Merz Says Germany Will Step Up Ukraine Weapons Support as Zelensky Visits
Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, right, shaking hands with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine after his arrival in Berlin on Wednesday.
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Haiti Enlists Blackwater Founder and Trump Ally to Take on Criminal Gangs
A man walks past a burning barricade set up to protest a lack of security, in the Tabarre neighborhood of Port-au-Prince in February.
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Israel Strikes Yemen’s Main Airport Again After Houthi Attacks
Wreckage on May 7 after an earlier Israeli attack on the international airport serving Sana, the capital of Yemen.
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Joël Le Scouarnec, French Doctor Who Molested Hundreds of Children, Is Sentenced
A retired surgeon, Joel Le Scouarnec, right, who has admitted to sexually abusing hundreds of patients, arriving at the Criminal Court in Vannes, France, in February.
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UK Authorizes Rape and Human Trafficking Charges Against Andrew and Tristan Tate
Andrew Tate, right, and his brother, Tristan Tate, in Bucharest, Romania, in March.
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Crime Rings Plotted to Trade Cocaine for Syrian Weapons, Prosecutors Say
Weapons and ammunition handed in by former Syrian soldiers and police officers in Latakia, Syria, in December.
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Stalin’s Image Returns to Moscow’s Subway, Honoring a Brutal History
A new statue of Joseph Stalin in a Moscow metro station reflects Russia’s efforts to rehabilitate the memory of a bloody ruler.
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on May 2025
Congo’s Former President Returns Home, Accused of Treason
The former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, in Windhoek, Namibia, in February.
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on May 2025
What to Know About the Liverpool FC Parade Car Crash
Police said they believed the ramming was as isolated incident, and that it was not being treated as terrorism.
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on May 2025
Israeli Forces Said They Killed a ‘Terrorist.’ He Was 14 Years Old.
Mourners carrying the body of Amer Rabee, a 14-year-old who was killed by Israeli forces, at his funeral in Turmus Aya in the West Bank last month.
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on May 2025
French Crypto Chiefs Step Up Security After Violent Kidnappings
Police officers secured an area in central France in January after the kidnapping of David Balland, the co-founder of a company that sells devices to store crypto assets.
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on May 2025
Mediators Urge Gaza Cease-Fire Proposal as Israeli Offensive Looms
Israel’s renewed offensive on Hamas in Gaza has drawn criticism from traditional allies.
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on May 2025
Glacier Collapse in the Swiss Alps Destroys Most of a Village
A mass of ice, rocks and mud tumbled down a mountain, smothering Blatten, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
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on May 2025
Thursday Briefing: Aid Chaos Grows in Gaza
An aid warehouse was stormed in central Gaza yesterday.
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on May 2025
Mount Everest’s Record-Setting Sherpa Sees a Future of Snowless Mountains and Fewer Guides
Kami Rita Sherpa during a celebration of his 31st successful ascent of Mount Everest on Wednesday.
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RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz Want Canada to Save Ostriches on Farm With Avian Flu
A sign posted at a Canadian ostrich farm pleaded for the lives of 400 birds targeted for culling because of avian flu exposure.
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on May 2025
German Court Dismisses Climate Lawsuit Against RWE
The plaintiff, Saúl Luciano Lliuya, was seeking damages linked to the threat of flooding from Lake Palcacocha in Peru.
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on May 2025
Japan Welcomes a New Sumo Champ. Surprise: He’s Japanese.
Onosato, center, celebrated his promotion to yokozuna on Wednesday.
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on May 2025
Turkey Cracks Down on Fliers Who Stand Up Too Soon, Threatening Fines
A Turkish Airlines flight landing at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul in 2018.
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on May 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Chaos at a Gaza Aid Site
Palestinians carrying aid packages delivered in Rafah, southern Gaza, yesterday.
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on May 2025
As Trump Seeks Iran Deal, Israel Again Raises Possible Strikes on Nuclear Sites
President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the White House last month.
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on May 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Chaos at a Gaza Aid Site
Palestinians carrying aid packages delivered in Rafah, southern Gaza, yesterday.
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on May 2025
Chaos Erupts at Israeli-Backed Aid Distribution Site in Gaza
Gazans collecting food aid in Rafah were on edge on Tuesday after gunfire was heard.
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on May 2025
Trump’s Tariffs Drive a Rise in Trade Crime
During the first Trump administration, Charlotte Pipe and Foundry won several cases against China in which high duties applied to Chinese products.
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on May 2025
King Charles Warns Canada’s Parliament of a ‘Dangerous and Uncertain’ World
King Charles, center, opened a new session of Parliament of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, on Tuesday.
