In Syria, Being Wanted Went From Something to Fear to a Badge of Honor
Syrians visiting their local passport offices can check to see if their names were included on lists of people wanted by the ousted Assad dictatorship.
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Netanyahu Expected to Fire Shin Bet Chief Despite Protests
The Shin Bet chief, Ronen Bar, has had a tense relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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on March 2025
Viktor Orban Is a Conservative Lodestar. Now He Wants to Fix the Price of Eggs.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary speaking at an economics conference in Budapest this month.
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on March 2025
Europe Delays Tariffs on U.S. Whiskey to Make Time to Negotiate
American liquor in a store in Berlin this month.
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on March 2025
How the High-Stakes Arrest of Rodrigo Duterte Unfolded
Former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines made his first appearance, by video link, at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Friday. He is being held at the court’s detention center.
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on March 2025
Russian Public Is Ready to End War but Skeptical of Concessions, Analysis Finds
An analysis of internet and social media posts from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Russian border regions showed weariness with the war, but also skepticism toward potential cease-fire agreements.
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on March 2025
Ukraine Attacks Air Base Deep Inside Russia
A satellite image shows an overview of Engels Air Base, in Saratov, Russia in 2022.
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on March 2025
Violence Flares as Hindu Group Calls for Removal of Muslim Ruler’s Tomb
Vehicles burned after communal clashes in Nagpur, India, on Monday.
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on March 2025
Kirsty Coventry Is Elected President of International Olympic Committee
As an Olympic swimmer, Kirsty Coventry twice won gold medals for Zimbabwe.
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on March 2025
U.S. Denied Entry to French Scientist Over Views on Trump Policies, France Says
A government minister did not identify the scientist who was turned away, but said he worked for France’s National Center for Scientific Research.
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on March 2025
Doug Ford Defends Canada as He Steps Up to Take On Trump
Doug Ford, premier of Ontario, has been leading the charge in Canada against threats by the Trump administration.
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on March 2025
Wealth and Warfare Empower a Rwanda-Backed Militant Group in Congo
An M23-organized event at a Goma stadium last month.
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on March 2025
Man Last Seen With Missing Student Leaves the Dominican Republic
The Dominican authorities performed an “exhaustive” search of the area where Sudiksha Konanki was last seen, using drones among other methods.
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on March 2025
Taliban Frees an American, George Glezmann, Held in Afghanistan Since 2022
George Glezmann, center, with American and Qatari diplomats on Thursday in Doha.
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on March 2025
What to Know About Nowruz, the Persian New Year
People celebrated Chaharshanbeh Suri, the festival of fire, on Tuesday, before the start of Nowruz, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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on March 2025
Iran Releases French Citizen After 2 Years in Detention, Officials Say
A photo released by France’s foreign minister on Thursday showed Olivier Grondeau aboard a plane after his release from Iran.
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on March 2025
Indonesian Parliament Passes Bill That Critics Say Evokes Authoritarian Past
Lawmakers, including the speaker of the House of Representatives, Puan Maharani, right, on Monday.
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on March 2025
Thursday Briefing
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said a partial cease-fire would have to be monitored by the U.S.
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on March 2025
How George Lewis Made Comedy Gold Imagining Two Toddlers Chatting
George Lewis, a bard of British parenting comedy, is on his first tour as a headliner, and his shows keep selling out.
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on March 2025
Canada Condemns China’s Execution of 4 Canadians on Drug Convictions
Canada’s foreign affairs minister, Mélanie Joly, during a news conference last week.
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on March 2025
Trump Says Houthis in Yemen Will Be ‘Annihilated,’ as U.S. Keeps Up Strikes
Smoke plumes rose Wednesday above the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital, Sana, after it was bombarded.
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on March 2025
Thursday Briefing: Ukraine Agrees to a Strike Pause
A power plant in eastern Ukraine that was hit by Russian strikes this week.
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on March 2025
After Israeli Strike Kills More Than 400, Palestinians Tally the Dead
More than 400 Gazans were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday.
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on March 2025
Greenpeace Is Ordered to Pay Energy Transfer, a Pipeline Company, $660 Million
Demonstrators against the Dakota Access Pipeline near Cannon Ball, N.D., in 2016.
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on March 2025
Donald Trump Jr. Mixes Business and Politics in Serbia, as Protests There Rage
Donald Trump Jr.’s visit immediately became national news in Serbia, apparently showing that the Trump administration supported the current government despite the growing protests.
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on March 2025
Menaced by Trump, Canada Prepares to Join E.U. Military Industry Efforts
An armored personnel carrier being made for export to Ukraine in 2023 at the Canadian manufacturer Roshel in Mississauga, Ontario.
