The Gold Rush at the Heart of a Civil War
Sudanese soldiers drove through a destroyed market in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, in April. The military captured the area after weeks of fierce fighting with Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries.
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Tangled and Troubling Legacy Pushes Romanians Further to the Right
A woman holding a flag of the antisemitic Legionary Movement during a commemoration for its founder last month in a forest near Bucharest, Romania.
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South Korean Police Raid President Yoon’s Office in Martial Law Probe
Yoon Suk Yeol, the president of South Korea, in his office in Seoul in 2022.
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Syria After al-Assad’s Overthrow: What’s Happening and What Comes Next
A fighter from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on Tuesday near an entrance to Bashar al-Assad’s abandoned presidential palace in Damascus.
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Prince William’s Chat With Trump Shows Why Royals May Be Potent Diplomatic Tool
President-elect Donald J. Trump and Prince William met in Paris after a Notre-Dame reopening ceremony on Saturday. Mr. Trump said, “I had a great talk with the prince,” whom he described as “really, very handsome.”
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How ‘Her Story,’ a Feminist Comedy, Came to Rule China’s Box Office
Shao Yihui, right, the director of “Her Story,” a feminist-themed comedy that has become a box office hit in China, along with members of the cast at a premiere in Beijing.
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North Korea Breaks Silence on South Korea’s Martial Law Declaration
Protesters outside the National Assembly in Seoul on Saturday, hours before a bid to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol failed.
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Explosion in Afghanistan Kills Minister in Highest-Profile Blast Since Taliban’s Return
Khalil Haqqani delivering remarks after Friday Prayer in Kabul in 2021. He was a leading figure in the Taliban’s rise to power in 2021.
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Scholz Calls for Confidence Vote, in Step Toward German Elections
Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany with his cabinet on Wednesday.
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Netanyahu Finally Takes the Stand in His Corruption Trial
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to testify in his trial on corruption charges at the district court in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
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In Aleppo, Rebels Give a Sense of What Is to Come for Syria
A damaged poster of former President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo, Syria, last week.
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With Quick Vote and Little Fanfare, Saudi Arabia on Track to Get the 2034 World Cup
Argentina players celebrating with the trophy after winning the World Cup in December 2022, in Qatar.
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Who Set the Stage for al-Assad’s Ouster? There Are Different Answers in the U.S. and Israel.
A defaced portrait of Bashar al-Assad at the Presidential Palace in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday.
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How Many People Have Died in Syria’s Civil War?
Relatives look for bodies of loved ones who were taken or disappeared at the Sednaya Prison on Tuesday.
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Biden Administration Looks to Reinforce U.S.-China Ties Ahead of Trump’s Return
Top Treasury officials will travel to China this week to try and convince their Beijing peers to keep lines of communication open after President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office next month.
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Wednesday Briefing
Syrian naval ships destroyed in an Israeli attack on the port city of Latakia.
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Houthi Attacks Continue to Disrupt Shipping Industry As Israel-Hamas War Rages On
Capt. Tobias Kammann on his freighter, the Hanoi Express, docked in Hamburg, Germany. Ships’ access to the Suez Canal has been cut off for the last year by attackers in Yemen.
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Trump Offers Confusing Clues on Syria
Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, two days after President Bashar al-Assad fled the country and rebel forces took control of the capital.
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A Northern Gaza Hospital Lacks Food and Water for Patients, Officials Say
The Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip after Israeli troops raided it in November 2023.
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Syrian Rebels Vow Punishment for Atrocities Under Bashar al-Assad
A defaced portrait of the ousted Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, beside a highway in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday.
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French Court Finds Author Charles Onana Guilty of Denying Rwandan Genocide
Family photographs of some of those who died in the Rwandan genocide on display in the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center in Kigali, Rwanda, in 2014.
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Wednesday Briefing: A Wave of Post-Assad Attacks
An Israeli military vehicle entering the buffer zone with Syria.
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A Tour of Assad’s Monumental Palace, With a Scruffy Rebel as a Guide
Abu Oweis, a rebel fighter, in the office of a longtime senior adviser to Bashar al-Assad at the abandoned presidential palace in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday.
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Arrests Made in 2021 Crash That Killed Over 50 Migrants
Josefa Quino Canil De Zavala after being detained on Monday in a joint operation between Guatemalan and U.S. authorities for alleged involvement in a deadly 2021 truck accident that killed more than 50 migrants in southern Mexico.
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Cyclist Rohan Dennis Pleads Guilty in Death of Wife Melissa Hoskins, Fellow Olympian
Rohan Dennis pleaded guilty to creating a risk of harm. He faces seven years in prison.
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on December 2024
Sednaya Prison in Syria: What to Know
A man praying inside a liberated cell in Sednaya prison, in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria, on Monday.
