Israel Resists Grand Bargain as U.S. and Saudis Work on Security Pact
President Biden and Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, met in Saudi Arabia in 2022. The president and the crown prince have since sought a Middle East security pact, with stakes raised by the war in Gaza.
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Ukraine Hits Sevastopol Power Station With Huge Drone Attack, Russia Says
Novorossiysk, Russia, in 2022. The area is home to an important oil terminal.
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Putin’s China Visit Highlights Military Ties That Worry the West
Russian President Vladimir Putin bidding farewell to Chinese leader Xi Jinping before his departure to Harbin on the first day of his state visit in Beijing, on Thursday in this photograph provided by Russian state media.
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Slovakia Prime Minister Undergoes Further Surgery After Assassination Attempt
The hospital in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, where Prime Minister Robert Fico was treated after he was shot.
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French Police Kill Man Who Tried to Set Rouen Synagogue on Fire
Police officers outside the synagogue in Rouen, France, on Friday.
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As Supernatural Claims Spread Online, Vatican Updates Its Rules on Them
Pilgrims praying at the Sanctuary of Lourdes, France, in 2022.
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How Kite Surfing in a Remote Colombian Region Changed a Boy and a Village
Beto Gomez is the world’s only professional Wayuu kite surfer.
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Deadly Clashes in New Caledonia Raise Fears of Civil War
Smoke rising during protests in Noumea, the capital of New Caledonia, on Wednesday.
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The Premier League’s Asterisk Season
Everton fans have been battling the Premier League most of the season. They’re not alone.
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How Extremist Settlers Took Over Israel
A member of a group known as the Hilltop Youth, which seeks to tear down Israel’s institutions and establish ‘‘Jewish rule.’’
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White House Considers Easing Sanctions on Israeli Billionaire
A cobalt mine in Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo. The central African nation produced 76 percent of the world’s supply of the metal last year.
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Heat Stress Is Hitting Caribbean Reefs Earlier Than Ever This Year
Bleached corals off Brazil this week. The world is currently experiencing a global coral bleaching event, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Zelensky Signs Law Allowing Convicts to Fight for Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers training in the country’s Zaporizhzhia region in March.
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Israel Defends Rafah Operation as ‘Limited and Localized’ at ICJ
Smoke rises following an airstrike in Gaza, as seen from southern Israel, on Friday.
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FIFA Delays a Vote on Palestinian Call to Bar Israel
The president of the Palestinian Football Association, Jibril Rajoub, speaking during the 74th FIFA Congress in Bangkok on Friday.
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Friday Briefing
Outside the hospital where Robert Fico, the Slovakian leader, was treated after he was shot.
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Arab League Calls for U.N. Peacekeepers in Gaza and the West Bank
The Arab League’s secretary general, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, left, and Bahrain’s foreign minister, Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani, at an Arab League summit meeting in Manama, Bahrain, on Thursday.
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Israel Sending More Troops to Rafah Amid Warnings of Famine in Gaza
A new camp along the Mediterranean Sea for Gazans who fled fighting in the southern city of Rafah.
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Friday Briefing: NATO Considers Sending Trainers to Ukraine
Military vehicles traveling from Germany to Poland as part of a NATO exercise.
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Slovakia’s Politics Were Toxic Long Before Its Prime Minister Was Shot
Police and security officers on Wednesday outside the hospital in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, where Prime Minister Robert Fico was treated after he was shot.
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Russia Expels British Diplomat After U.K. Booted His Counterpart
The Russian Foreign Ministry building, in the center with the spire, in Moscow.
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C.D.C. Warns of a Resurgence of Mpox
A health official investigating and treating a probable case of mpox at the Yalolia health center in Tshopo, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2022.
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Venezuela’s 2024 Presidential Election: What to Know
President Nicolás Maduro firmly controls Venezuela’s political, financial and security institutions.
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on May 2024
Calls to Pause Slovakia’s E.U. Election Campaigning Raise Questions
The presidential palace in Bratislava, Slovakia, last month.
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Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico Shot in Attempted Killing: What to Know
Medical workers transferring Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia to a hospital in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, on Wednesday.
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Putin and Xi Hail ‘New Model’ of Ties Between Powers in Show of Unity
A photograph provided by Russian state media showed China’s leader, Xi Jinping, welcoming President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia with a ceremony in Beijing.
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ICJ Hears Arguments from South Africa on Israel’s Rafah Offensive
Representatives of South Africa at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Thursday.
