Israeli President Pardons Ex-Soldier Over Killing of Incapacitated Palestinian
The former Israeli soldier, Elor Azaria, center, in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2017. Mr. Azaria was convicted of manslaughter for shooting an injured Palestinian man.
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Inside the Breakdown of U.K.-Israel Relations Over West Bank Settlements
Land in the E1 area, a strategically important patch of land east of Jerusalem, near the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim. Plans by Israel to build there, long postponed, have gained momentum lately.
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In Significant Escalation, Houthis Attack Saudi Capital
Smoke rising on Saturday above Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
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Group With Al Qaeda Links Claims Responsibility for Attack in Pakistan
Army soldiers at a damaged mosque in Kohat, northwestern Pakistan, after an attack there on Friday killed and injured dozens.
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The Kremlin Has Put Lots of Veterans on the Ballot. Could It Backfire?
Konstantin N. Rizhak, third from right, this month in Moscow. He fought in Ukraine from October 2022 until July 2023 and is a candidate for the nationalist, socially conservative A Just Russia Party.
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A Small Country’s Huge Windfall from the War in Iran
Guyana is positioned to take in an estimated $6.5 billion in oil revenue this year.
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Russia Warns New U.S. Sanctions Law Would Harm Trump’s Peace Efforts
President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Anchorage last year. The new law orders the U.S. administration to execute sanctions against Russia that are already in place, including those against Mr. Putin.
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Nepal’s Gen Z Is Taking on the World’s Polluters Over Climate Disasters
Tashi Lhazom, a climate activist, meeting with a woman displaced by the floods, at a Buddhist monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Millionaire Activist James Chambers Seeks Asylum in Spain
James Chambers in a cafe in Tunis in 2024. He was arrested in Spain this year and is fighting an extradition request from the United States.
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on September 2026
How Guyana Is Feeding the Profits of Exxon Mobil, the Largest U.S. Oil Company
The One Guyana offshore oil production platform this year.
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German Art Institutions Prepare for a Fight as Far Right Looks to Take Power
The main building of the former Bauhaus design school, now home to the Bauhaus foundation, in Dessau, in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
A still from a video showing a police officer point a firearm at men deported by the United States to Equatorial Guinea at Hotel Bamy on the outskirts of Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Sept. 5.
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Elaine Mokhtefi, American Witness to Algeria’s Revolution, Dies at 97
Elaine Mokhtefi with Eldridge Cleaver, a leader of the Black Panther Party, at the National Liberation Front headquarters in Algiers in 1969.
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on September 2026
Trump’s Security Deal With Greenland: What to Know
Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, last year. Polls have indicated that a vast majority of Greenlanders do not want to join the United States.
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A Half-Century On, Cycling’s World Championship Returns to Montreal
Since 2010, Montreal and Quebec City have hosted the only two North American races on the International Cycling Union’s World Tour, which includes the Tour de France.
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on September 2026
Once Home to Batman, This Faded Mansion Is Now Plagued by Real Bats
Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire, in the English countryside, in 1977.
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on September 2026
Trump Courts North Korea’s Leader, but Might Need China to Reignite the Flame
President Trump and Kim Jong-un on the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone in 2019. For Mr. Trump, a summit with Mr. Kim would help him turn the spotlight away from the unpopular war against Iran and toward a leader-to-leader relationship that Mr. Trump has treasured since his first term.
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Protests Erupt in Nigeria After Police Pack 66 Miners Into One Cell
Relatives of miners who were arrested on suspicion of illegal mining outside a hospital in Minna, Nigeria, on Thursday.
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Manitoba Joins List of Canadian Provinces to Stop Changing Clocks
A passenger train in Churchill, Manitoba, in 2025. About a third of countries still change their clocks twice a year, though many areas have either considered dropping the practice or taken steps to do so in recent years.
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on September 2026
Why Autocrats Care What People Think
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow.
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on September 2026
Can Two Friends Complete a Game No One Has Ever Finished?
James Purcell, left, and Andrew Taeger with the terrifyingly complex Campaign for North Africa board game.
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Convicted of Theft, an Ex-Prime Minister Is Set to Swap Prison for Mansion
Najib Razak, the former prime minister of Malaysia, center, arriving for a court hearing at the Kuala Lumpur High Court in 2025.
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on September 2026
Spain’s Preppy Conservatives Are Having a Moment
A post-bullfight party, filled with young conservatives, at Madrid’s main bullring this summer.
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South Korean Leader Says He Will Not Send Troops to Iran, Despite Trump’s Call
President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea holding a news conference at the Blue House in Seoul on Friday. Mr. Lee rejected any South Korean military involvement in the Middle East conflict.
