U.S. and Israel Struggle With Clashing Visions on Ending Gaza War
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken speaking with the families and supporters of Israeli hostages in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
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U.K. Conservatives Hold Their Breath: How Bad Will Local Elections Be?
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain speaking at a bus depot in Heanor, England, at the start of the local election campaign in March. He will come under intense pressure if results are particularly disappointing.
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U.S. Accuses Russia of Using Chemical Weapons in Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers wearing gas masks during a simulated chemical attack in the Donetsk region of Ukraine in October.
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on May 2024
A Portrait Artist Fit for a King (but Not a President)
The artist Jonathan Yeo working in his West London studio with the back of the canvas with the as yet unveiled portrait of King Charles III on the left.
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on May 2024
U.K. Local Elections, Explained
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak opened his campaign for the English local elections in the East Midlands, an area that is choosing a regional mayor for the first time.
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on May 2024
U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Chinese Companies for Aiding Russia’s War Effort
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the sanctions would “further disrupt and degrade Russia’s war efforts.”
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on May 2024
Flooding in a Kenyan Natural Reserve Forces Tourist Evacuation
A lodge in the flooded Masai Mara National Reserve, where dozens of tourists were evacuated.
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Expressway Collapses in Southern China Amid Heavy Rains, Killing 36
Rescuers working at the site of a collapsed expressway in the Chinese city of Meizhou on Wednesday, in a photo released by Xinhua News Agency.
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Record Number of Writers Were Jailed Globally in 2023, PEN America Says
Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong protesting the arrest of Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist who was jailed in 2020 for her reporting on the coronavirus outbreak in the mainland Chinese city of Wuhan.
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Drought That Snarled Panama Canal Was Linked to El Niño, Study Finds
A cargo ship in the Panama Canal in September. Officials last year had to slash the number of vessels allowed through.
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on May 2024
Giant Pandas Are Returning to San Diego, China Announces
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed this week that two giant pandas would be sent to the San Diego Zoo.
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on May 2024
Protests Swell in Georgia Over ‘Foreign Interests’ Bill
Protesters opposed to the legislation, which they call “the Russian law” in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Wednesday night.
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Thursday Briefing
Police officers remained a jarring sight on the lawns and sidewalks of several American universities on Wednesday afternoon, as campuses across the country remained on edge after student arrests in New York and violent conflict in Los Angeles.
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Blinken Turns Up Pressure on Hamas to Accept Gaza Cease-Fire Deal
“We are determined to get a cease-fire that brings the hostages home and to get it now,” said Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, in Israel on Wednesday.
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Thursday Briefing: Police Deployed at U.S. Campuses
Clashes at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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on May 2024
Colombia Will Sever Ties With Israel Over Gaza War
President Gustavo Petro of Colombia at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City in September.
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on May 2024
Chinese Scientist Who Shared Covid Sequence Protests Lab Closure
The virologist Zhang Yongzhen in Shanghai in 2020.
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on May 2024
As South Korea Doctors’ Walkout Drags on, Many Blame President
Medical workers outside a hospital in Seoul in March.
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Blinken Meets With Netanyahu, Hoping to Stave Off Rafah Assault
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken arriving near Tel Aviv, Israel on Tuesday.
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on May 2024
He Won by a Landslide. Why Is He Fighting for His Political Life?
Ben Houchen, the mayor of Tees Valley, at the site where development work is taking place to build a new quayside port on the location of the former steelworks in Redcar, England.
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Netanyahu Vows to Invade Rafah ‘With or Without’ Cease-Fire Deal
A destroyed building in the southern Gazan city of Rafah on Tuesday.
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on May 2024
Two Men Are Charged Over the Felling of the Sycamore Gap Tree
The cut on the Sycamore Gap tree was clean and appeared to have been made using a large heavy-duty chain saw.
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on May 2024
Wednesday Briefing: Clashes Escalate on U.S. Campuses
Student protestors stood guard outside shattered glass doors at Hamilton Hall after seizing the building at Columbia University early Tuesday.
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on May 2024
Nine Rescued in Atlantic After Days on Wreckage of Migrant Boat
The helicopter that brought shipwreck survivors to El Hierro in the far west of the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off northwestern Africa.
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Deadly Russian Strikes Hit Civilian Center and Other Targets in Odesa
A building of the Odesa Law Academy complex in Odesa, Ukraine, is on fire after a Russian missile attack on Monday.
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on May 2024
‘Green Islam’ Drew a Reporter to Indonesia
Aak Abdullah al-Kudus and his Green Army volunteers plant trees in Indonesia.
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on May 2024
Mali Claims Death of Islamic State Terrorist Who Helped Lead Ambush in Niger
A photograph released by militants in 2018, purporting to show commander Abu Huzeifa of the Islamic State Greater Sahara.
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on May 2024
U.S. Plan to Protect Oceans Has a Problem, Some Say: Too Much Fishing
The primary driver of biodiversity declines in the ocean, according to researchers, is overfishing.
