Why Russia’s Vast Security Services Fell Short on Deadly Attack
Security forces on the street after Friday’s attack on a concert hall outside Moscow that killed at least 143 people.
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Senegal’s New President Was Unknown, but ‘This Family is Not New to Ruling’
The top opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye flanked by his two wives after voting in the presidential election in the West African nation of Senegal last Sunday, in his hometown, Ndiaganiao. He won resoundingly.
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As Space Threats Mount, U.S. Lags in Protecting GPS Services
In this long exposure, a string of SpaceX Starlink satellites passed over an old stone house in 2021 near Florence, Kan.
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on March 2024
The Japanese Sensei Bringing Baseball to Brazil
Yokihiro Shimura teaching a group of students at one of the few public baseball diamonds in Rio de Janeiro.
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on March 2024
What We Know About Palestinians Detained in Israel
Israeli soldiers with bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees in Gaza on Dec. 8, in a photograph that the Israeli military reviewed as part of the conditions of the photographer’s embed.
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Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza
Displaced Palestinians arriving at a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip this month. Israel has deployed facial recognition technology at checkpoints along roads in Gaza, according to military officials.
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Israeli Hostage Says She Was Sexually Assaulted and Tortured in Gaza
Amit Soussana in Israel in March, after she was released by Hamas.
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on March 2024
Tesla’s Pivot to China Saved Musk. It Also Binds Him to Beijing.
Elon Musk dancing in 2020 as his company, Tesla, unveiled the first cars made at its factory in Shanghai.
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on March 2024
Thailand Lawmakers Pass Bill to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
L.G.B.T.Q. couples took part in a “mock marriage” ceremony on Valentine’s Day in Bangkok.
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on March 2024
Inside the Garrick, the Men-Only London Club Rocked by Criticism
The Garrick Club in London’s theater district counts among its roughly 1,300 members judges, actors, Britain’s deputy prime minister and King Charles III.
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on March 2024
Russian Group Spread Disinformation About Kate Middleton, Experts Say
Conspiracy theories have swarmed around Catherine, Princess of Wales.
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on March 2024
Russia Has No Formal Death Penalty. Some Want to Change That.
Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda, one of the men accused of the attack at a concert hall near Moscow that killed 139 people, in a Moscow courtroom.
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New ‘Serial’ Podcast Explores Life at Guantánamo Bay
The U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, which opened after 9/11, still has 30 detainees.
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on March 2024
Thursday Briefing
A Ukrainian soldier loading a howitzer, near Bakhmut last year.
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Israel and Hezbollah Trade Fire, With Deaths Reported on Both Sides
The aftermath of an Israeli strike on Wednesday in al-Habbariyeh, in southern Lebanon. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said it hit an emergency medical center and killed seven people.
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U.S. Says Israel Seeks to Reschedule Canceled Meeting on Rafah
President Biden, middle, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Tel Aviv in October.
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on March 2024
Thursday Briefing: Russia’s Online Attack on Ukraine Aid
The techniques are subtle and far more skillful than what Russia attempted in 2016.
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on March 2024
Russia Amps Up Online Campaign Against Ukraine Before U.S. Elections
A Ukrainian soldier after loading shells into an American-made Paladin howitzer near Bakhmut last year. Russian operatives are laying the groundwork for what could be a stronger push to support U.S. candidates who oppose aiding Ukraine.
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London Boat Race Marred by High Levels of E. Coli in Thames
The Oxford women’s team during practice on Thursday on the River Thames.
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on March 2024
Majority of Americans Disapprove of Israel’s Actions in Gaza, New Poll Shows
Protesters at the New York Public Library in December called for a cease-fire in Gaza.
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on March 2024
After the U.N. Cease-Fire Resolution, Israeli Strikes on Gaza Haven’t Let Up
Smoke rising above the Gaza Strip, near the border with Israel, on Wednesday.
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on March 2024
It’s a Statue of Prince Philip. Really. But Now It Has to Go.
A statue of (allegedly) Prince Philip in Cambridge, England.
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on March 2024
Security Forces Clash With Pro-Palestinian Protesters in Jordan, Video Shows
Demonstrators protesting in support of Gaza near the Israeli Embassy in Amman, Jordan, early on Wednesday.
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on March 2024
Kremlin Treads Carefully After Moscow Attack Over Fears of Ethnic Strife
Crowds in Moscow, including men wearing traditional Kyrgyz hats, leaving floral tributes at the concert hall that was the site of the attack.
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on March 2024
Life-Saving ECPR v CPR: What to Know
An emergency medical team arriving at the M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center.
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on March 2024
Wednesday Briefing
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on March 2024
How Elon Musk Became ‘Kind of Pro-China’
Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, dancing onstage during a delivery event for Tesla’s China-made Model 3 cars in Shanghai in 2020.