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on September 2026
Why Russia Holds Elections, and How the Kremlin Gets the Results It Wants
Nanna Heitmann for The New York TimesA digital screen featuring candidates from the United Russia party in Moscow this week. Russians began voting on Friday in parliamentary elections.
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on September 2026
Trump Moves Ahead With F-35 Jet Sales to Saudi Arabia Despite Intelligence Concerns
If the production and delivery of the planes is completed, which would take years, Saudi Arabia would be only the second country in the Middle East to have F-35 jets, after Israel.
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on September 2026
The Racial Disparities of Flood Buyouts
Flooding in a Houston neighborhood following Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
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U.S. Strike on Iranian School May Have Been War Crime, U.N. Report Says
A memorial in Tehran for the victims of an airstrike on an elementary school in Minab.
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Russia and China Veto U.S. Bid to Renew U.N. Monitoring of Iran Nuclear Program
Vasily Nebenzya, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, condemned what he called “the destructive path of our Western colleagues” when it came to exerting pressure on Iran.
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Iran’s Isolation Grows After U.S. Imposes Sweeping Sanctions on Airlines
A Mahan Air plane is seen at Simon Bolivar International Airport outside Caracas, Venezuela, in 2019. The airline is one of Iran’s biggest commercial carriers.
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Afghan Sentenced to 20 Years After Mixed Verdict in 2021 Kabul Attack Case
Portraits of some of the U.S. service members who were killed in a 2021 suicide bombing at an airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, are seen at a posthumous award ceremony at the Capitol in 2024.
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on September 2026
What Is the E1 Project, Israel’s Disputed Settlement Plan in the West Bank?
An area this month in the E1 zone, near Maale Adumim, an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.
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on September 2026
Sweden Swings Back Left, Bucking a Trend in Europe
Magdalena Andersson of the Social Democrats, who is likely to be Sweden’s next prime minister, speaking on election night in Stockholm on Sunday.
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on September 2026
Man Suspected of Pushing Woman in Front of London Bus Is Found Dead
Putney Bridge in West London, where a man was seen on CCTV footage in 2017 shoving a woman in front of a bus.
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on September 2026
A New Play in Budapest Signals a Cultural Reawakening for Hungary
The August premiere in Budapest of the one-woman play “Enemies of the People,” starring the Hungarian film and stage actress Erika Marozsan.
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Carney Calls for E.U.-Canada Pact Amid ‘Ferocious Storm’
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Thursday.
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on September 2026
Trump Sanctions on Cuba Strands Thousands Of Shipping Containers
Ships unloading humanitarian aid at the Port of Havana this year. The challenges in shipping to the island nation are intensifying a humanitarian crisis.
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Locals Call It the World’s Largest Cesspool, and Blame It for Surging Cancer
The old church of San Francisco Bojay in Hidalgo, Mexico, is partially submerged after the area was flooded in 1949 to create the Endhó Dam.
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on September 2026
The Hidden Human Cost of Kim Jong-un’s New Power
North Korea celebrated the 78th anniversary of its founding with a parade last week in Pyongyang, the capital. The country is now in one of the strongest positions it has ever been in, financially and diplomatically.
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on September 2026
State Department Extends Visa Ban on Abbas, Other Palestinian Officials
Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, shown in May, has been denied a visa to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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on September 2026
Human-Caused Warming Played ‘Very Strong’ Role in Himalayan Floods, Report Finds
The widened channel of the Bhote Koshi River in Nepal after the flash flooding last month.
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on September 2026
Fiji Declares a National Emergency as H.I.V. Cases Skyrocket
An H.I.V. awareness poster displayed in Suva, Fiji, in April. The nation recorded more than 2,000 new cases in 2025, 16 times as many as in 2019, officials said.
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U.S. Intelligence Warns of China Theft Over Sale of F-35 Jets to Saudis
An F-35 jet seen last year. Saudi Arabia and the United States have a decades-long history of military cooperation, and the kingdom is by far the largest buyer of American weapons and defense equipment.
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on September 2026
Why Israel Wants More One-Ton Bombs From the U.S.
The remains of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza in 2023.
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on September 2026
The Canaduropean Union?
At the European Parliament in Strasbourg yesterday.
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on September 2026
‘Nervous and Skeptical,’ Greenlanders Question the New Deal With Trump
Yemen War Intensifies as Houthi Militia Advances on Marib
The Most Handsome Melon in Mexico? Yes, It’s a Real Contest.
U.S. Approves Visas for Iran’s U.N. Delegation
Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns
2 Students Are Killed in School Shooting in the Philippines