Justin Trudeau’s Trying to Save His Party. Is He Hurting Canada?
Justin Trudeau will remain as Canada’s prime minister and the Liberal Party’s leader until his party chooses a successor, which will take weeks.
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on January 2025
U.S. Says Sudan’s R.S.F. Committed Genocide and Sanctions Its Leader
Sudanese refugees from the Darfur region jostled in line to receive food during an impromptu aid distribution on the outskirts of Adré refugee camp, in Chad, in July.
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on January 2025
Ireland Joins South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel
In Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
For Many Returning Russian Veterans, a Long Road of Recovery Awaits
Aleksandr, left, who lost his leg to a mine in Ukraine, had his prothesis adjusted by Yuri A. Pogorelov at Rus’ Sanatorium outside Moscow, in November.
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on January 2025
Thandiswa Mazwai Is the Voice of South Africa’s First Post-Apartheid Generation
Thandiswa Mazwai performing in Midrand, South Africa, in September. Ms. Mazwai has used her mezzo-soprano voice to amplify South Africa’s struggles.
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on January 2025
Taiwan Suspects a Chinese-Linked Ship of Damaging an Internet Cable
Taiwanese authorities are investigating a Chinese-owned cargo ship suspected of damaging an undersea internet cable northeast of the island, Taiwan’s coast guard said on Monday.
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on January 2025
Syria’s Main Airport Handles First International Flights Since Fall of Assad Regime
A Syrian Air plane at Damascus International Airport on Tuesday, as international flights resumed.
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on January 2025
What Is the U.K. ‘Grooming Gang’ Scandal Seized On by Elon Musk?
Elon Musk in Washington, last month. He has falsely accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other lawmakers of enabling Britain’s so-called grooming gangs.
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on January 2025
Mexico-U.S. Migration: What to Know
Migrants resting last month in Mapastepec, in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
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on January 2025
Venezuela’s Opposition Candidate Says His Son-In-Law Was Kidnapped
Edmundo González, widely recognized as the winner of Venezuela’s tainted presidential election, met with President Biden at the White House on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
West Bank Settlers Hope Trump Will Back Annexation Dreams
An outpost between the settlements of Shilo and Eli, as seen in November from ancient Shiloh, in the West Bank.
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on January 2025
Panama Unsettled by Trump Threat to Seize Canal
President-elect Donald J. Trump speaking to reporters at his resort on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
U.S. Presses for Release of Americans Held in Afghanistan
Taliban flags in Kabul, the Afghan capital. The Taliban have acknowledged holding two Americans but have refused to say whether they are holding a third whose return the U.S. government is also seeking.
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on January 2025
Disaster by the Numbers: The Crisis in Sudan
The battle-scarred streets of Omdurman, part of the Khartoum metropolis, in April.
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on January 2025
Trump Warns ‘All Hell Will Break Out’ if Hostages in Gaza Are Not Freed
President-elect Donald J. Trump declined to provide details about what he or his advisers are doing to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza.
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on January 2025
Denmark Updates Coat of Arms Amid Trump Push to Buy Greenland
As President-elect Donald J. Trump continued to stress his desire for the United States to purchase Greenland, Donald Trump Jr. flew into the territory for a visit on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
In Israeli Video, Detainee Says Hamas Operates Out of Gaza Hospital
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza who is now in Israeli detention, supervising the treatment of a Palestinian injured in an Israeli strike in November.
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on January 2025
Trump Raises Using Military or Economic Force to Take Greenland and the Panama Canal
President-elect Donald J. Trump entering a room at Mar-a-Lago, his private Florida club, before speaking to reporters on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
Jean-Marie Le Pen, Rabble-Rousing Leader of French Far Right, Dies at 96
Jean-Marie Le Pen, foreground, at a rally in Paris in 1984.
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on January 2025
Panama Canal’s Expansion Opened Routes for Fish to Relocate
Scientists with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute on Lake Gatún in Panama during nighttime field work.
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on January 2025
Tuesday Briefing
Justin Trudeau announcing his resignation.
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on January 2025
American Driver Is Fatally Shot by Police Officer in Mexico
The U.S.-Mexican border as seen from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
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on January 2025
U.S. Envoy Says Israel Will Withdraw From Southern Lebanon
Lisa Johnson, the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, sits beside the U.S. special envoy, Amos Hochstein, as they talk with Najib Mikati, Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, in Beirut on Monday.
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on January 2025
U.S. Sends 11 Guantánamo Prisoners to Oman to Start New Lives
A prisoner at Guantánamo Bay’s Camp 6 detention center in 2019. There are now 15 men left in the prison.
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on January 2025
Justin Trudeau to Resign as Canada’s Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau outside his Ottawa residence on Monday, after announcing that he would resign as Canada’s prime minister and the Liberal Party’s leader.
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on January 2025
Syria’s New Rebel Government Orders Changes to School Curriculum, Worrying Some Syrians
Syrians protesting changes to the public school curriculum outside the Ministry of Education in Damascus on Sunday.
