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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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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As South Korea Doctors’ Walkout Drags on, Many Blame President
Medical workers outside a hospital in Seoul in March.
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on May 2024
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
Chinese Scientist Who Shared Covid Sequence Protests Lab Closure
The virologist Zhang Yongzhen in Shanghai in 2020.
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on May 2024
Expressway Collapses in Southern China Amid Heavy Rains, Killing 24
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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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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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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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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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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Blinken meets with Netanyahu, hoping to stave off an Israeli assault on Rafah.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken waving to families and supporters of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
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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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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
Energy Dept. Releases New Efficiency Rules for Water Heaters and Other Appliances
The new rules will save nearly $1 trillion over 30 years, the D.O.E. said. Conservatives counter that machines will cost more up front.
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‘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
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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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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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
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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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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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
Philippines Closes Schools Because of Heat Wave, Jeepney Strike
The heat index in Manila is forecast to hit 45 degrees Celsius, or 113 degrees Fahrenheit, this week.
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on May 2024
Blinken Urges Hamas to Accept Israel’s Cease-Fire Proposal
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, right, attended a joint ministerial meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Monday.
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Monday Briefing
Displaced Palestinians in a camp in Rafah, in southern Gaza, on Sunday.
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on May 2024
Trial for Alleged Far-Right Coup Plot Begins in Germany: What to Know
Outside the courtroom in Stuttgart, Germany, on Monday at the opening of the Reichsbürger trial.
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on May 2024
As Anger Grows Over Gaza, Arab Leaders Crack Down on Protests
A pro-Palestinian demonstration in Cairo in October, when the Egyptian government was organizing rallies of its own. But even then, some protesters were arrested.
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on May 2024
TikTok Star Is Killed in Third Death of Social Media Influencer in Iraq
Um Fahad, a TikTok celebrity, attending a soccer game in Basra, Iraq, last year.
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on May 2024
With Israel Poised to Invade Rafah, Negotiators Try Again for Cease-Fire Deal
Displaced Palestinian children in Rafah, southern Gaza, on Sunday.
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on May 2024
World Central Kitchen Will Resume Aid Operations in Gaza
Employees from the World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli airstrike early this month.
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on May 2024
Monday Briefing: Plans for Gaza’s Future
Destroyed buildings after an Israeli air strike in the Al Nusairat refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday.
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on May 2024
In Northern Israel, Clashes With Hezbollah Drive a Hospital Underground
Concrete barricades outside one of the entrances to Galilee Medical Center in northern Israel in April.
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on May 2024
Biden and Netanyahu Discuss Rafah, Possible Cease-Fire Deal and Hostages
President Biden spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, three weeks after telling him that he could rethink U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
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on May 2024
Many Ukrainian Prisoners of War Show Signs of Trauma and Sexual Violence
A demonstration last fall in Kyiv, Ukraine, to draw attention to military service members held by Russia as prisoners of war.
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on May 2024
Pope’s Visit to Art Exhibition in Prison Is a First for Venice Biennale
Pope Francis visiting with inmates at a prison in Venice on Sunday.
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on May 2024
Asylum Seekers Already in U.K. Say Rwanda Law Creates New Anxiety
A smuggler’s boat prepared to cross the English Channel from a French beach on Friday.
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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
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
Israeli Officials Believe ICC Is Preparing Arrest Warrants Over Gaza War
Middle East Crisis: Israel Softens Stance on Some Issues in Cease-Fire Talks, Officials Say
Chad Election 2024: What to Know
Wednesday Briefing
Hamas Fires Rockets Into Israel from Lebanon