After Israel-Hezbollah Truce, Lebanon Ponders How to Clear Debris
Ahmad Mehdi, an engineering student at the American University of Beirut, collecting rubble samples in an area south of the capital to analyze for contamination levels.
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on January 2025
Chastened by Past Wars, Kremlin Tries to Elevate Its Veterans
Veterans who fought in Ukraine posing for a picture at the end of Moscow’s Victory Day parade in May.
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on January 2025
U.S. Move to Suspend Mine Clearing Funds Alarms Vietnam
Ho Van Lai, 34, who survived a land mine explosion in Vietnam, participates in a tour for students from a local school at the Mine Action Visitor Center in 2024. He is among tens of thousands of casualties of unexploded bombs that American troops dropped during the Vietnam War.
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on January 2025
Inside Colombia’s Crisis Over Trump’s Deportations
President Gustavo Petro of Colombia at his inauguration in 2022.
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on January 2025
U.S. Citizens Advised to Evacuate Congo Amid Attacks on Embassies
A thick plume of smoke rose as people protested in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
Reform U.K. is Said to Land Over $1 Million in Populist Show of Force
Nigel Farage, second from left, arriving on Tuesday at Oswald’s, an exclusive members-only club in London’s Mayfair neighborhood.
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on January 2025
Rwanda, the West’s ‘Donor Darling,’ Seizes an Opportunity in Congo
Displaced people leave a camp and head for the city of Goma after being shot at, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sunday.
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on January 2025
Steven Witkoff, Trump’s Envoy to the Middle East, to Meet Netanyahu in Israel
Steven Witkoff, President Trump’s Middle East envoy, told Fox News last week that he would go to Gaza to be a part of an inspection team.
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on January 2025
Many Ukrainian Aid Groups Stop Work After Trump’s Halt on Foreign Assistance
At the Veteran Hub in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2023. The organization, which supports veterans and their families, said it had already stopped two major programs after moves by the Trump administration.
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on January 2025
Giorgia Meloni Investigated for Italy’s Release of Libyan War Crimes Suspect
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy said the Libyan man had been released because of a procedural issue.
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on January 2025
Trudeau Government Left Canada Vulnerable to Foreign Interference
Flags for Khalistan, a hoped-for Sikh homeland, outside the temple in Surrey, British Columbia, where Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian leader of the Sikh independence movement, was assassinated in 2023. Canada has accused the Indian government of orchestrating the killing.
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on January 2025
Japanese TV Executives Get 10-Hour Grilling Over Sex Abuse Case
Fuji Television executives at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday. Hundreds of reporters spent 10 hours questioning them over their handling of a sex abuse case involving a presenter.
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on January 2025
Serbian Prime Minister Resigns Amid Nationwide Protests
Prime Minister Milos Vucevic of Serbia announced his resignation on Tuesday in Belgrade.
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on January 2025
Faced by Trump’s Interest in Greenland, Denmark Will Increase Military Spending in Arctic
The harbor in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, this month. The island has taken on strategic importance in recent years as Arctic ice melts, opening shipping lanes.
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on January 2025
Doomsday Clock Moves One Second Closer to Catastrophe
Juan Manuel Santos, left, the former president of Colombia, and Robert Socolow, a professor emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, revealed the location of the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock at a news conference in Washington on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Trump’s Funding Freeze
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, defended the order to pause spending yesterday.
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on January 2025
How Elon Musk is Using Start-Up Tactics to Disrupt European Politics
Elon Musk is seen on-screen at a campaign event for the far-right Alternative for Germany party, in Halle, Germany, on Saturday.
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on January 2025
Mauricio Funes, Salvadoran President Who Fled to Nicaragua, Dies at 65
Mauricio Funes greeted a group of Salvadoran students in 2011. His election two years earlier was considered a fresh start for a country battered by civil war.
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on January 2025
France, Finally, Wins the World’s Top Food Award Again
The chef Paul Marcon, center with trophy, was hoisted in celebration after his French team won the Bocuse d’Or cooking competition, near Lyon, France, on Monday.
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on January 2025
Vatican Warns About the Risks of Artificial Intelligence
Pope Francis has repeatedly warned that the application of artificial intelligence should be grounded in ethical and moral considerations.
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on January 2025
What Is M23, the Rwandan-Backed Group Fighting in Eastern Congo?
Members of M23 in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Monday.
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on January 2025
Israel Says 8 of the 26 Hostages That Hamas Is Expected to Release Are Dead
Families and their supporters at a demonstration in Tel Aviv on Saturday calling for the release of the remaining hostages.
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on January 2025
Fire Destroys Air Busan Plane at South Korean Airport
Firefighters working to put out a fire on an Air Busan plane at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
Russian Envoys Arrive in Syria for First Time Since al-Assad Fell
Russian armored vehicles driving past Syrian fighters in December near the Khmeimim air base. Russia also has an important naval base in Syria.
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on January 2025
Chevron Wants to Tap Into A.I. Boom by Selling Electricity to Data Centers
“It’s a chance for us to help meet the moment and address this growing need for reliable and affordable power,” Mike Wirth, Chevron’s chief executive, said in an interview.
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on January 2025
As Palestinians Return to Gaza City, Elation and Despair Mix
Palestinians hugging in Gaza City on Monday.
