In War’s First Week, a Punishing Military Campaign With No Coherent Endgame
A huge plume of smoke has rose in the sky after US-Israel airstrikes in the west of Tehran, on Tuesday.
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Trump Assembles a New Coalition to ‘Eradicate’ Cartels
President Trump with Latin American and Caribbean leaders at the summit on Saturday. U.S. officials said a new coalition would aggressively target cartels and organized crime across the region.
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Pakistan Praised Trump. Now It Risks Being Caught Up in His War With Iran
Crowds protesting the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Friday.
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Europe Didn’t Want War With Iran. But So Far, It Can’t Stay Out of It.
President Emmanuel Macron has declared that France is not at war. But he ordered the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
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Russia Attacks Kharkiv and Kyiv in Ukraine
Emergency workers removing the body of a victim from the site of an overnight strike on an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Saturday.
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How Good Intentions Helped Pave Trump’s Road to Iran
Iranian expatriates around the world urged the Trump administration to intervene in Iran as the death toll from the protests rose in January.
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For Xi, Trump’s Embrace of War Proves China Needs More Power
Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, during an annual legislative meeting in Beijing on Wednesday.
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Lebanon at ‘Tipping Point’ as It Seeks to Disarm Hezbollah
Hezbollah supporters gathering in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday to mourn the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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He Had a Purple Heart, PTSD and a Rap Sheet. He Had to Leave the U.S.
Sae Joon Park in his apartment in Busan, South Korea, in February. Despite living in the U.S. for nearly 50 years, Park was ordered to move back to South Korea in June 2025.
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Jamil Jivani, a Friend of JD Vance, Channels Charlie Kirk in Canada
Jamil Jivani, a conservative member of Parliament, talking with supporters after speaking at the University of Calgary last month.
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Defense Without U.S. Help Is a Live Topic for Canada, Japan and Australia
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada arriving in Tokyo on Friday as part of a tour that also included Australia.
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As Trump Out-Putins Putin, Russia’s Global Influence Erodes
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia went to a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow last month.
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A Loose Band of Emerging Powers Is Divided Over Iran
Premier Li Qiang of China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil and President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa at a BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro last year.
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Ahead of Colombia’s Elections, Violence on the Campaign Trail Rattles Politicians
Police officers deployed across Popayan, Colombia, are monitoring security ahead of legislative elections on Sunday.
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Trump Executive Order Protected Weedkiller Roundup and a Munition, White Phosphorus
U.S. military personnel with a round of white phosphorus in Afghanistan in 2011.
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Gen Z-Backed Rapper Is on Course to Lead Nepal With Landslide Win
Balendra Shah, center, during his campaign to become the next prime minister of Nepal last Saturday. To his right is Rabi Lamichhane, the Rastriya Swatantra Party president.
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Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran
Explosions erupted after the Israeli military struck several fuel storage complexes in Tehran on Saturday.
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Iran’s De Facto Leader Says Iran Will Not Surrender or Stop Its Attacks
Ali Larijani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, during a news conference in 2024.
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Deadly Clashes in Lebanon as Israel Renews Search for Missing Airman
Residents walking amid the aftermath of deadly strikes in Nabi Sheet, a town in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley.
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Two Toronto-Area Synagogues Are Struck by Gunfire
The Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Synagogue was damaged by gunfire late on Friday night, according to the mayor of Vaughan, a suburb of Toronto.
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Ian Huntley, Whose Murder of Schoolgirls Appalled Britain, Dies After Prison Attack
Ian Huntley in a photo taken during the search for Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. Mr. Huntley gave interviews to the news media before being charged with killing them.
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Iranian President’s Apology to Neighboring Gulf States Showcases Leadership Rifts
President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, in September.
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Recent U.S. Assessment Found an Attack on Iran Unlikely to Result in Regime Change
People in Tehran on Friday mourning Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who was killed in the U.S.-Israeli strikes. There seems to be wide agreement in the U.S. intelligence community that the theological government in Iran is deeply entrenched.
