Caught Between Two Conflicts, Afghans Flee Iran
People crossing the border from Iran to Afghanistan last week at Islam Qala.
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Taiwan Debates Military Spending as Choices Over U.S. and China Loom
Taiwanese soldiers during a military exercise in 2023.
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In Denmark’s Election, How Will the Woman Who Took On Trump Fare?
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen greeting constituents during a campaign event on Tuesday in her hometown Aalborg, Denmark.
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French Far Right Falls Short of Statement Win in Yardstick Local Races
Casting a ballot on Sunday in Lyon, southeastern France.
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Israel’s Missile Defense Under Scrutiny After Iranian Attack
Peering Sunday at damage where a missile struck the night before in Arad, Israel.
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On Beirut’s Waterfront, Loss Meets Life, and Luxury, Amid War
A displaced man in Beirut, Lebanon, sitting near the sea. More than a million people have been displaced in the country since the latest conflict between Israel and Hezbollah began.
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The Billionaire Funding France’s Far Right
Pierre-Édouard Stérin at his chalet in the French Alps on Wednesday. He moved his family to Belgium in 2012.
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Attack on a Sudan Hospital Kills Dozens, Head of W.H.O. Says
Refugees waiting to be registered at the Oure Cassoni camp in Chad after fleeing the civil war in Sudan, in February. The war has created a devastating humanitarian crisis.
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Italy’s Leader Wants to Change the Constitution. Italians Don’t Get It.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at a campaign event this month.
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Terror Attacks Haunted This Brussels Community. Now It’s Trying to Move On.
Graffiti on one of the bridges over the canal dividing Molenbeek and the city of Brussels this month.
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Election in Slovenia Is a Near Tie
Voters casting their ballots in Radomlje, Slovenia, on Sunday.
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With Fire and Song, Kurds in Turkey Hail the Start of Spring
Kurds celebrating Newroz, an ancient holiday that marks the start of spring in the northern hemisphere, in Diyarbakir, Turkey.
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Patriarch Filaret Dies at 97, Orthodox Church of Ukraine Says
Patriarch Filaret, center, at St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, in June 2022. President Volodymyr Zelensky called him “one of the most steadfast defenders” of Ukrainian statehood.
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Energy Attacks in War on Iran Could Turn Economic Shock Into Long-Term Damage
Hand-painted signs at a gas station in Samut Prakan, Thailand, last week said the station was out of diesel and 95-octane gasoline.
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Canada May Need to Lean on the US as Military Threats in the Arctic Rise
A North Warning System station near Cambridge Bay on Victoria Island in Canada’s Arctic. The system consists of automated radars whose technology is now widely considered outdated in the era of satellites.
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Diabetes, Overlooked and Unchecked, Poses New Risks in Africa
Habiba Sali, right, a nurse in the endocrinology department of the Maroua Regional Hospital in the far north region of Cameroon, took the vital signs of patient Aminatou Mana during a regular checkup.
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Iranians Fear Trump’s Threat to Strike Power Plants
Tehran residents on Sunday, when tensions were rising over whether power would be cut to the capital and home to 10 million people.
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Iran Responds to Trump’s Energy Threat With Defiance and Warnings of Its Own
Iran’s first vice president, Mohammad Reza Aref, center, in February.
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Israel Orders Military to Intensify Demolitions in Southern Lebanon
Cars turn around on a bridge in southern Lebanon after an Israeli strike destroyed it on Sunday.
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Residents in Southern Israel Are Shaken After Direct Strikes by Iranian Missiles
Emergency workers at the site of a missile strike in Dimona, Israel, on Sunday.
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France Chose Thousands of New Mayors on Sunday. Here’s Why It Matters.
Campaign posters outside a school in Marseille, France.
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Here’s What Happened in the War in the Middle East on Saturday
An Israeli soldier uses a flashlight while walking in the ruins of a damaged building in the southern Israeli city of Dimona.
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Iranian missile strikes Israeli city near main nuclear research facility.
Emergency workers approach a site where Iranian missiles struck Dimona, Israel on Saturday.
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Internet Blackout Keeps Iranians From Reaching Loved Ones During Nowruz Holiday
Shoppers in Tehran prepare for Nowruz, the Persian New Year, even as travel difficulties and an internet blackout keep families apart.
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How the Litani River Shapes the Israel-Hezbollah War
Damage to a bridge over the Litani river in southern Lebanon after it was struck on Wednesday.
