With Schools in Ruins, Education in Gaza Will Be Hobbled for Years
Palestinian children last month at a destroyed school in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. More than 80 percent of Gaza’s schools have been severely damaged or destroyed by fighting, according to the United Nations.
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What to Know About Xi Jinping’s Trip to Europe
The plane carrying President Xi Jinping of China arriving on Sunday at Orly airport, south of Paris.
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on May 2024
Meet Edmundo Gonzalez, the Candidate Challenging Maduro in Venezuela’s Elections
Edmundo González has emerged as the candidate the government would not seek to block and that the opposition would support.
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on May 2024
Russia to Hold Drills on Tactical Nuclear Weapons in New Tensions With West
A devastated village on the outskirts of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.
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3 Bodies in Mexico Are Identified as Missing Australians and American
Rescue workers at the site where three bodies were found in La Bocana, Baja California, Mexico, on Friday.
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on May 2024
Qantas to Pay $79 Million For Selling Tickets on Canceled Flights
Qantas planes at Melbourne Airport in Australia.
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China’s Xi Visits Europe, Seeking Strategic Opportunity
President Xi Jinping of China and his wife, Peng Liyuan, on Sunday at Orly airport, south of Paris. Mr. Xi’s visit to Europe is testing the continent’s delicate balancing act between China and the United States.
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DNA Tests and Stranded Bodies: Ukraine’s Struggle to Name Its Dead
Workers at a morgue in Ukraine’s Donetsk region in March. Identifying the dead can sometimes take several months.
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Panama Election: José Raúl Mulino Wins Presidential Race
Panama’s president-elect, José Raúl Mulino, greeting supporters in Panama City on Sunday.
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Rishi Sunak’s Dismal Task: Leading U.K. Conservatives to Likely Defeat
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain, center, at a Downing Street meeting last month to discuss illegal migration. He has invested much of his political capital on immigration.
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Netanyahu Asserts Israel’s Right to Fight Its Enemies in Defiant Speech
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel speaking at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Sunday.
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Monday Briefing
Palestinians at the site of an Israeli strike in Rafah in southern Gaza on Sunday.
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Monday Briefing: Xi Jinping Visits Europe
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal of France welcomed Xi Jinping, China’s leader, yesterday.
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Cease-Fire Talks Between Israel and Hamas Again at an Impasse
The failure to strike a deal meant Palestinians in Gaza would not experience an imminent reprieve and the families of hostages would have to wait longer for the freedom of their loved ones.
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Hamas Claims Responsibility for a Rocket Attack Near Kerem Shalom
Israeli soldiers and medics by an ambulance in southern Israel near the border with Gaza on Sunday.
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Hundreds of Bahraini Political Prisoners Freed in ‘Bittersweet’ Royal Pardon
In 2011, more than 10,000 people streamed into Pearl Square in Bahrain’s capital, Manama, for an antigovernment demonstration in what became the largest political protest in the Persian Gulf kingdom in recent memory.
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Teenager Fatally Shot by Australian Police After He Stabs a Man
Police Commissioner Col Blanch of Western Australia at a news conference in Perth on Sunday.
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Charges Against Cuellar Lay Bare Azerbaijan’s Influence Attempts
Representative Henry Cuellar, Democrat of Texas, is charged with accepting bribes and acting as a foreign agent in a yearslong scheme.
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Parts of Gaza in ‘Full-Blown Famine,’ U.N. Aid Official Says
Palestinian children waiting for food in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, in March. As of mid-April, at least 28 children under 12 had died of malnutrition or related causes in Gaza hospitals.
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Canadian Arrests Highlight Alleged Gang Role in India’s Intelligence Operations
People gathered at the Sikh temple in Surrey, British Columbia, yesterday, the site of the 2023 murder of a Sikh nationalist leader, Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
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Investor’s Lawsuit Accuses 777 Partners of $600 Million Fraud
Everton, the financially strapped English Premier League soccer team, recently said it was seeking alternate investors.
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on May 2024
Sadiq Khan Re-elected Mayor of London in Latest Win for Labour Party
Mayor Sadiq Khan of London and his supporters in the British capital on Wednesday.
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on May 2024
Parts of Gaza Are in Famine, World Food Program Chief Says
Palestinians gathering to receive meals cooked by the World Central Kitchen at a school sheltering displaced people in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
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Moving Target
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Lessons From the Front Lines of Canada’s Fentanyl Crisis
A nurse at the Crosstown Clinic, a supervised injection site in Vancouver, British Columbia, handed out a syringe of medical-grade heroin to a patient.
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on May 2024
The Bleak Life in Captivity of Niger’s Deposed President, Mohamed Bazoum
President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger in 2022. For the past nine months, he has been held captive in an isolated wing of his house.
