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Iran Sent Ballistic Missiles to Russia, U.S. and European Officials Say
A drone in the distinctive triangle shape of an Iranian-made Shahed-136 in the sky over Kyiv, Ukraine, during a Russian drone attack in 2022.
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on September 2024
Israel Strikes Schools Turned Shelters in Jabaliya, Gaza Medics Say
Palestinians mourn over bodies in Deir al Balah, in central Gaza, on Saturday.
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on September 2024
Super Typhoon Yagi Makes Landfall in Vietnam After Pounding Southern China
The city of Haiphong on Saturday before Yagi made landfall in northern Vietnam.
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on September 2024
Tony Blair’s Advice on Leadership: Tend to Your Legacy
“I didn’t do enough, frankly,” Tony Blair said about the framing of his legacy, adding, “It’s ultimately going to be determined in years to come by people you’ve never met.”
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on September 2024
In Papua New Guinea, Pope Francis Hears Plea for Climate Action
Pope Francis meeting with Bob Dadae, the governor general of Papua New Guinea, in Port Moresby on Saturday.
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on September 2024
Ukrainian Street Artist Documents War Against Russia, One Stark Mural at a Time
The street artist Gamlet Zinkivskyi, who has painted murals in cities across eastern Ukraine, walking past one of his first works made after Russia’s invasion in his hometown, Kharkiv.
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John
on September 2024
Indonesia Is One of the World’s Biggest Sources of Catholic Priests
Celebrating Mass on a Sunday at St. Paul Major Seminary, on Flores, an island in Indonesia.
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on September 2024
In France Rape Trial, a Daughter Talks of Torment
Caroline Darian and her mother, Gisèle Pelicot, with Ms. Darian’s two brothers on either side of them at the courthouse in Avignon, France, on Monday. The court’s rules say that images of accused people and plaintiffs cannot be taken without their permission.
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on September 2024
Distracted and Divided, Russian Security Service Misses Threats
Ukrainian men carry a dead Russian soldier in a body bag after finding him in the rubble of a destroyed Russian border post last month.
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on September 2024
American Killed at West Bank Protest Was a Campus Organizer
Aysenur Eygi during her graduation from the University of Washington this year.
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on September 2024
Twitter Changed Soccer. There’s a Risk X Will Do It Again.
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on September 2024
Fire at School Dormitory in Kenya Kills at Least 18 Students
Distressed parents waiting near a burned-out dormitory after a fire at the Hillside Endarasha Primary School in Nyeri County, Kenya.
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on September 2024
China Stops Foreign Adoptions, Ending a Complicated Chapter
A child at a foster home on the outskirts of Beijing in 2017.
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on September 2024
Eagles Players Feared Crime in Brazil. Is Philadelphia More Dangerous?
A mural featuring quarterbacks from the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers on an apartment tower in São Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
Family of American Slain in the West Bank Demands an Independent Inquiry
Medics transporting the body of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, a Turkish American woman who was fatally shot on Friday in the occupied West Bank.
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on September 2024
C.I.A. and MI6 Chiefs Discuss Ukraine’s Incursion Into Russia and Gaza War
Richard Moore, chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service, left, and William J. Burns, director of the C.I.A., in London on Saturday.
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on September 2024
Ukrainian Forces Block Russian Advance on a Key Eastern Town
Soldiers of the 33rd Mechanized Brigade fording a river during exercises in the Pokrovsk region last week.
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on September 2024
India’s Epidemic of Cow Vigilantism Unnerves Nation’s Muslims
Capturing a stray cow in Ayodhya, India, in January. Cows are sacred in Hinduism, especially among its upper castes, and many Indian states ban their slaughter.
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on September 2024
The U.S. Open Concludes
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on September 2024
Online Credit Unions Offering High Interest Rates on Savings May Be Fakes
An unregistered credit union is nowhere to be found in the Ottawa office tower listed online as its headquarters.
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on September 2024
The Pivotal Decision That Led to a Resurgence of Polio
A child in Gaza receives the oral polio vaccine. The vaccine’s composition was altered in 2016, with unexpected consequences.
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on September 2024
Meet the Team Climbing Trees in the Amazon to Better Understand Carbon Stores
Data gathered on this tiny site could help researchers improve financial tools to protect forests.
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on September 2024
How Telegram Became a Playground for Criminals, Extremists and Terrorists
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on September 2024
West Bank Residents Survey Destruction as Israeli Forces Withdraw
Palestinians inspected the damage on Friday after a 10-day Israeli military raid on the West Bank city of Jenin.
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on September 2024
Nell McCafferty, Larger-Than-Life Irish Journalist, Dies at 80
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on September 2024
U.N. Panel Calls for International Force in Sudan to Protect Civilians
Sudanese Armed Forces soldiers walking through the heavily destroyed streets of a historic market in Omdurman, Sudan, in April.
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on September 2024
American Woman and Palestinian Girl Killed in Separate West Bank Incidents
Medics transporting the body of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, a Turkish American woman who was fatally shot on Friday in the occupied West Bank.
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on September 2024
Ukraine’s Zelensky Presses Western Allies for More Weapons
From left, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and the Ukrainian defense minister, Rustem Umerov, met with Western allies in Germany on Friday.
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on September 2024
Hamas’s Release of Hostage Videos Inflames Divisions in Israel
Protesters calling for the Israeli government to secure the release of hostages from Gaza, in Tel Aviv on Thursday.
