Lebanon’s Government, Crippled by Years of Crises, Is Ill-Prepared for Escalation
The aftermath of an Israeli strike in Hilaniyeh, Lebanon, last week, part of a bombing campaign that some experts have called one of the most intense in contemporary warfare.
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Assange, in First Speech Since Release, Says He Was Jailed for Journalism
Julian Assange with his wife, Stella Assange, were in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday.
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Mexico’s First Female President, Claudia Sheinbaum, Takes Office
“For the first time, we women have arrived to lead the destinies of our beautiful nation,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her inauguration ceremony on Tuesday in Mexico City.
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A New Fine-Dining Restaurant in London, Staffed by Ex-Homeless People
The evening service. Mr. Simmonds revised the menu before opening to ensure dishes could be successfully executed by inexperienced workers.
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In Ukraine, a Long Battle for Vuhledar Nears a Sudden End
Members of the White Angels evacuation team, a special unit of Ukraine’s National Police, carrying a woman who has suffered a stroke, in the village of Zoriane, Ukraine, on Thursday.
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Can Rugby League and Drag Queens Coexist? A U.K. Mill Town Finds Out.
Keighley Cougars, the pride of their northern English town.
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France’s Prime Minister Urges a Divided Parliament to Give Him a Chance
Prime Minister Michel Barnier delivered his general policy speech to lawmakers in Paris on Tuesday.
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Cambodia Arrests Mech Dara, Journalist Who Exposed Scam Centers
Mech Dara, who has exposed human trafficking in online scam centers, in Siem Reap, Cambodia, in 2021.
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School Bus Fire in Thailand Kills at Least 23 People
Firefighters hosing a burnt-out bus that caught fire while carrying teachers and students on the outskirts of Bangkok on Tuesday.
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Germany Accuses Woman of Spying for China on Arms Exports
The Chinese Embassy in Berlin in April. Concerns have grown in Germany about intelligence gathering by China, Germany’s largest trade partner.
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3 Children Injured, One Seriously, in Zurich Stabbing Attack
A man attacked several children in Zurich on Tuesday.
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Pope Francis Gets a Fraught Reception in Belgium
Pope Francis after meeting with students in Belgium on Saturday.
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Humberto Ortega, Former Military Chief in Nicaragua, Dies at 77
Humberto Ortega, the former head of Nicaragua’s armed forces, during a news conference in Managua in 2000.
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Song Binbin, Poster Woman for Mao’s Bloody Revolution, Dies at 77
As a student leader of the militant Red Guards, Song Binbin was selected to pin an armband around the sleeve of Mao Zedong in a ceremony in 1966 in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
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Israel Weighs Retaliation After Iranian Missile Attack
Israeli tanks near the border with Lebanon on Tuesday.
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Biden Says U.S. Warships Helped Israel Intercept Iran’s Missiles
Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national security adviser, briefing reporters at the White House on Tuesday on the Iranian missile attacks on Israel.
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Wednesday Briefing: Iran Launched Ballistic Missiles at Israel
People took cover yesterday as a siren warned of incoming missiles near Kfar Saba, Israel.
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Why Did Iran Strike Israel?
Iranians in Tehran cheering the strike on Israel.
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What Are Ballistic Missiles?
An Iranian ballistic missile was carried past a portrait of Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s Quds force, during a military parade last week.
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Israel Has Destroyed Half of Hezbollah’s Arsenal, U.S. and Israeli Officials Say
Israel’s recent airstrikes in Lebanon dealt a blow to Hezbollah, but the group’s arsenal is still formidable.
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As Iran Launches a Missile Attack, Israel’s Next Move May Determine Course of War
In April, the United States, Israel, Jordan and others intercepted almost all of the hundreds of missiles and drones in a barrage that Iran fired toward Israel. Israel responded without escalating the conflict.
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Tel Aviv Shooting Leaves Six Dead and Several Injured
Israeli police officers keep watch near a cordon at the site of a shooting incident in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
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Israel Has Invaded Lebanon Three Times Before. Here’s a Closer Look.
Destruction in southern Beirut during the most recent Israel-Hezbollah war, in 2006.
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U.S. Raises New Concerns Over Chinese Lending Practices
A senior Treasury official raised concerns about China’s practice of making certain types of emergency loans to debt-ridden countries.
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Why Did Israel Launch a Ground Invasion Into Lebanon?
A U.N. peacekeeper in the southern Lebanese village of Yarine in July.
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Tuesday Briefing: Israel Sends Troops Into Lebanon
Israeli artillery shells hit in southern Lebanon yesterday.
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Israel Sends Troops Into Southern Lebanon
An Israeli mobile artillery unit firing a shell from northern Israel toward Lebanon from a position near the border on Monday.
