The Fuel That Feeds Europe’s Far Right: Nostalgia and Lost Pride
Attendees at a rally for the far-right Alternative for Germany party on Saturday in central Schwerin, Germany.
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Why the Iran-Backed Houthis in Yemen and Saudi Arabia Are Back at War
A still image taken from AFPTV video footage of Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces firing at Houthi positions in Yemen this month.
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U.N. General Assembly to Confront Familiar Crises, New Conflicts and A.I.
The United Nations headquarters in New York. For the first time, the threat posed by artificial intelligence will be atop the agenda of the U.N. General Assembly meeting this week.
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Ex-Commander of China’s Military Accused of Corruption and Expelled From Party
Zhang Youxia at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in 2025.
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At 92, the Bard of Bollywood Is Still Writing About Love
Gulzar at his home in Mumbai in July. He maintains the wonder that has fueled his work.
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‘Way Too Hot’: Britain’s Hospitals Were Not Built for 96-Degree Summers
Robyn, 2, recovering with her parents after an operation at Queen’s Medical Center in Nottingham, England, last month during a heat wave.
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Putin Reignited a Dispute With Japan. This Town Is Stuck in the Middle.
The signs at Nemuro port read in Japanese, Russian and English: “Welcome to Nemuro!” They also notify readers, “Return of the four islands will strengthen friendship between two nations. The Northern Territories are traditionally Japanese territory.”
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One Issue That Could Upend Fragile U.S.-China Ties: Taiwan Arms
President Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, in Beijing in May. Mr. Trump has held off on arms sales to Taiwan as he has sought pragmatic ties with China.
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Why a Law to Help Prisoners Became a New Sectarian Flashpoint in Lebanon
Sunni Muslims wave flags during a protest against a clause in an prisoner amnesty law that would exclude some inmates, in Beirut, in May.
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Flight Delays Disrupt UK Airports Once Again
A departure board displays delayed and canceled flights at London City Airport following disruptions caused by an air traffic control issue in Britain, on Monday.
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A Diplomat From Myanmar Refuses to Give Up New York City Post
U Kyaw Moe Tun, in New York last month, was appointed as Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations before his country’s military staged a coup in 2021.
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Thirty More Arrested in Jovenel Moïse Assassination
A poster showing Haiti’s assassinated president, Jovenel Moïse, in Cap Haitien, Haiti, in 2021.
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Israeli Tourist Trap ‘Herod’s Pool’ Is Draining Palestinians’ Land Dry
Saad Nemer, a Palestinian farmer, in a greenhouse on his farm near the West Bank village of Fasayil in August. His crops have withered this summer without water.
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Germany’s Merz Vows to Stay After Another State Election ‘Disaster’
“What needs to be done now requires backbone, steadfastness and patience,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany said Sunday.
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Chulpan Khamatova Stars in the Dark, Absurdist Play “Delirium”
Chulpan Khamatova is the Meryl Streep of Russia; her name on an antiwar statement did not go unnoticed.
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On a Dot of France Off Canada, Carney and Macron Talk Partnership
President Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada at a war memorial in Miquelon on Sunday.
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Let’s Talk Climate
A coal-fired power plant in West Virginia.
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Houthis Push to Expand Territory as Tensions With Saudi Arabia Rise
Smoke rising from the fuel storage depot at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday. The Houthis said they had launched missiles and drones at the Saudi capital.
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Israeli Shot and Killed in West Bank by Palestinian, Officials Say
An Israeli police officer and a soldier standing guard near the site of a shooting near the West Bank settlement of Neve Tzuf on Sunday.
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Hundreds of Drones Target Moscow on Final Day of Russian Elections
Sweeping the courtyard of a residential building hit by what the authorities said was a Ukrainian drone strike in Kotelniki, in the Moscow region, on Sunday.
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They Have Almost No Chance in Russia’s Elections. Why Are They Running?
Grigory Grishin, a Yabloko candidate running for the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of Parliament, in Moscow.
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U.N. General Assembly Traffic and Street Closures: What New Yorkers Need to Know
A gridlock alert is in place from Sept. 21 to Sept. 25, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.
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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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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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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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In Significant Escalation, Houthis Attack Saudi Capital
Smoke rising on Saturday above Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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An Unused and Divisive Philippine Nuclear Plant Awaits Its Fate
‘Nervous and Skeptical,’ Greenlanders Question the New Deal With Trump
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