Hong Kong Holds Vote as Officials Move Against ‘Anti-China’ Elements
The burned Wang Fuk Court apartment complex in Hong Kong last month.
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Russian Drone Strike on Chernobyl Hasn’t Led to Rise in Radiation Levels
Emergency workers outside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in February after the confinement structure was punctured by a Russian drone in Pripyat, Ukraine.
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Benin Coup Attempt to Oust Talon Has Been Foiled, Interior Minister Says
Soldiers patrolled in front of Benin’s radio and television offices in Cotonou on Sunday after an apparent coup attempt.
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How Australia’s Social Media Ban for Children Will Work
James Tomlinson, 9, playing a game on a phone in Melbourne, Australia.
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Hong Kong Man Arrested After Posting Online About Deadly Fire
Crowds watching the fire at the Wang Fuk Court apartment complex on Nov. 27 in Hong Kong.
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Fire at a Nightclub in Goa, India, Kills at Least 25
The burned remains of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub in Goa, India, on Sunday.
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Battlefield Picture Worsening for Ukraine as Trump Pushes Peace Plan
The 148th Artillery Brigade of the Ukrainian Army in October in the Zaporizhzhia region of eastern Ukraine.
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Trump’s Security Doctrine Leaves Europe at a Strategic Crossroads
A Norwegian soldier during a NATO military exercise this year. European governments have tried to wean themselves off American military might by increasing their own military spending and cooperation.
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Venezuela’s Nobel Winner Will Go to Norway for Peace Prize, Official Says
María Corina Machado has united an often fractious opposition in recent years, but the Venezuelan authorities blocked her from running for president.
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At Least 17 Migrants Die in Greece’s Worst Shipwreck in Two Years
Firefighters and members of the Hellenic coast responding after a migrant vessel sank off the island of Crete, on Saturday.
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Israel Backed Gazans to Oppose Hamas. For One, It Ended Violently.
A destroyed area of Rafah, Gaza. Yasser Abu Shabab and his militia group were based near the city.
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12 People Killed in Mass Shooting at Illegal Tavern in South Africa
The scene of a mass shooting in Pretoria, South Africa, on Saturday.
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Martin Parr, Who Photographed Britain’s Unvarnished Quirks, Dies at 73
Martin Parr at a gala at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 2023.
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Heathrow Airport Is Briefly Locked Down After Spray Is Used in Altercation
Travelers at Heathrow Airport in Britain in September.
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With MaXhosa Africa, Laduma Ngxokolo Is Reweaving South Africa’s Story
Laduma Ngxokolo founded MaXhosa Africa in 2010, basing the label’s offerings on traditional Xhosa patterns and motifs, but reimagined for the modern world.
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Japan Says China Aimed Military Radar at Its Fighter Jets
The Liaoning, China’s first aircraft carrier, sailing near Okinawa, Japan, in 2021, in a photo released by Japan’s Defense Ministry.
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In Honduras, Some Voters Were Swayed by Trump, Others Angered
Downtown Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, on Saturday.
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China’s National Security Office in Hong Kong Summons Foreign Journalists
Smoke rising from the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Hong Kong last month. Beijing’s national security arm in Hong Kong said that some foreign news outlets had twisted facts and spread false information.
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Like Trump, Benjamin Franklin Sought to Annex Canada
A sculpture of Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia.
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Afrikaner Access Soars Amid Trump’s Policy Shift
White South Africans rallied in support of President Trump in February outside the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Saudi Arabia Will Sell You Alcohol Now, if You’re Rich Enough
Nonalcoholic draft beer served at a cafe this year in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The kingdom has banned alcohol for more than 70 years.
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Scientists Are Measuring Ocean Currents in Hopes of Charting AMOC’s Future
Scoresby Sound, a fjord in eastern Greenland, as seen from the research ship.
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Survivors of the Deadly Hong Kong Fire Are in Limbo
Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong, after a blaze damaged the complex late last month.
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Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy
President Trump at the White House last month. The National Security Strategy his administration released describes a world in which American interests are far narrower than how prior administrations — even in his first term — had portrayed them.
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Man Who Swallowed Stolen Fabergé Egg Passes It Naturally, Police Say
“No medical intervention was required, and the pendant passed naturally,” the police said in a statement.
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ICE Arrests Harvard Professor Charged for Shooting a Pellet Gun
The professor, who is from Brazil, had been teaching at Harvard during the fall semester.
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Trump Wants Maduro to Go. Here’s Who Could Replace Him in Venezuela.
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela holding a sword during a speech last month. Should he end up losing power, his potential replacement would be largely determined by the manner of his departure.
