The Taliban Are Using Europe’s Fear of Migrants to Their Advantage
Celebrations in the streets of Kabul during the fifth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power on Aug. 15.
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After Lockdown, Sea of Protesters Flows Through India’s Capital
Protesters climbing on top of a bus while marching to the Supreme Court in New Delhi on Monday.
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Russian Film Aims to Rewrite History of Deadly Theater Bombing in Ukraine
The remains of the theater in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, in April 2022, in a photograph taken when the area was under pro-Russian control. The Russian airstrike on the building killed hundreds of civilians.
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Saudi Arabia Faces More Attacks as It Reels From Airport Strikes
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in Tehran earlier this month.
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Fire Devastates Paris’s Oldest Covered Food Market, Le Marché des Enfants Rouges
Firefighters above the roof of the Marché des Enfants Rouges in Paris on Monday, after the famed market caught fire.
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Investigation Into FlyDubai Attacker Puts Spotlight on an Australian Mosque
A FlyDubai plane carried passengers to Tel Aviv last month after a midair cockpit attack on their earlier flight.
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Saudi Arabia Has Few Options as Houthis Aim at Heart of Its Ambitions
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in Paris in August. Houthi strikes on the Saudi capital, Riyadh, have cast a shadow on his efforts to transform the kingdom into a global hub for business and tourism.
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India’s ‘Cockroach’ Leaders Released as Small Protests Go On in Delhi
Ratna Singh, the legal director of the Cockroach Janta Party, left, with Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, two of the group’s leaders, at the Press Club of India in New Delhi on Saturday.
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A Russian Spy’s Lone Regret: ‘I Got Caught’
Alexsander at Prison Colony No. 122 in central Ukraine.
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Ukraine Shrugs Off Trump Call to Ditch Zelensky for Energy Strikes
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at a World War II memorial ceremony in Kyiv on Tuesday.
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Wringing Hope From the Rubble of Gaza
It’s been a year since Israel and Hamas signed an agreement to end the war in Gaza. But life in Gaza looks nothing like peace.
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A Reporter Returns to China to Find it Richer, but Also Highly Paranoid.
Andrew Higgins riding a car past Tiananmen Square in January. He was at the square in June 1989 when the military assaulted people who were protesting corruption, inequality and inflation.
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In Canada’s Arctic, a New Generation of Inuit Creatives Are Using Identity to Fuel Their Art
Iqaluit, the capital of the Inuit territory of Nunavut, is only accessible by air or by seasonal sealift.
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Pope Leo Will Have Surgery to Remove Growth on Lung
Pope Leo XIV mentioned the planned surgery while speaking in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sunday.
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Trump Gives Russia a Hand in Its Economic War With Ukraine
Smoke rising from fires at an oil refinery after what the authorities said was a Ukrainian drone strike in Moscow last month.
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He Helped Discover Ebola 50 Years Ago. He’s Still Worried.
Dr. Peter Piot was among the first scientists to see the Ebola virus, as a young researcher in Belgium in 1976.
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An Israeli Election Like No Other
Ashdod, Israel, last week.
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India’s Youth Protests Challenge Narendra Modi
Security personnel resting near a poster showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India after protests in New Delhi on Saturday.
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Pakistan Seizes Control of an Opposition-Led Province
After the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa launched a protest march from the province toward the capital, federal authorities stacked heavy shipping containers along major roadways to halt the protesters.
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Over 100 Migrants Are Dead After Boat Capsizes Near Djibouti
A photo released on Sunday showing the shipwreck of a boat that sank off the shores of Djibouti between Thursday night and Friday morning.
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Man Dies in Tiger Attack at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in England
A sign at the entrance to Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster, England, on Saturday.
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3 Men Found Guilty in Murders of Tourists on Mexico Surf Trip
Debra and Martin Robinson, the parents of Callum and Jake Robinson, who were murdered during a surfing trip, outside court in Ensenada, Mexico, on Thursday.
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Exasperation and Resignation in Greece Over Allegations Against Kimberly Guilfoyle
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, in Athens on Wednesday.
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From a Sikh Sanctuary to Chaotic Streets, Protesters Brave Police in Delhi
Security personnel detaining protesters in New Delhi on Saturday.
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Palestinian Authority Formally Delays Elections, Despite Western Pressure
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority in the city of Ramallah last month, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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Rebuking Ukraine Over Oil Strikes, Trump Says It Should ‘Get a New President’
President Trump at a campaign rally in Syracuse, N.Y., on Friday. His announcement that the United States would buy Russian diesel was followed by the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Russian diesel exports.
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Quebec Independence Is Unlikely, but Some Will Still Dream
The Parti Québécois leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, reacted to the results of the provincial election in Montreal on Monday.
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A Week Later, Russia Hasn’t Said What Pathogen Killed Plague Researcher
The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, Russia, on Wednesday. A 28-year-old researcher there died of an unexplained pneumonia.
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Blocked by Police, India’s Youth Voice Their Fury
Security personnel detaining protesters in New Delhi on Saturday.
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Indian Police Round Up Protest Leaders and Lock Down Delhi
Security personnel detain protesters in New Delhi, India, on Saturday.
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What to Know About the Protests in India
Security personnel detaining protesters in New Delhi on Saturday.
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Inside Erik Prince’s Mercenary Deal in Congo
Erik Prince, the American military contractor, has sought opportunities in resource-rich countries plagued by conflict, mostly in Africa.
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Ukrainian Drones Close Moscow Airports as Putin Flies Back to Russia
A photo released by state media on Friday showing President Vladimir Putin of Russia in Turkmenbashi.
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Attacker in FlyDubai Flight Meant to Crash Into Israeli Airport, Emiratis Say
Emirati investigators said that the co-pilot in the FlyDubai flight had intended to crash into Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv “with the aim of causing the greatest possible loss of life.”
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Israel Denounces the Decision to Award the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay
Palestinians waiting for food distribution in Gaza City last year.
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Trump Administration Hits International Criminal Court With Severe Sanctions
The move is an intensification in the Trump administration’s push to undermine the International Criminal Court.
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Navi Pillay is known for her work in conflict zones across the world.
Navi Pillay received the news that she had been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday while atttending an annual conference of human rights lawyers and judges in Nuremberg, Germany.
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Palestinian Authority Says Elections Are to Be Postponed
Hussein al-Sheikh, deputy to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in Ramallah, West Bank, in February. He was said to have sent the letters to European officials notifying them of the postponement.
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Nobel Peace Prize Choice Amounts to Implicit Rebuke of Trump
The International Criminal Court in The Hague has come under particular attack by the Trump administration.
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The criteria for the Peace Prize have changed over time.
Albert Luthuli, a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist, arriving with his wife in Oslo, Norway, in 1961.
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Paintings Stolen From Renoir Museum Are Recovered, Authorities Say
A police officer at the entrance to the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France after the robbery in September.
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India Cancels Trains, Floods Capital with Police to Block Protests
There was a heavy police presence in central New Delhi on Friday, with yellow barricades chained together near the site of a planned protest.
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In South Africa, Pillay forged a career fighting apartheid.
Navi Pillay, right, with Edwin Cameron, left, and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, center, in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2013.
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Navi Pillay, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Forged Her Career Under Apartheid
Navi Pillay, South African Jurist, Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Saudi and Yemeni Airports Hit in New Round of Strikes
Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Airport Attacked Again, After Days of Houthi Strikes
7.7-Magnitude Panama Earthquake Sets Off Series of Aftershocks