Mexican Cartels Lure Chemistry Students to Make Fentanyl
A 19-year-old sophomore chemistry major, who also works for the Sinaloa drug cartel, at a stash house.
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80 Years After Killings, Senegal Wants the Facts From France
The Thiaroye military cemetery in Senegal has 35 graves representing West African soldiers that France said were killed by French Army soldiers in 1944. Historians said the actual death toll may be closer to 400.
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Angola, the U.S. and a Slavery Connection Few Talk About
A view of the Cuanza River in Massangano, Angola. Enslaved Angolans were transported by boat along the Cuanza River.
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Syria Rebels Take Aleppo Airport and Attack Hama, Officials and a Monitor Say
Rebel fighters with an abandoned Syrian government tank in the east of Aleppo Province on Sunday.
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Former Defense Minister Accuses Israel of Committing War Crimes in Gaza
Moshe Yaalon, left, who was the Israeli defense minister from 2013 to 2016, with Benny Gantz, who later held that role, in Tel Aviv in 2019.
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Ireland’s Main Parties Edge Out Sinn Féin, Early Election Results Show
In Dublin and the rest of Ireland, economic concerns and anxiety about immigration were top electoral issues.
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Protesters in Tbilisi Clash With Georgian Police
The police used water cannons and tear gas on Sunday in Tbilisi, Georgia, during a rally outside the Parliament building prompted by the government’s move to suspend negotiations on joining the European Union.
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A Power Vacuum in Gaza Could Empower Warlords and Gangs
A picture taken during a tour organized by the Israeli Army shows a Palestinian truck arriving Saturday to pick up aid destined for the Gaza Strip from a drop-off area near the Kerem Shalom crossing.
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France’s Government Under Prime Minister Michel Barnier Faces Week of Reckoning
Prime Minister Michel Barnier of France after a cabinet meeting at the Élysée Palace in Paris last Wednesday.
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Taiwan’s President Visits Pacific Islands to Counter China’s Influence
Lai Ching-te, the Taiwanese president, at Taoyuan International Airport, Taiwan, on Saturday. He is scheduled to visit the Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Palau.
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on December 2024
How Kennedy Has Worked Abroad to Weaken Global Public Health Policy
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer, has spent years working abroad with organizations and associates that undermine longstanding global health policies, records show.
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on December 2024
Israel Accuses World Central Kitchen Worker of Role in Oct. 7 Attack
An Israeli airstrike damaged a vehicle carrying World Central Kitchen workers.
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on December 2024
Russia Captures More Villages in Eastern Ukraine
Damaged buildings in Kurakhove, Ukraine, last month, in an area targeted by Russian strikes.
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on December 2024
Centrist Party Edges Out Far-Right Challengers in Romania
Voting in Mogosoaia, Romania, on Sunday. The parliamentary election came a week after a presidential vote in which a far-right candidate took a surprise first-round lead.
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on December 2024
What Can the World’s Top Court Do About Climate Change?
Mexico’s Valle de Bravo reservoir this year. The court has been asked what obligations governments have to protect the world’s climate system.
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on December 2024
Russia’s Economy Is Slowing, Opening Fissures Over Policy
An ad at a bus stop showing a Russian soldier and the slogan “Be strong, faithful, courageous” in front of Moscow’s business district in November.
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Biden Visits Angola to Promote Lobito Corridor and Counter China
A Chinese construction site in Luanda, the capital of Angola. China has been one of the biggest investors in the country.
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A North Korean Voice That Kim Jong-un Would Like to Silence
Kim Seongmin, president of Free North Korea Radio, editing content for the station at his home in November. He has cancer and was recently told he has months to live.
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on December 2024
Monday Briefing
Until Sunday night, President Biden had said that he would not pardon or commute the sentence of his son Hunter.
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on December 2024
Syria’s Rebels Struck When Assad’s Allies Were Weakened and Distracted
Opposition fighters loading ammunition onto a truck in northwestern Syria on Sunday.
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Monday Briefing: Rebels Advance in Syria
Anti-regime fighters near a road leading to Hama province.
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on December 2024
Stowaway on Flight to Paris Disrupts a Return Flight to New York
The stowaway passenger who was caught on a Delta flight from New York to Paris days earlier was removed from a Paris to New York flight, also on Delta, after creating a disturbance on Saturday.
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on December 2024
Nations Fail to Reach an Agreement on Plastic Pollution
The world produces nearly a half-billion tons of plastic each year, more than twice the amount produced two decades ago.
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on December 2024
What a Marine Heat Wave Reveals About Our Warming Oceans
Rodeo Beach, Calif., one of the beaches that volunteers survey regularly for wildlife.
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on December 2024
U.S. Condemns China’s Harsh Sentence for a Prominent Journalist
Dong Yuyu is the most prominent journalist imprisoned in mainland China.
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on December 2024
Saudi Arabia Leads Pushback Against Global Plastic Treaty
An oil processing plant in Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter.
