How Israel Secretly Propped Up Hamas
Hamas fighters in 2021 in Gaza City.
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Israel-Hamas War Has Buoyed Egypt’s Leader Ahead of Presidential Vote
A campaign poster in Cairo for the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The war in Gaza has shifted attention away from economic problems that were hobbling him.
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Why Fears of a Broader Middle East Conflict Are Growing in Iraq
A displaced Sunni resident walks along the border of Jurf al-Nasr in September. The area, a swath of farmland about 40 miles southwest of Baghdad, is controlled by members of an Iraqi militia linked to Iran.
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Children of Jailed Narges Mohammadi Accept Her Nobel Peace Prize
The ceremony awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, shown on the screen, in Oslo, Norway, on Sunday.
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Berlin’s Vegan Food Scene Is Flourishing
Preparing a maitake mushroom for a dish at Oukan, a vegan restaurant in Berlin.
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Israel-Hamas War: U.N. Officials Warn of ‘Dire’ Situation at Overcrowded Egypt-Gaza Border
Palestinians wait at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday.
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While Gazans Suffer, Hamas Reaps the Benefits
Destroyed buildings this month in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
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COP28: At Dubai’s Climate Summit, Protesters Test the Limits
Activists demanding payments to poor countries harmed by climate change gathered on Wednesday at the COP28 conference in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
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Britons Love the N.H.S. Some Will Also Pay to Avoid It.
David Haselgrove flew to a clinic in Lithuania to have hip replacement surgery, joining a growing number of British patients who have used their own money to pay for procedures.
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In Soldiers’ Remains, Russia Plots a Way to Reconcile With France
Veterans with French military honored flags at the graves of Russian soldiers from World War I at the national cemetery of Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand in France in October.
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What It Feels Like To Be the Target of China’s Water Cannons
China Coast Guard and maritime militia vessels using a water cannon towards a boat with Philippine officials on the way to reach the Scarborough shoal Saturday.
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Monday Briefing
A tent camp housing displaced Palestinians near a mosque in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday.
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Gazans Mass at Border for Safety, but Find Only More Peril
Palestinians fleeing Khan Younis toward Rafah passing a crater caused by strikes on Sunday.
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Dr. Gao Yaojie, Who Exposed AIDS Epidemic in Rural China, Dies at 95
Dr. Gao Yaojie talked with students during an AIDS lecture tour in Shanghai in 2006.
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Netanyahu Speaks to Putin and Criticizes Cooperation Between Russia and Iran
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, in a photo released by Russian state media, spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Sunday.
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U.S. Is Criticized After Veto of U.N. Call for Gaza Cease-Fire
Battling flames in Khan Younis after an Israeli strike on Saturday. Humanitarian aid groups warned that thousands of children in the territory were at risk of dying of starvation.
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Israeli Strikes Pound Gaza a Day after U.S. Vetoes Cease-Fire Resolution.
A boy tries to salvage some objects amid the rubble of a building hit by an Israeli strike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday.
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Yemen’s Houthi Militia Threatens to Block All Ships Headed to Israel
The Houthis were still holding a commercial vessel, the Galaxy Leader, they hijacked last month.
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on December 2023
State Department Bypasses Congress to Approve Israel’s Order for Tank Ammunition
Israeli soldiers working on their tank near the border with Gaza on Friday.
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Israel strikes targets across the Gaza Strip.
Smoke rising over Shajaiye district as seen from Nahal Oz, Israel, on Saturday.
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Fears of a NATO Withdrawal Rise as Trump Seeks a Return to Power
Former President Donald J. Trump has made it clear that he primarily sees NATO as a drain on American resources.
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The Palestinian Authority’s leader assails the U.S. veto of a U.N. cease-fire resolution.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meeting with a delegation from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Arab League at the State Department on Friday to discuss Gaza.
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Waltzing Matilda
Sunset at St. Kilda Beach in Melbourne last year.
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Both Israel and Hamas Tell of Failed Attempt to Rescue Hostages in Gaza
Israeli army spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, in Tel Aviv last month.
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Pro-Palestinian Protest in NYC Denounces U.S. Veto of Cease-Fire Resolution
Claudia De La Cruz leading a chant as she and other pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate in Lower Manhattan on Friday.
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U.S. Sticks to Its Position on Israel as Gaza Crisis Deepens
Damage from Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. Israel’s assault has been profoundly disproportionate to the Hamas attacks that provoked it, Arab leaders say.
