Syrians Demand Better Protection Amid a Spate of Kidnappings
Members of the new Syrian government set up security checkpoints in Homs in February. Many Syrians are demanding more such controls.
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on March 2025
4 Takeaways From Canada’s Election
Mark Carney, the Liberal Party’s new leader, is expected to be sworn in as Canada’s prime minister early this week.
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on March 2025
Russian Forces Depleted and Stalling on Eastern Front, Ukraine Says
Ukrainian soldiers preparing to launch an assault in the Donetsk region last month. After more than 15 months of Russian offensive, they are finding opportunities for localized counterattacks.
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on March 2025
Zelensky Is Set to Meet With Saudi Crown Prince Before U.S.-Ukraine Talks
President Volodymyr Zelensky was scheduled to meet on Monday with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler.
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on March 2025
His Bollywood Spoofs Brought Joy to a Mill Town. Then Bollywood Came Calling.
Nasir Shaikh at a trailer launch in Mumbai, India, in February for a new film about his life and work.
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on March 2025
Trump Looms Over Greenland’s Election, but Voters Have Other Concerns
The center of Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, in January.
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on March 2025
Romania Bars Ultranationalist Candidate From Presidential Race
Calin Georgescu at a protest in Bucharest, earlier this month.
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on March 2025
He Was Once a Covert Taliban Operative. Now He’s the Friendly Taxman.
Abdul Qahar Ghorbandi, right, the director of the Taliban’s Taxpayers Services Directorate, handing a tax document to Haji Ghazni, a gemstone dealer, in Kabul, in December.
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on March 2025
Violence Sweeps Coastal Syria, Sowing Chaos: ‘We Have to Get Out of Here’
A convoy of government security forces departing Idlib, Syria, on Saturday and heading toward areas on the coast to confront armed men loyal to Bashar al-Assad.
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on March 2025
Russia Pushes Back Ukraine’s Offensive With Drones and North Korean Troops
A Ukrainian military vehicle driving in the country’s Sumy region, near the border with the Kursk region of Russia, in January.
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on March 2025
How Would Peacekeeping Work in Ukraine? These Experts Gamed It Out.
A member of Ukraine’s 79th Air Assault Brigade firing toward Russian forces near Marinka, Ukraine, last year.
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on March 2025
Echoing a Roman Emperor, Croatia Tries to Cap Soaring Prices
A grocery store in Zagreb, Croatia, in January, during a nationwide shopping boycott to protest rising food prices.
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on March 2025
Iran’s Supreme Leader Rebuffs Trump’s Outreach Over Its Nuclear Program
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seen here speaking in Tehran last year, on Saturday indirectly addressed President Trump’s offer to negotiate over the country’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
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on March 2025
Monday Briefing
Mark Carney will succeed Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister.
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on March 2025
Monday Briefing: Violence Continues in Syria
Mourners at a funeral for a woman killed during fighting in Latakia.
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on March 2025
Israeli Energy Minister Cuts Off Electricity to Gaza
Life at night in the Jabalia camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, last month.
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on March 2025
Syria’s Interim President Calls for Unity Amid Fresh Fighting
A funeral on Sunday for someone killed in strife in Latakia Province, Syria.
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on March 2025
Hamburg Airport Halts All Flights as Ground Staff Strike
Hamburg Airport in Germany on Sunday. The strike took hold at 6:30 a.m. local time.
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on March 2025
Mark Carney to Be the Next Prime Minister of Canada
Mark Carney, a technocrat and banker, was declared the winner of the Liberal Party’s leadership election on Sunday.
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on March 2025
Plan to Return Russian Diplomats to U.S. Poses Espionage Risk
The Russian Embassy in Washington in 2023. Most of the 220 Russian diplomats in the United States work at the embassy, but dozens are also based in New York and Houston.
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on March 2025
More NOAA Employees May Be Let Go, Making 20% of Staff Cut
Attendees at the Stand Up for Science rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Friday.
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on March 2025
At Least 12 Injured in Toronto Pub Shooting
Six people were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds and six others were also injured in a shooting at a pub in Toronto, the police said.
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on March 2025
North Korea Says It’s Building a Nuclear-Powered Submarine
A photo released by the Korean Central News Agency, a state news media outlet, on Saturday said to be showing Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, at a shipyard in an undisclosed location in the country.
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on March 2025
Lightening Up
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on March 2025
Hundreds of Civilians Killed by Government Forces in Syria, War Monitors Say
A funeral was held near Idlib, Syria, on Saturday for four members of the Syrian security forces who were killed in clashes with fighters loyal to the ousted Assad dictatorship.
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on March 2025
The Liberals Choose a Leader in the Shadow of Trump’s Threats
Despite concessions made by Canada to address President Trump’s concerns over border safety, he went ahead with his tariff measures on Tuesday.
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on March 2025
Russian Strikes Kill 20 in Ukraine After U.S. Cuts Support for Kyiv
Strikes killed 11 people in Dobropillia, Ukraine, on Friday, according to the head of the Donetsk regional military administration.
