A Far-Right Government in Austria Would Be a Jolt, but Not Unexpected
Herbert Kickl, the leader of the far-right Freedom Party, after speaking with reporters on Tuesday in Vienna.
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on January 2025
In Tibet, Earthquake Survivors Face Freezing Weather Conditions
Rescue workers conducting search and rescue for survivors in the aftermath of an earthquake in Changsuo Township of Dingri County in Tibet on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
With Stakes High, Lebanese Lawmakers to Try Again to Choose a President
The empty presidential chair of Lebanon after Michel Aoun’s six-year term in the office ended, at the presidential palace in Baabda in 2022.
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on January 2025
Italy Says Cecilia Sala, Journalist Detained by Iran, Has Been Released
The Italian journalist Cecilia Sala in 2023. Iran said she had been arrested on charges of violating the laws of the Islamic Republic, but did not provide additional details.
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on January 2025
Ukraine Strikes Oil Depot Near Russian Air Base, Ukrainian Military Says
A satellite image released by Maxar Technologies in December 2022 showing the Engels air base in Russia.
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on January 2025
Trump’s Threat to Take Over Greenland Bewilders the Island’s Population
A view of Ilulissat, Greenland. It is the world’s largest island with growing strategic value.
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on January 2025
Why Does Trump Want the Panama Canal? Here’s What to Know
President-elect Donald J. Trump has said Panama charges U.S. vessels “exorbitant prices” to travel the Panama Canal.
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on January 2025
Justin Trudeau’s Political Career in Photos
Justin Trudeau burst onto the international scene in 2015, a newly elected leader of Canada who was born while his father was in his first of four terms in office.
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on January 2025
How Bodyguards Are Keeping South Korea’s President Yoon From Detention
Security personnel at the Seoul residence of Yoon Suk Yeol, the suspended president of South Korea. Mr. Yoon was impeached after a short-lived martial law declaration last month.
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on January 2025
Former Cambodian Opposition Member Lim Kimya Killed in Bangkok
Lim Kimya was shot on a busy street in Bangkok on Tuesday, in what appeared to be a planned killing.
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on January 2025
France Far-Right Party Embraces Jean-Marie Le Pen as a Visionary
Jean-Marie Le Pen speaking at a National Front congress in 2014. His daughter ousted him the following year, and the party was renamed the National Rally in 2018.
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on January 2025
Gazans React to Trump’s Comments About Hostages
Inspecting the damage in a building in Deir al Balah, Gaza, on Wednesday after an Israeli airstrike.
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on January 2025
U.S. Says Sudan’s R.S.F. Committed Genocide and Sanctions Its Leader
Sudanese refugees from the Darfur region jostled in line to receive food during an impromptu aid distribution on the outskirts of Adré refugee camp, in Chad, in July.
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on January 2025
As Elon Musk Embraces the Far Right, Some of Its Leaders Reject Him
Laura Loomer, a far-right activist, has raised alarms about Elon Musk’s influence on President-elect Donald J. Trump.
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on January 2025
Wednesday Briefing
Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta.
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on January 2025
Panama Unsettled by Trump Threat to Seize Canal
President-elect Donald J. Trump speaking to reporters at his resort on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
U.S. Presses for Release of Americans Held in Afghanistan
Taliban flags in Kabul, the Afghan capital. The Taliban have acknowledged holding two Americans but have refused to say whether they are holding a third whose return the U.S. government is also seeking.
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on January 2025
Disaster by the Numbers: The Crisis in Sudan
The battle-scarred streets of Omdurman, part of the Khartoum metropolis, in April.
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on January 2025
Trump Warns ‘All Hell Will Break Out’ if Hostages in Gaza Are Not Freed
President-elect Donald J. Trump declined to provide details about what he or his advisers are doing to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza.
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on January 2025
Denmark Updates Coat of Arms Amid Trump Push to Buy Greenland
As President-elect Donald J. Trump continued to stress his desire for the United States to purchase Greenland, Donald Trump Jr. flew into the territory for a visit on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
In Israeli Video, Detainee Says Hamas Operates Out of Gaza Hospital
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza who is now in Israeli detention, supervising the treatment of a Palestinian injured in an Israeli strike in November.
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on January 2025
Venezuela’s Opposition Candidate Says His Son-In-Law Was Kidnapped
Edmundo González, widely recognized as the winner of Venezuela’s tainted presidential election, met with President Biden at the White House on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
Ireland Joins South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel
In Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
Mexico-U.S. Migration: What to Know
Migrants resting last month in Mapastepec, in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
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on January 2025
Trump Raises Using Military or Economic Force to Take Greenland and the Panama Canal
President-elect Donald J. Trump entering a room at Mar-a-Lago, his private Florida club, before speaking to reporters on Tuesday.
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on January 2025
What Is the U.K. ‘Grooming Gang’ Scandal Seized On by Elon Musk?
Elon Musk in Washington, last month. He has falsely accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other lawmakers of enabling Britain’s so-called grooming gangs.
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on January 2025
Syria’s Main Airport Handles First International Flights Since Fall of Assad Regime
A Syrian Air plane at Damascus International Airport on Tuesday, as international flights resumed.
