The Oct. 7 Attack Changed Israel, but Not Its Politics
A roadside memorial for Liraz Assulin, who was killed by Hamas-led gunmen as she tried to escape the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023.
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U.K. and Europe Recoil From Trump’s Diesel Deal With Putin
President Trump departing Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Saturday for a campaign rally in Clarksville, Tenn.
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Zelensky Comment Raises Fear That U.S. Is Cutting Intelligence Sharing
Damage, seemingly from a drone strike, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday. President Volodymyr Zelensky said five Russian missiles had hit residential areas.
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MI5 Chief Warns of Growing Iranian and Russian Threats to U.K.
The head of MI5, Ken McCallum, during his annual threat briefing in London in 2025.
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Cyberattack Hits Hundreds of Supermarket Refrigeration Systems in France
Empty shelves at an Intermarché supermarket in Névez, France, on Monday, following a cyberattack that caused refrigerators to defrost.
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Pope Leo Prepares for Surgery to Remove Lung Nodule
Pope Leo XIV arriving at the Policlinico A. Gemelli hospital in Rome on Tuesday.
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Bulgaria Summons Russian Ambassador After More Black Sea Drone Strikes
Prime Minister Rumen Radev of Bulgaria said that a crew member was rescued from one of the ships that had been attacked.
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They Came to Russia for Work. Now They Are Under Fire.
Smoke rising from an e-commerce warehouse near St. Petersburg, Russia, after a Ukrainian strike in July.
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on October 2026
Nuremberg Airport in Germany Suspends Flights Over ‘Aviation Emergency’
Albrecht Dürer Airport in Nuremberg, Germany, earlier this month.
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on October 2026
This Copper Mine Led to a Civil War. Can Reopening It Fund a New Nation?
Workers clear debris within a former processing plant as part of preparations to reopen the Panguna copper and gold mine.
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on October 2026
FIFA Pays Millions for Trump Tower Office Said to Be Rarely Used
President Trump with Gianni Infantino, the head of FIFA, at Trump Tower in New York in July.
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Macron Dreamed of Reviving France, but His Term Is Ending in Crisis
Students protesting in Paris on Thursday for better school conditions. President Emmanuel Macron has left his prime minister to publicly address nationwide school protests.
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on October 2026
At Least 6 Injured in Stabbing in South Korea
Emergency personnel gathered outside a supermarket where several people were stabbed in Incheon, South Korea, on Tuesday.
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on October 2026
Cornell and Toxic Frat Culture
Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell University.
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on October 2026
After Russian Diesel Deal, Trump Faces New Crisis Over Ukraine
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Kyiv last month.
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on October 2026
NATO Details Plan to Shield Ukraine’s European Allies From Russia
Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich of the U.S. Air Force, NATO’s top military commander, speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum on Monday.
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on October 2026
Trump Gives Putin a Hand in Russia’s Economic War With Ukraine
Smoke rising from fires at an oil refinery after what the authorities said was a Ukrainian drone strike in Moscow last month.
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on October 2026
After Lockdown, Sea of Protesters Flows Through India’s Capital
Protesters climbing on top of a bus while marching to the Supreme Court in New Delhi on Monday.
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on October 2026
Saudi Arabia Faces More Attacks as It Reels From Airport Strikes
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in Tehran earlier this month.
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Fire Devastates Paris’s Oldest Covered Food Market, Le Marché des Enfants Rouges
Firefighters above the roof of the Marché des Enfants Rouges in Paris on Monday, after the famed market caught fire.
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on October 2026
He Helped Discover Ebola 50 Years Ago. He’s Still Worried.
Dr. Peter Piot was among the first scientists to see the Ebola virus, as a young researcher in Belgium in 1976.
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on October 2026
Russian Film Aims to Rewrite History of Deadly Theater Bombing in Ukraine
The remains of the theater in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, in April 2022, in a photograph taken when the area was under pro-Russian control. The Russian airstrike on the building killed hundreds of civilians.
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on October 2026
Investigation Into FlyDubai Attacker Puts Spotlight on an Australian Mosque
A FlyDubai plane carried passengers to Tel Aviv last month after a midair cockpit attack on their earlier flight.