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Israeli Military Begins Ground Invasion of Southern Lebanon
Residents in central Beirut, Lebanon, cleaning up on Monday after an overnight bombing by Israeli forces. It was believed to have been the first Israeli strike in central Beirut since at least 2006.
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Pentagon Sends Additional Troops to the Middle East
A convoy of U.S. military vehicles driving in Erbil, in northern Iraq, this month. The 40,000 American troops already in the Middle East are stationed on bases in Iraq and Syria, among other countries.
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Tuesday Briefing: Israel Conducts Raids in Lebanon
An Israeli tank in a staging area in northern Israel on Sunday.
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What Is the Axis of Resistance? the Iran-Backed Militia Network
A billboard of the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Tehran, Iran’s capital, on Sunday after he was killed in Lebanon in an airstrike last week.
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Why Helene Was So Destructive in Florida, the Carolinas and Appalachia
Damage to Highway 64 near Bat Cave, N.C., on Monday.
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Russia to Boost Defense Budget as Ukraine War Drags On
Preparing for a military parade in Moscow last year. The Kremlin plans to boost military spending by 25 percent in 2025.
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Dozens Feared Dead After Migrant Boat Sinks Off Canary Islands
Rescuers helping some of the 27 people rescued at the port of La Restinga on the island of El Hierro, Spain, on Monday.
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U.S. and Allies Sound Alarm Over Their Adversaries’ Military Ties
In speeches and closed-door talks, most recently at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, U.S. officials have been sounding the alarm on the coalition of powers working to strengthen one another’s militaries to defeat America’s partners.
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Saudi Arabia Pledges to Send Financial Aid to Palestine
Palestinians lining up this summer at A.T.M.s in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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Britain Shuts Down Last Coal Plant, ‘Turning Its Back on Coal Forever’
The 2,000-megawatt Ratcliffe-on-Soar power plant in England will close Monday.
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U.S. Officials Believe Israel Will Not Conduct Full Invasion of Lebanon
An Israeli military vehicle in northern Israel on Tuesday. Israeli special operations forces have been conducting raids into southern Lebanon.
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Around the World, Diplomats Gird for a Trump Assault on Climate Action
Donald J. Trump addressing the 74th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in 2019.
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Israeli Strike Inside Beirut City Limits Puts Residents on Edge
An apartment block damaged by a blast on Monday in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Zelensky Returns to Russian Strikes in Eastern Ukraine and Counterattacks in Kursk Region
Damage in Kurakhove, in eastern Ukraine. Moscow’s troops have been trying to encircle the town.
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Marine Le Pen’s Party Goes on Trial in France on Embezzlement Charges
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen speaking to journalists during the French parliamentary elections in Paris in July.
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Hezbollah Deputy Commander Says Group Is Ready For Possible Ground Incursion
Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Qassem, speaks on video from an unknown location, days after the Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
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Israeli Commandos Making Raids Into Lebanon, Officials Say
An Israeli tank in a staging area in northern Israel, on Sunday.
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As Israel Strikes Hezbollah, Iran-Backed Militias Fail to Provide Aid
After the killing of the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Tehran has put his image on billboards. But it has not retaliated directly.
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Senior Officer Gets 3 Years Over South Korea Crowd Crush
Lee Im-jae was the chief of police in Yongsan District, the area in central Seoul where the disaster happened.
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Dockworkers Strike at U.S. Ports Could Begin Tuesday
The longshoremen’s union has not held a strike at all the East and Gulf Coast ports since 1977.
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As Mexico’s President Steps Down, Some Laud His Legacy, but Others Fear It
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico and his wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, during Independence Day celebrations in Mexico City this month.
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Separated by the Ukraine War, Two Soul Mates Reconnect
Polina Muzhychkova, left, and Sofia Malina in Odesa, Ukraine, in July.
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Monday Briefing: The Aftermath of Nasrallah’s Death
Supporters attending the funeral of Hezbollah fighters in the southern suburbs of Beirut last week.
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Crisis at The Jewish Chronicle: Fabrications and Resignations
The Jewish Chronicle, a weekly founded in 1841, bills itself as the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper.
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Israel Targets Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and Hamas in Gaza
Israeli military forces in northern Israel, near Kiryat Shmona, on Sunday.
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Austria’s Far Right Wins Election but May Fall Short of Forming a Government
Herbert Kickl, center left, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria, on Sunday in Vienna, where he said he has a clear mandate to form a government.
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Live Updates: Iran Launches About 180 Ballistic Missiles at Israel
Map: Israel’s Ground Invasion of Southern Lebanon
Typhoon Krathon Nears Taiwan After Lashing the Philippines
Israel’s Attack in Central Beirut Was Its First There in Years
A Blast in Central Beirut Damages a Building