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on January 2025
Jean-Marie Le Pen, Rabble-Rousing Leader of French Far Right, Dies at 96
Jean-Marie Le Pen, foreground, at a rally in Paris in 1984.
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on January 2025
Justin Trudeau’s Trying to Save His Party. Is He Hurting Canada?
Justin Trudeau will remain as Canada’s prime minister and the Liberal Party’s leader until his party chooses a successor, which will take weeks.
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on January 2025
For Many Returning Russian Veterans, a Long Road of Recovery Awaits
Aleksandr, left, who lost his leg to a mine in Ukraine, had his prothesis adjusted by Yuri A. Pogorelov at Rus’ Sanatorium outside Moscow, in November.
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on January 2025
Thandiswa Mazwai Is the Voice of South Africa’s First Post-Apartheid Generation
Thandiswa Mazwai performing in Midrand, South Africa, in September. Ms. Mazwai has used her mezzo-soprano voice to amplify South Africa’s struggles.
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on January 2025
Panama Canal’s Expansion Opened Routes for Fish to Relocate
Scientists with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute on Lake Gatún in Panama during nighttime field work.
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on January 2025
Taiwan Suspects a Chinese-Linked Ship of Damaging an Internet Cable
Taiwanese authorities are investigating a Chinese-owned cargo ship suspected of damaging an undersea internet cable northeast of the island, Taiwan’s coast guard said on Monday.
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on January 2025
Tuesday Briefing
Justin Trudeau announcing his resignation.
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on January 2025
American Driver Is Fatally Shot by Police Officer in Mexico
The U.S.-Mexican border as seen from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
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on January 2025
U.S. Envoy Says Israel Will Withdraw From Southern Lebanon
Lisa Johnson, the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, sits beside the U.S. special envoy, Amos Hochstein, as they talk with Najib Mikati, Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, in Beirut on Monday.
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on January 2025
U.S. Sends 11 Guantánamo Prisoners to Oman to Start New Lives
A prisoner at Guantánamo Bay’s Camp 6 detention center in 2019. There are now 15 men left in the prison.
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on January 2025
Justin Trudeau to Resign as Canada’s Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau outside his Ottawa residence on Monday, after announcing that he would resign as Canada’s prime minister and the Liberal Party’s leader.
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on January 2025
Syria’s New Rebel Government Orders Changes to School Curriculum, Worrying Some Syrians
Syrians protesting changes to the public school curriculum outside the Ministry of Education in Damascus on Sunday.
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on January 2025
Elon Musk and His Megaphone, X, Rattle British Politics
Elon Musk’s posts have thoroughly hijacked the political debate in Britain at the start of 2025.
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on January 2025
A Timeline of Justin Trudeau’s Rise and Fall
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing on Monday his plans to step down.
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on January 2025
Azerbaijani Anger Over Plane Crash Grows, in Deepening Schism With Russia
The crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Dec. 25.
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on January 2025
‘Forever Chemicals’ Reach Tap Water via Treated Sewage, Study Finds
A wastewater treatment plant in Maine. PFAS chemicals have been linked to cancer.
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on January 2025
Lead Poisoning May Have Made Ancient Romans a Bit Less Intelligent
A silver coin with an image of Augustus. His reign as emperor, from 27 B.C. until A.D. 14, initiated the Pax Romana, a period of stability and prosperity.
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on January 2025
Recognized by U.S. as Venezuela’s President-Elect, Edmundo González Meets With Biden
The Venezuelan opposition figure Edmundo González at his home in Caracas before the election last year.
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on January 2025
Pope Appoints Nun to Lead Vatican Department
An image taken from video and released last year by Consolata Missionaries shows Sister Simona Brambilla, 59, who on Monday became the first woman named by Pope Francis to lead a major Vatican department.
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on January 2025
Austria Could Get a Far-Right Chancellor. Here’s What to Know.
Herbert Kickl, leader of Austria’s Freedom Party, leaving the presidential office in Vienna on Monday. He was tasked with trying to form a governing coalition.
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on January 2025
Sugary Drinks Linked to Global Rise in Diabetes, Heart Disease
A supermarket in Bogotá, Colombia. A disproportionate share of the cases of Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease was concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
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on January 2025
Hamas Approves List of Hostages It May Free Under a Cease-Fire Deal With Israel
A rally calling for the release of hostages on Saturday in Tel Aviv.
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on January 2025
Russia Claims to Seize Key Eastern Ukraine Town of Kurakhove
A Ukrainian armored vehicle driving in Kurakhove, in the east of the country, in September.
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on January 2025
U.K.’s Starmer Slams ‘Lies and Misinformation’ After Elon Musk Attacks
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, center rear, on a visit to Epsom Hospital, south of London, on Monday, where he addressed Elon Musk’s social media posts about his government.
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on January 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Meta Set to End Fact-Checking
Short of Heat and Power, the Breakaway Region of Transnistria Struggles Without Russian Gas
At a Beloved Lebanese Market, the ‘Destruction Is Painful’
7.1-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes China’s Tibet Region Near Nepal Border
Tuesday Briefing: Canada’s Prime Minister Is Stepping Down
Who Could Replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s Prime Minister?
In Africa, Danger Slithers Through Homes and Fields