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Hanging Up
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Traveling Around the Turbulent World With Mark Carney
Mark Carney let his guard down after a speech in Australia.
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Russia Revels in a Sudden Reversal in Fortunes as Oil and Gas Prices Soar
Oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. The conflict in Iran has disrupted oil production across the Middle East.
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War in the Middle East Threatens Global Food Production
Workers sprinkling fertilizer in a paddy field in India, which buys some 40 percent of its urea and phosphate-based fertilizers from the Middle East.
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At Trump’s Summit in Miami, Bolivia Makes a Political U-turn Toward the U.S.
Rodrigo Paz, the president of Bolivia, after his swearing-in ceremony in La Paz in November.
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Airstrikes hit Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport.
Smoke billowing from multiple explosions near Mehrabad Airport in Tehran on Saturday.
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State Department Bypasses Congress to Send Israel More Than 20,000 Bombs
Multiple explosions near Mehrabad airport amid US-Israeli airstrikes in Tehran on Friday as part of their joint war on Iran.
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Iran’s Navy Is Weakened but U.S. Still Faces Challenges in Strait of Hormuz
The Port of Bandar Abbas in the Strait of Hormuz in 2023.
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Trump Echoes F.D.R. and Grant in Calling for ‘Unconditional Surrender’
President Trump declared on Friday that he would settle for nothing short of “unconditional surrender” by Iran.
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Russia Gets Silent Treatment in Paralympics Return
Two Russian athletes, center, and Russian officials participated in the opening ceremony of the Winter Paralympics in Verona, Italy.
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Can we say senior UN official? he is the head of an agency
The Strait of Hormuz is a major maritime corridor for energy, food and other goods.
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Here Is Mexico’s Plan to Keep the Country Safe During the World Cup
Banorte Stadium, also known as Azteca Stadium, the venue in Mexico City that will host the opening match of the 2026 World Cup.
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Pakistani Man Is Found Guilty of Plot to Kill Trump Backed by Iran
Asif Merchant was convicted of plotting to kill President Trump and other politicians in a plot backed by Iran on Friday.
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As Trump Focuses on Cuba, DOJ Seeks Charges Against Its Leaders
Jason A. Reding Quiñones, the United States attorney for the Southern District of Florida, is said to be looking to bring criminal charges against Cuba’s leaders.
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Families Forced to Sleep on the Streets of Beirut as Israel Pounds Hezbollah
Shefgar Othman is staying in a tent by Beirut’s seaside promenade with his family after they were told to evacuate their home in the city’s southern suburbs earlier this week.
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New England Patriots’ Plane Ferried Americans Back From Middle East
A New England Patriots private plane in San Jose, Calif., last month. One of the team’s planes, operated by a charter company, was used to bring Americans home from the Middle East this week.
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Trump Demands ‘Unconditional Surrender’ by Iran, Shifting U.S. Objectives Again
Iranians mourning the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, in Tehran on Thursday night.
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With Iran, Trump Takes the U.S. to War Without the Public’s Support
President Trump on the USS George H.W. Bush in October. Polling shows public support for striking Iran is below what his predecessors enjoyed initially when they used force overseas.
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From 2001: Beate Uhse, 81, Entrepreneur in the Business of Erotic Goods
Beate Uhse in 1971, in front of her mail-order company headquarters in Flensburg, Germany.
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From 2011: Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dies at 71
Wangari Maathai in 2005, with a tree she planted in the Newlands Forest in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Trump Demands Iran’s ‘Unconditional Surrender’ as Israel Pounds Tehran and Lebanon
Macron speaks with Lebanon’s leader, as France seeks to broker a truce between Israel and Hezbollah.
In Russia’s Former Capital, Restoring the Past to Survive the Present
Surfers in Munich (Yes, Munich) Just Want Their Wave Back