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on March 2025
Trump’s Affinity for Putin Grows More Consequential Than Ever
President Trump signing an executive order in the Oval Office on Thursday, and Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, in a February photo provided by Russian state media. Mr. Trump sees common cause with Mr. Putin.
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on March 2025
Africa Received Billions in U.S. Aid. Here’s What It Will Lose.
A father and son last month at the Bulengo camp for displaced people near Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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on March 2025
Gaza War Led to Deaths of More Than 3 Dozen Hostages, Officials Say
Palestinian fighters carrying the coffin of Kfir Bibas during the exchange of hostages’ bodies in Khan Younis, Gaza, last month.
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on March 2025
South Korea’s Impeached President, Yoon Suk Yeol, Is Released From Jail
President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea after his release from a detention center on Saturday.
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on March 2025
Alfred, No Longer a Cyclone, Makes Landfall in Australia
Damage from Tropical Cyclone Alfred in Elanora, on the Gold Coast of Australia, on Saturday.
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on March 2025
Remains in Manitoba Landfill Are Identified as Serial Killer’s Victim
The Prairie Green landfill in Winnipeg, Manitoba, last year. A search was recently conducted there for the remains of murdered women.
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on March 2025
Trump’s Embrace of Russia Leaves Europe in Emotional Shock
European leaders with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, wearing all black, at a summit meeting in London this month.
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on March 2025
The Hot Place to Be Seen for Young Indians: Book Festivals
The Kerala Literature Festival, held in late January in the beach town of Kozhikode.
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on March 2025
Trump’s Tariffs Could Help Tesla, by Hurting Its Rivals More
Elon Musk, the Tesla chief executive, at the opening of a new $1.1 billion manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas, in April 2022.
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on March 2025
China Hits Canada With Tariffs in Indirect Riposte to Trump
A canola field in Manitoba. China announced 100 percent tariffs on Saturday on canola from Canada.
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on March 2025
Trump Administration Sends Politically Charged Survey to Researchers
A Mandarin class sponsored by the Confucius Institute at the Fourah Bay College Secondary School in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 2024.
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on March 2025
U.S. Suspends Ukraine’s Access to Satellite Imagery
Satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies, which has shared its work with Ukraine under a Pentagon program, shows an ammunition depot in Toropets, Russia, before and after a Ukrainian drone attack last year.
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on March 2025
Alarmed by Trump, Poland Must Look at Nuclear Options, Premier Says
Polish army demonstrations at the Bemowo Piskie Land Forces Training Centre in 2023. Poland is one of Europe’s biggest spenders on defense, at around 4 percent of economic output.
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on March 2025
Nigel Farage’s Reform U.K. Refers Lawmaker to Police Over Claims of Threats to Another Party Official
Rupert Lowe, who recently made critical comments about Nigel Farage, his party’s leader, has denied the claims of bullying and threats.
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on March 2025
U.N. Helicopter Attacked as South Sudan Teeters on Brink
A billboard showing President Salva Kiir of South Sudan in Juba, the country’s capital, last year.
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on March 2025
Armed Teen Is Stopped From Boarding a Flight in Australia, the Police Say
Jetstar Flight 610 was scheduled to fly to Sydney with about 150 passengers when the police were called to Avalon Airport on Thursday, the authorities said.
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on March 2025
3 Bulgarians Found Guilty of Spying for Russia in UK and Europe
A photo provided by Metropolitan Police in London shows Orlin Roussev, a Bulgarian I.T. specialist, who led the group and pleaded guilty to spying charges.
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on March 2025
The Trump Doctrine: The World Is a Zero-Sum Game
President Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday.
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on March 2025
How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks
An mpox patient receiving care in a health center in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.
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on March 2025
Panama Will Release Migrants From Detention Camp, Challenging Trump’s Deportation Efforts
Panamanian guards at a migrant camp in Panama where more than 100 people deported from the United States were being held.
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on March 2025
Daughter of Pelicot Accuses Him of Rape in Police Complaint
Caroline Darian during her father’s trial in Avignon, France, in December.
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on March 2025
Trump Offers South African Farmers Expedited Citizenship
Supporters of President Trump outside the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, in February.
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on March 2025
France’s Ex-Intelligence Chief Convicted in Influence Peddling Trial Involving LVMH
Bernard Squarcini, France’s former intelligence chief, in Paris in 2017.
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on March 2025
Fossil Fuels Are the Future, Chris Wright Tells African Leaders
Chris Wright, the energy secretary, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland last month.
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on March 2025
Climate Change Made South Sudan Heat Wave More Likely, Study Finds
Displaced people collected water on the outskirts of Juba, South Sudan, in February.
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on March 2025
What We Know About the Clashes in Syria
Syrian security forces in Latakia on Friday.
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on March 2025
German Court Convicts Five Over Plot to Kidnap Health Official and Spread Chaos
The five took issue with Karl Lauterbach, Germany’s health minister, who during the pandemic spoke out widely in favor of vaccination rules.
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on March 2025
Christians Are Pressing Trump to Clear a Path for Israel to Annex the West Bank
Covid-19: Enduring Images of a Global Crisis, 5 Years On
5 Things to Know About the Rise and Fall of Mayor Eric Adams