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  1. Deadly Israeli Strike Hits Central Gaza Hospital Complex

    Israel said it targeted Hamas fighters inside the hospital compound, where displaced people were living in tents. A separate strike killed several people at a Gazan school turned shelter.

     

    CreditMohammed Saber/EPA, via Shutterstock

  1. Italian Court Overturns Women’s Acquittals in ‘Bunga Bunga’ Legal Saga

    The ruling sets the stage for yet another trial related to the scandal involving Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister of Italy who died last year.

     By Emma Bubola

    Italy’s Supreme Court overturned acquittals from a lower court, ruling on Monday that women accused of helping to cover up Silvio Berlusconi’s evening bacchanals could be retried.
    CreditLuca Bruno/Associated Press

  2. Russia Is Clawing Back Land Taken by Ukraine This Summer

    Moscow’s forces have been recapturing some villages and land taken in a Ukrainian incursion into Russia. The advances could undermine Kyiv’s hopes of pushing Russia to the negotiating table.

     By Constant Méheut

    Ukrainian army vehicles pass by a sign which reads “Ukraine” (left) and “Russia” (right) on a Russian road near a destroyed border post in August.
    CreditDavid Guttenfelder for The New York Times

  3. How Israel’s Army Uses Palestinians as Human Shields in Gaza

    Israeli soldiers and Palestinian former detainees say troops have regularly forced captured Gazans to carry out life-threatening tasks, including inside Hamas tunnels.

     By Natan OdenheimerBilal Shbair and Patrick Kingsley

    Israeli soldiers during a military tour for journalists of a tunnel under a U.N. site in Gaza. The Times later found that a Palestinian had been forced to explore the tunnel.
    CreditSergey Ponomarev for The New York Times

  4. Three Receive Nobel in Economics for Research on Global Inequality

    Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson shared the award for their work on explaining the gaps in prosperity between nations.

     By Jeanna Smialek

    Members of the Swedish Academy of Sciences announcing the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in Stockholm on Monday.
    CreditChristine Olsson/TT News Agency, via Associated Press

  5. Russia’s Latest Target in Africa: U.S.-Funded Anti-Malaria Programs

    Scientists fighting the spread of infectious diseases on the continent have been targeted online by pro-Russian activists, part of an effort to spread fear and mistrust of the West.

     By Elian Peltier

    Souleymane Sankara, an entomologist with Target Malaria, in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.
    CreditGuerchom Ndebo for The New York Times

  1. China Holds War Games Encircling Taiwan in Warning to Island’s Leader

    Scores of Chinese aircraft and dozens of ships surrounded Taiwan, after President Lai Ching-te rejected Beijing’s claim over the island.

     By David Pierson and Amy Chang Chien

    President Lai Ching-te speaking in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, on Thursday, its National Day. He said China and Taiwan were “not subordinate to each other.”
    CreditAnnabelle Chih/Getty Images

  2. Russian Strikes on Ukrainian Ports Target Civilian Shipping

    With the strikes in the Odesa region, Russia appears to be trying again to prevent Ukraine from exporting grain, harming its economy and pushing up world prices.

     By Maria Varenikova

    The Port of Odesa in March. Russia has intensified its strikes on the region recently.
    CreditOksana Parafeniuk for The New York Times

  3. Jokes and Offbeat Auctions for the Troops: Standup Comedy Sweeps Ukraine

    Even as the conflict with Russia grinds on, a new generation of comics in Ukraine is trying to make people laugh — and raise money for the war effort.

     By Kim Barker

    Anton Tymoshenko performing at a stand-up comedy show in July in Kyiv, Ukraine.
    CreditBrendan Hoffman for The New York Times

  4. Roadblocked

    How you can get around the West Bank depends on who you are. We took two bus trips, one with Palestinians and one with Israelis, that tell a story of separate and unequal roadways.

     By Ben HubbardSergey PonomarevLeanne Abraham and Marco Hernandez

    CreditThe New York Times

  5. Secret Documents Show Hamas Tried to Persuade Iran to Join Its Oct. 7 Attack

    The Times reviewed the minutes of 10 meetings among Hamas’s top leaders. The records show the militant group avoided several escalations since 2021 to falsely imply it had been deterred — while seeking Iranian support for a major attack.

     By Ronen BergmanAdam Rasgon and Patrick Kingsley

    A house in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Israel, last December that was among those attacked on Oct. 7, 2023.
    CreditAvishag Shaar-Yashuv for The New York Times

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  1. In Battered Lebanon, a Lone Gas Station Is a Lifeline in the East

    Thousands have fled the town of Baalbek amid a barrage of Israeli airstrikes. For those who remain, Ali Jawad’s business is a critical piece of an informal safety net.

