Ukraine’s Dilemma as Pokrovsk Teeters: Save Lives or Keep Holding On
A Ukrainian artillery crew near Pokrovsk last year.
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Family of Fisherman Killed in U.S. Military Strike Says It Wants Justice
Fishermen arriving back at the beach at the end of the day in Santa Marta, Colombia.
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How Pakistan’s Spending Blitz Helped Win Over Trump and Flip U.S. Policy
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, left, and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir of Pakistan waiting for a meeting with President Trump at the White House in September.
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In the Faroe Islands’ Soccer Team, the Players Also Have Day Jobs
A football pitch seen over the village of Leirvík.
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How France Remembers the November 2015 Terrorist Attacks in Paris
A gathering around a makeshift memorial at the Place de la Republique in Paris on Thursday.
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Israeli Settlers Burn West Bank Mosque Amid Rise in Violent Attacks
Inspecting damage at a mosque in the village of Deir Istiya in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday.
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Former Prince Andrew and Another Prominent Briton Come Up in the Epstein Emails
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince, left, and Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to Washington, right.
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What Our Photographer Saw as a Safe City Became a Blood Bath
The aftermath of a Russian strike on a residential area in Pokrovsk in August 2023.
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China’s ‘Wolf Warrior’ Diplomacy Returns With Threat Against Japan’s Leader
Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, and the Chinese leader Xi Jinping met in South Korea last month. Ms. Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan have since prompted a stream of vitriol from China.
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Gustavo Petro, the Rebel Turned President Willing to Take on Trump
President Gustavo Petro speaking last week in Bogota, Colombia.
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Juan Ponce Enrile, a Political Power in the Philippines, Dies at 101
Juan Ponce Enrile in 1982, when he was President Ferdinand Marcos’s defense minister.
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Fake Bomb Threats Baffle the Police Across Asia
Police officers searched Osong Station in Cheongju, South Korea, in 2023, after an email sent to the foreign ministry said high-powered bombs had been planted in bullet train facilities nationwide.
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Man Accused of Running Southeast Asia Scam Compound Is Extradited to China
She Zhijiang being escorted by police in Thailand on Wednesday, before he was extradited to China.
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Some South Korean Workers Return to Georgia Factory After U.S. Reissues Visas
South Korean workers released after days of detention in Georgia arrive at Incheon International Airport in South Korea in September.
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on November 2025
Of Books and Men
Canadian-Hungarian-British writer David Szalay during the Booker Prize ceremony in London on Monday.
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U.S. Officials Raise Concerns About Saudi Arabia’s Bid for F-35 Jets
An F-35 fighter jet during a demonstration off the coast of Norfolk, Va., last month.
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on November 2025
The Global Climate Leadership Vacuum
A lobby of the COP30 United Nations climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
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An Ontario Man Took a Bus for a Joyride. Turns Out, He’s Not a Bad Driver.
A bus in Hamilton like the one taken for a joyride this week.
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Rubio Shrugs Off Allies’ Concerns Over U.S. Drug Strikes
Marco Rubio, speaking after the G7 foreign ministers meeting, said many of the drug shipments targeted by the U.S. military are bound for Europe “so maybe they should be thanking us.”
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Head for a Record in 2025, Global Carbon Project Reports
A coal-fired power plant in Candiota, in southeastern Brazil.
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on November 2025
Iraq’s Prime Minister Leads in Elections but May Struggle to Form a Government
Supporters of Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani of Iraq celebrated in Baghdad on Wednesday after the announcement of preliminary election results.
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South Asia on Edge
Mourners in New Delhi on Tuesday.
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As Belgium Races to Save U.S.A.I.D. Contraception, Some Supplies Are Reported Ruined
The warehouse in Geel, Belgium, where millions of contraceptives bought by U.S.A.I.D. were being stored in July.
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Algeria Pardons Writer Boualem Sansal at Germany’s Request
Boualem Sansal’s case has inflamed tensions between Algeria and France, where he acquired citizenship.
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Labour Party’s Internal Fight Goes Public, as Starmer’s Trouble Grows
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain leaving 10 Downing Street on Wednesday.
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Many Displaced Sudanese Feared Dead After Shipwreck Near Libya
Members of the Libyan Coast Guard in the Mediterranean Sea in August.
