Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Abbé Pierre Shatter His Legacy
An image of Abbé Pierre at a charity shop in 2020 run by one of the social justice organizations he founded.
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Starmer, Meeting Biden, Hints at Ukraine Weapons Decision Soon
President Biden and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain during a bilateral meeting at the White House on Friday.
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How Hamas Uses Brutality to Maintain Power
Women mourning three children who were killed in an Israeli attack targeting Muhammed Deif, a senior Hamas commander, that killed some 70 Palestinians in July.
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Vance Describes Plan to End Ukraine War That Sounds a Lot Like Putin’s
Houses destroyed in Russian strikes as troops moved toward Ukraine’s Pokrovsk region this week. The Kremlin’s terms for ending the war have focused on Russia keeping the territory it has captured and blocking Ukraine from joining NATO.
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Three Americans Sentenced to Death for Failed Congo Coup
Benjamin Zalman-Polun, Marcel Malanga and Tyler Thompson, American citizens sentenced to death for an attempted coup, waited to hear the final trial verdict in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Friday.
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Pope Says Both Trump and Harris Are ‘Against Life’
Pope Francis spoke with reporters aboard the papal plane on his flight back from a 12-day journey across Southeast Asia and Oceania.
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Sweeping Iraq Raid Killed 4 ISIS Leaders
Members of an Iraqi counterterrorism force during a military exercise in Baghdad last year. The United States and other allied forces have helped Iraqi forces carry out more than 250 counterterrorism missions since October.
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Brazilian Court Makes One Musk Company Pay Fines of Another
A Starlink antenna in a village of the Marubo Indigenous people, deep in the Brazilian Amazon.
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With Russia in Mind, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer Goes to Washington
President Biden met with Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain on Friday.
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Some Gazans Say Polio Drive Is Futile While Israel Keeps Bombing
A child receiving polio vaccine drops at a school turned shelter in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, last week.
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U.S. Accuses Russian TV Network of Conducting Covert Intelligence Acts
RT’s headquarters in Moscow. The network carried out operations at the direction of officials reporting directly to the Kremlin, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said.
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Russia Expels 6 U.K. Diplomats as Tensions Mount Over Missiles
A photograph released by Russian state media showing President Vladimir V. Putin meeting with his Security Council on Friday.
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Read Putin’s Warning to NATO on Ukraine’s Use of Long-Range Weapons
Russia’s President Vladimir V. Putin on Thursday in St. Petersburg, Russia, in a photo released by Russian state media.
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Divided Attention
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Churchill, Abducted From Canada, Is Found Glowering in Italy
A forged copy of Yousuf Karsh’s portrait of Winston Churchill hanging at the Fairmont Château Laurier in April 2022.
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At Funeral in Turkey, Family Mourns American Activist Aysenur Eygi
Turkish security forces carried the coffin of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi during her funeral at the central mosque in Didim, in western Turkey, on Saturday.
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As Ukraine Presses Its Attack in Kursk, Russia Stiffens Its Defenses
Digging through the wreckage of a home after a missile strike on a neighborhood in Sumy, Ukraine, on Sunday.
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A Year After a Deadly Flood, a Libyan City Is Rebuilding but Not Whole
One of the new bridges under construction in Derna, Libya.
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on September 2024
Election in Montreal Poses a Test for Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a visit to Montreal in 2022. His popularity has plunged.
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The Long-Range Weapons Ukraine Wants to Use on Russia, Explained
Army Tactical Missile Systems, known as ATACMS, have a range of 190 miles.
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W.H.O. Authorizes Mpox Vaccine, Clearing Way for Use in Africa
The Jynneos vaccine, made by Bavarian Nordic, has been approved in Europe as well as the United States and other high-income countries since a global mpox outbreak in 2022.
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How Israeli Forces Destroyed a Secret Weapons Facility in Syria
Syrians inspect the damage at the site of overnight Israeli strikes on the outskirts of Masyaf in Syria’s central Hama Province on Monday.
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Sweden Will Offer Migrants $34,000 to Go Home
Prayer at a temporary camp for refugees in Vanersborg, Sweden. The country is among a growing number of European nations embracing a harder stance on immigration.
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Robert Lewandowski on Fame, Frailty and the One Voice He Won’t Ignore
“OK, we are athletes,” Robert Lewandowski said, “but in the end we are also human.”
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Diplomacy Over Ukraine War Is About Bolstering Forces
The British foreign secretary, David Lammy, left, watching as Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, center, shook hands with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Kyiv on Wednesday.
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Biden Administration Ratchets Up Tariffs on Chinese Goods
The tariffs will apply to goods, including electric vehicles, that China has been selling at far cheaper prices than many American businesses.
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Typhoon Yagi Leaves at Least 110 Dead in Myanmar
The police help residents through high water in Pyinmana town in Myanmar’s Naypyidaw region on Friday.
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China Raises Retirement Age for the First Time Since the 1950s
Playing Chinese chess at a park in Beijing. China on Friday said it would gradually raise its statutory retirement age.
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Toronto Film Festival Pulls Documentary on Russian Soldiers
A protest against “Russians at War” in front of a theater showing the documentary during the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday.