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on May 2024
Hamas and Fatah Officials, Longtime Rivals, Met in China
A man raised the Hamas flag as others waved the Fatah emblem during a demonstration in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron to show solidarity with the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip in October.
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on May 2024
14-Year-Old Boy Killed in London Sword Attack, Police Say
A 14-year-old boy was killed and four others, including two police officers, were injured when a man with a sword went on a stabbing rampage in northeast London on Tuesday morning, the authorities said.
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on May 2024
Blinken Is in Jordan to Discuss Aid for Gaza
U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken arriving at the airport in Amman, Jordan, on Tuesday.
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on May 2024
Europe’s Economic Laggards Have Become Its Leaders
Monastiraki Square is a huge tourist attraction in Athens. Tourism has helped bolster the economies of Greece and other southern European countries.
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on May 2024
Edward Dwight, Once Picked to Be the First Black Astronaut in Space, Aims for Space at Last
“My whole life has been about getting things done,” said Edward Dwight, a retired pilot, current sculptor and future crew member on a Blue Origin mission into space. “This is the culmination.”
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Sustainability Activists Take Aim at Disposable Hotel Slippers
The Slipper Factory in India manufactures disposable slippers for the hotel industry.
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on May 2024
Georgia Bill Targeting ‘Foreign Interests’ Draws Protests
Demonstrators held Georgian and European Union flags as they gathered outside Parliament in Tbilisi this month to protest a draft bill on “foreign influence.”
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on May 2024
From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.
For an hour each week for the past 11 months, Brenden Lake, right, a psychologist at New York University, with his wife Tammy Kwan, has been attaching a camera to their daughter Luna and recording things from her point of view.
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Tuesday Briefing
“Rafah can wait, they cannot,” a protest sign in Tel Avi said Monday, referring to the hostages in Gaza.
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on May 2024
Hydrogen Offers Germany a Chance to Take a Lead in Green Energy
Workers transporting cell modules for an electrolyzer built by ThyssenKrupp Nucera, next to a steel mill in Duisburg, Germany.
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on May 2024
Hope Rises for New Talks on Gaza Cease-Fire as Israel Scales Back Demands
“Rafah can wait, they cannot,” a protest sign in Tel Avi said Monday, referring to the hostages in Gaza.
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on May 2024
Surrounded by Fighters and Haunted by Famine, Sudan City Fears Worst
Newly arrived refugees from Darfur in Sudan, arriving in Adré, Chad, last week.
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on May 2024
Tuesday Briefing: Hope Rises for New Cease-Fire Talks
Relatives and supporters of the Israeli hostages calling for their release during a protest in Tel Aviv on Monday.
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on May 2024
Biden and Mexico’s President Vow Combined Action on Illegal Immigration
The U.S. border with Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas. Polls of both Republicans and Democrats in recent months indicate that the situation at the border is a serious concern.
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Ireland Threatens to Return Asylum Seekers to U.K., Sparking Diplomatic Squabble
Tents used by nearly 60 homeless asylum seekers were pitched outside the International Protection Office in central Dublin, in mid-February.
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on May 2024
Winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize Use Courts to Contest Oil Projects
Wild Coast residents demonstrated against Royal Dutch Shell’s plans to start seismic surveys for petroleum exploration at Mzamba Beach, Sigidi, South Africa, in 2021.
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on May 2024
Flash Floods Kill at Least 45 in Kenya
Damage on Monday after heavy rain in the Kenyan village of Kamuchiri.
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on May 2024
Ukraine Warns of Dire Situation Against Russia as It Awaits U.S. Aid
A building destroyed by artillery fire and air raids in the Ukrainian village of Ocheretyne, not far from Avdiivka, earlier this month.
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Humza Yousaf Resigns as Scotland’s First Minister
Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, shown last week, resigned on Monday after little more than a year as leader of the pro-independence Scottish National Party.
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Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, Won’t Resign Over Wife’s Corruption Case
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain had said he was considering resigning after a judge opened an investigation into claims against his wife.
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on May 2024
They Shoot Owls in California, Don’t They?
Northern spotted owl populations have declined by up to 80 percent over the last two decades. As few as 3,000 remain on federal lands, compared with 12,000 in the 1990s.
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on May 2024
How Capitalists in Communist Cuba Are an Economic Lifeline
La Carreta, a landmark Havana restaurant once owned by the government, has been reopened as a private business by two recent partners, a Cuban American and a local businessman.
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on May 2024
India’s Master of Nostalgia Takes His Sweeping Vision to Netflix
Bulgarian Distrust of Russia Simmers Over a Black Sea Oil Terminal
5 Takeaways From the Times Interview of Brittney Griner
Ex-N.S.A. Employee Who Tried to Sell U.S. Secrets to Russia Gets 22 Years
Gérard Depardieu Ordered to Stand Trial in Sexual Assault Case
Middle East Crisis: Hopes for Cease-Fire Remain, Despite Hamas’s Resistance to Latest Offer
Palestinians in Gaza Express Gratitude for U.S. Campus Protests
Wednesday Briefing
Chad Election 2024: What to Know
Hamas Fires Rockets Into Israel from Lebanon