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How to Capture the Northern Lights With Just Your Smartphone
Aurora Borealis from the Elburn Forest Preserve in Elburn, Ill., photographed on an iPhone last year.
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on November 2025
Israel Reopens Gaza Aid Route It Had Closed for Months
Palestinians in Gaza City on a truck carrying aid from the Zikim area in August.
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Pakistan’s Army Chief Is Granted Sweeping Authority Over All Military Branches
Syed Asim Munir, 57, has had a meteoric rise through the Pakistani military’s top ranks and was named to the rare post of field marshal this spring after the country’s conflict with India.
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Deadly Blasts in India and Pakistan Set Region on Edge
The blast site near the historic Red Fort in the old part of New Delhi on Monday.
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on November 2025
Blue Diamond Sells for $25.6 Million at Auction in Switzerland
The Mellon Blue at Christie’s in Geneva on Friday.
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on November 2025
Japan’s Prime Minister Faces Backlash Over 3 A.M. Staff Meeting
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan at a budget committee meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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Syria’s Leaders Pledge to Join Fight Against Islamic State
President Ahmed al-Shara of Syria in Washington on Monday after a meeting with President Trump.
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Blood and Tears as Spain’s Troubled Bullfighting Star Hangs Up His Cape
José Antonio Morante Camacho, known as Morante de La Puebla, one of Spain’s greatest bullfighters.
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A Look Into the Early Days of Migrant Detentions at Guantánamo
U.S. forces put up a tent city near the airfield at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, at the beginning of the year to house thousands of migrants who were designated for deportation. None were ever held there.
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The ‘Lost Sisters’ of the Pleiades Fill the Entire Night Sky
A view of the Pleiades star cluster, which is also known as the Seven Sisters.
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on November 2025
Turkish Military Plane Crashes in Georgia, Killing 20 Troops
Wreckage at the site where a Turkish military cargo plane crashed on Tuesday, along the border between Azerbaijan and Georgia.
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Xi’s Military Purges Show Unease About China’s Nuclear Forces
President Trump and Melania Trump, the first lady, observing a demonstration of naval sea power this month. Mr. Trump has stood by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as he has fired more than a dozen military leaders, many of them people of color and women.
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There’s a New Forecast for Peak Oil Demand. It’s Increasingly Cloudy.
Pump jacks in Russia in 2023. The energy agency’s reports are influential and often cited by energy companies and investors as a basis for long-term planning.
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Newsom in the Spotlight at the Climate Conference That Trump Decided to Skip
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, on Tuesday.
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Key Netanyahu Minister Steps Down From Israel’s Government
Ron Dermer, Israel’s minister of strategic affairs, during a visit to the White House, in July.
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Senator Criticizes Rubio for Paying $7.5 Million to Equatorial Guinea to Take Deportees
The $7.5 million paid to Equatorial Guinea is by far the largest payment the Trump administration is known to have made to another government to take deportees who are not its citizens.
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Israel Arrests 4 After Jewish Extremist Attack in West Bank
A truck burned after an attack in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
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on November 2025
Women in Power, and on the Right
Sanae Takaichi is the first woman to serve as Japan’s prime minister.
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on November 2025
Trump Threatened to Sue the BBC for $1 Billion. What Are His Chances?
President Trump speaking to a large crowd near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Turkey Seeks Jail Sentence of Over 2,000 Years for Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu
Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu of Istanbul was detained in March, just days before he was to be named the presidential candidate of Turkey’s opposition.
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on November 2025
Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling
An oil rig off the coast of Huntington Beach, Calif. The plan would also require new oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
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on November 2025
Roman-Era Treasures Stolen From Syria’s National Museum
Syria’s National Museum in Damascus in January. The staff discovered on Monday that statues were missing.
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The Mysterious ‘Louvre Detective’ Was a 15-Year-Old Passer-by
Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, right, as police officers block an entrance to the Louvre after thieves carried out a daylight heist. His mother said in an interview that a framed version of this photo is in their kitchen.
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Ban a Pro-Palestinian Group? The U.K. Government Thought Few Would Care.
A demonstration protesting the British government’s ban on Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian group, in Trafalgar Square in London last month. Under the ban, simply holding a placard in support of the group is a terrorism offense.
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He Helped Cities Anticipate Damage From Storms
How a New Bridge Partly Collapsed in China’s Southwest