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on January 2025
Could Trump Use the ‘God Squad’ to Override Environmental Law?
Northern spotted owls were the subject of a legal battle under the so-called God Squad provision.
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on January 2025
‘The Gulf of America’? Here’s What Mexicans and Cubans Think.
Boca Chica Beach, in Cameron County, Texas.
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on January 2025
Saving Children’s Eyesight and Their Future in Mozambique
Muanema Fakira holds Sumaya as they wait with other young patients for post-treatment checkups in Quelimane Central Hospital’s ophthalmology ward in Mozambique.
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on January 2025
India, China to Resume Direct Flights After Nearly Five Years
New Delhi and Beijing have made significant progress in restoring ties in recent months. Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, held talks in Russia in October
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on January 2025
Tuesday Briefing
A screen in the window of Nasdaq’s headquarters in Times Square in New York City yesterday.
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on January 2025
Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries
A shipment of medications in an AIDS clinic in Johannesburg. The freeze means many people with H.I.V. are facing abrupt interruptions to their treatment, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics awaiting distribution.
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on January 2025
Tuesday Briefing: A.I. From China Rattles Markets
The New York Stock Exchange last week.
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on January 2025
François Ponchaud, Who Alerted World to Cambodian Atrocities, Dies at 85
Father Ponchaud in 2005, at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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on January 2025
Arbel Yehud, Israeli Hostage, Is Seen in New Video Released by Islamic Jihad
A poster in Rishon LeZion, Israel, showing the portraits of Arbel Yehud, her brother, Dolev Yehud, and her partner, Ariel Cunio.
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on January 2025
New Zealand Loosens Visitor Visas to Court Remote Workers
Wellington, the capital of New Zealand.
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on January 2025
Behind the Colombia Blowup: Mapping Trump’s Rapid-Escalation Tactics
The rapid-fire threat by President Trump to impose crushing tariffs and the quick surrender by President Gustavo Petro of Colombia are likely to encourage Mr. Trump to do the same against new targets.
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on January 2025
Denmark and Other Nations Under Pressure Seek Lobbyists With Trump Ties
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark, left, and Prime Minister Mute Egede of Greenland arriving in Copenhagen this month to discuss President Trump’s interest in Greenland.
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on January 2025
Musk Says Germany Has ‘Too Much of a Focus on Past Guilt’
“It’s good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything,” Elon Musk told a gathering of the hard-right Alternative for Germany party on Saturday.
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on January 2025
Germany’s Likely Leader Flirts With a Taboo: Working With the Far Right
Thousands of people gather with candles for a silent vigil following Wednesday’s stabbing that left two dead, including a toddler in Aschaffenburg, Germany, last week.
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on January 2025
Standoff at Ukrainian Procurement Agency Threatens to Disrupt Weapons Supply
Ukraine’s defense minister, Rustem Umerov, shown in November, said that he would not renew the contract of Maryna Bezrukova.
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on January 2025
Gazans Crowd the Road North, Joyful but Anxious
A car loaded with mattresses and blankets crossing the Netzarim corridor from southern Gaza into northern Gaza.
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on January 2025
Sweden Suspects ‘Gross Sabotage’ After Damage to Cable Under the Baltic Sea
The cargo ship Vezhen anchored outside Karlskrona, Sweden, on Monday.
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on January 2025
E.U. to Cautiously Pare Back Sanctions on Syria
Kaja Kallas, the E.U.’s top diplomat, said in Brussels on Monday that the bloc was “ready to open” its embassy in Damascus, “to really have our eyes and ears on the ground.”
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on January 2025
Israeli Forces Again Open Fire in Lebanon
A Lebanese soldier, left, filming as Israeli soldiers block a road in the southern Lebanese village of Aitaroun, on Monday.
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on January 2025
Anti-Immigrant Rioters Set a UK Library on Fire. The Community Rallied.
When Alex McCormick saw the images of the aftermath of the burning she started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to replace the books.
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on January 2025
Republicans in Congress Who Love Trump Now Disagree With Some of His Policies
Mr. Trump at a rally at the Circa Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
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on January 2025
Rising Prices Dashed Trudeau’s Promise to Canada’s Middle Class
A gas station this month in Peterborough, Ontario, a community near Toronto that has soured on Justin Trudeau and his party.
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on January 2025
Monday Briefing
Lebanese carry an injured man to safety after Israeli forces fired on crowds in Burj al-Muluk, southern Lebanon, on Sunday.
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on January 2025
At Auschwitz, a Solemn Ceremony at a Time of Rising Nationalism
A Holocaust survivor, center, was comforted as she placed a candle during a ceremony on Monday marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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on January 2025
As Trump and Putin Circle Each Other, an Agenda Beyond Ukraine Emerges
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk during a bilateral meeting at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019.
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on January 2025
China’s Tibet Dam Project Has Its Neighbors Worried
China says it will build a dam in Medog, a remote county in Tibet, that could generate three times as much electricity as the Three Gorges Dam.
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on January 2025
Cease-Fires in Gaza and Lebanon Will Most Likely Hold for Now, Analysts Say
A $35 Billion Loan Project, Led by World Bank, Aims to Expand Electricity in Africa
Rebels Backed by Rwanda Announce Capture of Key City in Eastern Congo