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on January 2025
Elon Musk and His Megaphone, X, Rattle British Politics
Elon Musk’s posts have thoroughly hijacked the political debate in Britain at the start of 2025.
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on January 2025
A Timeline of Justin Trudeau’s Rise and Fall
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing on Monday his plans to step down.
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on January 2025
Azerbaijani Anger Over Plane Crash Grows, in Deepening Schism With Russia
The crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Dec. 25.
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on January 2025
‘Forever Chemicals’ Reach Tap Water via Treated Sewage, Study Finds
A wastewater treatment plant in Oakland, Calif. PFAS chemicals have been linked to cancer.
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on January 2025
Lead Poisoning May Have Made Ancient Romans a Bit Less Intelligent
A silver coin with an image of Augustus. His reign as emperor, from 27 B.C. until A.D. 14, initiated the Pax Romana, a period of stability and prosperity.
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on January 2025
Recognized by U.S. as Venezuela’s President-Elect, Edmundo González Meets With Biden
The Venezuelan opposition figure Edmundo González at his home in Caracas before the election last year.
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on January 2025
Pope Appoints Nun to Lead Vatican Department
An image taken from video and released last year by Consolata Missionaries shows Sister Simona Brambilla, 59, who on Monday became the first woman named by Pope Francis to lead a major Vatican department.
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on January 2025
Austria Could Get a Far-Right Chancellor. Here’s What to Know.
Herbert Kickl, leader of Austria’s Freedom Party, leaving the presidential office in Vienna on Monday. He was tasked with trying to form a governing coalition.
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on January 2025
Sugary Drinks Linked to Global Rise in Diabetes, Heart Disease
A supermarket in Bogotá, Colombia. A disproportionate share of the cases of Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease was concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
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on January 2025
Hamas Approves List of Hostages It May Free Under a Cease-Fire Deal With Israel
A rally calling for the release of hostages on Saturday in Tel Aviv.
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on January 2025
Russia Claims to Seize Key Eastern Ukraine Town of Kurakhove
A Ukrainian armored vehicle driving in Kurakhove, in the east of the country, in September.
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on January 2025
U.K.’s Starmer Slams ‘Lies and Misinformation’ After Elon Musk Attacks
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, center rear, on a visit to Epsom Hospital, south of London, on Monday, where he addressed Elon Musk’s social media posts about his government.
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on January 2025
Trial Starts for Nicolas Sarkozy in Libya Election Case
Nicolas Sarkozy, then the president of France, with Libya’s then-leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, in 2007. Mr. Sarkozy was elected earlier that year and served until 2012.
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on January 2025
In Haiti, Gang Massacres and Journalist Murders Expose the Country’s Fragility
Journalists climb a wall to take cover from gunfire after being shot at by armed gangs at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince.
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on January 2025
In Seoul, Blinken Affirms Alliance Amid Challenges to Democracies
South Korea’s Acting President Choi Sang-mok and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during a meeting in Seoul on Monday.
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on January 2025
Monday Briefing
A participant in a September 2021 rally in Washington, organized to support people who faced charges in connection with the Jan. 6 riot.
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on January 2025
Israel Conducts Raids in Syria Amid Accusations of Cease-Fire Violations
Israeli troops making their way to the Syrian side of the buffer zone on the border between Israel and Syria last month.
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on January 2025
Austria Coalition Talks Collapse, Raising Prospects for Far-Right Freedom Party
Herbert Kickl, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria, in Vienna in September, when his party won the most seats in the national assembly.
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on January 2025
Monday Briefing: How Trump Re-Wrote Jan. 6
Rioters on the steps of the Capitol, where President-elect Donald Trump will take his oath of office.
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on January 2025
In Reversal, Musk Trashes Farage, U.K.’s Anti-Immigrant Populist
Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-immigrant Reform UK party, speaking at a party conference on Friday.
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on January 2025
Ukraine Attacks Kursk Region of Russia Anew
Russian soldiers at an artillery position last month in the Kursk region of western Russia.
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on January 2025
Costas Simitis, 2-Time Prime Minister of Greece, Dies at 88
Costas Simitis in 1994. He became prime minister of Greece in 1996. As his time in office ended, a newspaper said, “Simitis has not made Greece perfect but he has helped make it better.”
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on January 2025
Israel’s Military Pounds Gaza as Pressure Mounts for Cease-fire
The site of an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Saturday.
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on January 2025
A Gas Cutoff Sends Shivers Through a Russian-Backed Breakaway Region
A woman walking on the train lines on Friday in Bender, Transnistria.
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on January 2025
Short of Heat and Power, the Breakaway Region of Transnistria Struggles Without Russian Gas
Wednesday Briefing: Meta Set to End Fact-Checking
At a Beloved Lebanese Market, the ‘Destruction Is Painful’
7.1-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes China’s Tibet Region Near Nepal Border
Tuesday Briefing: Canada’s Prime Minister Is Stepping Down
Who Could Replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s Prime Minister?
In Africa, Danger Slithers Through Homes and Fields
Emeralds for Sale: The Taliban Look Below Ground to Revive the Economy