How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers
Hezbollah supporters on Wednesday mourning the deaths of four comrades killed in the explosions.
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Pager Attack Highlights Tension Between Israel’s Might and Strategic Fog
Lebanese army soldiers standing guard as an ambulance rushes wounded people to a hospital in Beirut on Tuesday.
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on September 2024
Elon Musk’s X Finds Way Around Brazil Ban and Goes Live Again for Many Users
Protesters criticizing the Brazilian Supreme Court’s decision to ban X during a demonstration in São Paulo this month.
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Mohamed al-Fayed, Former Harrods Owner, Accused of Raping 5 Women
Mohamed al-Fayed, then owner of Harrods, in 2007. On Thursday, a BBC documentary detailed allegations that he had raped and sexually assaulted female employees.
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They Said the Virgin Mary Appeared. The Vatican Is Finally Weighing In.
Pilgrims gathered in 2015 above the Bosnian village of Medjugorje to pray to the Virgin Mary.
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on September 2024
Child, 10, Stabbed Near Japanese School in China
Shenzhen, the city in southern China where the stabbing occurred.
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Pager Attacks in Lebanon Puncture Hezbollah’s Image as Powerful Anti-Israel Force
Outside the American University of Beirut Hospital on Tuesday, where many people injured in Tuesday’s attack were taken.
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Bishop Casey Was Laid to Rest in Galway Cathedral. His Secrets Were Not.
Bishop Casey’s funeral in March 2017. His burial seemed to end a scandal involving a consenting adult, but disturbing new accusations emerged this summer.
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An Ugly Divorce, Russia’s Richest Woman and a Deadly Shooting in Moscow
A Russian police officer blocking the entrance to the office building of the Russian retailer Wildberries, after an shooting there on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
What We Know About the Deadly Wireless-Device Explosions in Lebanon
An ambulance carrying wounded people at the emergency entrance of the American University hospital in Beirut on Tuesday.
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on September 2024
Kashmiris Are Voting Again. But Do They Have a Voice?
People in Kulgam, in southern Kashmir, lined up on Wednesday to vote in Kashmir’s first regional legislative election in a decade.
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Russia Seizes Town in Donetsk as Ukraine Hits Ammunition Depot
A still from a video posted on social media of smoke and flames after a Ukrainian drone attack in Toropets, Russia, on Wednesday.
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Taiwanese Company Gold Apollo Says It Didn’t Make Pagers Used in Attack
Workers at the Gold Apollo factory in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
Asphalt Schoolyards Get a Shady Makeover
Recess at Highland Arts Elementary School in Mesa, Ariz.
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on September 2024
Saudi Crown Prince Says No to Israel Ties Without Palestinian State
In a photo provided by Saudi state media, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman delivers a speech in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday.
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Anxiety Mounts as Lebanon Reels From Pager and Walkie-Talkie Attacks
A Hezbollah supporter on Wednesday at a funeral for four people killed in the pager attacks.
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on September 2024
Israel and Hezbollah Trade Fire After Pager and Walkie-Talkie Attacks
Smoke billowed from the site of an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of al-Taybeh on Thursday.
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on September 2024
Methane Levels Still Rising, Despite Global Methane Pledge
The concentration of methane in the atmosphere is now more than two-and-a-half times greater than preindustrial levels.
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on September 2024
Tropical Storm Pulasan Nears Shanghai After Grazing Japan
Shanghai was bracing for Tropical Storm Pulasan days after it was battered by Typhoon Bebinca, the strongest to hit the city in 75 years.
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U.N. Body Demands Israel End Its ‘Unlawful Presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’
Riyad Mansour, left, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, applauding the result of a vote during an emergency session at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.
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Trump’s Derision of Haitians Goes Back Years
An asylum seeker from Haiti was cleaning the kitchen of a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, as former President Donald J. Trump debated Vice President Kamala Harris this month.
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Second Wave of Hezbollah Devices Explodes in Lebanon, Killing at Least 20
Ambulances arriving after a device reportedly exploded during the funeral in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Wednesday for people killed when hundreds of pagers exploded across Lebanon a day earlier.
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Thursday Briefing: A Second Day of Explosions in Lebanon
Hezbollah supporters mourned the deaths of four fighters.
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on September 2024
Israel’s Focus Shifts From Hamas in Gaza to Hezbollah in Lebanon
Hezbollah supporters mourned the deaths of four of the group’s members, on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
Tyson Is Sued Over Labeling of ‘Climate-Smart’ Beef
Brazen Beef, a new Tyson Foods brand with packaging that uses the language “climate friendly.”
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on September 2024
Floods Wreak Havoc Across Four Continents
The swollen Elbe river in Dresden, Germany, on Tuesday.
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on September 2024
Wireless Device Explosions Are Latest High-Profile Attack Attributed to Israel.
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran’s top nuclear scientist, was killed in 2020 by a truck-mounted machine gun attached to remote-controlled robot.
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on September 2024
What Is Hezbollah, the Militant Group Based in Lebanon?
