Will Digging Up Vietnam’s War Dead Heal Old Wounds or Reopen Them?
The remains of Communist soldiers found at a park in Ho Chi Minh City, lined up for a memorial service.
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Train Disaster Is Blow to Spain’s Leader, Already Election Underdog
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain speaking on Wednesday after a deadly crash involving two high-speed trains near Toledo.
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Poland Deploys Riot Police in Standoff Over Country’s Top Court
Police officers guarding the entrance to the Polish Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw on Saturday.
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Syria Weighs Joining Saudi Mutual Defense Pact as Yemen War Rages
Smoke rising in mid-October near Taiz, Yemen, where Saudi-backed forces and the Houthi militia have been battling.
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How Locals and Shopkeepers Tried to Save One Paris Street From Rioters
The bar La Barrique on Rue Beaurepaire in Paris was set on fire during violence that grew out of protests on Oct. 17. Looting, burglary and other destruction also occurred on the three-block-long street.
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Iran Braces for More War, No Matter the Outcome of the U.S. and Israeli Elections
A campaign billboard last week in Tel Aviv showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and President Trump.
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What to Know About Fighting Between Ethiopia and Rebels in Tigray
A shattered window of Tigray Television Station after a drone strike in Mekelle, Ethiopia, last week.
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Why Are There Protests in France?
Forensic officers at the tourism office in Lyon, France, on Oct. 18, the day after the country’s worst riots in years.
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Britain’s Prime Minister Says He’s Open to a Formal Apology for Slavery
Prime Minister Andy Burnham of Britain in Glasgow on Friday.
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Liu Yandong, Rare Woman Among China’s Political Elite, Dies at 80
Liu Yandong, a former vice premier of China who was one of the country’s highest-ranking female officials, died in Beijing on Wednesday.
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U.S. to Send Dozens Back to Afghanistan, Despite Risk of Persecution
At a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, in July.
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Russian News Outlet That Defied Kremlin Will Shut Down: ‘They Killed Us’
The Nobel laureate Dmitri Muratov, second from left, with colleagues at Novaya Gazeta’s offices in Moscow last year. “We no longer have a home or money,” he said on Friday.
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COP17 Biodiversity Talks in Yerevan, Armenia
The 2026 United Nations biodiversity conference wrapped up on Saturday in Yerevan, Armenia.
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French officials eye social media’s role in promoting unrest.
A protest in Nice, France, on Oct. 17. Far-right activists were arrested in the city last weekend after people in masks attacked protesters.
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Stage Fright
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Carney Commits Canada to Becoming European Union’s First ‘Associate Member’
Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday during the 21st E.U.-Canada summit in Montreal, Quebec.
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Could El Salvador’s Bukele Be Haiti’s Savior?
A Salvadoran gunner in a UH-1N Twin Huey helicopter during an aerial patrol over Port-au-Prince last month. Some Salvadoran troops are members of a U.N.-backed international force in Haiti.
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Traffic Control Errors Caused Spain’s Deadly Train Crash, Official Says
Removing a wrecked carriage at the scene of the crash near Urda, Spain, on Friday. At least 69 people were killed.
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3 Arrested in Connection With Deadly Blast in Central Athens
The site of a building that partially collapsed following an explosion last month in the Plaka area, a popular area for tourists, in Athens.
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Police Investigate Former Prince Andrew and Epstein’s Time at Balmoral, Royal Estate in Scotland
An undated image of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell released by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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I Covered the Tiananmen Square Massacre. It Still Weighs on Me.
Protesters in Tiananmen Square on May 4, 1989.
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Another Toll of the Violent Unrest in France: The Political Center
Édouard Philippe, the leading centrist candidate in France’s presidential race, has struggled in the polls since widespread protests broke out across the country last month.
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Israel’s Election Is Unlikely to Change Its Policies and Global Isolation
Campaign posters for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party, and Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party, in Hadera, Israel, on Tuesday.
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Taking the Saga of a Criminal Gang From Page to Screen to Opera Stage
“Romanzo Criminale,” an opera based on the best-selling novel, at the Maggio Musicale theater in Florence, Italy, this month.
