Kenyan Workers Get Abused Abroad. The President’s Family and Allies Profit.
Women learning domestic worker skills at a training center in Nairobi, Kenya, this year, in preparation to work abroad.
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A Bloody Month in the West Bank Olive Harvest Leads to the Death of a Boy
Relatives of Ayssam Ma’ala, who died after being tear gassed by soldiers, visited his grave in the West Bank town of Beita on Wednesday.
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Zelensky’s Image Is Stained as Corruption Inquiry Shakes His Inner Circle
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has said he supports “every investigation carried out by law enforcement and anticorruption officials.”
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Modi’s Coalition Leads Indian State Election Scrutinized Over Voter Rolls
Supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s National Democratic Alliance on Friday celebrating the early results of vote counts in Bihar State elections in Patna, India.
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A.I. Cheating Rattles Top Universities in South Korea
The entrance of Korea University in Seoul, South Korea, in August.
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Kenya’s Key Export Used to Be Coffee. Now It’s Cheap Labor.
Women train in domestic work at a training center in Nairobi to prepare for jobs overseas.
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Zelensky Ousted a Heavyweight Mayor. Was It a Power Grab?
Gennadiy Trukhanov, the former mayor of Odesa, Ukraine, in his office in the city, in 2022.
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Family of Fisherman Killed in U.S. Military Strike Says It Wants Justice
Fishermen arriving back at the beach at the end of the day in Santa Marta, Colombia.
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How Pakistan’s Spending Blitz Helped Win Over Trump and Flip U.S. Policy
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, left, and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir of Pakistan waiting for a meeting with President Trump at the White House in September.
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How France Remembers the November 2015 Terrorist Attacks in Paris
A gathering around a makeshift memorial at the Place de la Republique in Paris on Thursday.
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Israeli Settlers Burn West Bank Mosque Amid Rise in Violent Attacks
Inspecting damage at a mosque in the village of Deir Istiya in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday.
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Former Prince Andrew and Another Prominent Briton Come Up in the Epstein Emails
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince, left, and Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to Washington, right.
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Russia Pummels Kyiv, Trying to Plunge Ukraine Into Darkness
Firefighters in Kyiv, Ukraine, working at the site of an apartment building hit during an overnight Russian strike of drones and missiles on Friday.
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Indigenous People Take the Stage at COP30 Climate Talks in Belém, Brazil
An Indigenous rights demonstration on Thursday in Belém, Brazil. The snake in the background was a prop with a meaning.
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While Asian Immigrants Work, Burglars Target Their Homes
Law enforcement officials and prosecutors met with Asian residents in October at a public safety forum in Eugene, Ore.
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Trump Administration Revokes Biden Ban on Drilling and Mining in Alaska Wilderness
Caribou near a pipeline on the north slope of Alaska in 2023.
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Justice Dept. Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
The Trump administration has insisted that its boat strikes are lawful, telling Congress in September that Mr. Trump had “determined” that the United States was in a noninternational armed conflict.
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Carney Accelerates Economic Plan for Canada to Rely Less on U.S. Amid Trade War
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada speaking at Parliament last week.
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BBC Apologizes to Trump Over Film Edit but Declines to Pay Compensation
President Trump speaking at a rally in front of the White House on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Of Books and Men
Canadian-born Hungarian-British writer David Szalay during the Booker Prize ceremony in London on Monday.
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U.S. Officials Raise Concerns About Saudi Arabia’s Bid for F-35 Jets
An F-35 fighter jet during a demonstration off the coast of Norfolk, Va., last month.
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The Global Climate Leadership Vacuum
A lobby of the COP30 United Nations climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
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An Ontario Man Took a Bus for a Joyride. Turns Out, He’s Not a Bad Driver.
A bus in Hamilton like the one taken for a joyride this week.
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Ukraine’s Dilemma as Pokrovsk Teeters: Save Lives or Keep Holding On
A Ukrainian artillery crew near Pokrovsk last year.
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In the Faroe Islands’ Soccer Team, the Players Also Have Day Jobs
A football pitch seen over the village of Leirvík.
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What Our Photographer Saw as a Safe City Became a Blood Bath
The aftermath of a Russian strike on a residential area in Pokrovsk in August 2023.
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Juan Ponce Enrile, a Political Power in the Philippines, Dies at 101
In 2012, Mr. Enrile published a memoir in which he recalled his time with the resistance fighting the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II.
