Xi to Head for Friendly Ports in an Eastern Europe Disenchanted With China
President Xi Jinping arrives for an earlier meeting with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, in Paris on Monday.
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Isolated From West, Putin Projects Domestic Power at Inauguration
Russia’s President Vladimir V. Putin arriving for his inauguration for a fifth term, in Moscow on Tuesday.
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U.S. Soldier Is Detained in Russia and Accused of Theft, Officials Say
A bridge connecting an island to Vladivostok in Russia’s far east. An American soldier was detained in the port city on Thursday.
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Preparations Ramp Up for Global Security Force to Quell Haitian Violence
Residents fleeing the Delmas 22 neighborhood this month because of gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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on May 2024
Ukraine Says It Foiled Russian Plot to Kill Zelensky
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in April in Kyiv.
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on May 2024
U.K. Armed Forces’ Data Stolen by State-Linked Hackers, Lawmakers Say
A cyberattack targeting a third-party payroll system used by Britain’s Ministry of Defense yielded the names and bank details of some serving members of the armed forces and some veterans.
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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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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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Assaults on German Politicians Raise Election-Year Worries
Matthias Ecke, pictured at left in the placard, was assaulted while hanging campaign posters in Dresden, Germany.
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on May 2024
5 Dead After Inhaling Hazardous Gas at a Water Plant in Sicily
Relatives of the victims amid firefighters, medical staff and investigators at the site of a workplace accident that left five dead near Palermo, Sicily, on Monday. A sixth worker was seriously injured and in intensive care.
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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
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
Two Dozen Bodies Brought to Rafah Hospital, Doctor Says
A building damaged in a strike in Rafah, Gaza, on Tuesday.
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on May 2024
U.S. Repatriates 11 American Citizens From ISIS War Camps in Syria
Al Hol, the main camp holding families of Islamic State fighters, in January. The United States has been encouraging other countries to take back their nationals, and in some cases providing military logistical help.
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Israel’s Closures of 2 Gaza Border Crossings Prompt Alarm Over Humanitarian Aid
People removing flour from a truck in Rafah, Gaza, on Tuesday after the Israeli military called for evacuations in the eastern part of the city.
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Tuesday Briefing
Displaced Palestinians fleeing Rafah on Monday.
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on May 2024
A Week of Pomp to Project Putin’s Confidence
In a photo provided by a Russian state-owned news agency, Sputnik, President Vladimir Putin of Russia is seen attending the Orthodox Easter service at Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, on Sunday.
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on May 2024
Inside the White House Scramble to Broker a Deal in Gaza
Smoke rising over eastern Rafah, a city in southern Gaza, on Monday after strikes.
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on May 2024
Officials Describe Pact Hamas Has Embraced as U.S.-Israel Proposal With Small Changes
Displaced Palestinians fleeing Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, after the Israeli military ordered civilians on Monday to leave the eastern parts of the city.
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on May 2024
U.S. Army Soldier Is Detained in Russia
“The Army notified his family, and the U.S. Department of State is providing appropriate consular support to the soldier in Russia,” said Cynthia O. Smith, an Army spokeswoman.
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on May 2024
A New Diplomatic Strategy Emerges as Artificial Intelligence Grows
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Monday. He has described an increasingly zero-sum competition, in which countries will be forced to choose between signing up for a Western-dominated “stack” of technologies or a Chinese-dominated one.
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on May 2024
Timeline of Recent Twists and Turns in Gaza Cease-fire Talks
Israel’s Iron Dome antimissile system intercepted rockets launched from Gaza on Monday.
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on May 2024
Where 3 Dead Tourists Were Found Fast, Thousands Remain Missing
The well where the remains of three missing tourists were found this weekend near La Bocana Beach, south of Ensenada, Mexico.
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on May 2024
Tuesday Briefing: Israel Orders Rafah Evacuations
Palestinians evacuating after the Israeli military warned people to leave eastern Rafah.
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on May 2024
Israel Orders Partial Evacuation of Rafah, Fueling Fears of New Offensive
Displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip carried their belongings as they left the city on Monday after an evacuation order by the Israeli Army.
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on May 2024
Hamas’s announcement adds to the uncertainty of the cease-fire talks.
Smoke rising over Rafah, southern Gaza, following strikes on Monday.
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on May 2024
World’s Longest Baguette Is Baked in France
Food for thought in Suresnes, France: not quite 500 feet of baguette.
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on May 2024
‘Alarm Bells’ Were Ringing: Johannesburg Officials Faulted Over Deadly Fire
Firefighters at the scene of a blaze in downtown Johannesburg last August that killed dozens of people. They found exits that had been welded shut.
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on May 2024
Xi Bristles at Criticism of China Over the War in Ukraine
President Emmanuel Macron of France and President Xi Jinping of China at Élysée Palace after a meeting with the European Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, right.
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on May 2024
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
Netanyahu Asserts Israel’s Right to Defend Itself at Holocaust Remembrance Event
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel speaking at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Sunday.
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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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on May 2024
Monday Briefing
Palestinians at the site of an Israeli strike in Rafah in southern Gaza on Sunday.
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on May 2024
Monday Briefing: Xi Jinping Visits Europe
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal of France welcomed Xi Jinping, China’s leader, yesterday.
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on May 2024
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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on May 2024
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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on May 2024
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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on May 2024
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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on May 2024
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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on May 2024
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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on May 2024
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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on May 2024
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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on May 2024
Parts of Gaza in ‘Full-Blown Famine,’ UN 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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on May 2024
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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on May 2024
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
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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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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on May 2024
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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on May 2024
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
Live Updates: Israeli Tanks Enter Rafah and Take Control of Border Crossing
It Took Decades, but Japan’s Working Women Are Making Progress