Marxist Leads Presidential Vote as Sri Lanka Rejects the Old Order
Anura Kumara Dissanayake, center, leaving a polling station after casting his vote in the presidential election in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Saturday.
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on September 2024
Brandenburg State Elections: What to Watch For
Dietmar Woidke, the governor of the eastern German state of Brandenburg, is one of the most popular members of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party, but they have been facing headwinds.
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on September 2024
A French Fair as Workers’ Paradise, Feting Cuisine, Music and Communism
The Fête de l’Humanité, a popular festival on the outskirts of Paris, celebrates left-wing politics in general, and French Communism in particular.
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on September 2024
Live Updates: Hezbollah Retaliates With Missile Strikes Against Israel
Firefighters battling a blaze in Kadita, Israel, after rockets were fired from Lebanon, on Saturday.
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on September 2024
Flooding and Landslides in Japan
Residents survey damage after flooding due to heavy rains in Suzu, Ishikawa prefecture, on Saturday.
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on September 2024
Albania Plans to Create a Muslim State in Tirana as Symbol of Tolerance
The compound in Tirana, the Albanian capital, that would become the Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order.
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on September 2024
Elon Musk’s X Backs Down in Brazil
Brazil’s Supreme Court blocked X last month because its owner, Elon Musk, refused to comply with court orders.
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on September 2024
Israel’s Attacks on Hezbollah Alter Balance of Power in a Long-Running Fight
Hezbollah supporters mourning the deaths of two people after a second wave of explosions followed this week’s pager attack.
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on September 2024
Kenya Haiti peacekeeping
President William Ruto of Kenya, center, with police officers from his country in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday.
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on September 2024
Macron Appoints Cabinet as He Seeks to Move France Out of Political Impasse
President Emmanuel Macron of France hopes to move the country past a several-month-long political impasse.
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on September 2024
How the Kremlin Might Get Past RT Bans to Spread Its Message
A control room for the Russian state media broadcaster RT, in Moscow, in 2018.
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on September 2024
Ukraine Strikes Two More Russian Munition Depots
Ukrainian troops during weapons training this month in the eastern Donetsk region.
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on September 2024
Nigel Farage’s Anti-Immigration Party Has Big Plans. Can It See Them Through?
Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform U.K. party, at its conference in Birmingham, England, on Friday.
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on September 2024
For Americans Haunted by Beirut Bombings, a Killing Resurfaces Decades of Pain
The attack on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, killed more than 300 people, mostly service members.
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on September 2024
Israeli Attacks in Lebanon Mark a Sharp Strategic Shift
Rescue workers on Saturday at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon. Hezbollah has been left in deep disarray by attacks in the past week.
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on September 2024
A Week of Chaos Pushes Lebanon’s Doctors to the Limit
“I am hoping that it was all just a bad dream,” Dr. Dania El-Hallak said.
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on September 2024
U.S. Soldier Pleads Guilty to Desertion After Fleeing Into North Korea
U.S. Army Pvt. Travis King shown during a news broadcast in Seoul in 2023.
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on September 2024
Israeli Strike on Former School Kills 22, Gazan Health Officials Say
Gaza’s rescue services said the Saturday strike on Gaza’s Zeitoun School killed mostly women and children.
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on September 2024
Who Was Ahmed Wahbi, One of the Hezbollah Commanders Killed by an Israeli Airstrike?
Fighters wearing the insignia of the Hezbollah’s Radwan force during a training exercise in southern Lebanon in May 2023.
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on September 2024
For Families of Those Missing After Israeli Strike in Beirut, an Agonizing Wait
Rescue workers on Saturday at a suburban Beirut residential building that was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier.
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on September 2024
Shoulder Season
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on September 2024
Canadian Doctors Group Apologizes for Health Harms to Indigenous People
The former home of Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman who was mocked and neglected by staff members in a Quebec hospital while she died.
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on September 2024
Car Parts, Fiberglass and a Dream: How a Teacher Built a Hovercraft
It took Robert Tymofichuk, a teacher and assistant principal, a year to build a working hovercraft out of salvaged parts, including a 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
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on September 2024
How Dangerous Is PFAS in Food?
PFAS-contaminated beef from a farm in Maine.
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on September 2024
Senior Hezbollah Leader Is Killed in Beirut in Israeli Airstrike
People gathering at a residential building in Beirut’s southern suburbs that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on Friday.
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on September 2024
What Is The Radwan Force, the Elite Hezbollah Unit Linked to Ibrahim Aqeel?
Fighters wearing the insignia of Hezbollah’s Radwan force during a training exercise in southern Lebanon in May 2023.
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on September 2024
Remembering Toto Schillaci and a Summer That Changed Soccer
Salvatore Schillaci in 1990, the summer when he burst onto the stage at the World Cup. He died on Wednesday at age 59.
