Myanmar’s Rebels See Possibility of Victory
Resistance soldiers riding in the back of a pickup truck in southern Karenni State, in Myanmar, in January.
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Why the War in Myanmar Matters
Fighters from the Karen ethnic group patrol next to an area destroyed by Myanmar’s airstrike in Myawaddy, on the Thai border this month. In recent weeks, Karen fighters captured a trading town.
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on April 2024
Do Tanks Have a Place in 21st-Century Warfare?
Abrams tanks, like this one at a training ground in Poland in 2022, have looked vulnerable on the drone-heavy battlefields of Ukraine.
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on April 2024
Top Chinese Swimmers Tested Positive for Banned Drug, Then Won Olympic Gold
Zhang Yufei, center, was one of 23 top Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug months before the Tokyo Olympic Games.
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on April 2024
The Crookie Delights Paris
The crookie joins a long list of popular fusion bakes, including the brookie, the cronut and the cruffin.
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on April 2024
Israel Strikes an Iranian Military Base, but Damage Appears Limited
Iranians at an anti-Israel rally in Tehran after Friday Prayer. An Israeli strike on Iran appeared limited, and the reaction from both Israel and Iran was muted.
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Israel’s Strike Was Smaller Than Expected, and So Was Iran’s Reaction
A mural of missiles in Tehran celebrating Iran’s attack against Israel on Wednesday.
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on April 2024
U.S. Military to Withdraw Troops From Niger
The flags of the United States and Niger fly side by side at the base camp for military personnel supporting the construction of Niger Air Base 201 in 2018.
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on April 2024
Arrests of Europeans for Aiding Russia Raise Fears of Kremlin’s Reach
Lithuanian police officers near the home of Leonid Volkov, a close associate of Aleksei A. Navalny who was assaulted with a hammer last month in Vilnius.
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Israel’s Strike on Iran: A Limited Attack but a Potentially Big Signal
A woman walks past a mural showing Iranian missiles in Tehran on Friday. Iranian officials downplayed the explosions in Isfahan, even suggesting that Israel may not have been responsible.
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At G7 Meeting in Capri, Blinken Tackles Rough Seas and Global Crises
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, center, and Evan Ryan, his wife, at the Group of 7 meeting on Capri in Italy. The group has grown more active and ambitious in recent years
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Forbidden to Watch Films as a Child, He Now Directs Somalia’s Top Shows
Abshir Rageh, in red shirt and cap, on the set of a TV drama he’s filming in Mogadishu, Somalia.
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on April 2024
House Set to Vote on Foreign Aid Bills for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
House Speaker Mike Johnson has defied the right wing of his party to advance long-stalled legislation on foreign aid.
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on April 2024
Israel Launched Missiles as Well as Drones at Iran, Officials Say
An Israeli air force F-15 warplane landing at an air base in central Israel on Monday.
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on April 2024
Battle of the Beaches: Greece Has New Plan to Keep Its Coasts Pristine
Greece is full of unspoiled beaches, like this one on the small southern island of Elafinissos.
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on April 2024
Scotland Made Big Climate Pledges. Now They’re ‘Out of Reach.’
In 2021, Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, called the country’s climate targets “amongst the toughest” in the world.
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on April 2024
How France Is Fighting ‘Shrinkflation’
At a Carrefour supermarket in Paris, orange signs indicate snacks that have been downsized.
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on April 2024
Ukrainians Wait, Nervously, to See if U.S. Will Provide Critical Aid
Soldiers of Ukraine’s 32nd Mechanized Brigade in the Kharkiv region this month.
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on April 2024
Chinese Export Surge Clouds U.S. Hopes of a Domestic Solar Boom
A surge of cheap solar panels from China is posing problems for American manufacturers and the Biden administration’s plans to jumpstart U.S. manufacturing.
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on April 2024
Why Don’t More People Resent Manchester City?
The five trophies won by Manchester City in 2023. Don’t worry, they have more in the back.
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on April 2024
Iran-Israel Shadow War Timeline: A History of Recent Hostilities
Mourners in Tehran carried the coffin of Brig. Gen. Sayyed Razi Mousavi, a senior adviser to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps who was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria in 2023.
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on April 2024
Drones Believed to Have Been Used in Iran Attack Are a Common Israeli Weapon
This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows damage on the roof of an Iranian military workshop, center, after a drone attack in Isfahan, Iran, on Feb. 2.
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on April 2024
Worried About Trump’s Support for Ukraine, Eastern Europe Tries Outreach
Former President Donald J. Trump at the CPAC Convention in February. European leaders are seeking to plan for a possible second Trump presidency.
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on April 2024
Turkey Earthquake Trial Opens Amid Anger and Tears
A new trial aims to seek accountability for the deadly collapse of Renaissance Residence, near the Turkish city of Antakya, during an earthquake last year.
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on April 2024
What We Know About Israel’s Strike in Iran
A poster depicting missiles in Tehran on Thursday.
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on April 2024
Isfahan Is Home to Iranian Missile and Nuclear Facilities
Visitors at the Si-o-Se Pol bridge in Isfahan last year.
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on April 2024
Why India’s Opposition Can’t Get It Together
An Indian National Congress rally in Mandya, India, on Wednesday. The party governed India for decades, but those days are long gone.