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on March 2024
Happy-Go-Lucky Australia Is Feeling Neither Happy, Nor Lucky
The harbor in Sydney. Millions of Australians are experiencing levels of economic hardship not seen in many decades.
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on March 2024
ISIS Claimed the Moscow Concert Hall Attack. Russian Officials Blame Others.
President Vladimir V. Putin in the Grand Kremlin Palace two days before a terrorist attack on a concert hall in Moscow.
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on March 2024
Wednesday Briefing: U.S.-Israel Divisions Grow
President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Tel Aviv in October.
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on March 2024
Turkey Details Visits by Accused Moscow Attackers to Istanbul
Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, a suspect in the Moscow terrorist attack, in court on Sunday.
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on March 2024
Russia Extends Evan Gershkovich’s Detention for a Fifth Time
Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who has been behind bars in Russia for a year, had his detention extended for a fifth time.
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on March 2024
Venezuelan Opposition Blocked from Election, Dimming Democratic Hopes
Corina Yoris, an opposition candidate, during a news conference in Caracas on Monday announcing that she was unable to register to run for president.
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on March 2024
Gazans Drown Trying to Retrieve Aid From Sea, Authorities Say
Palestinians collecting aid airdropped in northern Gaza on Monday.
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on March 2024
British Conservative Ad About London Crime Used New York Footage
In 2017, Penn Station commuters were captured on video running after hearing what they mistakenly believed to be gunfire. The footage was used in a British Conservative Party ad about crime in London.
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on March 2024
Rocked by Deadly Terror Attack, Kremlin Amps Up Disinformation Machine
A makeshift memorial on Tuesday in front of the burned-out Crocus City Hall, the site of the deadly terrorist attack.
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on March 2024
Bridge Collapses in Baltimore and Guangzhou Raise Questions on Modern Shipping
The site where a container ship hit a bridge in Guangzhou, China, in February.
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on March 2024
Suicide Bomber Kills 5 Chinese Workers in Pakistan
Security personnel inspect the site of a suicide bomber attack in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province on Tuesday.
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on March 2024
Israel Presses On With Strikes in Gaza After U.N. Cease-Fire Resolution
Palestinians at a hospital morgue in Rafah on Tuesday.
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on March 2024
Bolsonaro Faces New Legal Jeopardy After Stay at Hungarian Embassy
Jair Bolsonaro speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland in March 2023.
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on March 2024
Domestic Political Pressures Widen Divide Between Biden and Netanyahu
President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Tel Aviv in October.
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on March 2024
Julian Assange Extradition On Hold Until U.S. Gives More Assurances
Julian Assange’s wife, Stella Assange, speaking outside the High Court in London during a hearing in February.
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on March 2024
Tuesday Briefing
Mourners brought flowers to memorials around Moscow, including Crocus City Hall, the concert venue that was attacked.
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on March 2024
Why Are China’s Nationalists Attacking the Country’s Heroes?
An installation of the Chinese Communist Party flag, at the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing in 2022.
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on March 2024
Julian Assange Extradition Decision: What to Know
Supporters of Julian Assange outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London last month.
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on March 2024
Who Could Sway the Outcome of the U.S. Election? Mexico’s President
A member of Mexico’s National Guard at the border fence in Playas de Tijuana in February. Some Biden Administration officials question whether the Mexican government is doing enough to drive down a surge in illegal crossings.
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on March 2024
Aya Nakamura, French-Malian Singer, Is Caught in Olympic Storm
Aya Nakamura is France’s most popular singer at home and abroad, with 25 top 10 singles in France and over 20 million followers on social media.
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on March 2024
Display of Battered Men Was Russia’s Warning to the Public, Analysts Say
Saidakrami M. Rajabalizoda, a suspect in the Crocus City Hall shooting on Friday, is escorted by police and FSB officers in the Basmanny District Court in Moscow, on Sunday.
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U.N. Security Council Calls for Immediate Cease-Fire in Gaza as U.S. Abstains
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, during the Security Council vote on Monday.
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on March 2024
Tuesday Briefing: U.N. Voted for a Gaza Cease-Fire
Palestinians inspected the damage to a building after a strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza on Monday.
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on March 2024
Israeli Soldier’s Video Undercuts Medic’s Account of Sexual Assault
At least 97 civilians were killed in Be’eri, a small community just east of Gaza that was one of the hardest hit by the Hamas-led attack.
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on March 2024
Netanyahu Cancels U.S.-Israel Meetings on Rafah, to Protest Cease-Fire Resolution
Smoke rising in Rafah, southern Gaza, after a bombardment on Sunday.
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on March 2024
Ukrainians Dismiss Kremlin Suggestions Their Country Was Behind Moscow Attack
Rescue workers sifting through the rubble of a gymnasium in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Monday.
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on March 2024