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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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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Children Try to Cheer Pope Francis During His Hospital Stay
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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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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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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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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Haiti’s Biggest Hospital, Dependent on U.S.A.I.D., Is Set on Fire by Gangs
A woman sleeping inside the State University Hospital of Haiti last year. The United States has invested tens of millions of dollars to build a new wing.
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As Trump Stirs Doubt, Europeans Debate Their Own Nuclear Deterrent
Submarines docked at His Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde in Faslane, Scotland, this month. The base hosts Britain’s nuclear submarines, which are armed with Trident missiles and serve as the country’s nuclear deterrent.
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Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale
White South Africans rallying in support of President Trump outside the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, last month.
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‘On the Tightrope’: Britain Tries to Bridge a Widening Trans-Atlantic Gap
Prime Minister Keir Starmer with Volodymyr Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron, the presidents of Ukraine and France. Mr. Starmer’s diplomacy revives a role that Britain routinely played before Brexit.
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Trump Tariffs Leave No Country Room for Exemptions, U.S. Tells Canada
Canadian Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, center, Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, and Canada’s ambassador to the United States, Kirsten Hillman, met on Thursday with top Trump administration officials to discuss trade and tariffs.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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How Ukraine’s Offensive in Russia’s Kursk Region Unraveled
A Russian soldier in the Kursk region in December.
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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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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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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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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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Israel Keeps Up Attacks in Gaza Despite Truce
Mourners weep next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza on Saturday.
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Zelensky Accuses Russia of Trying to Trap Ukraine’s Forces Amid Cease-Fire Talks
Ukrainian soldiers repairing a vehicle near the border with Russia’s Kursk region in January.
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U.S. Puts Sanctions on Thai Officials for Sending Uyghurs to China
An immigration detention center in Bangkok in February. Thailand deported 40 Uyghur asylum seekers back to China last month.
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Social Distance
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A Hectic Week in Canadian Politics and Trade, With More Action on the Way
Prime Minister Mark Carney at Rideau Hall after his swearing-in on Friday.
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In Mexico, a Grisly Discovery of Piles of Shoes, Ovens and Human Remains
An abandoned ranch outside of Guadalajara in western Mexico, where cremation ovens and human remains were found by a local volunteer group last week.
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G7 Foreign Ministers Agree on Ukraine Policy Amid Tensions Over Trump Tariffs
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaking with reporters after the G7 foreign ministers meeting on Friday in La Malbaie, Quebec.
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Trump Foreign Aid Cuts Threaten Refugees’ Survival: ‘People Will Die’
In a sprawling Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, aid cuts could mean starvation, officials say. Thousands of people there took part in a fast-breaking meal in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Friday.
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Senior Islamic State Leader Killed in Joint Iraqi-U.S. Operation, Iraq Says
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, seen here at the Camp Taji military base in Iraq in January, called the Islamic State leader who was killed “one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world.”
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What Syria’s New Temporary Constitution Says
Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, signed a temporary constitution on Thursday at the presidential palace in Damascus.
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Mark Carney Becomes Canada’s Prime Minister at Crucial Moment
Mary Simon, the governor general of Canada who represents King Charles III as official head of state, with Mark Carney after he was sworn in on Friday as prime minister.
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Russian Mercenary Found Guilty of War Crimes in Ukraine by Finland Court
Voislav Torden, center, a Russian citizen charged with committing war crimes in Ukraine, in Helsinki District Court in 2023.
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Duterte Appears in Court in The Hague via Video After Arrest
Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, appeared on a screen on Friday in the courtroom during his first appearance before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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Germans Reach Deal to Spend Big on Defense, Climate and More
Friedrich Merz, right, the likely next chancellor of Germany, announcing the deal he had reached with the Green Party to revamp spending limits.
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The People Whose Children Were Killed in Duterte’s Drug War
Protesters demanding justice for drug war victims, after the arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, in Quezon City, on Tuesday.
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Hamas Says It’s Willing to Release U.S.-Israeli Hostage Edan Alexander
Yael Alexander holding a poster of her son, Edan, at a rally in Tel Aviv last month.
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China Backs Iran in Nuclear Talks, Slams ‘Threat of Force’ From the West
China hosted talks in Beijing on Friday with the deputy foreign ministers of Russia and Iran to discuss Iran’s nuclear program. China said sanctions on Iran should be lifted.
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U.S. and Russia Had ‘Productive’ Discussions About Ukraine Cease-Fire, Trump Says
At a news conference on Thursday, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said that he was open to the U.S.-backed cease-fire proposal but suggested that he would seek to negotiate over a slew of issues.
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Challenged by Trump, Trudeau Rallies Canada as He Leaves Office
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking to fellow Liberal Party members on Sunday. Mr. Trudeau has spent his last weeks in power challenging President Trump on tariffs and sovereignty.
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Catholics Around the Globe Heed Francis’ Call to ‘Pray for Me’
Nuns praying for Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square in February.
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How Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum Won Trump’s Praise
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico in the National Palace last month.
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A Mathematical ‘Fever Dream’ Hits the Road
Ingrid Daubechies, a mathematician at Duke University and one of the creators of “Mathemalchemy,” at the National Museum of Mathematics in New York last year.
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Friday Briefing
Ukrainian special forces troops preparing for an assault in the Donetsk region last month.
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Outrage in Australia After American Woman Grabs a Baby Wombat
The Wombat Protection Society of Australia said that human interaction could cause “severe stress” to the marsupials.
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In Japan, a Journalist Takes a Stand by Striking Out on His Own
Makoto Watanabe, the co-founder and editor in chief of the Tokyo Investigative Newsroom Tansa, a small, nonprofit media operation.
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Putin, in No Hurry for 30-Day Truce, Seeks Ukrainian Concessions
Ukrainian special forces preparing for an assault on Russian soldiers advancing toward the Dnipro region of eastern Ukraine last month.
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German Tourists Detained for Weeks, Then Deported From U.S.
Two German tourists were detained at the busy San Ysidro border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana.
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Friday Briefing: Putin Speaks on Ukraine Cease-Fire
President Vladimir Putin of Russia, right, yesterday.
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Trump Sees ‘Good Signals’ on Russia-Ukraine Cease-Fire. Zelensky Does Not.
President Trump met with Mark Rutte, NATO’s Secretary General, at the White House on Thursday.
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Bread Lines and Salty Drinking Water: Israeli Aid Block Sets Gaza Back Again
Slowly, Ukrainian Women Are Beginning to Talk About Sexual Assault in the War
Takeaways From The Times Interview With Chuck Schumer About the Federal Spending Bill
East African Housekeepers Face Rape, Assault and Death in Saudi Arabia
Nightclub Fire Kills at Least 59 in North Macedonia
Syrian Druse Pilgrims Pay Rare Visit to Israel