Inside the Lebanese Valley Where Israel Is Bombarding Hezbollah
A man surveys the destruction left by an Israeli airstrike in Baalbek, Lebanon, on Wednesday.
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The Wily Spy Who Risked His Life to Meet North Korea’s Secretive Leader
“Whenever I visited the North, I knew my life was on the line,” said Park Chae-so, a South Korean spy who met with the then-leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il.
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Pope Francis Is Met With Anger Over Sexual Abuse on Visit to Belgium
Pope Francis met with King Philippe, second from right, and Queen Mathilde of Belgium, left, in Brussels on Friday. He was also met with survivors of church sexual abuse.
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on September 2024
Brontë Sisters Plaque at Westminster Abbey Typo Fixed
A conservator adding the finishing touches to the Brontë sisters’ plaque at Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey in London on Thursday.
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on September 2024
What to Know About Austria’s General Election and the Far-Right Freedom Party
Campaign posters for the People’s Party and the Freedom Party in Vienna.
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on September 2024
Deal to Reopen Libya’s Central Bank Eases Fears of Fighting
At a bank in Misrata, in western Libya, in August. The central bank dispute had frozen the banking system for most Libyans.
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on September 2024
Shigeru Ishiba to Be Next Prime Minister of Japan
Shigeru Ishiba after he was selected as the new head of the Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Friday.
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on September 2024
This Is What Can Land You in Jail for Sedition in Hong Kong
Visitors watching a video of Xi Jinping at the National Security Exhibition in Hong Kong Museum of History in August.
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on September 2024
Myanmar’s Military Asks Rebels to Stop Fighting and Join in Elections
Myanmar’s junta chief military leader, Min Aung Hlaing, during a ceremony in Naypyidaw to mark the country’s Armed Forces Day in March.
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After 44 Years on Death Row, Japanese Man Is Exonerated at Age 88
Iwao Hakamada going for a walk with a supporter in Hamamatsu, Japan, on Wednesday. He was released from prison 10 years ago and granted a retrial.
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First It Was Lynch Mobs. Now Police Kill Pakistanis Accused of Blasphemy.
From left, the mother, wife and daughter of Shah Nawaz. The family has accused the police in southern Pakistan of killing Mr. Nawaz, a doctor who was accused of blasphemy.
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Finnish Zoo Returning Pandas to China Because of Cost
Pyry feeding on bamboo in his enclosure at the Ahtari Zoo in Finland in 2018.
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on September 2024
Israel Bombs Residential Site in Effort to Kill Hezbollah Leader
Lebanese army soldiers gather over the rubble of a levelled buildings as people flight the flames, following Israeli air strikes in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut’s southern suburbs on on Friday.
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U.S.-Led Coalition in Iraq to Wind Down Its Mission
The United States and Iraq said they had agreed to conclude the coalition’s military mission in Iraq “over the next twelve months, and no later than the end of September 2025.”
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on September 2024
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Holds Emergency Meeting Over Israel’s Attacks in Lebanon
An Iranian holding a photo of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a rally to support Hezbollah and Palestinians after Friday prayers in Tehran.
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on September 2024
Who Is Hassan Nasrallah, the Leader of Hezbollah?
Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah, speaking on a screen in Baalbek, Lebanon, in 2018.
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on September 2024
WADA Lost Track of Open Doping Cases Before Paris Olympics
A database problem identified before the Paris Olympics created the risk that cases of athletes accused of doping violations were not being tracked.
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on September 2024
Israel’s Pager Attacks in Lebanon and the Law on Booby Traps
Mourners at the funeral for Fatima Abdullah, 9, who was killed by a pager that exploded in her hands on Sept. 17.
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on September 2024
Israeli Strikes Targeting Hezbollah Shake Neighborhood Near Beirut
The aftermath of Israeli strikes on Friday in Beirut’s suburbs.
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on September 2024
Zelensky Finds Ukraine’s Fortunes Ties to the U.S. Election
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington on Thursday.
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on September 2024
Israel’s New Campaign Against Hezbollah Started With Raid in Syria
The aftermath of Israeli strikes on Masyaf, Syria, this month. The area is only about 30 miles from the Lebanese border, which is why, Israeli and American officials say, Hezbollah manufactures weapons there instead of in Iran.
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on September 2024
Israel Likely to Have Enough Weapons for Multiple Conflicts
Smoke rising over southern Lebanon after Israeli strikes on Monday.
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on September 2024
The Sudden Appeal of the Bulldog Spirit
Atlético Madrid’s new English prize, Conor Gallagher.
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on September 2024
Zelensky Meets Trump Amid Fears for Continued U.S. Support for Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, second from left, attended a meeting with other world leaders on Wednesday in New York.
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on September 2024
A ‘Super Bowl’ Holiday
The GWS Giants, in orange, playing the Brisbane Lions in the A.F.L. semifinals earlier this month. Brisbane will play the Sydney Swans in the final.
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on September 2024
Friday Briefing: Mayor’s Adams’s Arraignment
Mayor Adams speaking yesterday.
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on September 2024
Pope Punishes 10 Members of Catholic Movement in Peru
Pope Francis during a visit to Peru in 2018. He expelled 10 members of a group called Sodalitium Christianae Vitae after an investigation into allegations of abuse within it.
