Israel and Palestinians Prepare for Long-Sought Truce in Gaza
Demonstrations for the release of hostages, in Tel Aviv, on Saturday.
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Inside South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s Life in Jail
A television at a bus station in Seoul shows President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea arriving at the Corruption Investigation Office on Wednesday.
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on January 2025
Trump’s Return Has Unnerved World Leaders. But Not India.
Cutouts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Donald J. Trump in Ahmedabad, India, ahead of Mr. Trump’s presidential visit in February 2020.
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on January 2025
Italian Reporter’s Ordeal in Iranian Prison: ‘I Was Trapped in a Game’
Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist, in Rome this month after being released from a prison in Iran.
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on January 2025
What Border Crisis? Mexican Migrant Shelters Are Quiet Ahead of Trump
A view of a quiet border in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
How the Oct. 7 Attacks Transformed the Middle East
Palestinians celebrating in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, after news of a cease-fire deal between Hamas and Israel emerged on Wednesday.
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on January 2025
Russia Attacks Kyiv With Ballistic Missiles
Emergency workers responding early Saturday after an attack on Kyiv, Ukraine.
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on January 2025
Prince Harry’s Suit Against Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. Tabloids Set to Start
Prince Harry in November in New York. He has said his lawsuit against News Group Newspapers is about “accountability.”
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on January 2025
When the U.S. Hit Canada With Steep Tariffs Before, Canada Had a Plan B
About $300 million in trade moves between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit each day.
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on January 2025
The Sheikh, the Mogul and the Diplomat: The Trio Who Sealed the Gaza Truce
An Israeli soldier standing on a tank near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on Wednesday.
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on January 2025
Trump’s Tariff Threat Stokes Anxiety in Canada’s Auto-Industry Hub
A Stellantis assembly plant in Windsor, Ontario, the heart of Canada’s auto industry. Tariffs threatened by President-elect Donald J. Trump would deal it a heavy blow.
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Trump Team Rebuffs Talks on Mass Deportations, Latin American Countries Say
Asylum seekers arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border waiting for scheduled appointments with U.S. Customs and Border Protection this week in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
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on January 2025
Canada Prepares for Trump Tariff Threat With Three-Stage Plan
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Toronto on Friday. He will huddle with cabinet ministers on Monday and Tuesday in case the United States imposes tariffs.
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on January 2025
What Trump Could Do on Ukraine, Iran, China and Crises Around the Globe
President-elect Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., earlier this month.
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on January 2025
What We Know About the Hostage Release
Two women checked news updates at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on Thursday.
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on January 2025
A Killer Was Taken Back Into Custody. Was It Because of His Drill Rap Songs?
Barry and Margaret Mizen, the parents of Jimmy Mizen, at a London courthouse for the trial of Jake Fahri, who was accused and convicted of their son’s murder in 2009.
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on January 2025
Some Prominent Palestinian Prisoners Set to Be Released in the Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire Agreement
Supporters carrying Zakaria Zubeidi, who was then a leader in the Aqsa Martyrs Brigade in the West Bank, in Jenin in 2004.
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on January 2025
A Big, Bold TikTok Ban
The TikTok logo in Times Square
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on January 2025
U.S. Spy Chief Took on Role of Negotiator in Gaza War
Director William J. Burns of the C.I.A. said he was “on the phone every day” in recent months with the prime minister of Qatar and the chief of Israel’s Mossad.
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on January 2025
How Antony Blinken, America’s Top Diplomat, Became the Secretary of War
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was the face of two wars that often cast him in very different lights.
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on January 2025
Israeli Government Approves Cease-Fire Deal for Gaza
A woman passing by photos of people who were killed in the war and hostages who were still in captivity, in Tel Aviv on Friday.
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on January 2025
Israel Prepares for Return of Hostages Held in Gaza for Over a Year
Ditza Heiman, 84, was part of a group of hostages released in 2023.
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on January 2025
World Economic Forum: Behind the Scenes at Davos
The city of Davos, Switzerland, will welcome more than 3,000 attendees to the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting.
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on January 2025
Ahead of Trump Presidency, the Fed Quits Global Climate Network
The Federal Reserve said Friday that it was dropping out of a network of central banks and other financial regulators focused on climate change.
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on January 2025
Lifestyles of the Rich and Ancient: Some in Pompeii Even Had a Home Spa
Archaeologists believe that the owner of this villa in Pompeii was part of the city’s elite.
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on January 2025
Chrystia Freeland, Justin Trudeau’s ‘Minister of Everything,’ Enters Race to Replace Him
Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s former deputy prime minister, announced Friday that she was running to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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on January 2025
Israeli Strikes Kill Dozens of Gazans After Cease-Fire Deal Is Announced, Officials Say
Mourners with the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza City on Thursday.
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on January 2025
Russian Court Sentences Lawyers for Navalny for Passing Along His Letters
From left, the lawyers Igor Sergunin, Aleksei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev in a defendants’ cage in a hearing in Petushki, Russia, on Friday.
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on January 2025
After 15 Months of War, Gazans Dream of Returning Home
Palestinian boys in Gaza City on Thursday, walking among the rubble of houses destroyed in Israeli strikes. A cease-fire is expected to take effect on Sunday.
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on January 2025
What to Know About Plane Maintenance After the South Korean Crash
Every part of a plane, down to the nuts and bolts, is subjected to routine inspections, repair or replacement.
