Lebanon’s Hospitals Buckle Amid Israel’s Offensive Against Hezbollah
“I don’t want to close the hospital,” said Elie Hachem, director of St. Therese Hospital, on the outskirts of Beirut, that has been damaged by airstrikes. “The community needs us.”
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What To Know About India and Canada’s Diplomatic Rift
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday accused the Indian government of orchestrating homicide and extortion in Canada.
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Political Infighting Hampers Ukraine’s Efforts to Avert Energy Crisis
Destroyed transformers and power lines at a power plant in Kurakhove, Ukraine, in March.
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Venezuela’s New Comedians Are Using Political Satire to Laugh Amid the Pain
Estefanía León, a Venezuelan comedian living in Mexico City, is part of the comedy troupe El Cuartico.
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China’s Wild Panda Census is Widely Regarded as Flawed
Visitors photographing a panda in August at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China.
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Justin Trudeau’s Accusations Spotlight Reach of India’s Intelligence Agencies
The most senior official in the intelligence and national security apparatus is Ajit Doval, India’s national security adviser.
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Could Weight-Loss Drugs Help Get People Back to Work? The U.K. Wants to Find Out.
On Monday, the British government announced a five-year trial of the weight-loss drug tirzepatide, also known as Mounjaro.
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Hanni of NewJeans Testifies in Parliament About Bullying at Work
The appearance of Hanni, a member of NewJeans, at the National Assembly in Seoul had been eagerly awaited.
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9 Monkeys Die in a Hong Kong Zoo
Watching monkeys at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens in 2017.
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50 Years After Killing, a Berlin Court Convicts a Stasi Officer of Murder
Manfred Naumann, a former officer of East Germany’s secret police, covered his face in court on Monday during his sentencing in Berlin.
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Tent Camp in Gaza Engulfed by Flames After Israeli Strike
The scene after an Israeli strike caused a deadly fire in a tent encampment at a hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza, on Monday.
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Italy Sends Boat to Albania With Migrants Who Were Bound for Italian Shores
A detention center for migrants seeking to enter Italy, in Gjader, Albania, last week.
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A Very English Sporting Scandal: Did a Steel Conker Taint a Title?
David Jakins, 82, at the annual World Conker Championships in the village of Southwick, England, on Sunday.
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Giant Pandas From China Return to National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
The National Zoo, which announced in May that the pandas would arrive by the end of the year, was closed on Tuesday to allow for a safe and orderly transfer of the bears.
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In the Northern Gaza Town of Jabaliya, Some Residents Cannot Heed Israel’s Evacuation Orders
Palestinians trying to rescue a man trapped inside the rubble of a collapsed building following a strike in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, on Tuesday.
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Oil Prices Fall After Israel Reportedly Says It Won’t Target Iran’s Nuclear or Oil Facilities
The Isfahan Refinery, one of the largest pieces of oil infrastructure in Iran, in November last year.
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Iranian General Is Seen in State Media After Questions Over His Whereabouts
Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, at a funeral in Tehran on Tuesday for a senior Iranian Quds commander who was killed in a strike in Lebanon that targeted Hezbollah’s leader.
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Tuesday Briefing
Palestinians surveyed the damage at a camp for displaced people on the grounds of Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza after an Israeli strike on Monday.
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Therapeutic Food Shortage Puts African Children at Risk of Starvation, U.N. Agency Says
Fatuma Adoum, a refugee from Sudan, with one of her infant twin daughters at a malnutrition center run by Doctors Without Borders in Adre, Chad, in July.
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Tuesday Briefing: India Accused of Homicide and Extortion
Sanjay Kumar Verma, India’s top diplomat in Canada, in June.
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Survivors of Al Aqsa Hospital Fire in Gaza Say They Are Living a ‘Recurring Nightmare’
Palestinians in the courtyard of Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al Balah, central Gaza, after the deadly attack on Monday.
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U.S. Sends THAAD Missile Defense System to Israel: What to Know
A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense unit deployed last year in Guam during a multinational joint military exercise.
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In Jordan, a ‘Stunning’ Discovery Under Petra’s Ancient Stone
From left, the archaeologist Matthew Vincent, the television host Josh Gates, and a professor, Pearce Paul Creasman, digging in front of the Treasury building in Petra.
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Deadly Hezbollah Attack Shows Israel’s Weakness Against Drones
Military facilities near the site of a drone attack outside Binyamina, Israel, on Monday.
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Supreme Court Ruling Means Italy’s ‘Bunga Bunga’ Saga Is Not Over
Italy’s Supreme Court overturned acquittals from a lower court, ruling on Monday that women accused of helping to cover up Silvio Berlusconi’s evening bacchanals could be retried.
