Lebanon: Images of a Nation Uprooted by War
Two sisters from one of the many displaced Lebanese families that have set up tents near Beirut’s main sports stadium.
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This Hungarian Town Explains Why Orban Could Lose on Sunday
Peter Magyar, who leads the opposition Tisza party, at a rally in Keszthely last month.
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Xi Meets Taiwan Opposition Leader for First Time in a Decade
News coverage of the meeting between President Xi Jinping of China and Cheng Li-wun, the leader of the Nationalist Party in Taiwan, showing in a restaurant in Taipei, on Friday.
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‘I’m Fed Up.’ Frustrated With Trump, Starmer Embraces Other Allies.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain boarding an airplane, in Doha, Qatar, on Friday, after a three-day trip to the Gulf.
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Should Churches Remove Art by a Priest Accused of Sexual Abuse?
Covering a mosaic made by the Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik at Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire Basilica in Lourdes, France, in 2025.
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Iran’s South Africa Mission Trolls Trump Amid Hormuz Ceasefire
Iranian pro-government demonstrators rally in Tehran on Wednesday after the announcement of a two-week cease-fire in the war against the United States and Israel.
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Many Venezuelans Want to Go Home. But They Can’t Get Passports.
Yoalbert González has bought a ticket to return to Venezuela, but the American government still has his passport.
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With Iran Setting Limits, Strait of Hormuz Remains Thorny Politically
A billboard that appeared over the weekend in Tehran shows Iranian soldiers with American military planes and ships caught in a net, with the message “The Strait of Hormuz will stay closed.”
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See You in Pyongyang: Russia Pushes Its People to Embrace North Korea
A student sharing his experiences from a recent trip to North Korea, at a lecture Moscow State University’s Institute of Asian Studies, in Moscow in December.
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South African Writer Mfundi Vundla Gets Personal in His New Play
Mfundi Vundla, South African activist and writer, at the Johannesburg Theater after a performance of his new play, “Man With No Surname,” in March.
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Iran’s Battered Leaders Emerge From War Confident — and With New Cards
A woman waving an Iranian flag in Tehran. Iran’s leadership is entering into renewed negotiations after the cease-fire with a new set of demands.
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A Cease-Fire for Now in Iran, but a Blow to American Credibility
Iranian demonstrators burning a U.S. flag in Tehran on Wednesday after the announcement of a two-week cease-fire.
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Only two ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday.
A tanker moored in Muscat, Oman, last month. Hundreds of ships are waiting on either side of the Strait of Hormuz as Iran and the United States seek to negotiate an end to the war.
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Israel and Lebanon Plan Talks in D.C. as War Threatens U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire Deal
Residents lifting debris from a damaged car in Beirut, Lebanon, in a neighborhood damaged by Israeli airstrikes earlier this week.
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Iran Demands Release of ‘Blocked Assets’ Before Peace Talks
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament, has introduced conditions that could derail talks with U.S. negotiators set for this weekend.
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Fuel Protests Cause Transport Chaos in Ireland as Iran War Spikes Prices
Tractors blocking O’Connell Street in Dublin, a main artery of the capital, during a protest on Wednesday.
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Islamabad, Pakistan’s quiet capital, steps into the diplomatic spotlight.
A worker painting a street side curb near the Serena Hotel in Islamabad on Thursday.
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Vance Faces Test of His Negotiating Skills With Iran Talks
Vice President JD Vance is traveling to Pakistan at the end of the week to hold talks with the Iranians.
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Middle East War Triggers Higher Prices in China
A car factory in Chongqing, China. Falling wholesale prices have forced thousands of manufacturers to sell their goods for less and less.
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Here’s the latest.
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Here’s What Happened in the War in the Middle East on Thursday
The aftermath of an airstrike in the Tallet el-Khayat area of Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday.
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What We Know About the U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire Talks in Pakistan
The Foreign Ministry offices in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan is set to host talks between the United States and Iran on Saturday.
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A Mexican Cartel Leader and Ex-Partner to El Mencho Pleads Guilty in U.S.
Erick Valencia-Salazar, known as El 85, in Mexico City in 2012.
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Amid Trump’s Threats, NATO Labors to Survive the Iran War
President Trump and Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, in the Netherlands in June. The two met again in Washington this week, as the war in Iran has deepened the gulf between Mr. Trump and the alliance.
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Putin Announces Orthodox Easter Cease-Fire, but Ukraine Is Skeptical
The besieged city of Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, in January.