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on September 2024
Israel’s Attacks on Hezbollah Have Intensified but Stop Short of All-Out War
People gathering at the scene of an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday.
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on September 2024
Who Is Ibrahim Aqeel, the Hezbollah Commander Targeted by Israel?
The scene of an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday.
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on September 2024
Harrods Will Be Sued by Mohamed al-Fayed’s Alleged Victims, Lawyers Say
Mohamed al-Fayed in 2008. A BBC documentary this week detailed allegations that Mr. al-Fayed, who died last year, had raped and sexually assaulted multiple female employees.
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on September 2024
After Pager Attack, Israel and Hezbollah Return to Familiar Deadlock
Hezbollah supporters mourning the deaths of two people during a second wave of explosions that struck Lebanon following the pager bomb attack.
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on September 2024
China To ‘Gradually’ Resume Imports of Japanese Seafood
Sorting seafood at a port in the Fukushima prefecture of Japan last September, days after Japan started discharging treated water from the crippled nuclear plant nearby.
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on September 2024
With Focus Shifting to Lebanon, Some in Gaza Fear Cease-Fire Talks Will Be Sidelined
Palestinians walk past rubble in Bureij in central Gaza on Tuesday.
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on September 2024
Three Mile Island Plans to Reopen as Demand for Nuclear Power Grows
The Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Londonderry Township, Pa.
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on September 2024
A North Korean Trash Balloon Hits a Seoul Government Compound, Again
A view from Paju, South Korea, of balloons launched by North Korea earlier this month.
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on September 2024
Biden Will Take Cancer ‘Moonshot’ Global at Summit in Delaware
President Biden in August. He began his cancer initiative in 2016, when he was vice president, after the death of his son Beau from an aggressive brain cancer.
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on September 2024
Lebanese Talk of Revenge for Pager Attacks
Hezbollah supporters on Thursday surrounded the coffins of two people killed during explosions in Lebanon on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
In Australia, an Old-Fashioned Art Is Having a Revival
Australian-themed stained glass windows in Queensland, Australia, in 2018.
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on September 2024
Europe’s New Defense Chief: ‘A King Without a Kingdom’?
Andrius Kubilius, a former prime minister of Lithuania, has been named as the European Union commissioner for defense.
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on September 2024
Israel Strikes Hezbollah as Nasrallah Vows Retribution
Hezbollah supporters in Beirut on Thursday mourned the deaths of two of their members in a second wave of explosions that struck Lebanon.
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on September 2024
Walkie-Talkie and Pager Attacks Against Hezbollah Set Off Legal Debate
Relatives and friends mourning Fatima Abdullah, 9, who was killed by a pager explosion.
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on September 2024
Friday Briefing: Israel Bombards Hezbollah
A Hezbollah supporter at a funeral for four people killed in the pager attacks.
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on September 2024
U.N. Says Israeli War in Gaza Has ‘Catastrophic Consequences’ for Children
Palestinian children after a strike in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, in July.
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on September 2024
Hezbollah Leader Says Israel Will Face Retribution After Lebanon Explosions
Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader, in his first televised remarks in Lebanon on Thursday.
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on September 2024
Ukraine Says Russia Hits Nursing Home Near Border, Killing 1
An image released by Ukraine’s Emergency Service showed an older woman being assisted after a Russian strike hit a care home in Sumy, Ukraine, on Thursday.
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on September 2024
Edmundo González, Venezuela’s Opposition Leader, Says He Was Forced to Sign Letter Recognizing Maduro
The Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate, Edmundo González, at a political event in June. He has since fled to Spain.
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on September 2024
Prehistoric Earth Was Very Hot. That Offers Clues About Future Earth.
An artist’s impression of life on Earth during the Carboniferous Period, 300 million years ago.
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on September 2024
A New Era in Sabotage: Turning Ordinary Devices Into Grenades, on a Mass Scale
A portable radio with the battery removed during a funeral in Beirut, Lebanon, on Wednesday. The presumed Israeli sabotage of wireless devices used by Hezbollah turned ordinary communication devices into miniature grenades.
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on September 2024
Mali Attack Killed 50 or More, but Leaders Say Little
Crowds near the site of Tuesday’s attack, when Islamist rebels killed at least 50 members of Mali’s armed forces in an assault on the capital, Bamako.
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on September 2024
Asphalt Schoolyards Get a Shady Makeover
Recess at Highland Arts Elementary School in Mesa, Ariz.
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on September 2024
How a U.S. Ally Uses Aid as a Cover in War
Did PFAS From Sewage Sludge Poison a Family Farm?
The Incumbent, the Marxist and the Heir: Sri Lanka’s Tight Race for President
Israeli Soldiers Throw Three Seemingly Lifeless Palestinians Off a Roof
Interest Rates Fall, but Central Banks Are No Longer in Lock Step