Putin Will Visit Xi, Testing a ‘No Limits’ Partnership
A photo provided by Russian state media showing President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, after talks at the Kremlin in Moscow last year.
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Ukraine Needs Money to Fight. Can Seized Russian Assets Help?
Repairing tanks and other vehicles in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine this month.
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The Other Busing Program: Mexico Is Pushing Migrants Back South
Migrants listening to guidelines from a staff member at the Oasis De Paz Del Espíritu Santo Amparito shelter in Villahermosa, Mexico.
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How One Crack in the Line Opened a Path for the Russians
Paramedics with the 59th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian army evacuating wounded soldiers from battles raging on the front line of the Donetsk region, this month.
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Kenya Rallies Police Officers Ahead of Haiti Deployment
Kenyan anti-riot police officers on patrol last year on a highway that runs by an impoverished neighborhood.
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Anti-Monarchy Activist in Thailand Dies After Hunger Strike
Thailand’s Parliament. The governing party said last year that lawmakers would discuss changes to the law against criticism of the monarchy, but later backtracked.
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Manhunt Underway in France After Prisoner Escapes in Ambush
France’s justice minister, Éric Dupond-Moretti, said that three other officers had been injured in the episode.
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Iranian Film Director Mohammad Rasoulof Flees Country After Jail Sentence
“I had to choose between prison and leaving Iran,” the director Mohammad Rasoulof said. “With a heavy heart, I chose exile.”
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Georgia’s Parliament Gives Final Approval to ‘Foreign Agents’ Measure
A march to protest the controversial bill in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Monday.
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European Union 2024 Election: What to Know
A giant poster announcing the upcoming European elections was placed on the facade of the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France.
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Curfew Imposed in New Caledonia Following Protests Over Constitutional Change
Smoke rising over New Caledonia’s capital, Noumea, on Tuesday as protests continued. The French authorities in the territory said they would mobilize security forces.
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Mumbai Storm Topples Huge Billboard, Killing 14
The billboard fell on a gas station in suburban Mumbai where people had taken shelter from a storm.
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Summer 2023 Was the Northern Hemisphere’s Hottest in 2,000 Years, Study Finds
A 730-year-old fir tree in Mount Rainier National Park, Wash. Researchers used data from 10,000 trees across the Northern Hemisphere.
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Red Lobster Temporarily Closes Dozens of Restaurants
A Red Lobster restaurant in Rohnert Park, Calif., is one of the locations listed on an auction website as selling its equipment.
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Alarmed by Climate Change, Astronomers Train Their Sights on Earth
Penny Sackett, former director of the Australian National University’s Mount Stromlo Observatory, just outside Canberra, in the remains of the observatory, which was destroyed in a 2003 wildfire.
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Tuesday Briefing
Michael Cohen spoke about doing Donald Trump’s dirty work for a decade.
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Protesters Disrupt Israeli Memorial Day Events Over War Raging in Gaza
Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, left, speaking at a Memorial Day ceremony in Ashdod, Israel, on Monday.
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White House Says Israel Still Has Provided No Plan to Protect Rafah Civilians
Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, at the White House, on Monday.
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Tuesday Briefing: The Prosecution’s Star Witness at the Trump Trial
Michael Cohen said that working for Donald Trump was the fulfillment of a youthful dream.
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New Rules to Overhaul Electric Grids Could Boost Wind and Solar Power
A transmission line construction project near Bingham, Maine, in 2022.
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Putin’s New Defense Minister Signals Russia’s Plan for a Long War in Ukraine
Andrei R. Belousov, the newly appointed defense minister, at a hearing on Monday in the Russian Parliament, in a photo made available by the Russian Federation Council.
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As Russia Advances on Kharkiv, Ukraine Faces Shortages of Weapons and Troops
Residents from the village of Liptsi, in northeastern Ukraine, arriving at an evacuation point as they made their way to Kharkiv on Sunday.
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U.K. Police Charge 3 Men With Aiding Hong Kong Intelligence Service
The three men charged appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
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Chinese Woman Jailed for Reporting on Covid Set to be Freed
A pro-democracy activist holding a placard demanding the release of Zhang Zhan, outside the Chinese central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong in 2020.
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Israelis Mark Memorial Day Among Portraits of Those Lost at the Nova Festival Ground
A woman sitting on Monday near portraits of the hundreds of people who came to the Nova music festival in southern Israel last October and never made it home.
