Justin Trudeau to Resign as Canada’s Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau on Monday after announcing that he will resign as Canada’s prime minister and Liberal Party leader, outside his residence in Ottawa.
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on January 2025
West Bank Settlers Hope Trump Will Back Annexation Dreams
An outpost between the settlements of Shilo and Eli, as seen in November from ancient Shiloh, in the West Bank.
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on January 2025
In Haiti, Gang Massacres and Journalist Murders Expose the Country’s Fragility
Journalists climb a wall to take cover from gunfire after being shot at by armed gangs at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince.
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on January 2025
Russia Claims to Seize Key Eastern Ukraine Town of Kurakhove
A Ukrainian armored vehicle driving in Kurakhove, in the east of the country, in September.
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on January 2025
Hamas Approves List of Hostages It May Free Under a Cease-Fire Deal With Israel
A rally calling for the release of hostages on Saturday in Tel Aviv.
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on January 2025
Trial Starts for Nicolas Sarkozy in Libya Election Case
Nicolas Sarkozy, then the president of France, with Libya’s then-leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, in 2007. Mr. Sarkozy was elected earlier that year and served until 2012.
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on January 2025
Pope Appoints Nun to Lead Vatican Department
An image taken from video and released last year by Consolata Missionaries shows Sister Simona Brambilla, 59, who on Monday became the first woman named by Pope Francis to lead a major Vatican department.
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on January 2025
Austria Could Get a Far-Right Chancellor. Here’s What to Know.
Herbert Kickl, leader of Austria’s Freedom Party, leaving the presidential office in Vienna on Monday. He was tasked with trying to form a governing coalition.
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on January 2025
Elon Musk and His Megaphone, X, Rattle British Politics
Elon Musk’s posts have thoroughly hijacked the political debate in Britain at the start of 2025.
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on January 2025
Pope Names Robert McElroy, an Ally on Immigration, as Cardinal in Washington
Cardinal Robert W. McElroy received a biretta from Pope Francis when he was installed as a new cardinal in 2022 at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.
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on January 2025
Syria’s New Rebel Government Orders Changes to School Curriculum, Worrying Some Syrians
Syrians protesting changes to the public school curriculum outside the Ministry of Education in Damascus on Sunday.
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on January 2025
Recognized by U.S. as Venezuela’s President-Elect, Edmundo González Meets With Biden
The Venezuelan opposition figure Edmundo González at his home in Caracas before the election last year.
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on January 2025
Azerbaijani Anger Over Plane Crash Grows, in Deepening Schism With Russia
The crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Dec. 25.
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on January 2025
U.S. Sends 11 Guantánamo Prisoners to Oman to Start New Lives
A prisoner at Guantánamo Bay’s Camp 6 detention center in 2019. There are now 15 men left in the prison.
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on January 2025
A Timeline of Justin Trudeau’s Rise and Fall
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing on Monday his plans to step down.
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on January 2025
‘Forever Chemicals’ Reach Tap Water via Treated Sewage, Study Finds
A wastewater treatment plant in Oakland, Calif. PFAS chemicals have been linked to cancer.
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on January 2025
Lead Poisoning May Have Made Ancient Romans a Bit Less Intelligent
A silver coin with an image of Augustus. His reign as emperor, from 27 B.C. until A.D. 14, initiated the Pax Romana, a period of stability and prosperity.
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on January 2025
Sugary Drinks Linked to Global Rise in Diabetes, Heart Disease
A supermarket in Bogotá, Colombia. A disproportionate share of the cases of Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease was concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
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on January 2025
U.K.’s Starmer Slams ‘Lies and Misinformation’ After Elon Musk Attacks
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, center rear, on a visit to Epsom Hospital, south of London, on Monday, where he addressed Elon Musk’s social media posts about his government.
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on January 2025
In Seoul, Blinken Affirms Alliance Amid Challenges to Democracies
South Korea’s Acting President Choi Sang-mok and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during a meeting in Seoul on Monday.
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on January 2025
Monday Briefing
A participant in a September 2021 rally in Washington, organized to support people who faced charges in connection with the Jan. 6 riot.
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on January 2025
Israel Conducts Raids in Syria Amid Accusations of Cease-Fire Violations
Israeli troops making their way to the Syrian side of the buffer zone on the border between Israel and Syria last month.
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on January 2025
Austria Coalition Talks Collapse, Raising Prospects for Far-Right Freedom Party
Herbert Kickl, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria, in Vienna in September, when his party won the most seats in the national assembly.
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on January 2025
Monday Briefing: How Trump Re-Wrote Jan. 6
Rioters on the steps of the Capitol, where President-elect Donald Trump will take his oath of office.
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on January 2025
In Reversal, Musk Trashes Farage, U.K.’s Anti-Immigrant Populist
Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-immigrant Reform UK party, speaking at a party conference on Friday.
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on January 2025
Ukraine Attacks Kursk Region of Russia Anew
Russian soldiers at an artillery position last month in the Kursk region of western Russia.
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on January 2025
Costas Simitis, 2-Time Prime Minister of Greece, Dies at 88
Costas Simitis in 1994. He became prime minister of Greece in 1996. As his time in office ended, a newspaper said, “Simitis has not made Greece perfect but he has helped make it better.”
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on January 2025
Israel’s Military Pounds Gaza as Pressure Mounts for Cease-fire
The site of an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Saturday.
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on January 2025
A Gas Cutoff Sends Shivers Through a Russian-Backed Breakaway Region
A woman walking on the train lines on Friday in Bender, Transnistria.
