Pelicot’s Daughter Pursues Conviction That He Raped Her, Too
“My case, in that court, it was like it didn’t exist,” said the daughter of Gisèle and Dominique Pelicot. She uses the pen name Caroline Darian.
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on March 2025
Americans Describe Being Detained as Hostages in a Venezuelan Prison
Gregory David Werber, who had been detained in Venezuela, in Tempe, Ariz., on Thursday.
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on March 2025
Drones Will Do Some Schlepping for Sherpas on Mount Everest
A Sherpa in Nepal’s Everest region, with Mount Kongde in the background. More guides have died in accidents on Mount Everest as snowmelt has accelerated.
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on March 2025
Germany Is Lifting a Foot Off Its ‘Debt Brake.’ Here’s Why.
Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor in waiting, is attempting to make a constitutional change even before he takes office.
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on March 2025
Chinese Nationalists Praise Trump’s Cuts to Voice of America
Voice of America’s ability to operate is in question after President Trump signed an executive order calling for the dismantling of the federal agency that oversees it.
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on March 2025
UK Aims to Cut Billions in Welfare Amid Budget Crunch
Liz Kendall, Britain’s work and pensions secretary, told Parliament on Tuesday that the cuts aim to get those who can work into jobs, protect those who cannot work and save taxpayers money.
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Lucy Letby Murders Inquiry Should Be Halted, Hospital’s Ex-Managers Say
The Countess of Chester Hospital in 2023. Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies while she was a neonatal nurse there about a decade ago.
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on March 2025
Trump’s Focus on Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Is Partly Linked to Minerals Deal, Officials Say
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in 2022. The facility was seized by Russia early in the war.
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on March 2025
Small Plane Crashes Off Roatán Island in Honduras, Killing 12
A photograph supplied by the Honduran Air Force showing emergency workers caring for an injured person after the crash off Roatán.
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on March 2025
Violence in Syria Shows Difficulty in Unifying Armed Forces
A spasm of violence erupted in Syria this month, pitting the new government’s security forces, and fighters affiliated with it, against suspected remnants of the old regime.
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on March 2025
How South Sudan Returned to the Brink of War
The outskirts of Juba, South Sudan’s capital, last year. The country endured several years of civil war before a fragile peace agreement in 2018.
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on March 2025
Nary a Critical Word: Bill Gates’s Close Bond With Narendra Modi
Bill Gates met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi three weeks before India’s general election in 2024.
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on March 2025
Hamas Does Not Respond to Renewed Israeli Attack on Gaza
Hamas fighters during a handover of Israeli hostages last month.
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on March 2025
Why Did Israel Resume Airstrikes on Gaza? What to Know About the Attacks
Praying over the bodies of Palestinians killed in Gaza City on Tuesday.
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on March 2025
Russia Escalated Sabotage to Pressure U.S. and Allies on Ukraine, Study Says
Poland blamed Russia for a fire at a shopping center in Warsaw last May.
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on March 2025
Israel Resumes Attacks in Gaza After Stalled Cease-Fire Talks with Hamas
An injured man searched through the rubble of his home in Nuseirat in central Gaza after an Israeli strike on Tuesday.
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on March 2025
Tuesday Briefing
President Trump’s administration has come close to open defiance of the federal judiciary.
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on March 2025
Fewer Than Half of the 59 Hostages in Gaza Believed to Be Alive
Einav Zangauker, center, the mother of Matan Zangauker, an Israeli hostage held in Gaza, near the Gaza border in Kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel, on Tuesday.
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Timeline of Trump’s Deportation Flights, From Alien Enemies Act to Judge’s Order
A photograph released by El Salvador’s government showed U.S. deportees arriving at the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador.
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Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Leader, Sees Opportunity in Trump’s Deportations
The government of El Salvador released photos on Sunday that it said showed deportees from the United States inside the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador.
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Canada Turns to European Allies Amid Trump Threats
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, left, meeting on Monday with Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain at 10 Downing Street.
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Trump Discussion With Putin to Focus on What Ukraine Will Lose
The Yalta Conference of 1945, where Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin carved Europe into the American-aligned West and the Soviet-controlled East.
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on March 2025
Tuesday Briefing: A Trump-Putin Call
“We want to see if we can bring that war to an end,” President Trump said on Sunday.
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on March 2025
Alone at Sea for 95 Days, a Peruvian Fisherman Clung to Hope
Peruvian fisherman Maximo Napa spent 95 days lost in the Pacific Ocean before being rescued by an Ecuadorian fishing patrol.
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on March 2025
Trump’s Tariff Policies Jolt Auto Industry Executives
For corporate America, the shock of President Trump’s second term is that it turns out he really does believe that foreign countries are ripping America off and that tariffs are a silver bullet.
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on March 2025
Émilie Dequenne, Belgian Actress Who Starred in ‘Rosetta,’ Dies at 43
Émilie Dequenne at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes in 2023. She won best actress at Cannes when she was 17.