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U.S. Military Installs Temporary Pier in Gaza for Aid
An American ship, the Sagamore, setting sail from Cyprus last week.
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Israel’s Settler Violence and Impunity: Takeaways From the Times Investigation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir in Israel’s parliament last year.
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Zelensky Visits Embattled Kharkiv as Russia Presses Broad Assaults
A woman who was evacuated from her home near Vovchansk, Ukraine, registering for humanitarian aid in Kharkiv on Wednesday.
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Thursday Briefing
Security officers moved Prime Minister Robert Fico in a car after the shooting.
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Slovakia Has Charted Its Own Course Since the Fall of the Soviet Union
The Slovak national flag, left, next to the flag of the European Union flying at the Presidential Palace in the Slovakian capital, Bratislava.
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Attempted Assassination of Slovak Leader Puts Europe on Edge
The scene moments after Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia was shot in Handlova on Wednesday.
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Thursday Briefing: Slovakia’s Leader Was Shot
Security officers moved Prime Minister Robert Fico in a car after the shooting.
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on May 2024
Blinken Warns Fighting Could Undo Aid Gains in Gaza
Displaced Palestinians packing their tent on Wednesday before leaving an unsafe area in Rafah.
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U.S. Suspends Funding for Group at Center of Covid Origins Fight
Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, faced a barrage of questions during a congressional hearing this month.
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Dutch Right-Wing Parties Reach Preliminary Deal to Form a Government
Geert Wilders, the leader of Party for Freedom, speaks to members of the news media after the government formation talks in The Hague on Wednesday.
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Swiss Court Convicts Ousman Sonko, Ex-Gambian Minister, of Crimes Against Humanity
Fatoumatta Sandeng, a plaintiff in the case and the daughter of the tortured opposition leader, with Nina Burri, her lawyer, after the conviction of Ousman Sonko in Bellinzona, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
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A France in Shock Confronts the Violence in Its Midst
A bullet-ridden prison van at the site of the attack that killed two prison guards on Tuesday in Incarville, France.
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on May 2024
Who Is Robert Fico, the Prime Minister of Slovakia?
Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot and seriously wounded on Wednesday.
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on May 2024
Wildfire Nears Canada’s Largest Oil-Producing Area, Forcing Thousands to Evacuate
This photo released by the government of Alberta on Monday shows columns of smoke from wildfires near Fort McMurray.
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King Charles III and a History of Polarizing Royal Portraits
The artist Jonathan Yeo and King Charles III at the unveiling of Mr. Yeo’s portrait of the king at Buckingham Palace in London on Tuesday.
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France Declares State of Emergency Amid Protests in New Caledonia
Walking next to a burned-out car while a man holds a flag of the Socialist Kanak National Liberation Front after a supermarket was looted and shops vandalized in the New Caledonian capital, Noumea, on Tuesday.
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After Outlawing Public Zoos, Costa Rica Relocates Hundreds of Animals
A net was used to get animals out of the water after the closure of the Simon Bolivar State Zoo.
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Gaza Aid Gains May Be Lost as Fighting Rages in Rafah, U.S. Says
Trucks waiting on an Egyptian road along the border with Israel, near the Rafah border crossing with Gaza, earlier this month.
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Ukraine Fights to Hold Off Fierce Russian Assaults in Northeast
Residents of Vovchansk and surrounding villages in northeastern Ukraine being evacuated to the city of Kharkiv on Tuesday.
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Interpol Issues Alert for French Inmate on the Run After Deadly Ambush
Forensic investigators at the site of the ambush in Incarville, in northern France, on Tuesday.
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Ethnic ‘Balancer’ for Government Jobs Becomes Focus of Ethnic Division
An ethnic Albanian shepherd with his flock in a village on the outskirts of Tetovo, North Macedonia.
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on May 2024
Putin Is Selling Victory, and Many Russians Are Buying It
Miltary cadets at an exhibition of equipment captured from NATO countries in front of the Victory Museum in Moscow.
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on May 2024
5 Israeli Soldiers Killed in Friendly Fire Incident in Northern Gaza
Middle East Crisis: First Supplies Enter Gaza Through Pier Built by U.S. Military
Why a New Yorker Story on a Notorious Murder Case Is Blocked in Britain
Satellite Images Show Widening Destruction in Rafah Amid Israeli Invasion
Dancing Past the Venus de Milo
Rafael Grossi of the IAEA Acts as the West’s Mediator With Putin and Iran
What to Know About the Summit Between Putin and Xi in China