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on January 2025
In Damascus, Syrians Reclaim Spaces and Freedoms After al-Assad’s Fall
Mount Qasioun, which overlooks the Syrian capital, Damascus, is being revived as a leisure spot.
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on January 2025
On the Run, a Hit Man Gives One Last Confession
Edgar Matobato, a member of a death squad linked to former President Rodrigo Duterte, inside a church compound at an undisclosed location in the Philippines in June.
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on January 2025
Hong Kong’s Cabbies, Long Scorned and Frustrated, Face the End of an Era
Joe Fong driving a taxi with five cellphones affixed on his dashboard. He sees no value in antagonizing customers. “You need a ride and I need your money.”
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on January 2025
A Frigid First: Chile’s President Visits South Pole to Bolster Antarctic Claims
A photograph released by the Chilean Presidential Palace shows President Gabriel Boric at the Ceremonial South Pole during his visit on Friday.
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on January 2025
Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s Prime Minister, Visits Trump in Mar-a-Lago
President-elect Donald J. Trump with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy on Saturday at Mar-a-Lago, in a photograph released by the Italian government.
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on January 2025
Hamas Releases Video of Teenage Israeli Soldier Held Hostage in Gaza
People protested outside the Ministry of Defense during the first anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7. About 100 hostages are still being held in Gaza.
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on January 2025
Syria’s International Airport to Reopen as Government Presses for Stability
A plane parked at Damascus International Airport last month.
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on January 2025
The Year Ahead
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on January 2025
Jimmy Carter Helped Clean Up Canada’s Chalk River Nuclear Accident
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter on Fifth Avenue in New York in 1976.
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on January 2025
How Hybrid Tactics Targeted NATO Allies in 2024: Drones, Exploding Parcels, Sabotage
Ramstein Air Base in Germany, one of the biggest U.S. posts in Europe, where mysterious drones appeared in what analysts suspected may have been a state-sponsored surveillance mission.
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on January 2025
Tomiko Itooka of Japan, World’s Oldest Person, Dies at 116
Tomiko Itooka on her 116th birthday, in Ashiya, Japan, in May.
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on January 2025
In Mexican Desert, Digging for a ‘Miracle’: Bringing the Missing Back Home
Isabel García, a geophysicist at the Regional Center for Human Identification in Coahuila, Mexico, is part of a team that searches for and identifies human remains.
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on January 2025
Gaza Rescuers Are Haunted by Voices of Those They Couldn’t Save
A rescue after an Israeli bombardment in northern Gaza City in October.
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on January 2025
How ‘Stop the Steal’ Became a Protest Slogan in South Korea
Supporters of South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, outside the presidential residence in Seoul on Friday.
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on January 2025
How the Islamic State Radicalizes People Today
The F.B.I. said the man who killed 14 people when he drove into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day was “100 percent inspired by ISIS.”
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on January 2025
In Kosovo, Christian Converts Hope to Revive a Pre-Islamic Past
Two men chatting in front of a church in the village of Llapushnik, Kosovo, where a baptism ceremony took place in November.
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on January 2025
In France, Drug Traffic Spreads to Small Towns
Morlaix, on the Breton coast of France. The trade in illicit drugs has brought a measure of insecurity to places that had once felt sleepy and safe.
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on January 2025
Honduran Leader Threatens to Push U.S. Military Out of Base if Trump Orders Mass Deportations
President Xiomara Castro of Honduras on Wednesday, in an image released by the Honduran Presidency. She warned that she would oust the U.S. military from Honduras if President-elect Donald J. Trump made good on his threat to order massive deportations of Hondurans.
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on January 2025
U.S. Hits Chinese Cybersecurity Company With Sanctions After Breach
In September, the F.B.I. said it had taken down a network of 200,000 consumer devices in the U.S. and abroad that had been compromised with malware and weaponized by Flax Typhoon, a Chinese hacking group.
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on January 2025
Which Countries Warn That Alcohol May Cause Cancer?
Shelves of alcohol for sale in a supermarket in Galway, Ireland.
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on January 2025
Britt Allcroft, Who Brought Thomas the Tank Engine to TV, Dies at 81
Britt Allcroft in 1973, more than a decade before “Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends” debuted on British television.
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on January 2025
Elon Musk Trolls Britain and Defends Tommy Robinson in Flurry of Social Media Posts
Elon Musk has moved on from his enthusiastic boosting of a far-right party in Germany to targeting Britain in a fusillade of social media posts.
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on January 2025
Dinosaur Footprints Found in England by Quarry Workers
An undated photo provided by the University of Birmingham, showing work along the so-called “dinosaur highway” at a quarry in Oxfordshire, England.
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on January 2025
After Fierce Lobbying, Treasury Sets Rules for Billions in Hydrogen Subsidies
Moving an electrolyzer, a piece of equipment that generates hydrogen from water using electricity, from a train to a truck at a hydrogen production and storage facility in Delta, Utah, in 2023.
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on January 2025
South Korea’s Dueling Protests
Thousands of people showed up on Friday near the residence of the impeached South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, to call for his arrest. Others were there to defend him.
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on January 2025
South Korea Fails to Detain Impeached President in Standoff at His Home
Protesters rally against President Yoon Suk Yeol near his residence in Seoul in Friday.
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on January 2025
Emeralds for Sale: The Taliban Look Below Ground to Revive the Economy
Tuesday Briefing: Canada’s Prime Minister Is Stepping Down
In Africa, Danger Slithers Through Homes and Fields
‘The Interview’: Antony Blinken Insists He and Biden Made the Right Calls