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on September 2024
Friday Briefing: New York City’s Mayor is Indicted
Mayor Eric Adams of New York speaking outside the mayoral mansion.
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on September 2024
Netanyahu Defiant as World Leaders Press for Israeli-Hezbollah Truce
Lebanese forces securing the area after an Israeli strike hit a high-rise building in the densely populated southern suburbs of Beirut on Thursday.
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on September 2024
Sudan’s Army Launches Operation to Retake Khartoum
Smoke billowing over Khartoum, Sudan, on Thursday.
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on September 2024
The Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a type of bacteria that causes tuberculosis, has become increasingly resistant to antibiotics.
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on September 2024
Israel Says It Killed Another Hezbollah Commander in Beirut
The scene after an Israeli strike hit a high-rise building in southern Beirut on Thursday.
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on September 2024
Cyber Attack Displays ‘Islamophobic’ Message on U.K. Trains, Officials Say
Waterloo Station in London was one of several affected by a cybersecurity incident on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
Both Israel and Hezbollah Have Reasons to Reject a Cease-Fire Deal
A building destroyed by an Israeli attack in Baalbek, Lebanon, on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
Hong Kong Editors Sentenced in Landmark Press Freedom Case
Former chief editor of the now-defunct Stand News Chung Pui-kuen, left, and former editor in chief Patrick Lam, leaving the District Court in Hong Kong in 2023.
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on September 2024
Dozens, Mostly Children, Drown During a Hindu Festival
Hindu women celebrating Jivitputrika Vrat in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, in 2020.
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on September 2024
Why Curbing Hezbollah’s Power in Lebanon Just Became Harder
Hezbollah supporters in Beirut, Lebanon, last month.
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on September 2024
Israel’s Displaced Want to Go Home. But Will Attacks on Hezbollah Offer That Path?
Orly Gavishi-Sotto and her daughters have shuttled among temporary living arrangements since leaving her hometown near the border with Lebanon.
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on September 2024
U.S. House Speaker Demands That Ukraine Fire Ambassador
Mike Johnson, center, in Washington on Wednesday. He has accused Ukraine’s ambassador to Washington of meddling in American election affairs.
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on September 2024
Thursday Briefing: A Proposed Cease-Fire between Israel and Hezbollah
The rubble of a damaged building after an Israeli strike in Sidon, Lebanon.
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on September 2024
Mexican Senate Votes to Give Military Control of Civilian National Guard
Mexico’s National Guard, a force of some 130,000 members, would be put under the control of the country’s military if a constitutional amendment becomes law.
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on September 2024
Hezbollah Targets Tel Aviv as Israel Moves Forces Toward Lebanon
A house that was hit by a rocket in Kibbutz Saar, in northern Israel, on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
Democrats and Republicans Press China on Abuse of Muslim Minority
Members of the Uyghur American Association rallying in front of the White House in support of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in October 2020.
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on September 2024
Kiryat Shmona, Israel, Endures Hezbollah Rocket Strikes
Vehicles destroyed by shrapnel from a missile fired by Hezbollah in Kiryat Shmona, in northern Israel, on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
Thursday Briefing: The U.S. Pushes for a Cease-Fire in Lebanon
An Israeli defense system intercepting missiles over northern Israel on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
Zelensky Warns U.N. Against Conceding to Russia’s ‘Insane’ Desire for Land
Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, delivering remarks at the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
U.S. Works to Broker Short-Term Cease-Fire Between Israel and Hezbollah
An Israeli strike in Khiam, Lebanon, on Wednesday. American diplomats are pushing for a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah.
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on September 2024
Putin Declares Changes to Russian Nuclear Doctrine
Russian state news media footage showed President Vladimir V. Putin at a meeting with his top officials at the Kremlin on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
In Switzerland, Reported Use of Suicide Capsule Inflames Debate
The Sarco capsule on display at a news conference in Zurich in July.
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on September 2024
Festival d’Automne in Paris Honors Rabih Mroué and Lina Majdalanie
“We don’t tell stories. We think together,” said Rabih Mroué, right. He and his partner, Lina Majdalanie, left, were “interested in what underpins events,” Mroué said.
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on September 2024
Hezbollah’s Military Capability: What We Know
A rocket hit a house in Sa’ar, Israel.
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on September 2024
Lebanon’s Growing Civilian Death Toll Includes Children and Rescue Workers
An impact crater from an Israeli strike in Jiyeh, Lebanon, on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
Online Scammers Posed as Brad Pitt to Get Cash, Spanish Police Say
Brad Pitt in Los Angeles last week. His publicist said the actor had no authorized social media accounts.
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on September 2024
What Is Zelensky’s ‘Victory Plan’ for Ukraine’s War With Russia?
A railway substation that was partly destroyed by a Russian glide bomb, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
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on September 2024
Taliban Accused by Allied Countries of ‘Gross’ Violations of Women’s Rights
Live Updates: Israel Strikes Hezbollah Stronghold in Attempt to Kill Leader
On Ukraine’s Eastern Front, A High-Stakes Struggle Against Russian Forces
Tropical Storm John Hits Mexico for the Second Time This Week