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on December 2024
Trump Mocks Trudeau and Canada in Post on Tariffs and Trade
President-elect Donald Trump listening during a meeting in 2019 with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada.
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Arctic Tundra Has Long Helped Cool Earth. Now, It’s Fueling Warming.
A hill with an ice core, known as a pingo, in the Mackenzie River Delta, Northwest Territories.
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Police Arrest 3 After Deadly Explosion in the Netherlands
An explosion and fire killed at least six people and destroyed part of an apartment building in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Saturday.
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Protests in Kenya Demand Action Over a Spate of Brutal Murders of Women
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday to demand that the government take action to stop the killings of women and girls.
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on December 2024
Israel Strikes Military Assets Across Syria to Keep Them From Rebels
The aftermath on Tuesday of an overnight strike on the Barzah scientific research center, which had been linked to the Syrian government’s chemical weapons program.
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South Korea Martial Law Fallout: What to Know on Yoon’s Future
Police officers near the National Assembly in Seoul last week after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law.
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South Korea’s Opposition Leader Determined to Oust President Yoon After Martial Law
Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the opposition party, at his Democratic Party’s meeting room in the National Assembly in Seoul on Monday.
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Prince William and Jacob Elordi Grow Beards That Spark Strong Feelings
Prince William has had a beard at multiple public appearances in recent weeks.
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In Georgia Protests, Echoes of Ukraine’s Past Revolutions
Fireworks set off by protesters exploded around riot police during a demonstration in Tbilisi, Georgia, last week.
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Lula, Brazil’s President, Is in ICU After Emergency Brain Surgery
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil is recovering from an “uneventful” emergency surgery, according to the hospital that treated him.
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Taiwan Says China Has Deployed Largest Fleet of Ships in Decades
A Taiwanese fighter jet landing in Hsinchu on Tuesday.
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Australia Signs Security and Economic Treaty With Nauru
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia and President David Adeang of Nauru meeting in Canberra, Australia, on Monday.
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How to Understand the Armed Factions Operating in Syria
Celebrations at Umayyad Square in Damascus on Monday.
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What to Know About the Countries Still Fighting in Syria After al-Assad’s Ouster
A poster of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria hanging on the side of a shopping mall decimated by bombs in the war-ravaged city of Homs, Syria, in June.
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In France, Marine Le Pen Takes Aim at the Top
The far-right leader Marine Le Pen with President Emmanuel Macron after talks at the Élysée Palace in Paris in 2022.
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The Netanyahu Corruption Trial, Explained
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel addressing lawmakers in the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, in Jerusalem, in November.
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Tuesday Briefing
Syrians celebrated in Umayyad Square in Damascus yesterday.
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Syrians, in Shock and With Some Unease, Celebrate the Fall of al-Assad
Thousands of Syrians celebrated in the streets of Umayyad Square in the center of Damascus, Syria, on Monday.
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Syrian Military Officials Charged With War Crimes as Government Falls
The Mezzeh air base in Damascus, Syria, where two officials were accused of committing war crimes and running a notorious prison facility.
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U.S. Scrambles to Navigate Perils of a New Syria
U.S. officials say they are closely watching to see whether Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, led by Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, displays traits of a terrorist group or whether it has changed.
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Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire Talks Gain Steam, Officials Say
A makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians in the Nahr al-Bared area in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Monday.
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Tuesday Briefing: Syrian Rebels Rush to Establish Order
Celebrations in Umayyad Square in Damascus yesterday.
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Syria’s President Had Stocks of Chemical Weapons. What Happens to Them Now?
A Syrian rebel tries on a gas mask seized from a Syrian army factory in the northwestern province of Idlib in 2013. Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons on rebels and civilians was a defining feature of the early days of Syria’s civil war.
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A Quick Arab Pivot: From Welcoming al-Assad to Managing the Chaos
A torn poster of the deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad at an abandoned border checkpoint in Masnaa, Syria, on Monday.
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Crowds Throng to Syria’s Sednaya Prison to Find Relatives and Friends
Surveying cells in the Sednaya Prison on Monday in Damascus, Syria.
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Explosion at Fuel Depot Near Florence Kills at Least Two
Smoke billowed from the depot near Florence, Italy, after the explosion on Monday.
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on December 2024
How Syria’s Rebels Took Damascus, Captured on Video
Syrians celebrating in the central city of Homs early on Sunday.
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on December 2024
Syria Live Updates: U.S. Tries to Manage Fallout From al-Assad’s Ouster
A Ghastly Search for Loved Ones Who Disappeared in Syria
Uncertainty and Hope on the Road to and from Damascus
Monarch Butterflies Are Recommended for Protected Status in U.S.
Here’s How Much Cleaner Energy Could Save America, in Lives and Money
Volcanic Eruption in the Philippines Forces Mass Evacuation
How the Rebels in Syria Captured Damascus