In Kosovo, Christian Converts Hope to Revive a Pre-Islamic Past
Two men chatting in front of a church in the village of Llapushnik, Kosovo, where a baptism ceremony took place in November.
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In France, Drug Traffic Spreads to Small Towns
Morlaix, on the Breton coast of France. The trade in illicit drugs has brought a measure of insecurity to places that had once felt sleepy and safe.
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on January 2025
In Mexican Desert, Digging for a ‘Miracle’: Bringing the Missing Back Home
Isabel García, a geophysicist at the Regional Center for Human Identification in Coahuila, Mexico, is part of a team that searches for and identifies human remains.
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on January 2025
Gaza Rescuers Are Haunted by Voices of Those They Couldn’t Save
A rescue after an Israeli bombardment in northern Gaza City in October.
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on January 2025
Hamas Releases Video of Teenage Israeli Soldier Held Hostage in Gaza
People protested outside the Ministry of Defense during the first anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7. About 100 hostages are still being held in Gaza.
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on January 2025
How Hybrid Tactics Targeted NATO Allies in 2024: Drones, Exploding Parcels, Sabotage
Ramstein Air Base in Germany, one of the biggest U.S. posts in Europe, where mysterious drones appeared in what analysts suspected may have been a state-sponsored surveillance mission.
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on January 2025
South Korean Unrest Conspiracy Theories Are Spread by Social Media
Supporters of South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, outside the presidential residence in Seoul on Friday.
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on January 2025
How the Islamic State Radicalizes People Today
The F.B.I. said the man who killed 14 people when he drove into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day was “100 percent inspired by ISIS.”
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on January 2025
Syria’s International Airport to Reopen as Government Presses for Stability
A plane parked at Damascus International Airport last month.
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on January 2025
Tomiko Itooka of Japan, World’s Oldest Person, Dies at 116
Tomiko Itooka on her 116th birthday, in Ashiya, Japan, in May.
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on January 2025
South Korea’s Dueling Protests
Thousands of people showed up on Friday near the residence of the impeached South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, to call for his arrest. Others were there to defend him.
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on January 2025
A Long Fight to Keep a Closer Eye on Madrasas Unravels in Pakistan
Reading the Quran at a madrasa in Balakot, Pakistan, in 2019.
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on January 2025
Dinosaur Footprints Found in England by Quarry Workers
An undated photo provided by the University of Birmingham, showing work along the so-called “dinosaur highway” at a quarry in Oxfordshire, England.
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on January 2025
Elon Musk Trolls Britain and Defends Tommy Robinson in Flurry of Social Media Posts
Elon Musk has moved on from his enthusiastic boosting of a far-right party in Germany to targeting Britain in a fusillade of social media posts.
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on January 2025
The Year Ahead
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on January 2025
Jimmy Carter Helped Clean Up Canada’s Chalk River Nuclear Accident
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter on Fifth Avenue in New York in 1976.
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on January 2025
Honduran Leader Threatens to Push U.S. Military Out of Base if Trump Orders Mass Deportations
President Xiomara Castro of Honduras on Wednesday, in an image released by the Honduran Presidency. She warned that she would oust the U.S. military from Honduras if President-elect Donald J. Trump made good on his threat to order massive deportations of Hondurans.
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on January 2025
U.S. Hits Chinese Cybersecurity Company With Sanctions After Breach
In September, the F.B.I. said it had taken down a network of 200,000 consumer devices in the U.S. and abroad that had been compromised with malware and weaponized by Flax Typhoon, a Chinese hacking group.
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on January 2025
Which Countries Warn That Alcohol May Cause Cancer?
Shelves of alcohol for sale in a supermarket in Galway, Ireland.
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on January 2025
Britt Allcroft, Who Brought Thomas the Tank Engine to TV, Dies at 81
Britt Allcroft in 1973, more than a decade before “Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends” debuted on British television.
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on January 2025
After Fierce Lobbying, Treasury Sets Rules for Billions in Hydrogen Subsidies
Moving an electrolyzer, a piece of equipment that generates hydrogen from water using electricity, from a train to a truck at a hydrogen production and storage facility in Delta, Utah, in 2023.
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on January 2025
South Korea Fails to Detain Impeached President in Standoff at His Home
Protesters rally against President Yoon Suk Yeol near his residence in Seoul in Friday.
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on January 2025
European Ministers Visit Syria to Strengthen Ties With New Government
Annalena Baerbock, the foreign minister of Germany, and her French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barrot, visiting the Sednaya prison north of Damascus.
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on January 2025
More Than 300 People Flee Building Fire in South Korea
Firefighters working at the scene of a fire in Seongnam, South Korea, on Friday.
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on January 2025
Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. Tread Cautiously With Syria’s New Leaders
A Syrian fighter of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham patrols the gate as men wait outside a reconciliation center in Damascus on Monday.
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on January 2025
Friday Briefing
Bourbon Street in New Orleans reopened to tourists, with extra security.