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Wary of Russia, German Defense Minister Pistorius Is Growing His Army
Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, speaking to lawmakers in Berlin on Friday.
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U.S. Warns of Europe’s ‘Civilizational Erasure’ Through Immigration
President Trump has made no secret of his disdain for the political leadership in Europe.
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Putin Basks in Praise From Modi on India Visit
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India in New Delhi on Friday. They pledged deeper cooperation in defense, trade and energy.
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How the U.S. Focus on Fentanyl Helped Fuel the Cocaine Trade’s Resurgence
The police in Spain displaying tons of cocaine last year at the port in Algeciras after it was transported in a container from Ecuador.
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The ‘Cocaine Superhighway’ Fueled by the U.S. Focus on Fentanyl
The aftermath of a car bombing in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Car bombs have become common, killing and terrorizing civilians, and gangs frequently clash with the military and the police.
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How Batteries Got Cheaper and Made the Electric Grid More Reliable
Employees working on battery units at the solar project, which is owned by AES, a Virginia company that holds utilities and power plants across the world.
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Zelensky’s Government Sabotaged Oversight, Allowing Corruption in Ukraine to Fester
President Volodymyr Zelensky, center right, at the nuclear power plant in the Khmelnytskyi region of western Ukraine in February.
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Gianni Infantino Awards Trump a FIFA Peace Prize and Announces World Cup Draw
President Trump, holding a replica of the men’s World Cup, with Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, in the Oval Office in August. Mr. Trump later asked to keep the trophy.
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On Pope Leo’s Visit to Lebanon and Turkey, A.I. Was a Frequent Concern
Pope Leo in Bkerke, Lebanon, on Monday. During his six-day tour, he called out the risks of artificial intelligence and other rapidly advancing technologies.
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Yemen’s Civil War Could Escalate Again. Here’s What to Know.
Forces loyal to the Southern Transitional Council during clashes with pro-government forces in Abyan Province, Yemen, in 2020.
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Trump Trumpets Peace in Africa Amid War on Drug Boats, in Day of Dissonance
President Trump trumpeted a peace agreement while hosting President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Washington on Thursday.
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Stellantis Is in Default for Moving Jeep Production to U.S., Canada Says
Stellantis’s plant in Brampton, Canada. The European-based automaker also produces vehicles under the Chrysler, Dodge and Ram brands in North America.
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Dominik Duka, Czech Cardinal Jailed Under Communism, Dies at 82
Dominik Duka in 2010, when he became the archbishop of Prague. Cardinal Duka spent much of his early life under one of the most anti-religious governments in Communist Europe.
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U.N. Warns of ‘Another Wave of Atrocities’ in Sudan’s Civil War
Displaced people from El Fasher, in Darfur, lined up for aid at a camp in northern Sudan last month.
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After Years of Debate, Vatican Says No to Women Deacons, at Least for Now
Pope Leo XIV in Beirut in November. Some campaigners had hoped that the Vatican, under Leo’s leadership, might allow for the inclusion of women in the lowest rungs of the church ministerial hierarchy.
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Aid Workers Stand Trial for Helping to Smuggle People Into Greece
The campaigner Sara Mardini before the start of the trial of 24 aid workers involved in refugee rescues, at Lesbos, Greece, on Thursday.
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Groups Express Anixety as Trump Threatens to Derail U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Pact
Though President Trump negotiated and signed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, he said this year that he wanted to make it a “much better deal.”
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Yasser Abu Shabab, Militant Leader Backed by Israel, Is Killed in Gaza, Official Says
Destruction in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, where Yasser Abu Shabab was reported killed on Thursday.
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Amid Russian Sabotage, U.K. Points Finger at Putin Over Novichok Death
A police cordon around the residential area where Dawn Sturgess was exposed to the Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, in 2018.
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Deadly Attacks in Gaza Test Cease-Fire as Body of Another Captive Is Returned
The site of an Israeli strike on an encampment in Khan Younis, Gaza. A Palestinian health official said the attack killed at least six people and injured many more.
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Cambodia Shuts Down Group That Laundered Billions in Scam Profits
The Huione Pay headquarters in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in March.
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Ruined Rice Fields and Broken Rail Lines: Sri Lanka Counts Cost of Cyclone
Locals wading through floodwater from Cyclone Ditwah, at Mannar in northern Sri Lanka, on Thursday.
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Air Traffic Control Issue Briefly Grounds Flights at Edinburgh Airport
In Brazil’s Answer to Hollywood, Dreams and Drought Share the Stage
Australia’s Social Media Ban for Under-16s Is Coming. The Teenagers Are Skeptical.
When Kids Adopt New Technologies, Hype Can Turn to Backlash
His Group Made World-Class Measurements of Atomic Elements