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In a Medieval Greek Fortress, Residents Feud Over ‘Pharaonic’ Cable Car Plan
The medieval fortress town of Monemvasia, Greece. The top of the rock is currently accessible only via a winding, 240-yard stone path — a dizzying and exhausting climb.
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Zelensky Is Expected in Berlin as Merz Steps Forward as Key Backer of Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, right, with Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany in Kyiv, Ukraine, this month.
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on May 2025
How the Liverpool Parade Car Crash Unfolded
Liverpool on Monday after a vehicle barreled down a street jammed with pedestrians.
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on May 2025
Caught Between Russia and the U.S., Germany Aims to Be a Stronger Force in NATO
Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany spoke last week in Vilnius, Lithuania, at the inauguration of a German brigade for NATO’s eastern flank.
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on May 2025
They Inhaled a Gas and Scaled Everest in Days. Is It the Future of Mountaineering?
Four British climbers pose on the summit of Mount Everest on Wednesday after preparing for the climb with xenon gas.
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on May 2025
Satellite Images Suggest a Russian Plan to Restart Seized Ukrainian Nuclear Plant
A satellite image from May 22, provided by Greenpeace, shows what The New York Times has verified to be several new pylons and an electricity line in occupied Ukraine. Russia would need several more lines to connect the Zaporizhzhia facility to its own grid.
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on May 2025
Could the French Pedophile Doctor Joël Le Scouarnec Have Been Stopped Earlier?
Protesters outside the courthouse in Vannes, France, in February, during the trial of Joël Le Scouarnec.
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on May 2025
Why a Venezuelan Mother and Her Children Fled the US
Yessica Rojas, her 4-year-old daughter, Kenyerly López, and her 3-year-old son, Yessiel Dugarte, in Puerto Obaldía, on the edge of the Darién Gap, after an exhausting journey by sea to reach the town.
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on May 2025
Police Quickly Gave Details on Liverpool Car Ramming, Aiming to Prevent Rumors
Police officers on Tuesday at the scene of the previous evening’s car ramming in Liverpool, England.
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on May 2025
Tuesday Briefing: U.S. and E.U. Talk Trade
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission.
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A Science Fiction Writer Wrestles With China’s Rise, and His Own Decline
Han Song, a science fiction writer, at an old steel mill turned leisure park, in Beijing in March.
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on May 2025
Tuesday Briefing: U.S. and E.U. Talk Trade
President Trump at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia for Memorial Day.
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Liverpool FC Victory Parade: Driver Plows Into Crowd, Injuring 47
A police officer in Liverpool at the entrance to Water Street after a driver plowed a car into a crowd along a parade route on Monday.
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on May 2025
Sebastian Kurz, ex-Chancellor of Austria, Cleared of Perjury Charges
Sebastian Kurz, a former Austrian chancellor, in Vienna on Monday.
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on May 2025
Europe Secured a Tariff Delay From Trump, but Can It Now Make a Deal?
A phone call Sunday between Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, and President Trump, resulted in a delay of the 50 percent tariffs.
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on May 2025
How a Booker Prize-Winning Work From India Redefined Translation
The translator Deepa Bhasthi, left, and the author Banu Mushtaq with their Booker trophies for “Heart Lamp.” Ms. Mushtaq said, “I myself have broken all kinds of stereotypes, and now my book has also broken all stereotypes.”
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on May 2025
Trump’s Comments on Gaza Reflect Israel’s Growing Isolation
Destruction in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. In recent weeks, partners such as the United States, Britain and France have become more willing to place Israel under overt pressure.
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on May 2025
Russia Intensifies Attacks on Ukraine as U.S. Steps Back
A crater in a residential area in Odesa, Ukraine, after a drone strike, on Sunday.
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on May 2025
King Charles III Visits Canada as Trump Threatens Its Sovereignty: What to Know
King Charles lll and Queen Camilla arriving in Ottawa, on Monday.
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on May 2025
NATO Wants a Cordial Summit, but Trump or Zelensky Could Disrupt It
NATO’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, after meeting President Trump at the White House last month.
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on May 2025
What’s Trump’s Vision on China, Russia and the World?
President Trump and his aides have been trying to exert greater American influence from the Arctic Circle to South America’s Patagonia region.
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on May 2025
What to Know About the Deportees the Trump Administration Wants to Send to South Sudan
What to Know About Israel’s Renewed Ground Offensive in Gaza
U.N. Condemns Israel’s New Aid Program in Gaza, After Chaotic Start
Macron Plays Down Video of Shove From Wife: ‘It’s Nonsense’