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on October 2026
The Taliban Are Using Europe’s Fear of Migrants to Their Advantage
Celebrations in the streets of Kabul during the fifth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power on Aug. 15.
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on October 2026
An Israeli Election Like No Other
Ashdod, Israel, last week.
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on October 2026
India’s Youth Protests Challenge Narendra Modi
Security personnel resting near a poster showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India after protests in New Delhi on Saturday.
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Pakistan Seizes Control of an Opposition-Led Province
After the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa launched a protest march from the province toward the capital, federal authorities stacked heavy shipping containers along major roadways to halt the protesters.
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on October 2026
Over 100 Migrants Are Dead After Boat Capsizes Near Djibouti
A photo released on Sunday showing the shipwreck of a boat that sank off the shores of Djibouti between Thursday night and Friday morning.
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on October 2026
Pope Leo Will Have Surgery to Remove Growth on Lung
Pope Leo XIV mentioned the planned surgery while speaking in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sunday.
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on October 2026
Ukraine Shrugs Off Trump Call to Ditch Zelensky for Energy Strikes
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at a World War II memorial ceremony in Kyiv on Tuesday.
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on October 2026
Saudi Arabia Has Few Options as Houthis Aim at Heart of Its Ambitions
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in Paris in August. Houthi strikes on the Saudi capital, Riyadh, have cast a shadow on his efforts to transform the kingdom into a global hub for business and tourism.
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on October 2026
Wringing Hope From the Rubble of Gaza
It’s been a year since Israel and Hamas signed an agreement to end the war in Gaza. But life in Gaza looks nothing like peace.
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on October 2026
In Canada’s Arctic, a New Generation of Inuit Creatives Are Using Identity to Fuel Their Art
Iqaluit, the capital of the Inuit territory of Nunavut, is only accessible by air or by seasonal sealift.
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on October 2026
A Russian Spy’s Lone Regret: ‘I Got Caught’
Alexsander at Prison Colony No. 122 in central Ukraine.
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A Reporter Returns to China to Find it Richer, but Also Highly Paranoid.
Andrew Higgins riding a car past Tiananmen Square in January. He was at the square in June 1989 when the military assaulted people who were protesting corruption, inequality and inflation.
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India’s ‘Cockroach’ Leaders Released as Small Protests Go On in Delhi
Ratna Singh, the legal director of the Cockroach Janta Party, left, with Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, two of the group’s leaders, at the Press Club of India in New Delhi on Saturday.
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on October 2026
Man Dies in Tiger Attack at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in England
A sign at the entrance to Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster, England, on Saturday.
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3 Men Found Guilty in Murders of Tourists on Mexico Surf Trip
Debra and Martin Robinson, the parents of Callum and Jake Robinson, who were murdered during a surfing trip, outside court in Ensenada, Mexico, on Thursday.
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on October 2026
Exasperation and Resignation in Greece Over Allegations Against Kimberly Guilfoyle
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, in Athens on Wednesday.
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on October 2026
From a Sikh Sanctuary to Chaotic Streets, Protesters Brave Police in Delhi
Security personnel detaining protesters in New Delhi on Saturday.
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on October 2026
Palestinian Authority Formally Delays Elections, Despite Western Pressure
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority in the city of Ramallah last month, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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on October 2026
Rebuking Ukraine Over Oil Strikes, Trump Says It Should ‘Get a New President’
President Trump at a campaign rally in Syracuse, N.Y., on Friday. His announcement that the United States would buy Russian diesel was followed by the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Russian diesel exports.
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on October 2026
Quebec Independence Is Unlikely, but Some Will Still Dream
The Parti Québécois leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, reacted to the results of the provincial election in Montreal on Monday.
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on October 2026
A Week Later, Russia Hasn’t Said What Pathogen Killed Plague Researcher
The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, Russia, on Wednesday. A 28-year-old researcher there died of an unexplained pneumonia.
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on October 2026
Blocked by Police, India’s Youth Voice Their Fury
Security personnel detaining protesters in New Delhi on Saturday.
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on October 2026
Navi Pillay, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Forged Her Career Under Apartheid
Saudi and Yemeni Airports Hit in New Round of Strikes
Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Airport Attacked Again, After Days of Houthi Strikes