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Russia Is Winning Back Territory Taken by Ukraine in Its Summer Offensive
Ukrainian army vehicles pass by a sign which reads “Ukraine” (left) and “Russia” (right) on a Russian road near a destroyed border post in August.
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Nobel Economics Prize Awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson
Members of the Swedish Academy of Sciences announcing the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in Stockholm on Monday.
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Russian Disinformation Targets U.S.-Backed Anti-Malaria Campaign
Souleymane Sankara, an entomologist with Target Malaria, in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.
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Monday Briefing
Securing a road in Binyamina, Israel, after a drone attack on Sunday.
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How Israel’s Army Uses Palestinians as Human Shields in Gaza
Israeli soldiers during a military tour for journalists of a tunnel under a U.N. site in Gaza. The Times later found that a Palestinian had been forced to explore the tunnel.
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China Holds War Games Encircling Taiwan in Warning to Island’s Leader
President Lai Ching-te speaking in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, on Thursday, its National Day. He said China and Taiwan were “not subordinate to each other.”
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Just Over the Border from Israel, a Hezbollah Cache of Explosives and Mines
Israeli soldiers lead a group of journalists along a trail in southern Lebanon on Sunday.
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Monday Briefing: The U.S. to Deploy Troops to Israel
A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in Guam in 2023.
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U.S. to Deploy Missile Defense System and About 100 Troops to Israel
A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in Guam in 2023.
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Israeli Jets Pummel Hezbollah Targets in Southern Lebanon
Military facilities near the site of a drone attack outside Binyamina, Israel, on Monday.
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Jokes and Offbeat Auctions for the Troops: Standup Comedy Sweeps Ukraine
Anton Tymoshenko performing at a stand-up comedy show in July in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Russian Strikes on Ukrainian Ports Target Civilian Shipping
The Port of Odesa in March. Russia has intensified its strikes on the region recently.
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Ladakh’s Local Hero Wants India to Pay Attention to His People
Sonam Wangchuk, an activist from the Ladakh region of India, is leading protests to demand more control over how the area is used and governed.
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Silvio Berlusconi Died. But for Her, the ‘Bunga Bunga’ Scandal Lives On.
“He messed up my life,” Karima el-Mahroug says of Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister who died last year.
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Boot Found at Everest Could Be From Sandy Irvine, Who Vanished 100 Years Ago
The last known image taken of George Mallory, left, and Sandy Irvine. The two men vanished while trying to be the first to reach the summit at Mount Everest in 1924.
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Alex Salmond, Scotland’s Former First Minister, Dies at 69
Alex Salmond in 2014 speaking to supporters in advance of the referendum on Scottish independence. That effort propelled his career, and he was the nation’s first pro-independence first minister.
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Secret Documents Show Hamas Tried to Persuade Iran to Join Its Oct. 7 Attack
A house in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Israel, last December that was among those attacked on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Fitch Ratings Issues Warning About France’s Finances
Fitch Ratings warned that it could lower France’s sovereign credit rating if the government’s budget plans fall apart.
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Love Lessons
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Israeli Strikes on Northern Gaza Kill at Least 20, Aid Workers Say
Mourning on Saturday over the bodies of Palestinian relatives killed overnight in the Jabaliya area of the northern Gaza Strip.
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Boris Johnson Makes a Case for Trump’s Return, and Perhaps, His Own
The epigraph for Boris Johnson’s memoir is “Hasta la vista, baby,” an Arnold Schwarzenegger line from a “Terminator” film.
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Canada Tightens Immigration Policy And Leaves Thousands in Limbo
International students and others line up for busses, in Brampton, Canada, on Monday. Canada’s post-pandemic experiment at large-scale import of foreign students and temporary workers is heading for a rapid overhaul.
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Is Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon Legal? Here’s What International Law Says.
The aftermath on Friday of an overnight strike in the Ras el-Nabaa neighborhood in central Beirut that killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 100.
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How South Korea’s Dogs Became Members of the Family
O Hanna, a teacher, at Dogkingabout, a “total dog care center” in Seoul.
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Rise of the Dragons: Fire-Breathing Drones Duel in Ukraine
Ukrainian drone operators preparing to test a new drone last month in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.
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Lebanon’s Leader Calls on U.N. for Cease-Fire as Beirut Searches for Airstrike Survivors
The aftermath in Ras el-Nabaa, in central Beirut, on Friday after overnight Israeli airstrikes killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 100.
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Canada Expels Indian Diplomats, Claiming They Were Part of a Criminal Network
A French Immersion Program in Provence Leads to a Good Life Lesson