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on September 2024
Qatar’s Crucial Role in the Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire Talks
Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani of Qatar, center, at a meeting on Gaza this spring in Saudi Arabia. Officials say he has dedicated a great deal of time to brokering a cease-fire.
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on September 2024
Israeli Military Withdraws From Jenin After 10-Day Raid
Surveying the damage in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Friday.
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on September 2024
Against This Mighty Paralympic Team, a Close Loss Can Feel Like a Win
Mariska Beijer of the Netherlands handled the basketball during a game against Spain at the Paralympics in Paris.
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on September 2024
Typhoon Yagi Expected to Strengthen Before Hitting Vietnam
Storm clouds gather over Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong on Thursday.
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on September 2024
Is Brisbane Ready to Be the Equal of Sydney and Melbourne?
Jean Paul Gaultier’s “Fashion Freak Show,” in Brisbane, Australia.
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on September 2024
Friday Briefing
Justice Juan Merchan has resisted many of Mr. Trump’s most audacious legal maneuvers, and has made clear his intention to be fair to the former president.
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on September 2024
Nurses Win a Bigger Role as Doctors Strike in South Korea
Members from the Korean Nursing Association celebrating the passing of a bill that gives greater roles and legal protections to nurses.
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on September 2024
Are Pacific Islands a ‘Dumping Ground’ for Accused Priests?
Roman Catholic worshipers celebrating Palm Sunday at a church in Dili, East Timor, last year.
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on September 2024
Purported Rembrandt Painting Found in a Maine Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
“Portrait of a Girl,” a painting believed to be by Rembrandt, could become more valuable if it is authenticated.
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on September 2024
Woman in France Testifies Against Husband Accused of Bringing Men to Rape Her
Gisèle Pelicot, 71, arriving at court to testify against her former husband, in Avignon in southern France, on Thursday.
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on September 2024
Anti-Polio Campaign in Gaza Enters New Phase, Hours After Deadly Strike
Palestinians lining up to vaccinate their children against polio on Thursday in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
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on September 2024
Friday Briefing: A Judge Weighs a Monumental Trump Decision
Justice Juan Merchan outside his office.
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on September 2024
OPEC Plus Delays Plan to Increase Oil Output
An Aramco oil field in Saudi Arabia, which leads the group of eight nations known as OPEC Plus.
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on September 2024
Russian Military Intelligence Members Indicted Over Ukraine Cyberattack
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Wednesday. The attacks were essentially the opening salvos in the invasion of Ukraine.
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on September 2024
How Much Screen Time Should Toddlers Have? None, Sweden Says.
The Swedish public health authorities recommended this week that children under 2 use no digital media.
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on September 2024
Surprising New Research Links Infant Mortality to Crashing Bat Populations
The new study shows how human health can suffer when nature is out of balance.
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on September 2024
German Police Shoot Gunman Dead Near Israeli Consulate in Munich
Police officers secured the area near the Israeli Consulate in Munich on Thursday.
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on September 2024
U.S. Charges American Commentator Who Works for Russian State TV
Dimitri K. Simes with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in a photo released by Russian state media. Mr. Simes was accused of violating U.S. sanctions for his work with a state-owned television station.
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on September 2024
Boko Haram Kills at Least 170 Villagers in Nigeria Attack
A funeral in Yobe, Nigeria, on Tuesday for residents killed in the village of Mafa. Thirty-four bodies were brought to the nearest town, but community leaders say many more were buried locally.
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on September 2024
Dismissing Kursk, Putin Says Ukraine’s East Is Russia’s Main Goal
Policemen with the White Angels evacuation team, a special unit of Ukraine’s National Police, assisted in the evacuation of a woman in a village near the frontline in the Pokrovsk district, Ukraine, this week.
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on September 2024
Israeli Raids Become a Near-Daily Reality for Many Palestinians
Palestinians inspect a damaged car after an Israeli airstrike in the West Bank city of Tubas on Thursday.
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on September 2024
How Swing State Politics Are Sinking a Global Steel Deal
A U.S. Steel worker in Clairton, Pa., in 2019. The Biden administration has been under pressure to justify blocking the acquisition of the company amid backlash from the powerful steelworkers’ union.
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John
on September 2024
Blinken Visits a Haiti Wracked by Corruption and Gangs
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with Garry Conille, the prime minister of Haiti, in Port-au-Prince on Thursday.
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on September 2024
Macron Names Michel Barnier to Be French Prime Minister, Breaking Impasse
Michel Barnier, 73, is a member of The Republicans, France’s main conservative party.
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on September 2024
Fugitive Ex-Mayor Whose Case Gripped the Philippines Is Arrested in Indonesia
The former mayor of Bamban, Alice Guo, at a Senate Committee hearing in the Philippines in May.
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on September 2024
Pope Finds Fervent Fans Among Indonesia’s Transgender Community
A group of trans women in South Jakarta preparing to go see Pope Francis on Thursday.
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on September 2024
Racing the Clock to Document ISIS Genocide of Iraq’s Yazidis
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on September 2024
In the Paralympic Fix-It Shop, Plenty of Fractures but No Blood
At the fix-it shop in the Paralympic Village, repair requests can and do come from every sport. Technicians worked on a prosthetic leg on Sunday.
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on September 2024
When Gambia Banned Female Genital Cutting, a Defiant 96-Year-Old Resisted
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on September 2024
Solar Farms Look to Produce Something Apart From Power: Pollinator Friendly Habitat
A solar farm in Ramsey, Minn., landscaped with native plants that support pollinators, and, by extension, myriad other species.
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on September 2024