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Venezuela Approves New Law to Open Mining to Foreign Investors
An illegal gold mine in Las Claritas, Venezuela, in 2016.
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Zelensky Sees Small Window for Peace
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in the city of Slovyansk, Ukraine, last month.
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Netanyahu Says He Ordered Israel to Hold Talks With Lebanon About Disarming Hezbollah
Destruction in Beirut on Thursday, a day after Israel launched an intense wave of attacks on Lebanon.
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Israel Says It Will Talk With Lebanon but Gives No Sign of a Cease-Fire There
Damage on Thursday in Beirut, which the Israeli military continued to bombard.
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137-Year-Old Piece of Eiffel Tower to Be Auctioned in Paris
Gustave Eiffel, left, and a friend on the spiral staircase of the newly built Eiffel Tower in 1889.
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A Newspaper Is Raided and a Rights Group Outlawed Amid Kremlin Crackdown
Dmitry Muratov, a Nobel laureate, during a meeting at Novaya Gazeta’s office in Moscow last year.
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Trump Officials Push Allies to Pursue Antifa and Far Left as Terrorist Threats
Left-wing protesters clashing with police in Milan in February. A State Department official said the episode showed why Western governments must combat “antifa and far-left terrorism.”
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I.M.F. Says Iran War Will Drag Global Growth Lower
Buildings of Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran damaged by airstrikes last week. The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that the war would cause slower growth in the world economy this year.
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Amid U.S.-Iran Negotiations, Netanyahu’s Interests May Conflict With Trump’s
At an underground bomb shelter being used as a hospital in Haifa, Israel, on Thursday, a television showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the nation.
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3 Russian Submarines Detected Near Britain Were Spying, U.K. Says
Defense Secretary John Healey said on Thursday that the U.K. military operation “reinforces the seriousness with which we take the Russian threat.”
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European Leaders Demand That U.S. Cease-Fire With Iran Include Lebanon
Bodies in a hospital morgue after Israel launched a deadly wave of attacks in Lebanon that killed more than 200 people on Wednesday.
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What to Know About Israel’s Strikes on Lebanon
A rescue worker on Thursday at one of the sites in Beirut, Lebanon, that Israel bombed.
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North Korea Tests New Weapons, Drawing Lessons from Iran War
File footage of a North Korea missile launch shown at a train station in Seoul on Wednesday.
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A Maker of Pet Toys in Ukraine Turns to Killer Drones
A drone with a weighted dummy explosive attached.
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In Germany’s East, the Far Right Could Soon Take Power. This Is Its Plan.
Supporters of the Alternative for Germany party at its election campaign launch in Halle, Germany, in January of last year.
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Lebanon Mourns After Israeli Onslaught Kills More Than 300 People
Rescue workers at the site of an airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday.
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Here’s the latest.
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Michigan Man Is Arrested in Disappearance of Wife in Bahamas
Boats anchored near Elbow Cay in the Bahamas.
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No, Britain Is Not Having a Christian Revival
Churches like the St. Nicholas in Pluckley were once the beating heart of every British village, but have declined in number.
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on April 2026
Disagreement Over Lebanon’s Inclusion in Cease-Fire Threatens to Unravel It
The skies in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, were smoky in the aftermath of multiple airstrikes by Israel on Wednesday.
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Trump Finds Himself With Fragile Iran Cease-Fire After the Scramble to Make a Deal
President Trump’s efforts to circumvent the reality on the ground in the Middle East and move into a peace process have been hampered by an adversary that continues to hold leverage.
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Vance Says Lebanon Was Never Part of U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire Deal
Vice President JD Vance speaking to reporters in Budapest, on Wednesday.
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White House Knew About Pakistan’s Cease-Fire Post on X Before It Was Sent
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan at the White House to meet President Trump in September.
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on April 2026
White House Secures Foreign Steel for Trump’s Ballroom Project
The construction site for the new White House ballroom last month.
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on April 2026
Is Strait of Hormuz Open Again? Maybe, but Few Ships Are Using It.
Iran War Live Updates: Iran Adds New Condition as Vance Heads to Peace Talks
The Hit Erotica Writers Outwitting Nigeria’s Religious Censors
Why Investing in Wind and Solar to Avoid Gas Shocks Hasn’t Added Up for Some
How Iranians Feel Now
Trump Again Hits Out at NATO Over Iran War
I.U.C.N. Red List Moves Emperor Penguins to “Endangered”