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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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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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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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
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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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
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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Isolated and Defiant, Israel Vows to ‘Stand Alone’ in War on Hamas
On Friday, in a largely symbolic gesture, the United Nations General Assembly backed Palestine’s bid for U.N. membership.
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British Colleges Are Handling Protests Differently. Will It Pay Off?
Cyclists and pedestrians pass a student encampment set up to protest Israel’s action in Palestine, on a lawn outside the Natural History Museum, at Oxford University on May 9.
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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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on May 2024
Flooding Kills Dozens in Afghanistan
Flash flooding in northern Afghanistan has killed more than 300 people, U.N. officials said.
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on May 2024
Big, Smoggy Bangkok Gets a Badly Needed Breath of Fresh Air
Trees and wetlands thrive in the newly expanded Benjakitti Park in central Bangkok, where a factory complex once churned out cigarettes.
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Jacob Zuma, Once Leader of the A.N.C., Becomes Its Political Rival
Supporters of former South African president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK) protested over the lack of service delivery in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu_Natal province where they delivered a memorandum to the city’s mayor’s office, on Wednesday.
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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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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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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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on May 2024
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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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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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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on May 2024
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
South Africa Again Asks the ICJ to Order Israel to Withdraw From Rafah
Naledi Pandor, South Africa’s foreign minister, left, and the South African ambassador to the Netherlands, Vusimuzi Madonsela, at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, in January.
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on May 2024
Northern Lights Photos: Aurora Borealis Lights Up the Night Sky
The northern lights flared in the sky over a farmhouse in Brunswick, Maine.
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on May 2024
What We Know About Where Aid Can Enter Gaza
Trucks waiting to go into Gaza on a road blocked by a protest on Thursday.
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on May 2024
Kuwaiti Emir Dissolves Parliament for Up to Four Years
Members of the Kuwaiti Parliament in Kuwait City in January. On Friday, the emir, Sheikh Mishal Al Ahmed Al Sabah, announced that he would suspend Parliament and several articles of the Constitution.
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on May 2024
Northern Lights Forecast: How to See the Aurora Borealis This Weekend
Northern lights hung over the Lofoten Islands in Norway in March.
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on May 2024
Aiming for Rosier Ties, Xi Wraps Up Europe Visit
President Xi Jinping of China and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary in Budapest on Thursday.
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on May 2024
Cease-Fire Talks Hit Snag Over Hostages and Permanence, Officials Say
Families and supporters of hostages march Wednesday in Tel Aviv, calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to make a deal to free their loved ones.
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U.S. Defends U.N. Voting ‘No’ on Palestinian Membership
John F. Kirby, a national security spokesman, briefing reporters at the White House on Monday.
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on May 2024
U.S. Criticizes Israel Over Conduct in Gaza
President Biden ordered a State Department report on Israel’s use of American weapons and compliance with humanitarian law.
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Israel and Egypt Spar, Squeezing Gaza Aid Routes
Palestinians lined up for food in Deir al Balah, Gaza, on Friday. A virtual cutoff in humanitarian aid is threatening to devolve into famine if shipments are not quickly restored.
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U.S. Military’s Plea to Israel: Do More to Protect Gazans in War Zone
The United States wants Israel to move Palestinian civilians in Rafah out of the way, and to do more to help humanitarian aid get in, before launching any incursion into the city.
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Actions by Israel and Egypt Squeeze Gaza Aid Routes
Trucks loaded with aid for Gaza are lined up in El Arish, Egypt, on Tuesday.
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on May 2024
A Global Lesson from Britain’s Crumbling Conservative Party
Keir Starmer, Leader of the Labour Party, right, and Mayor Claire Ward of the East Midlands, celebrating at a post election rally in Mansfield, England, on Sunday.
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U.S. to Announce New Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicles
The Biden administration is expected to raise tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles in order to protect domestic manufacturers.
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on May 2024
U.N. General Assembly Votes to Back Palestinian Membership Bid
A United Nations General Assembly vote to declare that Palestinians qualify for full-member status was approved, 143 to 9, with 25 nations abstaining.
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on May 2024
U.N. officials warn that aid efforts face imminent threat from lack of fuel and food.
An employee with fuel tanks at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Friday.
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Biden Is Not the First U.S. President to Cut Off Weapons to Israel
President Ronald Reagan used the power of American arms several times to influence Israeli war policy, at different points ordering warplanes and cluster munitions to be delayed or withheld.
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on May 2024
Russia Mounting New Border Assaults in North, Ukraine Says
Fighting a fire on Friday after an overnight strike in Kharkiv. Russia has stepped up its bombardment of the northern Ukrainian city in recent weeks.
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on May 2024
An English Town Drops Apostrophes From Street Signs. Some Aren’t Happy.
Using a marker, someone drew an apostrophe onto a new street sign that had omitted it.
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on May 2024
How Pro-Palestinian Students Pushed Trinity College Dublin to Divest
Students at Trinity College Dublin staging a campus protest against Israel’s actions in Gaza last Saturday. The students said they were inspired by similar movements in the United States.
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on May 2024
After Her Sister Wed at 11, a Girl Began Fighting Child Marriage at 13
Memory Banda’s activism against child marriage began in a small village in Malawi she was just 13.
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on May 2024
How a Remote Australian Town Nearly Ran Out of Food
The road to Lajamanu in the Northern Territory in Australia.
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UK Shakes Off Recession as Economy Grows Faster Than Expected
Customers shopping at a record store in London. Consumer spending has been a key aspect of Britain’s economic resilience.
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on May 2024
Friday Briefing
Israeli military vehicles near the border with Gaza.
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People Leaving Rafah Describe Fearful Flight From Israeli Assaults
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.
Satellite Images Reveal Where Russian Nuclear Weapons Could Be Stored in Belarus
What Did P.S.G.’s Money Buy?
Kherson Residents Rebuild and Brace for New Russian Attack