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Why the Fight for Control Over the Philadelphi Corridor?
The border between Gaza and Egypt in February, as seen from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
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North Korea Reveals Weapons-Grade Uranium Factory
A photograph provided by North Korean state media showed the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, touring a plant producing weapons-grade nuclear materials at an undisclosed location in September.
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A Long Life, Thanks to Where You Live? Not Likely, Says Ig Nobel Winner.
The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday.
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on September 2024
Pope’s Grueling Asia Tour Points Toward a Less-Western Church
Pope Francis waving to faithful in Dili, East Timor, on Tuesday.
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Pakistan Begins Vaccination Program Against Polio
A community health worker gave a boy a vaccination during an anti-polio campaign as his mother held him in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday.
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The Contention Over Mexico’s Plan to Elect Judges, Explained
Demonstrating against a judicial overhaul outside the Senate building in Mexico City on Tuesday night.
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Mexico Remakes Its Entire Judicial System as States Back Vast Overhaul
Judicial workers outside the Supreme Court in Mexico City last month. In recent weeks, more than 50,000 judges and court workers have protested a judicial plan.
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U.N. and Britain Denounce Israeli Attack in Gaza That Killed U.N. Workers
Palestinians searched on Wednesday for missing people under the rubble of a destroyed school turned shelter after an Israeli airstrike in the central Gaza Strip.
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Friday Briefing: U.S. May Let Ukraine Use Long-range Weapons
The aftermath of a Russian missile strike on a sports complex in Kharkiv, Ukraine, this month.
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Biden Poised to Approve Ukraine’s Use of Long-Range Missiles in Russia
A police officer stands guard near a building in Ramenskoye, Russia, about 30 miles from Moscow, that was damaged in a Ukrainian attack.
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WADA Report Concludes China Broke Rules in Doping Case
Chinese swimmers who had tested positive for a banned drug months earlier were allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
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US Sanctions Venezuelan Officials in Response to Disputed Election
American sanctions have hobbled Venezuela’s oil industry, a crucial source of income for President Nicolás Maduro’s government.
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U.S. Supports Africa’s Bid for U.N. Security Council Seats, With a Catch
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, during a Security Council meeting on the war in the Gaza Strip, last month.
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Red Cross Workers Killed in Ukraine in Shelling Attack
The aftermath of an attack that killed Red Cross workers, as shown in a photograph released by the Ukrainian police.
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Israeli Commandos Carried Out Raid on Secret Weapons Site in Syria
Damage on the outskirts of Masyaf, Syria, after Israeli strikes this week.
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Russian Forces Are Stepping Up Attacks on Pokrovsk, Ukraine Says
Residents collected water from a new distribution point in the key eastern city of Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on Monday.
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Ukraine Says Russian Missile Hit Grain Ship in Black Sea
A cargo vessel being filled with grain at the port of Pivdennyi, Ukraine, in 2022.
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Turkish-American Activist Killed in West Bank to Be Buried in Turkey
Turkish flags outside the home of Aysenur Eygi’s grandfather, in Aydin, Turkey, on Thursday.
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The Grenfell Fire and the Unbearable Slowness of Public Inquiries
The fire at Grenfell Tower in west London on June 14, 2017, killed 72 people. “The simple truth is that the deaths that occurred were all avoidable,” the chairman of a public inquiry said last week.
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Should Ukraine Launch Western Weapons Deep Into Russia?
Ukrainian rescue workers carrying a man injured in a Russian missile strike on a sports complex in Kharkiv, Ukraine earlier this month.
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on September 2024
Mexico Is Split on Judicial Overhaul as Plan Inches Toward Becoming Law
Protesters outside of the Senate in Mexico City on Tuesday.
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After Being Shot, Slovakia’s Leader Targets His Enemies
Prime Minister Robert Fico in July. The Slovakian leader, who has been purging his opponents from a wide range of institutions, survived an assassination attempt in May.
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U.N. Says Gaza’s Anti-Polio Campaign Is Ending With High Hopes
Children receiving doses of the polio vaccine, in Gaza City on Tuesday.
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on September 2024
Deepfake Sex Videos in South Korea Seen as Old Misogyny With New Tech
A protest against deepfake pornography in Seoul last week.
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on September 2024
Citing Gaza Help, Blinken Waives Human Rights Conditions on Aid to Egypt
The decision by Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was based on Egypt’s monthslong role as an intermediary between Hamas and Israel as the two sides negotiate an elusive cease-fire deal.
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Alberto Fujimori, 86, Leader of Peru Imprisoned for Rights Abuses, Dies
Alberto Fujimori, left, Peru’s president from 1990 to 2000, at a military celebration in 1998 that honored the country’s independence.
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Debate Puts Trump’s Affinity for Putin Back in the Spotlight
A gas pipe explosion from a Russian missile strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine, this month.
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Dejected Social Media Users Call ‘Garbage Time’ Over China’s Ailing Economy
Paraguay Loves Mickey, the Cartoon Mouse. Disney Doesn’t.
Pedro Almodóvar, Master of Mystifying Films, Wrote a Book He Can’t Classify