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on April 2024
Reaction to Israel’s Strike in Iran Plays Down Significance
Iranian state media showing what it said was a live picture of Isfahan early on Friday.
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on April 2024
What I Learned From an Act of Violence in Sydney That Hit Too Close to Home
A makeshift memorial to victims of the stabbing attack in a Sydney shopping mall.
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on April 2024
Friday Briefing
Iranian soldiers marched in front of the Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (C) during the annual Army Day celebration on Tuesday.
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on April 2024
Modi’s Power Keeps Growing, and India Looks Sure to Give Him More
To Narendra Modi’s legions of supporters, he is a magnetic figure and a powerful orator, with an image as a tireless, incorruptible worker for India.
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on April 2024
Apple Says It Was Ordered to Pull WhatsApp From China App Store
A recently-opened Apple Store in Shanghai’s Jing’an district in March. Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads, which are owned by Meta, from its app store in China.
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on April 2024
U.S. and Allies Penalize Iran for Striking Israel, and Try to Avert War
Iranian medium-range missiles during the annual Army Day celebration at a military base in Tehran on Wednesday. The United States imposed sanctions on Iranian armed forces and weapon makers.
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on April 2024
U.S. Vetoes Palestinian Bid to Be Full U.N. Member State
The United Nations Security Council met in New York on Thursday to address issues in the Middle East, including the Palestinian bid for statehood.
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on April 2024
Friday Briefing: India’s Election Begins
These Indian polling officials took a boat to a remote polling location.
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on April 2024
C.I.A. Director Blames Hamas for Stalled Cease-Fire Talks
A rally in Jerusalem this month calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas.
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on April 2024
Nicola Sturgeon’s Husband Charged in Embezzlement Case in Scotland
Peter Murrell became the Scottish National Party’s chief executive in 1999 and married Nicola Sturgeon, who went on to become its leader, in 2010.
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on April 2024
U.S. Restarts Deportation Flights to Haiti
Cars burned in gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, last month.
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on April 2024
Dubai’s Extraordinary Flooding: Here’s What to Know
Abandoned vehicles in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Thursday.
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on April 2024
Satellite Data Reveals Sinking Risk for China’s Cities
Sidewalk construction in Tianjin. Last year thousands of residents were evacuated from apartments in the city after nearby streets split apart.
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on April 2024
Land Under B.L.M. Management to Get New Protections
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in 2021. She said the new rule announced on Thursday “helps restore balance to our public lands.”
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on April 2024
Scotland Pauses Gender Medications for Minors
The Sandyford Central Gender Services clinic in Glasgow, Scotland.
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on April 2024
Amsterdam’s Latest Effort to Fight Excessive Tourism: No New Hotels
A hotel in Amsterdam’s red-light district, where the city has tried to limit crowds.
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on April 2024
Chinese Exports Are Threatening Biden’s Industrial Agenda
“I’m not looking for a fight with China,” President Biden said during a visit to the United Steelworkers Union in Pittsburgh on Wednesday. “I’m looking for competition — and fair competition.”
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on April 2024
How Israel’s Conflicts Could Escalate
Iranians on Monday expressing support for their government’s missile and drone attack on Israel over the weekend.
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on April 2024
Prince Harry Now Officially Resident in U.S., Documents Show
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, were in Florida on Friday. The online filing dated his U.S. residency to June 2023.
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on April 2024
Qatar Says It Is Reviewing Its Mediator Role as Israel-Hamas Talks Stall
The Qatari prime minister, right, with the foreign minister of Turkey, at a news conference in Doha, Qatar, this week.
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on April 2024
Millions of Girls in Africa Will Miss HPV Shots After Merck Production Problem
On the way to class in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The delayed vaccines means that girls in countries such as Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso and Mozambique who are now 14 will no longer be eligible for vaccination when these campaigns finally start.
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on April 2024
Croatia’s Election Result Makes a Far-Right Party a Possible Kingmaker
The inconclusive outcome of the parliamentary vote on Wednesday signaled a new era of messy political uncertainty in the Balkan nation
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on April 2024
Germany Arrests 2 Men Suspected of Spying for Russia
Outside a court in Karlsruhe, Germany, on Thursday. Federal prosecutors based in the city said one of the men had considered a U.S. military base as one of several potential targets.
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on April 2024
Rainstorms Kill More Than 130 in Afghanistan and Pakistan
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, the area of Pakistan that appeared to be hardest hit by the rainfall, on Tuesday.
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on April 2024
Drought Pushes Millions Into ‘Acute Hunger’ in Southern Africa
A farmer in Zimbabwe last month. Several countries have declared national emergencies.
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on April 2024
3 Reasons This Country Is a Top ISIS Recruiting Ground
People gathered outside Crocus City Hall outside Moscow after the terrorist attack there last month. Russia charged four migrant laborers from Tajikistan with the assault.
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on April 2024
An ISIS Terror Group Draws Half Its Recruits From Tiny Tajikistan
Muyassar Zargarova, the mother of one of the Tajik suspects in the terrorist attack outside Moscow, said her son had never exhibited signs of extremism.
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on April 2024