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Minnesota and Wisconsin See Air Quality Warnings as Canadian Wildfire Smoke Drifts South
Smoke from wildfires burning east of Teepee Creek in Alberta, Canada, on Friday.
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on May 2024
Secret Hamas Files Show It Spied on Everyday Palestinians
A rally in support of Hamas in Gaza City in 2022. A secret police force overseen by Hamas’s leader in the enclave utilizes an extensive network of informants.
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on May 2024
Violent Unrest Over Economic Strife Erupts in Pakistan’s Kashmir Region
Police officers clashing with demonstrators in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, on Saturday.
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Monday Briefing
Evacuees arriving in Kharkiv on Sunday.
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Fighting Flares Anew in Gaza as Hamas Regroups
A missile hitting a building in northern Gaza, seen from Israel, on Saturday.
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Spain’s Socialists Win Catalan Vote Dominated by Amnesty for Separatists
The Socialist leader in Catalonia, Salvador Illa, center, celebrating in Barcelona.
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on May 2024
Monday Briefing: Russia Pushes Into Northern Ukraine
Olha Melnichuk, an 85-year-old Ukrainian, was evacuated to Kharkiv on Saturday.
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Putin Replaces Defense Minister in Rare Cabinet Shake-up
Sergei K. Shoigu at the Victory Day military parade in Moscow this month.
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Blinken Says U.S. Has Not Ruled Out Withholding More Military Aid From Israel
Antony J. Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, at the State Department on Friday.
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Mystery of Mona Lisa’s Location May Be Solved
A geologist said the shape of the lake and the gray-white limestone in the background of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa helped identify the setting of the portrait.
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Russian Forces Push Deeper Into Northern Ukraine
Evacuees from the Ukrainian village of Lyptsi, near the Russian border, being taken to the city of Kharkiv on Sunday.
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About 300,000 Gazans Have Fled Rafah, U.N. Says
Palestinians seeking water at a tent camp in Deir al Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on Saturday.
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Ukraine’s Seaborne Grain Exports Bounce Back to Near Prewar Levels
A 700-foot Liberian-flagged ship carrying corn bound for Bangladesh leaving the Ukrainian port of Odesa in March.
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on May 2024
Bus Crash in Indonesia Kills 11, Including Students, After Graduation Celebration
Police officers and rescuers inspecting the wreckage of a bus after a crash on Saturday in Subang, Indonesia.
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Yahya Sinwar Helped Start the War in Gaza. Now He’s Key to Its Endgame.
Yahya Sinwar, center, Hamas’s leader in Gaza, in Gaza City last year. He is now believed to be hiding in a tunnel network in the enclave.
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on May 2024
The Controversy Over K-pop Band NewJeans
Min Hee-jin, who developed the band NewJeans and is embroiled in a dispute with her employer, at a news conference last month in Seoul.
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on May 2024
Ahead of Olympics, World Anti-Doping Agency Faces a Trust Crisis
The World Anti-Doping Agency president, Witold Banka, has defended his organization’s handling of a doping case involving 23 Chinese swimmers.
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As Israel Steps Up Attacks, 300,000 Gazans Are Forced to Evacuate
Fleeing Rafah, in southern Gaza, on Saturday. Around 150,000 have left Rafah in the past week, after the Israeli military ordered an evacuation.
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Russian Attacks Open a New Front in Ukraine
Olha Melnichuk, an 85-year-old resident of Liptsi, near the Russian border, was evacuated to a shelter in Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, on Saturday.
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Canada’s Public Sector Unions Threaten Disruption Over Return to Office
Return to office was a major issue during last year’s public service walkout.
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on May 2024
Will an Authoritarian Government in Venezuela Allow a Fair Election?
People line up to vote at an improvised voting center in a football court in Catia, a former stronghold of Nicolas Maduro’s party.
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Roman Polanski Did Not Defame British Actress, French Court Rules
Middle East Crisis: As Israel Fights Again in Gaza’s North, Military’s Discontent Grows
International UN Worker Is Killed in Gaza 
Cold Lava and Floods Kill 37 on Indonesian Island of Sumatra
A Night to Remember at the Opera, Complete With a Phantom
Elon Musk’s Diplomacy: Woo Right-Wing World Leaders. Then Benefit.