Lebanon’s Government, Crippled by Years of Crises, Is Ill-Prepared for Escalation
The aftermath of an Israeli strike in Hilaniyeh, Lebanon, last week, part of a bombing campaign that some experts have called one of the most intense in contemporary warfare.
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UK’s Conservatives Are Surprisingly Upbeat at Their Party Conference
Banners promoting the four leadership candidates at the Conservative Party’s annual conference in Birmingham, where the mood was cheerful. “I was expecting something a little more gloomy, seeing as we had been defeated,” one party member said. “It’s really positive, it’s buzzing.”
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Putin Tries to Recruit More Soldiers, Encourage Bigger Families
A military recruiting poster in Kursk, Russia, in August. President Vladimir V. Putin has ordered the ranks of Russia’s army to increase by 180,000 service members to 1.5 million.
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Catholics Meet to Chart Church’s Future, but Not Women Deacons
Pope Francis during a meeting with bishops, priests, deacons and other pastoral workers in Brussels on Saturday.
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Ukraine Withdraws From Vuhledar, Town Long Under Russian Attack
Explosions caused by Russian strikes on Ukrainian positions were seen in the distance along the road toward Vuhledar, Ukraine, last week.
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60 Dead After Boat Capsizes in Nigeria
The Niger River near Onitsha, Nigeria, in 2023. This year, the Niger River has seen the worst flooding since 2020.
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Dozens of Migrants Die Off Djibouti After Smugglers Force Them to Swim
Migrants boarding a boat in Djibouti in 2019. The route between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula is perilous for such journeys.
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Missing Out on Coldplay’s India Tickets, Some Fans Vented — Even to Police
Chris Martin of Coldplay performing in Las Vegas last month.
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Three Men Arrested After Explosions Near Israeli Embassy in Denmark
The Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen on Wednesday.
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Iran Launches 180 Missiles at Israel After Hezbollah and Hamas Assassinations
Projectiles being intercepted above Ashkelon, Israel, on Tuesday. Israel’s air defenses appeared to limit substantial damage from the missile attack, and minutes after it began, the Israeli military said, it appeared to have ended.
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Julian Assange, in First Speech Since Release, Says He ‘Pled Guilty for Journalism’
Julian Assange with his wife, Stella Assange, were in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday.
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Mexico’s First Female President, Claudia Sheinbaum, Takes Office
“For the first time, we women have arrived to lead the destinies of our beautiful nation,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her inauguration ceremony on Tuesday in Mexico City.
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A New Fine-Dining Restaurant in London, Staffed by Ex-Homeless People
The evening service. Mr. Simmonds revised the menu before opening to ensure dishes could be successfully executed by inexperienced workers.
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Biden Says He Won’t Support an Israeli Strike on Iran’s Nuclear Sites
President Joe Biden at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Wednesday
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Iran’s Strikes on Israel Appear Aimed at Shoring Up Regional Alliance
The majority of more than 180 ballistic missiles launched from Iran were shot down by Israeli air defenses with the help of the U.S. military.
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Israel Confirms 1st Military Fatality in Lebanon Invasion
An Israeli helicopter releasing flares near the Israel-Lebanon border, as seen from northern Israel, on Wednesday.
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Tesla Sales Increase, Suggesting Electric Car Demand Is Rebounding
Tesla increased sales in part by offering car loans with relatively low interest rates.
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Israel Bars UN Chief António Guterres From Entering the Country
The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, at the U.N. in New York last month.
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US, France and Britain Say They Helped Israel During Iran Attack
Israel’s missile defense system intercepted rockets after Iran fired a salvo of missiles on Tuesday.
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Attitudes About Nasrallah Appear More Positive in Middle East Since His Death
Hassan Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for 32 years, was a towering figure across the Middle East.
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Israel’s Lebanon Invasion Leaves Christian Village Uprooted
Israeli military vehicles in a staging area near the border with Lebanon on Tuesday.
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Taiwan Closes Schools and Workplaces as Typhoon Krathon Nears
Waves crashing onto the coastline in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Wednesday.
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A Wider War in the Middle East, From Hamas to Hezbollah and Now Iran
Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted rockets after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles on Tuesday.
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Wednesday Briefing: Iran Fires 180 Missiles at Israel
Israel’s air defense system intercepted many of the Iranian missiles, the military said.
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Laborer From Gaza Is First Reported Fatality of Iran’s Missile Attack
People gathered around a fallen projectile that had been moved to the center of a square in the village of Dura in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, after Iran launched a missile barrage at Israel.
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Song Binbin, Poster Woman for Mao’s Bloody Revolution, Dies at 77
As a student leader of the militant Red Guards, Song Binbin was selected to pin an armband around the sleeve of Mao Zedong in a ceremony in 1966 in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
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Israel Weighs Retaliation After Iranian Missile Attack
Israeli tanks near the border with Lebanon on Tuesday.
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Biden Says U.S. Warships Helped Israel Intercept Iran’s Missiles
Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national security adviser, told reporters at the White House on Tuesday that there had been “meticulous joint planning” between U.S. and Israeli forces to counter the Iranian missile attacks.