     By Christina GoldbaumHwaida Saad and Diego Ibarra Sanchez

    Abdul Latif fills a customer’s car at Ali Jawad’s gas station, in Baalbek, Lebanon this week.
    CreditDiego Ibarra Sánchez for The New York Times

  2. In Beirut’s Once-Bustling Suburbs, Smoking Rubble and Eerie Quiet

    Airstrikes targeting members of Hezbollah have brought the Dahiya neighborhoods south of Beirut to a standstill, its residents fleeing and businesses shuttering.

     By Christina Goldbaum and Hwaida Saad

    A destroyed street in Dahiya, the predominantly Shiite southern suburbs of Beirut, after a barrage of Israeli airstrikes, on Wednesday.
    CreditDavid Guttenfelder for The New York Times

  3. Inside the Lebanese Valley Where Israel Is Bombarding Hezbollah

    The Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah bastion in eastern Lebanon, had mostly been spared over 11 months of war. But The New York Times saw widespread devastation there after intense Israeli airstrikes this week.

     By Christina GoldbaumHwaida Saad and Diego Ibarra Sanchez

    A man surveys the destruction left by an Israeli airstrike in Baalbek, Lebanon, on Wednesday.
    CreditDiego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times

  4. Forced From Home by War, They Found Solace in Soccer

    For dozens of women who fled Myanmar and settled in Thailand, soccer has become a refuge from both the troubles of daily life and conservative cultural norms.

     By Sui-Lee Wee

    Demonstrating proper ball handling technique during a practice session for an all-women soccer team in Mae Sot, Thailand.
    CreditLauren DeCicca for The New York Times

  5. A French Fair as Workers’ Paradise, Feting Cuisine, Music and Communism

    The Fête de l’Humanité, a blend of Burning Man, Woodstock and a political convention, attracts the masses with bands, lectures and food, but here K.F.C. is C.F.K.: Communist Fried Kitchen.

     By Catherine Porter

    The Fête de l’Humanité, a popular festival on the outskirts of Paris, celebrates left-wing politics in general, and French Communism in particular.
    CreditDmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

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  1. She Didn’t See Other Black Hikers. She Decided to Change That.

    Motivated by the racial disparity she saw on trails, Rhiane Fatinikun founded Black Girls Hike to make Britain’s countryside more inclusive.

     By Megan Specia

    Rhiane Fatinikun, the founder of Black Girls Hike, on Ingleborough, a peak in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in England, after climbing it with a group of hikers this year.
    CreditMary Turner for The New York Times

  2. Using Dance to Provoke, Delight and Tell South Africa’s Stories

    Growing up in a Black township, Vusi Mdoyi found a sprinkle of joy under apartheid in a street-dancing style known as pantsula. As a choreographer, he has elevated it into high art, injected with ideas.

     By John Eligon and Ilan Godfrey

    Vusi Mdoyi, a South African dancer and choreographer with Step Africa at his purpose built home in Katlehong in September. Incorporating a dance studio and creative hub, he hopes it will give opportunities and exposure to formal dance that he did not get as a child.
    CreditIlan Godfrey for The New York Times

  3. The Wily Spy Who Risked His Life to Meet North Korea’s Secretive Leader

    Park Chae-so was so successful in infiltrating the North that Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic ruler, once gifted him blueberry wine. So why was the celebrated undercover agent later jailed by South Korea?

     By Choe Sang-Hun

    “Whenever I visited the North, I knew my life was on the line,” said Park Chae-so, a South Korean spy who met with the then-leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il.
    CreditWoohae Cho for The New York Times

  4. Ukrainian Poet and Rock Star Fights Near Front and Performs Behind It

    Serhiy Zhadan, 50, is a beloved Ukrainian poet as well as a novelist, lyricist and rock star. Furious over the invasion, he enlisted to fight even as his band still plays and his readings fill halls.

     By Carlotta Gall and Oleksandr Chubko

    Serhiy Zhadan, a Ukrainian poet, rock star and now a soldier, at a military position in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, in July. There is a Russian bounty on his head.
    CreditDavid Guttenfelder for The New York Times

  5. Street Artist Documents War in Ukraine, One Stark Mural at a Time

    Using ruins as his canvas, Gamlet Zinkivskyi has captured life in wartime Ukraine in dozens of grim, gripping and harshly beautiful paintings. “Broken, but invincible,” read one captioned work.

     By Constant Méheut

    The street artist Gamlet Zinkivskyi, who has painted murals in cities across eastern Ukraine, walking past one of his first works made after Russia’s invasion in his hometown, Kharkiv.
    CreditFinbarr O'Reilly for The New York Times

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  1. Eagles Players Feared Crime in Brazil. Have They Considered Philadelphia?

    Some N.F.L. players called Brazil dangerous ahead of the league’s first game in South America on Friday. Statistics show their home city is deadlier.