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Fake Bomb Threats Baffle the Police Across Asia
Police officers searched Osong Station in Cheongju, South Korea, in 2023, after an email sent to the foreign ministry said high-powered bombs had been planted in bullet train facilities nationwide.
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Man Accused of Running Southeast Asia Scam Compound Is Extradited to China
She Zhijiang being escorted by police in Thailand on Wednesday, before he was extradited to China.
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China’s ‘Wolf Warrior’ Diplomacy Returns With Threat Against Japan’s Leader
Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, and the Chinese leader Xi Jinping met in South Korea last month. Ms. Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan have since prompted a stream of vitriol from China.
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Rubio Shrugs Off Allies’ Concerns Over U.S. Drug Strikes
Marco Rubio, speaking after the G7 foreign ministers meeting, said many of the drug shipments targeted by the U.S. military are bound for Europe “so maybe they should be thanking us.”
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Head for a Record in 2025, Global Carbon Project Reports
A coal-fired power plant in Candiota, in southeastern Brazil.
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Iraq’s Prime Minister Leads in Elections but May Struggle to Form a Government
Supporters of Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani of Iraq celebrated in Baghdad on Wednesday after the announcement of preliminary election results.
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South Asia on Edge
Mourners in New Delhi on Tuesday.
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Gustavo Petro, the Rebel Turned President Willing to Take on Trump
President Gustavo Petro speaking last week in Bogota, Colombia.
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As Belgium Races to Save U.S.A.I.D. Contraception, Some Supplies Are Reported Ruined
The warehouse in Geel, Belgium, where millions of contraceptives bought by U.S.A.I.D. were being stored in July.
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Algeria Pardons Writer Boualem Sansal at Germany’s Request
Boualem Sansal’s case has inflamed tensions between Algeria and France, where he acquired citizenship.
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Labour Party’s Internal Fight Goes Public, as Starmer’s Trouble Grows
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain leaving 10 Downing Street on Wednesday.
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Many Displaced Sudanese Feared Dead After Shipwreck Near Libya
Members of the Libyan Coast Guard in the Mediterranean Sea in August.
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How to Capture the Northern Lights With Just Your Smartphone
Aurora Borealis from the Elburn Forest Preserve in Elburn, Ill., photographed on an iPhone last year.
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Israel Reopens Gaza Aid Route It Had Closed for Months
Palestinians in Gaza City on a truck carrying aid from the Zikim area in August.
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Pakistan’s Army Chief Is Granted Sweeping Authority Over All Military Branches
Syed Asim Munir, 57, has had a meteoric rise through the Pakistani military’s top ranks and was named to the rare post of field marshal this spring after the country’s conflict with India.
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Deadly Blasts in India and Pakistan Set Region on Edge
The blast site near the historic Red Fort in the old part of New Delhi on Monday.
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Blue Diamond Sells for $25.6 Million at Auction in Switzerland
The Mellon Blue at Christie’s in Geneva on Friday.
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Japan’s Prime Minister Faces Backlash Over 3 A.M. Staff Meeting
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan at a budget committee meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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Syria’s Leaders Pledge to Join Fight Against Islamic State
President Ahmed al-Shara of Syria in Washington on Monday after a meeting with President Trump.
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Blood and Tears as Spain’s Troubled Bullfighting Star Hangs Up His Cape
José Antonio Morante Camacho, known as Morante de La Puebla, one of Spain’s greatest bullfighters.
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A Look Into the Early Days of Migrant Detentions at Guantánamo
U.S. forces put up a tent city near the airfield at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, at the beginning of the year to house thousands of migrants who were designated for deportation. None were ever held there.
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The ‘Lost Sisters’ of the Pleiades Fill the Entire Night Sky
A view of the Pleiades star cluster, which is also known as the Seven Sisters.
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Turkish Military Plane Crashes in Georgia, Killing 20 Troops
Wreckage at the site where a Turkish military cargo plane crashed on Tuesday, along the border between Azerbaijan and Georgia.
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Xi’s Military Purges Show Unease About China’s Nuclear Forces
President Trump and Melania Trump, the first lady, observing a demonstration of naval sea power this month. Mr. Trump has stood by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as he has fired more than a dozen military leaders, many of them people of color and women.
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He Helped Cities Anticipate Damage From Storms
How a New Bridge Partly Collapsed in China’s Southwest