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on May 2024
Drones Changed This Civil War, and Linked Rebels to the World
Members of a Karenni Nationalities Defense Force drone team, including the commander, 3D, at far left, and the pilot, Ko Shan Gyi, working the controls, as they test a drone at a K.N.D.F. base in Karenni State, Myanmar, in February.
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Israel, Gaza and the Law on Starvation in War
Palestinians lining up to collect food in Rafah in December. As of mid-April, at least 28 children had died of malnutrition in Gaza hospitals, according to local health authorities.
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on May 2024
After 3 Tourists Go Missing, Bodies Are Found in Baja California
Rescue and forensic workers and prosecutors near La Bocana beach in Baja California, Mexico, on Friday.
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on May 2024
How Does the World See the U.S. Campus Protests?
Protesters clashed with California Highway Patrol officers at the University of California, Los Angeles, on Wednesday.
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on May 2024
With Pressure Rising for a Gaza Cease-Fire, Turkey Cuts Trade With Israel
A protest in solidarity with Palestinians on Friday at Beyazit Square in Istanbul. Turkey said it would suspend trade with Israel until a “permanent cease-fire” in the Gaza Strip.
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Canadian Police Arrest 3 in Killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar
Protesters outside the Indian Consulate in Vancouver in September. Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh nationalist and Canadian citizen, was killed in June in British Columbia.
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Henry Cuellar, Texas Representative, and His Wife Indicted on Bribery Charges
Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas is one of the more conservative Democrats in the House and the only anti-abortion member of his party in the chamber.
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on May 2024
Gas Stove Pollution Risk Is Greatest in Smaller Homes, Study Finds
Yannai Kashtan, a scientist from Stanford University, lit a stove in a New York City apartment as part of the research last year.
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on May 2024
Voters Swing to Labour in English Local Elections: Key Takeaways
Ballots being sorted in Blackpool, England, where Labour reclaimed a seat it had long held but lost to the Conservatives in the landslide 2019 election.
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Liberia Moves to Create War Crimes Court, Decades After Civil Wars Ended
A 2018 march in Monrovia, Liberia, to call for the establishment of a war crimes court for offenses committed during the country’s civil wars.
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on May 2024
Champions League: Bayern Munich, Dortmund and the Lure of the Past
Borussia Dortmund fans, reveling in a forgotten feeling: triumph.
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on May 2024
The Death of a Treaty Could Be a Lifesaver for Taiwan
In this photo provided by the U.S. Army, the Typhon Strategic Mid-Range Fires (SMRF) System, formerly known as a Mid-Range Capability system, arrived in Philippines in April.
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Pro-Palestinian Student Protests Spread to Australia, France, U.K. and Elsewhere
Police officers escorting protesters away from the entrance hall of Sciences Po in Paris on Friday.
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on May 2024
Some NASA Satellites Will Soon Stop Sending Data Back to Earth
Marine stratocumulus clouds over the southeastern Pacific Ocean, captured by NASA’s Terra satellite in 2002.
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on May 2024
Israeli Officials Weigh Sharing Power With Arab States in Postwar Gaza
A car driving past destroyed buildings in Khan Younis after the Israeli military withdrew from the southern Gaza Strip in late April.
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Haiti’s Police Force Is ‘Begging for Help’ Against Ruthless Gangs
A police officer kept watch in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in early March, a day after gang violence left at least five dead and 20 injured.
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Noisy, Gaudy and Spiritual: Young Pilgrims Embrace an Ancient Goddess
A statue, being carried on a litter, arrived at night to a temple jam-packed with people, beneath bright lights and colorful lanterns.
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on May 2024
The Premier League Title Race the Whole World Is Watching
The race to decide this year’s English soccer champion has captivated fans. But it’s not just an English story.
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on May 2024
U.K. Local Elections Show Sharp Setbacks for Conservatives
A polling station in London on Thursday. Results from some of the elections in England began landing Friday morning, though London results are expected on Saturday.
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on May 2024
‘Dead Poets Society’ Has Some Distinctly Australian Relevance
Robin Williams in the 1989 film “Dead Poets Society.”
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on May 2024
Friday Briefing
Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, yesterday.
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on May 2024
Turkey Halts Trade With Israel Amid Deteriorating Relations
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey recently met with Hamas officials in Istanbul.
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on May 2024
Biden Calls Japan and India ‘Xenophobic’ in Defending U.S. Immigration
President Biden’s comments on Wednesday underscore how he is trying to find a politically palatable balance on immigration as he seeks a second term.
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on May 2024
Rebuilding All Destroyed Gaza Homes Could Take 80 Years, U.N. Report Says
Friday Briefing: Hamas Considers Israel’s Proposal
Hamas Studies a Gaza Cease-Fire Offer From Israel, and Hints at Progress
Middle East Crisis: Israeli Military Warns More Than 100,000 People in Rafah to Evacuate
Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?