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Wednesday Briefing: Iran Launched Ballistic Missiles at Israel
People took cover yesterday as a siren warned of incoming missiles near Kfar Saba, Israel.
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Why Did Iran Strike Israel?
Iranians in Tehran cheering the strike on Israel.
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What Are Ballistic Missiles?
An Iranian ballistic missile was carried past a portrait of Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s Quds force, during a military parade last week.
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France’s Prime Minister Urges a Divided Parliament to Give Him a Chance
Prime Minister Michel Barnier delivered his general policy speech to lawmakers in Paris on Tuesday.
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Israel Has Destroyed Half of Hezbollah’s Arsenal, U.S. and Israeli Officials Say
Israel’s recent airstrikes in Lebanon dealt a blow to Hezbollah, but the group’s arsenal is still formidable.
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As Iran Launches a Missile Attack, Israel’s Next Move May Determine Course of War
In April, the United States, Israel, Jordan and others intercepted almost all of the hundreds of missiles and drones in a barrage that Iran fired toward Israel. Israel responded without escalating the conflict.
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Tel Aviv Shooting Leaves Six Dead and Several Injured
Israeli police officers keep watch near a cordon at the site of a shooting incident in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
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Zurich Stabbing: 3 Children Injured in Attack Near Daycare Center
A man attacked several children in Zurich on Tuesday.
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School Bus Fire in Thailand Kills at Least 23 People
Firefighters hosing a burnt-out bus that caught fire while carrying teachers and students on the outskirts of Bangkok on Tuesday.
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Germany Accuses Woman of Spying for China on Arms Exports
The Chinese Embassy in Berlin in April. Concerns have grown in Germany about intelligence gathering by China, Germany’s largest trade partner.
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Can Rugby League and Drag Queens Coexist? A U.K. Mill Town Finds Out.
Keighley Cougars, the pride of their northern English town.
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Israel Has Invaded Lebanon Three Times Before. Here’s a Closer Look.
Destruction in southern Beirut during the most recent Israel-Hezbollah war, in 2006.
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on October 2024
Pope Francis Gets a Fraught Reception in Belgium
Pope Francis after meeting with students in Belgium on Saturday.
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In Ukraine, a Long Battle for Vuhledar Nears a Sudden End
Members of the White Angels evacuation team, a special unit of Ukraine’s National Police, carrying a woman who has suffered a stroke, in the village of Zoriane, Ukraine, on Thursday.
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U.S. Raises New Concerns Over Chinese Lending Practices
A senior Treasury official raised concerns about China’s practice of making certain types of emergency loans to debt-ridden countries.
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on October 2024
Why Did Israel Launch a Ground Invasion Into Lebanon?
A U.N. peacekeeper in the southern Lebanese village of Yarine in July.
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Cambodia Arrests Mech Dara, Journalist Who Exposed Scam Centers
Mech Dara, who has exposed human trafficking in online scam centers, in Siem Reap, Cambodia, in 2021.
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Tuesday Briefing: Israel Sends Troops Into Lebanon
Israeli artillery shells hit in southern Lebanon yesterday.
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Humberto Ortega, Former Military Chief in Nicaragua, Dies at 77
Humberto Ortega, the former head of Nicaragua’s armed forces, during a news conference in Managua in 2000.
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Israel Sends Troops Into Southern Lebanon
An Israeli mobile artillery unit firing a shell from northern Israel toward Lebanon from a position near the border on Monday.
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Israeli Military Begins Ground Invasion of Southern Lebanon
Residents in central Beirut, Lebanon, cleaning up on Monday after an overnight bombing by Israeli forces. It was believed to have been the first Israeli strike in central Beirut since at least 2006.
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Pentagon Sends Additional Troops to the Middle East
A convoy of U.S. military vehicles driving in Erbil, in northern Iraq, this month. The 40,000 American troops already in the Middle East are stationed on bases in Iraq and Syria, among other countries.
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Tuesday Briefing: Israel Conducts Raids in Lebanon
An Israeli tank in a staging area in northern Israel on Sunday.
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What Is the Axis of Resistance? the Iran-Backed Militia Network
A billboard of the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Tehran, Iran’s capital, on Sunday after he was killed in Lebanon in an airstrike last week.
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Why Helene Was So Destructive in Florida, the Carolinas and Appalachia
Damage to Highway 64 near Bat Cave, N.C., on Monday.
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on October 2024
Russia to Boost Defense Budget as Ukraine War Drags On
Preparing for a military parade in Moscow last year. The Kremlin plans to boost military spending by 25 percent in 2025.
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on October 2024
Live Updates: Deadly Battles in Southern Lebanon as Israeli Troops Clash With Hezbollah
Why the Conflict Between Iran and Israel Has Raised Oil Prices Only Modestly
Where U.S. Forces Are Deployed in the Middle East
Videos Show Iranian Missile Attack on Israel
Mapping Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon
Typhoon Krathon Nears Taiwan After Lashing the Philippines