     By Jack Nicas and Sara Ruberg

    A mural featuring quarterbacks from the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers on an apartment tower in São Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday.
    CreditAndre Penner/Associated Press

  2. Against This Mighty Paralympic Team, a Close Loss Can Feel Like a Win

    Other teams give themselves an A for effort after playing the Dutch women’s wheelchair basketball team, the favorite for the gold medal at the Paris Games.

     By Elena Bergeron

    Mariska Beijer of the Netherlands handled the basketball during a game against Spain at the Paralympics in Paris.
    CreditDmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

  3. Every Four Years, He Gives Ireland a Reason to Watch Basketball

    While the Irish have no team in the Olympic tournament, Timmy McCarthy’s eccentric, enthusiastic commentary has earned him his own fervent fan base.

     By Ali Watkins

    Timmy McCarthy has developed a following for his passionate narration during basketball games at the Olympics.
    CreditKenneth O'Halloran, via RTE

  4. Why Kenya Stopped Running From Its Doping Past

    A nation synonymous with distance running was given a multimillion-dollar choice: Get serious about antidoping efforts, or get banned from world sports.

     By Tariq Panja

    Kenyan runners at a meet in Nairobi in 2018.
    CreditYasuyoshi Chiba/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

  5. How Norway Became a Powerhouse for All Seasons

    With money from an oil boom, Norway, a force at the Winter Olympics for generations, is now churning out elite performers in track, soccer and other sports, too.

     By Rory Smith and David B. Torch

    CreditDavid B. Torch for The New York Times

Read The Times in Spanish

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  1. Un recorrido con la policía keniana en un Haití controlado por pandillas

    Los oficiales de Kenia han logrado expulsar a las bandas de ciertas zonas de Puerto Príncipe que todavía lucen desoladas por el miedo a los ataques armados.

     By Frances Robles and Adriana Zehbrauskas

    Kenyan police in their armored personnel carrier during a patrol last month in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
    CreditAdriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times

  2. El Premio Nobel de la Paz es para un grupo japonés de supervivientes de la bomba atómica

    Nihon Hidankyo es una organización local de personas que sobrevivieron en Hiroshima y Nagasaki. Los esfuerzos del grupo han contribuido a establecer un “tabú nuclear”, según el comité del Nobel.

     By Megan Specia and Lynsey Chutel

    Toshiyuki Mimaki, right, president of Nihon Hidankyo, at a news conference in Hiroshima, Japan, on Friday, after the group was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
    CreditMoe Sasaki/Kyodo News, via Associated Press

  3. Casi un millón de civiles huyen de la guerra en el Líbano, según la ONU

    A una semana del inicio de la incursión terrestre de Israel, los refugios en el Líbano se están saturando, advirtieron los responsables de ayuda humanitaria.

     By Aaron BoxermanAryn BakerBen Hubbard and Alan Yuhas

    Personal de emergencia trabajando tras un incendio en un edificio residencial provocado por un cohete disparado desde Líbano, en Kiryat Shmona, norte de Israel, el miércoles.
    CreditAmmar Awad/Reuters

  4. ¿Ya estás embarazada? China presiona para aumentar su población

    El gobierno intenta de nuevo inmiscuirse en las decisiones de las mujeres sobre la maternidad, haciendo visitas inesperadas y realizando llamadas con preguntas que algunas consideran muy invasivas.

     By Vivian Wang

    Arte propagandístico en Miyun, un distrito de Pekín, que representa a una pareja con tres hijos e incluye frases que promueven la maternidad.
    CreditAndrea Verdelli para The New York Times

  5. Sinaloa, zona de guerra tras una traición en el Cártel

    Un engaño explosivo ha desgarrado a uno de los grupos delictivos más poderosos de México y ha desatado una guerra entre las facciones rivales.

     By Natalie KitroeffPaulina Villegas and Meridith Kohut

    Police guarding a crime scene last month in Culiacán, Mexico.
    CreditMeridith Kohut for The New York Times

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    The Brutal Reality of Panda Breeding

    Panda breeding has been highlighted as one of the big success stories in conservation: U.S. and Chinese scientists working together to increase the number of pandas released into the wild. But a New York Times investigation found that they have succeeded only at making more pandas for zoos. Individual pandas have been hurt in the process, and at least one has been killed. Mara Hvistendahl, an investigative reporter for The Times focused on Asia, explains how records, photographs and videos — many of them from the Smithsonian Institution Archives — offer the most detailed, unvarnished history of the program.

    By Mara Hvistendahl and Nikolay Nikolov

     
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    Canada Accuses Indian Diplomats of Criminal Activities

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the Indian government of homicide and extortion intended to silence critics of India living in Canada. Canada expelled India’s top diplomat and five others. India denied the allegations.

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