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on January 2025
Biden Blocks Takeover Bid of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon
U.S. Steel, the iconic American company whose metal has been used to build some of the nation’s most famous bridges and buildings, is based in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
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on January 2025
Trump’s Falsehoods Aside, China’s Influence Over Global Ports Raises Concerns
An aerial view of containers moving through the Panama Canal in July 2024. Chinese companies and the Chinese government have a growing influence over global ports and shipping.
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on January 2025
What Happened to Carter’s White House Solar Panels? They Lived On.
President Jimmy Carter at a dedication ceremony for the White House solar array on June 20, 1979.
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on January 2025
Friday Briefing: F.B.I. Said the New Orleans Attacker Acted Alone
Increased security at a football stadium in New Orleans yesterday.
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on January 2025
Gaza Cease-Fire Before Trump’s Inauguration Looks Unlikely
Supporters of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip gathered in Tel Aviv on Wednesday at an event calling for action to secure the release of the captives.
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on January 2025
Israeli Threat to UNRWA Looms Over Gaza
Bags of flour at a distribution center for the main U.N. aid agency that aids Palestinians in Gaza, UNRWA, in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, in October.
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on January 2025
Thursday Briefing
A pickup truck crashed into a crowd in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
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on January 2025
The Mozambique Song, and Rapper, Inspiring a Youth Uprising
Supporters of Mr. Mondlane demonstrating in Maputo last month.
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on January 2025
Palestinian Authority Temporarily Bans Al Jazeera
At the Jazeera television network offices in Ramallah in the West Bank in May.
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on January 2025
Montenegro Shooting Kills 12, Including 2 Children, Officials Say
The police outside the scene of the shooting at a restaurant in Cetinje, Montenegro, where a shooting rampage began.
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on January 2025
What to Know About ISIS Terror Attacks
Members of the F.B.I. walk around Bourbon Street in New Orleans during their investigation of the fatal truck crash on New Year’s Eve.
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on January 2025
Thursday Briefing: An Attack in New Orleans
Officers working the scene of a deadly attack in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Wednesday.
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on January 2025
Why Did Ukraine Halt the Flow of Russia’s Natural Gas to Europe?
The Compressor and distribution station of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline, in the Kursk region of Russia.
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on January 2025
Vehicle Ramming Attacks: Using Cars and Trucks as Weapons Has Become Common
Police investigators surrounding a truck that crashed into a crowd in the French Quarter of New Orleans today.
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on January 2025
Zelensky Expresses Hope for 2025, but Russia Presses On With Attacks
Taking shelter in a subway station during an air-raid alarm in Kyiv, Ukraine, on New Year’s Eve.
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on January 2025
Gaza Residents Endure Harsh Conditions as Israel-Hamas War Continues Into 2025
Gazan children on Wednesday amid damage from an Israeli strike the previous night in Jabaliya.
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on January 2025
A Staunch Ally in Africa Says French Forces Will Withdraw
Antiterrorism training in Ivory Coast in 2022. France and Ivory Coast jointly founded an antiterrorism academy in the country a year earlier.
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on January 2025
Tensions Escalate After Pakistan Pounds Afghanistan With Airstrikes
A Pakistani soldier at the border with Afghanistan on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
Rebels Easily Toppled Syria’s Army. Their Challenge Now: Rebuilding.
The rebel captured Mechanical Military Academy in Aleppo.
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on January 2025
At Trevi Fountain in Rome, Tourists’ Coins Go to Good Cause
A recent three-month restoration that cut off direct Trevi Fountain access was not a significant deterrent for visitors to Rome.
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on January 2025
Ukraine Halts the Flow of Natural Gas From Russia to Europe
A Ukrainian soldier outside a gas metering station of the Russian energy giant Gazprom in Sudzha, in the Kursk region of Russia, in August.
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on January 2025
Wednesday Briefing
New Year’s Eve celebrations in Paris.
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on January 2025
A Mexican Mayor’s Odyssey: From Undocumented Migrant to Cartel Target
Armed men tried to kill Crispín Agustín Mendoza, mayor of Alcozauca, Mexico, in his home. But he fought back, and now is guarded at all times by six soldiers.
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on January 2025
Dada Masilo, Who Fused Ballet With African Dance, Dies at 39
Dada Masilo performing at the Byham Theater in Pittsburgh in 2016.
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on January 2025
Putin Declares ‘Everything Will Be Fine’ Despite Russia’s Growing Challenges
President Vladimir V. Putin’s address, given on the eve of Russia’s main public holiday, suggested that Russians’ hopes would easily be realized. “When we are together, everything will come true,” he said.
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on January 2025
Germany’s Chancellor Scholz Takes a Jab at Musk in New Year’s Eve Address
Elon Musk on Capitol Hill this month. Mr. Musk’s support of the AfD, which has neo-Nazi links, has unsettled mainstream German lawmakers.
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on January 2025
‘The Interview’: Antony Blinken Insists He and Biden Made the Right Calls
A Half-Ton Piece of Space Junk Falls Onto a Village in Kenya
How Darts Became London’s Rowdiest Winter Party
Naples, Italy: A Popular Tourist Destination Suffering from Violence and Unemployment
Holiday Briefing: Welcome to 2025