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on December 2023
E.U. Agrees on AI Act, Landmark Regulation for Artificial Intelligence
Lawmakers discussed the A.I. Act in June at the European Parliament.
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on December 2023
U.S. Vetoes Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution at U.N. Security Council
Displaced Palestinians set up a makeshift camp in the Al-Muwasi area of the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday.
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on December 2023
How ‘India’s Daughters’ Became a Times Series
Friends and family preparing Arti for her wedding night in Sasaram, India.
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on December 2023
Teenagers Convicted in France in Connection With Teacher Samuel Paty’s Killing
A mourner laying flowers near a school in Eragny-sur-Oise in 2021 during a ceremony held one year after Samuel Paty, a teacher, was beheaded by an extremist.
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New Sickle Cell Therapies Will Be Out of Reach Where They Are Needed Most
Nasra Gwoto, 10, and her brother, Ramadhani, 12, traveled with their mother from Tanzania to India to get a bone-marrow transplant for sickle cell disease. The procedure is risky, and their mother wishes they could have received a new gene therapy instead.
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on December 2023
Life for the Lowest Class in Ancient Pompeii? It Was Awful.
The site of a “bakery-prison” in the ruins of Pompeii, where slaves and donkeys were locked up to grind the grain needed to make bread.
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Athletes From Russia and Belarus Are Cleared to Compete at Paris Olympics
Russian athletes at the Beijing Olympics in 2022. While its athletes will be permitted to compete in Paris next year, they must do so without their national colors and flag.
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Notre-Dame’s Fire-Damaged Spire Rises Again
After a devastating fire in 2019, President Emmanuel Macron of France vowed Notre-Dame would be rebuilt within five years — an ambitious deadline that officials are increasingly confident will be met.
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Biden urges more humanitarian aid for Gaza in a call with Netanyahu.
Palestinians in a camp near Rafah near the border with Egypt on Thursday.
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Putin Says He Will Seek Another Term as Russia’s President
A photograph released by Russian state media showed President Vladimir V. Putin speaking in Moscow on Friday during a medal ceremony for military personnel.
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Iran Looks to Houthi Proxies to Escalate Fight With Israel
Houthi fighters who have volunteered to fight in Gaza against Israel during a parade this month in Sana, Yemen.
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on December 2023
World’s Stinkiest Cheese Hits Supermarket Shelves in Britain
Highland Fine Cheeses in Scotland bills the Minger as the most putrid-smelling cheese on earth.
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on December 2023
Thomas Mayo on What Comes After Australia Rejected the Voice
Thomas Mayo, an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leader, spent more than a year campaigning for an aboriginal voice to be added to the Australian constitution.
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White House Disavows U.S. Islamic Group After Leader’s Oct. 7 Remarks
Nihad Awad, the national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, in 2021. He said his remarks in a recent speech were being misconstrued.
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Friday Briefing
Palestinians strike the concrete of a destroyed building while looking for survivors following Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis.
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Biden Tied Ukraine Aid to Border Security, and It Backfired on Him
A U.S. Border Patrol boat passing a large group of migrants crossing a razor wire barrier into the United States at Eagle Pass, Texas, in September. Republican lawmakers want the United States to impose policies that would make most migrants ineligible for asylum.
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Israel Says It Detained Hundreds of Terrorism Suspects in Gaza
Explosions in Khan Younis as seen from Rafah on Thursday.
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Israel Says Hamas Fired Rockets From Near Gaza Shelters
Palestinians evacuating a wounded woman after an explosion on Thursday in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
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Denmark Bans Quran Burning
Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard, second from the left, presenting a bill banning Quran burning, in August.
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In Israel, Hanukkah Begins in the Shadow of Two Months of War
Family members and friends of the people held hostage in Gaza at a candle lighting ceremony in Tel Aviv on Thursday.
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Friday Briefing: Israel Says Hamas Fired Rockets From Near Shelters
Displaced Palestinians who fled Khan Yunis set up camp in Rafah further south near the border with Egypt, on December 7, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
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Son of Israeli War Cabinet Member Killed in Action in Gaza
Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, a former chief of staff of the Israeli army, near Jerusalem in February. His son Gal was killed in action in Gaza on Thursday.
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Canada’s Biggest Fossil Fuel Proponents Make Their Case at Climate Conference
Israel Defends Detention and Stripping of Gazan Men Amid Outrage
‘On the brink of full-blown collapse’: Fuel and aid are scarce as relief efforts falter in southern Gaza.
A World Map With No National Borders and 1,642 Animals
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