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on March 2025
Trump Lawyer Refuses to Answer Judge’s Questions in Deportation Flight Hearing
Judge James E. Boasberg directed a Justice Department lawyer to inform him by noon on Tuesday exactly what time the government believes his order stopping the deportation flights went into effect.
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on March 2025
Rwanda Cuts Ties With Belgium Over Congo Conflict and E.U. Sanctions
M23 fighters with captured Congolese troops on trucks in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, in January.
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on March 2025
A Special St. Patrick’s Day Guest: the Head of King George V
The Northern Irish rap trio Kneecap brought what appeared to be the severed head of a statue of King George V onstage at a show in Melbourne, Australia.
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on March 2025
In North Macedonia, Officials Investigate Lapses in Deadly Nightclub Fire
Relatives of the victims of the deadly fire waiting for news at a hospital in Kocani, North Macedonia, on Sunday.
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Telegram’s Pavel Durov, Charged With Range of Crimes, Is Allowed to Leave France
Pavel Durov, the chief executive and co-founder of the Telegram messaging app, arriving at a courthouse in Paris for a hearing in December.
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on March 2025
Netanyahu’s Move to Fire Shin Bet Chief Reflects Wider Push for Control
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to remove Israel’s domestic intelligence is raising concerns about whether he was seeking to undermine the agency’s independence.
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on March 2025
Trump’s Plan to Discuss Ukraine’s Power Plants With Putin Prompts Questions
A photo released by Russian state media shows President Vladimir V. Putin on a video call outside of Moscow last week.
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on March 2025
Want Cheap Power, Fast? Solar and Wind Firms Have a Suggestion.
Wind and solar companies are casting their industries as essential to achieving U.S. energy abundance, betting that argument will do better with a president who dismisses global warming.
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on March 2025
Monday Briefing
El Salvador’s government released this photo of Venezuelan deportees from the United States being taken to a prison in the municipality of Tecoluca.
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on March 2025
Families of Jeju Air Plane Crash Victims Press for Answers
Some relatives of those killed in the Jeju Air crash have been staying at Muan International Airport, sleeping in tents that were set up for them soon after the Dec. 29 crash.
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on March 2025
Venezuelan Families Fear for Relatives as Trump Celebrates Deportations to El Salvador
The government of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president, has denounced the United States’ deportation of 238 Venezuelans accused of gang membership to El Salvador.
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on March 2025
Netanyahu Moves to Fire Israel’s Domestic Intelligence Chief
Ronen Bar, the Shin Bet director, at a memorial in Jerusalem in October.
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on March 2025
Monday Briefing: U.S. Deports Hundreds in Face of a Court Order
President Nayib Bukele, left, of El Salvador hosted Secretary of State Marco Rubio last month.
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on March 2025
How Ukraine’s Offensive in Russia’s Kursk Region Unraveled
A Russian soldier in the Kursk region in December.
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on March 2025
Vatican Releases First Photo of Pope Francis Since He Was Hospitalized
In this picture released by the Vatican Press Office, Pope Francis sits inside his chapel at the Gemelli hospital in Rome on Sunday, where he celebrated Mass with other priests.
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on March 2025
Ukraine Retreats From Most of Russia’s Kursk Region
Ukrainian military vehicles in the Sumy region near the border with Russia’s Kursk region in January.
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on March 2025
Houthis Vow Retaliation After U.S. Strikes in Yemen
A damaged building in Saada, Yemen, on Sunday after U.S. strikes.
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on March 2025
How Trump’s Crackdown Is Drastically Driving Down Migration
A U.S. Army soldier near the border before a visit by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the White House’s border czar, Tom Homan, in Sunland Park, N.M., last month.
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on March 2025
It Fought to Save the Whales. Can Greenpeace Save Itself?
A crew member of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in 2002.
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on March 2025
Israel’s Newest Army Recruits: the Ultra-Orthodox
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews were once exempt from military service — but now they are being drafted.
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on March 2025
Takeaways From Our Investigation Into Domestic Worker Abuse in Saudi Arabia
From left: Mary Nsiimenta says her boss locked her on a rooftop; Winfridah Kwamboka never made it back home; Faridah Nassanga says she was raped.
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on March 2025
The 95-Year-Old Japanese Man Who Is the World’s Oldest Speedskater
Mr. Marumo standing by the rink at Chino International Sports Park Skating Center in Nagano, Japan.
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on March 2025
What Is Tren de Aragua?
Firearms recovered from an operation against Tren de Aragua were on display during a news conference by the Queens district attorney in January.
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on March 2025
Protest Against Serbian Leader Draws Over 100,000 in Biggest Crowd Yet
Protesters in Belgrade burned flares as thousands of people from all over Serbia took part in the largest protest to date against the country’s president, Aleksandar Vucic, on Saturday.
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on March 2025