Unwed Mothers and Their Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia
A Kenyan mother, Esther, and her newborn son, Abudy, were living on the street in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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As the Russia War Continues, Ukraine Faces a Major Draft Evasion Problem
Fishing boats along a canal in Vylkove, Ukraine, last month.
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Syria’s President Meets Trump at White House for First Time
President Ahmed al-Shara in Damascus, Syria, in April. He led a rebel offensive that ousted Bashar al-Assad last year.
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Syria al-Shara al-Baghdadi Trump
Rashid Muhammad Kaseer, a resident of Barisha, Syria, where American commandos killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State, six years ago.
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Why the BBC Is Facing Its Gravest Crisis in Decades
The British Broadcasting Corporation’s current crisis is less about President Trump, than about the insoluble tensions of a public service broadcaster operating in a divided political and media world.
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A Million Evacuated as Typhoon Fung-Wong Hit the Philippines
Workers clear debris from a highway in Dipaculao, Philippines, on Monday, after Typhoon Fung-wong hit.
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Trump Threatens to Sue the BBC for $1 Billion After Jan. 6 Documentary
The BBC office in London. The head of the BBC and the head of news resigned after growing pressure.
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Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Agencies Push Back Despite Zelensky Pressure
The headquarters of Energoatom, Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear energy company, in 2022. Anti-corruption agencies found what they said were efforts to influence Energoatom and others.
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Thailand Suspends Trump-Backed Peace Talks With Cambodia
A Thai soldier walking near the disputed Thai-Cambodian border in August, where land mines were found deployed.
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Juan Gabriel Tribute Draws Tens of Thousands to Mexico City
Thousands gathered to watch the screening of a concert by the late Juan Gabriel.
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China Tightens Controls on Fentanyl Precursors After Summit
Chemicals used to produce fentanyl on the floor of a drug cartel safe house in Culiacán, Mexico, last year. Much of chemical precursors used to make the synthetic opioid are routed from China to Mexico, where drug cartels finish processing the drug before smuggling it into the United States.
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Explosion Reported Near Red Fort in New Delhi
Security personnel at the scene of an explosion near the Red Fort area of Delhi on Monday.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, Former French President, Is Released From Prison Pending Appeal
Nicolas Sarkozy, a French former president, last month. He was found guilty of conspiring to seek funding for a 2007 presidential campaign from the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya.
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Canada Loses Its Status as Having Eliminated Measles
Signs describing measles symptoms at a health clinic in Taber, Alberta. The province has been a hot spot of Canada’s recent measles outbreak.
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At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Chinese Technology Is Shifting Climate Politics
A solar farm near Kayathar in southern India. The country can now meet half of its electricity demand with wind, solar, and hydropower.
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What to Know About the BBC Resignations and Turmoil Over a Trump Speech Edit
The BBC office, known as Broadcasting House, in London. The BBC’s output is vast, including global news, drama series and sports.
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F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, last month. Mr. Patel’s unorthodox approach to running the bureau has alarmed international allies.
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Why Children of Unmarried Mothers Are Stranded in Saudi Arabia
Esther, holding her 2-week-old newborn, Abudy, at the median strip where they lived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Drones Over North Korea Were Part of Martial Law Bid in South, Special Counsel Says
Yoon Suk Yeol, former president of South Korea, arriving at his trial in Seoul in April. He was formally accused Monday of ordering drones to fly over North Korea to justify his call for martial law last year.
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He Was Known for Kleptocratic Rule and Bloodshed. Now Suharto Is a National Hero.
Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, a daughter of Suharto, and Bambang Trihatmodjo, one of his sons, accepted the honor from President Prabowo Subianto of Indonesia in Jakarta on Monday.
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Hundreds of Migrants Missing Off Malaysia’s Coast
A handout photo from the Malaysian Coast Guard showing a search-and-rescue mission near the country’s border with Thailand on Sunday.
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Second Migrant Child Dies on ‘Reverse Migration’ Boat Route
A boat full of migrants heading from Panama to Colombia in May on a reverse migration route.
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Tackling Climate Change Without the U.S.
The U.N. climate conference is being held in Belém, Brazil.
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Hamas Hands Over Body of Hadar Goldin, Israeli Soldier Held Since 2014
Posters in southern Israel of Hadar Goldin, whose body had been held in Gaza for over a decade.
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As Aquifers Dry Up, Tehran Rations Water and Calls for Rain Prayers
The parched bed of the Kan River along a road west of Tehran, Iran’s capital. The country is facing an increasingly severe water crisis.