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on January 2025
In Pakistan, Imran Khan’s Followers Are Counting on Trump to Free Him
Supporters of Imran Khan outside Donald J. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida in November. An ally of the president-elect has described Mr. Khan as “Trump-like.”
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on January 2025
Bolsonaro Hid at Hungary’s Embassy. Not For Asylum, He Says, Maybe Love.
Former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil at his party’s headquarters in Brasília.
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on January 2025
France Wants to Prosecute the Founder of Chat Site Linked to Pelicot Rapes
A banner in Avignon, France, read, “Rape is rape” near the courthouse where the Pelicot trial was held.
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on January 2025
Russia and Iran Sign Cooperation Treaty in the Kremlin
President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran, center, attending a wreath-laying ceremony in Moscow on Friday.
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on January 2025
Biden Says He Urged Netanyahu to Accommodate Palestinians’ ‘Legitimate Concerns’
President Joe Biden and his advisers struggled for months to negotiate an end to the conflict in Gaza.
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on January 2025
Friday Briefing
People walk through the rubble of buildings hit in Israeli strikes in the northern Gaza Strip.
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on January 2025
Israeli Vote on Cease-Fire Is Delayed as Diplomats Work on Details
A woman in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Thursday hanging a yellow ribbon over photos of hostages held by Hamas.
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on January 2025
Friday Briefing: Cease-Fire Vote Delayed
The aftermath of Israeli strikes in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, yesterday.
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on January 2025
Mark Carney Launches Bid to Be Canada’s Next Prime Minister
Mark Carney, a banker who served as an informal economic adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, announced that he was vying to be leader of Canada’s Liberal Party.
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on January 2025
Patients Are Dying in Hospital Corridors, British Nurses Say
Medical staff at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, England, earlier this month.
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on January 2025
U.K. Announces Rapid Review Into Scale of Child Sexual Abuse by Grooming Gangs
Yvette Cooper, Britain’s home secretary, said a new rapid audit will examine “ethnicity data and the demographics of the gangs involved and their victims, and will look at the cultural and societal drivers for this type of offending.”
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on January 2025
Jean-Marie Le Pen Is Laid to Rest in France. The Dispute Over His Legacy Endures.
Mourners gathered outside Val-de-Grâce church during a memorial for Jean-Marie Le Pen, the late far-right leader, on Thursday in Paris.
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on January 2025
Sudan’s Military Has Used Chemical Weapons Twice, U.S. Officials Say
Sudanese Armed Forces during a demonstration in Omdurman, in the western part of the capital, Khartoum, last year.
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on January 2025
Netanyahu Faces a Political Crisis Over the Gaza Cease-Fire Deal
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the district court in Tel Aviv in December. He is on trial on corruption charges amid the war in Gaza.
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on January 2025
Israel Launches Deadly Strikes Despite Announcement of Cease-Fire Deal, Gazan Officials Say
Palestinians on Thursday at Al Ahli Arab hospital carrying the bodies of people killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza City the night before.
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on January 2025
Saif Ali Khan, Famed Bollywood Actor, Is Stabbed at Home in Mumbai
Saif Ali Khan in August. He has appeared in more than 70 films across a three-decade career.
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on January 2025
Hamas After Cease-Fire: Weakened but Still the Dominant Palestinian Power in Gaza
Members of Hamas’s military wing, known as the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, arriving on vehicles in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, after the news of the cease-fire deal.
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Keir Starmer Vows Long-Term U.K. Partnership With Ukraine on Kyiv Visit
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, left, and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arrived to lay wreaths at a remembrance wall for the war dead in Kyiv on Thursday.
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on January 2025
How Many Hostages Remain in Gaza, and When Could They Be Released?
Families and supporters of Israeli hostages demonstrating outside the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
Azerbaijan’s Leader, Emboldened, Picks a Rare Fight With Putin
In Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, last week. The country was rocked by a deadly airplane crash on Dec. 25.
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on January 2025
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Looks to Trump and the U.S. to Avoid Prison
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at his party’s headquarters in Brasília.
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on January 2025
As Trump Heads to White House, Bolsonaro May Be Headed to Jail. Why?
The then-president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, center, with then-President Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2020.
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on January 2025
Fake Meat Is Processed. What Does That Mean for Its Health Benefits.
Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods enjoyed a meteoric rise before they were characterized by rivals and critics as chemically laden, ultraprocessed foods.
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on January 2025
Thursday Briefing
Palestinians in Deir al Balah, central Gaza, reacting to news of the cease-fire deal.
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on January 2025
China Deploys Security to Try to Reassure a Country on Edge
A security guard outside an elementary school in Shenzhen, China, in November.
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on January 2025
Negotiators Reach Cease-Fire and Hostage Deal for Gaza
Explosions in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
British Man Freed From Prison Over Video Misidentification
Ademola Adedeji, seen here in 2022, was freed from prison on Wednesday. He said “it doesn’t feel real.”
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on January 2025
Two Prominent Judges Are Shot Dead Outside Iran’s Supreme Court
These Rooms Give Young Indian Lovers Rare Privacy. Cue the Complaints.
On a Raid With Syria’s New Security Forces
‘We Couldn’t Stay’: A California Family’s Life After Evacuating
‘The Interview’: Ambassador David Pressman Is Alarmed by What He Has Seen