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on March 2025
Race for IOC Presidency Turns Increasingly Harsh as Decision Day Looms
The International Olympic Committee will elect a new president on Thursday at a meeting in Costa Navarino, Greece.
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on March 2025
Israeli Ground Forces Seize Part of Gaza Corridor, Raising Pressure on Hamas
The rubble of a building that was destroyed in an airstrike on Wednesday in Gaza City.
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on March 2025
Zelensky Agrees in Call With Trump to Halt Strikes on Russian Energy Targets
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine agreed to a mutual pause with Russia in attacks on energy infrastructure.
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on March 2025
Congo and Rwanda Called for a Cease-Fire in Their Deadly Conflict. What Now?
Soldiers from the M23 rebel group in January in Goma, one of two key cities in eastern Congo that the group has seized.
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on March 2025
Israelis Take to Streets a Day After Gaza Strikes
Israelis marched into Jerusalem during a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday.
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on March 2025
In Call With Trump, Putin Concedes Little on Ukraine
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, the Kremlin said, identified his “key condition” for settling the conflict more broadly: a complete cessation of outside military and intelligence support for Ukraine.
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on March 2025
What Pausing Strikes on Energy Sites Would Mean for Ukraine and Russia
Workers inspecting a power line restored after it had been destroyed in a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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on March 2025
As Pope Francis Ails, Outlandish Rumors Run Wild
Outside the hospital in Rome where Pope Francis is being treated, a drawing of him has been hung from a statue of Pope John Paul II.
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on March 2025
Trump Has Hinted at a Xi Visit. China Is Still Wondering What He Wants.
President Trump leaving Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Monday.
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on March 2025
Can Europe’s New Military Spending Help Its Economies?
Assembling Leopard 2A4 battle tanks at a Rheinmetall plant in 2023. Since the war in Ukraine began, the German defense company has grown into one of the West’s largest arms makers.
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on March 2025
Armed Rohingya Group’s Leader Is Arrested in Bangladesh
More than a million Rohingya are confined to a series of tent settlements in Bangladesh, like this one in Cox’s Bazar, seen on Saturday.
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on March 2025
Turkey Arrests Istanbul Mayor, Key Rival to President Erdogan
Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul. Opposition figures have accused the Turkish government of trying to exclude him from politics so he cannot run for president.
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on March 2025
Wednesday Briefing
President Vladimir Putin of Russia is demanding an end to Western military and intelligence support for Ukraine.
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on March 2025
Six Women Were Elected. So Why Were Their Husbands Sworn In?
Lining up to cast votes in the state of West Bengal in an election for a local panchayat.
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on March 2025
Trump Administration Ends Tracking of Kidnapped Ukrainian Children in Russia
A regional children’s home in Kherson, southern Ukraine, in 2022. Russian authorities have been accused of abducting hundreds of Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories during its occupation of the area.
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on March 2025
Mexico City Bans Traditional Bullfights for Violence-Free Option
A bullfight at La Plaza México, the largest bullfighting arena in the world, last year in Mexico City.
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on March 2025
Earth’s 10 Hottest Years on Record Are the Last 10
Pedestrians took a break on the Brooklyn Bridge during a heat wave last year.
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on March 2025
Parents of Student Missing in the Dominican Republic Believe She Drowned
The Dominican authorities deployed drones, helicopters, divers, boats, police dogs and other resources to search around Punta Cana after Ms. Konanki was reported missing earlier this month.
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on March 2025
Son of Jair Bolsonaro Says He Will Seek Political Asylum in the U.S.
Eduardo Bolsonaro during a visit to the White House in 2019, during President Trump’s first term.
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on March 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Russia Agreed to Halt Some Strikes
A Ukrainian thermal power plant damaged by Russian missile strikes last year.
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on March 2025
South Africa Will Not Remove Antarctic Team After a Reported Assault
Antarctica’s harsh conditions have routinely made it difficult for countries to scrutinize researchers’ behavior there.
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on March 2025
Israeli Strikes on Gaza Kills Over 400, in Breakdown of Cease-Fire
Palestinians at a hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday with the body of someone killed in Israeli airstrikes.
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on March 2025
Putin Agrees to Limited Cease-Fire on Ukraine Energy Targets
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia held a call with President Trump on Tuesday.
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on March 2025
Canada Announces Arctic Radar Deal With Australia Amid Trump Threats
The northern lights illuminating the sky above a former Distant Early Warning radar station in the Canadian Arctic, a legacy of the Cold War.
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on March 2025
Trump Wants to Take Over Ukraine’s Nuclear Plants. What Would That Mean?
‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook
Hamas Fires Rockets at Tel Aviv as Israel Expands Gaza Ground Operations