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Umberto Bossi, Fiery Founder of Italian Separatist Party, Dies at 84
Umberto Bossi in 2008. He appealed to disaffected northerners who saw Italy’s Rome-centered, “colonialist” national government as having robbed them of their hard-earned money and their cultural identity.
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Israel Strikes Across Lebanon Amid Fierce Ground Fighting in the South
Damaged buildings in the southern neighborhoods of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on Saturday, after an Israeli airstrike.
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Middle East War Leaves Hamas Balancing Allies on Opposite Sides
Armed members of Hamas in Gaza City in November.
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Iranian Man Arrested After Trying to Enter U.K. Naval Base, Police Say
One of Britain’s nuclear-powered submarines undergoing maintenance at H.M. Naval Base Clyde in Scotland in 2023.
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Spring Awakening
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Canada Shifts From Peacekeeping to Building a Strong Military
A Norwegian tank at a NATO winter training exercise in Badufoss, Norway, this month.
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These BTS Fans Waited 15 Hours to See Their Idols
International BTS fans waiting for the concert on Saturday, from left: Thycianne Santos, Corrine van der Moolen, Leimomi Kamiya, Betty Pietraszora, Kayla Sanchez, Niki Anchala and Emi Noguchi.
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Iranian Sailors, Including Survivors of Torpedoed Ship, Remain in Limbo
The Iranian Navy supply ship Bushehr getting assistance off the coast of Colombo on March 5, a day after another one, the Dena, was torpedoed by a U.S. submarine, in a photo provided by the Sri Lankan Navy.
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Zelensky Sends Negotiators to the U.S., Hoping to Revive Peace Talks
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Wednesday in Madrid. He has called for the resumption of peace talks, which have lost momentum in recent weeks.
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No Pills or Needles, Just Paper: How Deadly Drugs Are Changing
The Division 9 Maximum Security Dormitory of the Cook County Department of Corrections — where inmates have been found using deadly illicit drugs — saturated onto paper — in the pages of books, letters from family and legal documents.
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Chelsea Chief Under Abramovich Could Face Scrutiny Over Soccer Cheating
Marina Granovskaia before a match at Wembley Stadium in London in 2022, when she was a Chelsea board member.
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A Public Holiday Every Week? Sri Lankans Bemoan the Enforced Day Off.
A vendor waiting for customers at a railway station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Wednesday, after the government announced a weekly holiday on Wednesdays to save fuel.
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At Least 14 Killed in South Korean Factory Fire
Firefighters spraying water to extinguish a fire at a factory in Daejeon, South Korea, on Friday.
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Trump Signals Retreat From Goal of Regime Change in Iran
People at an apartment building that was hit by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in Tehran last week.
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The Road to the Battle of Hastings in 1066? Maybe Not a Road After All.
Re-enactors setting out from Clifford’s Tower in York, England, to follow the supposed journey of King Harold to the site of the Battle of Hastings, for the 950th anniversary of the battle in 2016.
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U.S. Pauses Sanctions on Some Iranian Oil to Get More to Market
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a post on X that Iran would see little economic benefit from the temporary removal of the sanctions.
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A Look at the Escalating Battle for the Strait of Hormuz
The village of Kumzar, along the Strait of Hormuz in Oman.
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Here’s What Happened in the War in Iran in Its Third Week
Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr at the Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque in Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday.
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U.S. Attacks Iranian Targets to Try to Open Strait of Hormuz
Iran has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz to most Western ships, helping to drive up oil prices and rocking the global economy.
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Switzerland Blocks Arms Sales to U.S. Over Iran War
The United States is one of the biggest markets for Swiss weapons exports, including small arms.
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U.K. Allows U.S. to Use Bases to Hit Iranian Forces Menacing Strait Traffic
A B-1 bomber at a Royal Air Force base in Fairford, England, on Sunday.
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Stone Fragment Is Found in Wreck of Ship That Carried Parthenon Marbles
Divers have found a marble fragment from the wreck of the Mentor, a ship that sank in 1802 while carrying Greek antiquities.
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Aid Ship Departs for Cuba as Island Grapples With a Fuel Blockade
People watching the sunset in Havana on Monday during a blackout.
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A Few Ships Are Trickling Through the Strait of Hormuz With Iran’s Approval
Cargo ships sailing toward the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of the United Arab Emirates on Thursday.
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Here’s What Happened in the War in the Middle East on Sunday
Iran War Live Updates: Power Outages Are Reported in Tehran as Israel Launches Strikes
Trump’s Ultimatum to Iran
K-Pop’s BTS Returns to the Stage