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The Dangerous Stalemate Over Iran’s Nuclear Program
Demonstrators in Tehran on Tuesday marking the anniversary of the takeover of the American Embassy on Nov. 4, 1979.
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TikTok’s ‘Millennial Baroness’ Starts to Branch Out
Leonie von Ungern-Sternberg has openly discussed her family’s history on TikTok, including a distant relative known as the “Bloody Baron.”
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Japan Lifts Tsunami Advisory After Strong Earthquake Off Its Coast
Kuji Bay on the coast of Kuji city of Iwate prefecture, Japan, last year.
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Israeli Academics Find Themselves Isolated Despite Gaza Cease-Fire
A protest in May 2024 calling for the University of Amsterdam to cut ties with Israeli institutions.
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Super Typhoon Fung-wong Hits Philippines Days After Last Storm
An evacuation center on Sunday in Manila.
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Spain’s True-Crime Capital Is Fed Up
The 1995 killing of Josep Montané was the third in Tor, Spain, in 15 years. A journalist was fascinated, and now the town is a destination for others who are, too.
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Russian Bombardment Causes Large Outages in Ukraine’s Big Cities
People on a bus during a power blackout in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday.
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A Powerful Tool to Override Constitutional Rights Goes to Court
Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta, legislated striking teachers back to work.
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on November 2025
Saudi Ex-Intelligence Official Seeks American Help Spilling U.S. Secrets
Saad Aljabri, a former Saudi intelligence official, in an undated photograph released by the Aljabri family in 2020.
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Inside Trump’s Deportation of Venezuelans: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
In March, the U.S. government sent more than 200 Venezuelan men to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
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Inside China’s Quest to Defy Aging with Longevity Labs and ‘Immortality Islands’
Attendees trying out a cryogenic therapy room at a longevity and anti-aging conference in Shanghai in September.
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Canada Culls Hundreds of Ostriches as a Court and a Kennedy Fail to Save Them
Dave Bilinski, the co-owner of Universal Ostrich Farms in British Columbia, where hundreds of ostriches were ordered to be killed by the Canadian government.
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Prince Harry Apologizes to Canadians for Wearing an L.A. Dodgers Cap
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, at a World Series game in Los Angeles last month. He apologized for wearing an L.A. Dodgers cap instead of a Toronto Blue Jays cap.
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In Cozying Up to Trump, Leaders Hedge Their Reliance on Moscow and Beijing
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan, with leaders of other Central Asian countries, at the White House on Thursday.
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Leaders at COP30 Climate Summit in Belém Focus on the Rising Toll of Warming
World leaders posed for a photo on Friday at COP30, the United Nations climate conference in Belém, Brazil.
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U.S. Wants Security Council to Adopt Trump Plan for Gaza
The Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza City, last Tuesday.
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4 Arrested Over Disruption of Israeli Orchestra’s Concert
A small fire broke out in the concert hall after an audience member lit a flare during an Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performance in Paris on Thursday night.
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on November 2025
Fatos Nano, Albanian Leader in Era of Chaos and Transition, Dies at 73
Fatos Nano in 2005. He led the Albanian Socialist Party from its founding in 1991 and served three times as his country’s prime minister.
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Serbian Lawmakers Approve Luxury Trump Hotel on Historic Bombing Site
The former General Staff military complex in Belgrade, Serbia, was devastated by NATO airstrikes in 1999.
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As Saudi Arabia Cracks Down on Drugs, Executions Near a Record High
A square in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where public executions took place not long ago. The kingdom applies the death penalty for a wide range of offenses.
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on November 2025
Trump Signals Openness to Exempting Hungary from Russian Oil Sanctions
President Trump and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary at a meeting in the Oval Office in 2019.
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Argentina Has Become an Escape for L.G.B.T.Q. Russians Escaping Putin’s Anti-Gay Crackdown
A Quebec Writer Confronts His ‘Little Darkness’ as a Class Defector
What I Learned From the ‘New Globalists’ of an Optimistic Nation
Medical Marijuana Grower in New Zealand Faces Criminal Charges
Why Everyone Wants to Meet the ‘World’s Most Boring Man’
BBC Director Tim Davie and CEO Deborah Turness Quit Following Trump Documentary Turmoil
What Questions Do You Have About Climate Change?
Charting the History of New York’s Middle Eastern Community
After Hurricane Melissa, Solar Power Kept the Electricity on for Some Jamaicans