Hezbollah supporters carrying the coffin of a senior commander, Fouad Shukr, who was killed in an airstrike in July in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
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Blinken Visits Egypt, but Skips a Stop in Israel
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s decision not to visit Israel partly reflects a deadlock in efforts to strike a cease-fire deal in Gaza.
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Funeral Is Held for 9-Year-Old Girl Killed in Pager Attack in Lebanon
The funeral for Fatima Abdullah, who was killed when a pager exploded in her home, in Saraain, Lebanon, on Wednesday.
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What Are Pagers? Devices Exploded Across Lebanon
Pagers at the Gold Apollo factory in Taiwan on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
England and Wales Will Introduce Buffer Zones to Ban Protest at Abortion Clinics
An anti-abortion demonstration outside Britain’s Parliament in May. The new measures cover protests up to 500 feet from a clinic.
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on September 2024
Bangladesh, Struggling to Restore Order, Gives Army Policing Powers
Soldiers on the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, in August. The army has been carrying out law enforcement duties for weeks, a former officer said.
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Israel’s Pager Attack Was a Tactical Success Without a Strategic Goal, Analysts Say
Inspecting a car in which a pager exploded in Beirut on Tuesday.
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on September 2024
Europe’s Floods Are Another Sign of Growing Threat of Climate Change
Rescue workers evacuating flooded areas in Ostrava, Czech Republic, on Monday.
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on September 2024
U.N. Sees ‘Human Rights Abyss’ in Myanmar as Military Kills Civilians
Soldiers from an armed insurgent group in Myanmar walked through a church damaged by the military in southern Karenni State in January.
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on September 2024
Exploding Pagers Targeting Hezbollah Kill 11 and Wound Thousands
After hundreds of pagers exploded across Lebanon, the wounded were rushed to hospitals in ambulances, like this one in Beirut, on Tuesday.
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Wednesday Briefing: Exploding Pagers Kill at Least 9 in Lebanon
Lebanese army soldiers in the streets of Beirut yesterday.
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on September 2024
Biden Administration Extends Review Period for Nippon Takeover of U.S. Steel
David Burritt, chief executive of U.S. Steel, has warned that the company could lay off workers and relocate its headquarters outside Pennsylvania if the deal were blocked.
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on September 2024
Second Apparent Assassination Attempt on Trump Prompts International Alarm
Former President Donald J. Trump speaking onstage during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July as a photograph of the aftermath of an assassination attempt was emblazoned on a screen.
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on September 2024
With Sandbags and Team Spirit, a Polish City Fought Off a Flood
Local residents pile up sandbags to protect the embankment of the Nysa Klodzka River against the floods in Nysa, southern Poland.
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on September 2024
Iran’s Ambassador to Lebanon Is Injured in Apparent Pager Attack, State Media Reports
Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amini, center, in Beirut, Lebanon, in July.
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on September 2024
A Look at Israel-Hezbollah Tensions and How a Wider War Could Impact Lebanon
Hezbollah fighters at the funeral of a commander in August, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon.
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on September 2024
$50 Billion in Aid to Ukraine Stalls Over Legal Questions
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s leader, and President Biden held a news conference during the Group of 7 Summit in Savelletri, Italy, in June.
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on September 2024
Manchester City’s Premier League Hearing, Explained
The charges date back to 2009, a year after Manchester City’s purchase by the brother of the ruler of Abu Dhabi. That acquisition began a turbocharged era of spending — and success.
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on September 2024
Burning Oil Tanker in Red Sea Is Towed to Safety
The oil tanker Sounion in the Red Sea on Saturday. It has since been towed to safety.
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on September 2024
What to Know About the France Rape Trial of 51 Men
Gisèle Pelicot, 71, arriving at court in Avignon, France, in September to testify against her former husband.
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on September 2024
Portugal Going Through ‘Difficult Days’ as Wildfires Burn Across the Country
A helicopter dropped water to try to contain a fire in Albergaria-a-Velha, Portugal, on Monday.
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on September 2024
What Is JNIM, the Al Qaeda Affiliate Claiming Attacks in Mali?
Smoking rising in the distance behind crowds in Bamako, Mali, on Tuesday after an attack. The violence could raise questions about the security strategy of the country’s military leaders.
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on September 2024
Von der Leyen Doles Out Top E.U. Jobs
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Union’s executive arm, presented its new leaders on Tuesday in Strasbourg, France.
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on September 2024
Trudeau’s Liberal Party Loses Parliament Seat in Montreal Special Election
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approval ratings have stagnated just above 20 percent for the past year.
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on September 2024
Israel’s Netanyahu Considers Firing Defense Minister Gallant in Government Shakeup
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, left, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at a news conference in Tel Aviv in October.
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on September 2024
Ukraine-Russia War Updates: Moscow Hits Back in Kursk as Air War Heats Up
Ukrainian soldiers on the move in an armored vehicle in the Donetsk region on Sunday.
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on September 2024
How Colorado’s Thompson Divide Got Protection From Oil and Gas Drilling
Israel Planted Explosives in Pagers Sold to Hezbollah, Officials Say