’s Tariffs Takes Shape
Commercial trucks heading toward the U.S. border last month from South Surrey, British Columbia.
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Syria’s New Leaders Balance Huge Struggles Amid Disorder
A former detainee of the notorious Sednaya prison being treated at a hospital after being freed by rebels.
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In Aleppo, Jubilant Syrians Return to a Ravaged City and Toppled Monuments
Young men, some of them rebel fighters, climbing on a giant statue that previously depicted Basel al-Assad, the former president Bashar al-Assad’s late brother, riding a horse on Wednesday in Aleppo, Syria.
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Thursday Briefing: The Struggle to Create Order in Syria
A defaced portrait of President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Tuesday.
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U.S. Strategy on Syria Risks ISIS Resurgence, Kurdish General Warns
Destroyed trucks loaded with weapons for a Kurdish-led force after a Turkish airstrike near Qamishli, northeastern Syria, on Wednesday.
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Biden’s Top Aides Race to Middle East as Militias Wield Power in Syria
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken left for the Middle East on Wednesday, where the main topic of his meetings will be the future governance of Syria.
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Could Cats Become a Vector for Bird Flu?
Scientists worry that if a cat were simultaneously infected with H5N1 and a seasonal flu virus, the H5N1 virus could acquire mutations to spread efficiently among people.
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Who Is Mohammed al-Bashir, Syria’s New Prime Minister?
Mohammed al-Bashir during a news conference in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib in November.
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Who Set the Stage for al-Assad’s Ouster? There Are Different Answers in the U.S. and Israel.
A defaced portrait of Bashar al-Assad at the Presidential Palace in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday.
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Scholz Calls for Confidence Vote, in Step Toward German Elections
Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany with his cabinet on Wednesday.
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How Many People Have Died in Syria’s Civil War?
Relatives look for bodies of loved ones who were taken or disappeared at the Sednaya Prison on Tuesday.
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What Prince William’s Chat With Trump May Reveal About UK Diplomacy
President-elect Donald J. Trump and Prince William met in Paris after a Notre-Dame reopening ceremony on Saturday. Mr. Trump said, “I had a great talk with the prince,” whom he described as “really, very handsome.”
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In Aleppo, Rebels Give a Sense of What Is to Come for Syria
A damaged poster of former President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo, Syria, last week.
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Biden Administration Looks to Reinforce U.S.-China Ties Ahead of Trump’s Return
Top Treasury officials will travel to China this week to try and convince their Beijing peers to keep lines of communication open after President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office next month.
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Wednesday Briefing
Syrian naval ships destroyed in an Israeli attack on the port city of Latakia.
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Houthi Attacks Continue to Disrupt Shipping Industry As Israel-Hamas War Rages On
Capt. Tobias Kammann on his freighter, the Hanoi Express, docked in Hamburg, Germany. Ships’ access to the Suez Canal has been cut off for the last year by attackers in Yemen.
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South Korean Police Raid President Yoon’s Office in Martial Law Inquiry
Yoon Suk Yeol, the president of South Korea, in his office in Seoul in 2022.
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North Korea Breaks Silence on South Korea’s Martial Law Declaration
Protesters outside the National Assembly in Seoul on Saturday, hours before a bid to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol failed.
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Trump Offers Confusing Clues on Syria
Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, two days after President Bashar al-Assad fled the country and rebel forces took control of the capital.
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A Northern Gaza Hospital Lacks Food and Water for Patients, Officials Say
The Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip after Israeli troops raided it in November 2023.
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Syrian Rebels Vow Punishment for Atrocities Under Bashar al-Assad
A defaced portrait of the ousted Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, beside a highway in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday.
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French Court Finds Author Charles Onana Guilty of Denying Rwandan Genocide
Family photographs of some of those who died in the Rwandan genocide on display in the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center in Kigali, Rwanda, in 2014.
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Wednesday Briefing: A Wave of Post-Assad Attacks
An Israeli military vehicle entering the buffer zone with Syria.
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A Tour of Assad’s Monumental Palace, With a Scruffy Rebel as a Guide
Abu Oweis, a rebel fighter, in the office of a longtime senior adviser to Bashar al-Assad at the abandoned presidential palace in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday.
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Arrests Made in 2021 Crash That Killed Over 50 Migrants
Josefa Quino Canil De Zavala after being detained on Monday in a joint operation between Guatemalan and U.S. authorities for alleged involvement in a deadly 2021 truck accident that killed more than 50 migrants in southern Mexico.
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Cyclist Rohan Dennis Pleads Guilty in Death of Wife Melissa Hoskins, Fellow Olympian
Rohan Dennis pleaded guilty to creating a risk of harm. He faces seven years in prison.
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FIFA Bends Own Rules to Give Saudi Arabia 2034 World Cup
Argentina players celebrating with the trophy after winning the World Cup in December 2022, in Qatar.
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Sednaya Prison in Syria: What to Know
A man praying inside a liberated cell in Sednaya prison, in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria, on Monday.
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Trump Mocks Trudeau and Canada in Post on Tariffs and Trade
President-elect Donald Trump listening during a meeting in 2019 with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada.
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Arctic Tundra Has Long Helped Cool Earth. Now, It’s Fueling Warming.
A hill with an ice core, known as a pingo, in the Mackenzie River Delta, Northwest Territories.
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Police Arrest 3 After Deadly Explosion in the Netherlands
An explosion and fire killed at least six people and destroyed part of an apartment building in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Saturday.
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Protests in Kenya Demand Action Over a Spate of Brutal Murders of Women
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday to demand that the government take action to stop the killings of women and girls.
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Israel Strikes Military Assets Across Syria to Keep Them From Rebels
The aftermath on Tuesday of an overnight strike on the Barzah scientific research center, which had been linked to the Syrian government’s chemical weapons program.
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South Korea Martial Law Fallout: What to Know on Yoon’s Future
Police officers near the National Assembly in Seoul last week after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law.
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Netanyahu Finally Takes the Stand in His Corruption Trial
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to testify in his trial on corruption charges at the district court in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
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South Korea’s Opposition Leader Determined to Oust President Yoon After Martial Law
Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the opposition party, at his Democratic Party’s meeting room in the National Assembly in Seoul on Monday.
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Prince William and Jacob Elordi Grow Beards That Spark Strong Feelings
Prince William has had a beard at multiple public appearances in recent weeks.
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In Georgia Protests, Echoes of Ukraine’s Past Revolutions
Fireworks set off by protesters exploded around riot police during a demonstration in Tbilisi, Georgia, last week.
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Live Updates: Blinken Arrives in Jordan for Talks on Syria
Young Koreans, Seeing Democracy at Stake, Take to the Streets
A Search in Syria for the Disappeared
A Father’s Search for His Missing Daughter in South Korea
Uncertainty and Hope on the Road to and from Damascus
Monarch Butterflies Are Recommended for Protected Status in U.S.