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on December 2024
Israel Strikes Sites in Lebanon Amid Fragile Cease-Fire
A man looked over damage in Tyre, Lebanon, on Friday.
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Giving Love
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For Canada, Trade Tumult From Trump’s Return Has Begun
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaving his hotel on Friday to meet President-elect Donald J. Trump.
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on December 2024
Rebels Seize Control Over Most of Syria’s Largest City in Aleppo
An opposition flag waves over a market square in central Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday.
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Israel-Hezbollah Cease-Fire Rests on a Wobbly Linchpin: Lebanon’s Army
Members of the Lebanese Army at the site of an Israeli strike in central Beirut, earlier this month.
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Trudeau Meets With Trump at Mar- Amid Tariff Concerns
Justin Trudeau, prime minister of Canada, leaving his hotel in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday to meet with President-elect Donald J. Trump.
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Nigeria Boat Capsizes, Killing at Least 27
The river Niger, pictured near Lokoja, Nigeria, last month.
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on December 2024
Major Canadian News Outlets Sue OpenAI In New Copyright Case
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation office in Toronto. It, along with other major news outlets, claims OpenAI is illegally using their content.
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on December 2024
Chad Ends Longtime Military Partnership With France
French and Chadian soldiers prepare to board a Chadian national army transport plane at Faya-Largeau airport in northern Chad in 2022.
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on December 2024
Syria Rebels Reach Aleppo, in Biggest Advance in Years
Fighters fire at Syrian government troops on the outskirts of Aleppo on Friday.
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on December 2024
FIFA Should Compensate Migrant Workers Injured Building Qatar World Cup, Report Says
Workers on the construction site of the Al-Wakrah Stadium, a FIFA World Cup venue, during its construction in 2018.
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on December 2024
UK Lawmakers Vote to Legalize Assisted Dying After Emotional Debate
Supporters of assisted dying campaigning outside Parliament on Friday. Lawmakers voted by 330 to 275 in favor of the new legislation after a five hour debate.
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UK Transport Secretary Louise Haigh Resigns After Fraud Conviction Revealed
Louise Haigh in London last month. As transport minister she oversaw one of the Labour Party’s flagship policies of bringing Britain’s troubled private rail network back into public ownership.
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Protests Erupt in Georgia as It Pulls Back From Pro-Western Path
Riot police officers confronting protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, early Sunday.
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on December 2024
Notre-Dame Shines, and World Gets a Sneak Peek, on Macron’s Televised Tour
President Emmanuel Macron of France during a visit to Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on Friday.
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on December 2024
Israel Warns Residents on Both Sides of Lebanon Border to Stay Away
Damage in a neighborhood of Tyre, Lebanon, as residents continued to return to their homes on Friday.
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Russia Moves to Cut Off Ukraine’s Nuclear Power Plants
Repairing a power line on Friday outside Odesa, Ukraine, after a Russian drone strike.
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After Lebanon Cease-Fire, Gaza and Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions Await Trump
A billboard depicting Iranian scientists making the Fattah-1, Iran’s first hypersonic ballistic missile, in downtown Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday.
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on December 2024
Life After Death: America’s Cemeteries Are Rewilding
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn is among the earliest cemeteries in the country to be modeled after rural landscapes, and to serve as an urban park.
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on December 2024
Death of Cyclist in Paris Lays Bare Divide in Mayor’s War Against Cars
Cyclists waiting for a green light on a bridge over the Seine in June.
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on December 2024
Here Are the Risks When Zoos Pay for Endangered Species
Yun Chuan, a male, at the San Diego Zoo in August. American zoos have come to count on pandas, which attract unparalleled crowd numbers, merchandise sales and media attention.
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on December 2024
Ukraine’s River of Anguish
Members of the 126th Territorial Defense Brigrade rested in a fortified front line position after returning from a night mission on the banks of the Dnipro River.
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China Journalist, Dong Yuyu, Is Sentenced to Prison for Espionage
Dong Yuyu at Harvard University in 2017. He built his career when the Chinese government encouraged interaction with foreigners, but such contacts are now viewed with extreme suspicion.
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on December 2024
Friday Briefing
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A Dublin Neighborhood at the Sharp End of Ireland’s Election Issues
Campaign posters hanging on lamp posts and the facade of a derelict building on Sean McDermott Street in northeast inner-city Dublin, Ireland, on Nov. 27. In a recent election poll, Ireland’s three major parties, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin, were neck-and-neck, with 21 percent, 20 percent and 19 percent, respectively.
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on December 2024
Why Mexico Is Eliminating Independent Watchdog Agencies
A protest in Mexico City last year in support of Mexico’s freedom of information body, known as INAI, after the president at the time, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, backed a proposal to scrap it.
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on December 2024
Inside a Secret Plan to Bring Uyghurs Trapped in China to the United States
Millions of Dollars to Protect Pandas Was Spent by China on Roads and Buildings