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Colombia’s ‘Narcoterrorist’ Crackdown Raises Questions Over Killings
Yuli Motta at her home in Guaviare province, Colombia. She says she witnessed the fatal shooting of Luis Carlos Mojica by members of the Colombian military last month.
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Transylvania, Where Meadows Ripple and Dracula Legends Fade
The medieval town of Sighisoara, a popular stop along the 1,000-mile Via Transilvanica.
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New ‘Call of Duty’ Game Draws Criticism for Using Footage of Deadly Seoul Crowd Crush
A “Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4” poster in Paris. The game is set in South Korea and depicts an invasion by its northern neighbor, against a backdrop of tensions between the United States and Russia.
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How the Japanese Spy Drama ‘Vivant’ Became The Target of China’s Anger
Beijing says the popular Japanese series “Vivant” promotes negative views of China.
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An Arab Town in Israel Celebrates the Election but Wonders What Will Change
Ahmad Tibi, a leader of the Joint List party, with supporters on Tuesday outside a polling station in Taibe, Israel, a predominantly Arab town. “We’re ready to swallow frogs to take down Netanyahu’s government,” he said.
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Newly Freed American Describes His Years in Russian Prison
Stephen James Hubbard, in Washington on Thursday.
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What Israeli Election Results Reveal About the Electorate
Election campaign posters for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party in Adora, an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, on Tuesday.
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Court Rejects Erin Patterson’s Appeal in Mushroom Murders Case
Erin Patterson leaving the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, in 2025.
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Venezuelan Opposition Leader Thanks Trump But Marks Distance from Washington
Maria Corina Machado in Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday.
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Cuba’s Foreign Minister: We’ll Outlast Trump
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla of Cuba during an interview with The New York Times this week.
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The Perils of Glittering Skylines
The Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Why Miami Is a Destination for Latin America’s Political Exiles
Flávio Bolsonaro arriving at Opa Locka Executive Airport in Miami on Wednesday.
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Trump and His Aides Helped Bolsonaro Flee Brazil and Enter U.S.
Flávio Bolsonaro after arriving at Opa Locka airport near Miami on Wednesday.
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A Marathon Runner’s Hard Lesson
Temperatures approached 80 degrees Fahrenheit during this year’s Chicago marathon.
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State Dept. to Shift Millions in Contraception Funding to Cover Energy Costs
A sex worker sorting through condoms at her home in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2024.
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U.S. Hits Rwanda With New Sanctions Over a Conflict Trump Declared ‘Ended’
Soldiers from the M23 rebel group in Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, in January. The United States has accused Rwanda of continuing to support the group.
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Suspect in France Shootings Said He Targeted Muslims and Africans, Prosecutor Says
A silent march in Paris on Sunday to honor Pengo Bossio Wangi. He was killed on Friday in Trappes, France, by a gunman who wounded seven other people, the authorities said.
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Haiti Postpones Elections as Gang Violence Runs Rampant
A mural depicting Haiti’s last elected president, Jovenel Moïse, who was elected in 2016, and assassinated in 2021.
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China Confirms Expulsion of 33 Officials, as Xi’s Purge Deepens
Xi Jinping, China’s leader, in Beijing last month. The Communist Party will hold its next congress in 2027, at which Mr. Xi is expected to claim a fourth five-year term as party leader.
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Russian Strike on Ukrainian Train Station Kills 14
A photo released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service after an air attack on a railway station in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Thursday.
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Hong Kong Leader Apologizes for Deadly Apartment Building Fire
Smoke rising from the Wang Fuk Court apartment complex in Tai Po, Hong Kong, last November.
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After Crash, Spain Asks if Its Train System Is Too Old and Prone to Human Error
Emergency workers were still searching for survivors and victims at the site of the crash on Thursday.
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How Netanyahu Used Fear, Again, to Win Votes in the Israel Elections
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacts to exit polls during a speech at his party headquarters in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
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Oldest Recording of Louisiana’s Vanishing Creole Language Is Published
Evacuees Arrive to Safety From Besieged Ukrainian City of Oleshky
Live Updates: Hundreds of Thousands Join Another Round of Protests in France
Ukrainians Are Fighting Russians Inside Underground Gas Pipes. I Went in One.
A Powerful Mosquito-Hunting Laser Uses A.I. to Zap Winged Pests
No Clear Winner in Israel Election, Final Results Show