Starvation and Bombs in Besieged Sudanese City As Residents Cry for Help
Residents waited for free meals in El Fasher, Sudan, last month. The city has been besieged by paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since April 2024.
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The Fleeting Fantasy of a King Who Would Return to Save Nepal
A statue of Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital. He was king of Nepal from 1955 until his death in 1972.
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on September 2025
The World Wants More Vaccines. An Anti-Vaccine America Isn’t Helping.
Under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Department of Health and Human Services has stripped away support for vaccine development, promotion and distribution.
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on September 2025
Rubio, in Israel, Says a Diplomatic Solution to Gaza War May Not be Possible
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Jerusalem on Sunday.
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on September 2025
Arab Leaders Meet to Weigh Response to Israel’s Attack in Qatar
A photo made available by the Qatar News Agency shows officials welcoming President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran in Doha on Friday.
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on September 2025
Trump’s Tariffs Test Mark Carney’s Leadership in Canada
Mark Carney speaking on election night in April in Ottawa. Mr. Carney campaigned on a promise to fight back against American tariffs and to stand up for Canadian sovereignty.
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India-Pakistan Tensions Hit New Pitch With Cricket Snub
The Indian captain, Suryakumar Yadav, right, and a teammate, Shivam Dube, after their win in an Asia Cup cricket game against Pakistan in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Sunday.
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Trump’s State Visit Will be Biggest UK Security Operation Since Coronation
Police officers carrying out security searches on Friday in Windsor, England, ahead of President Trump’s state visit.
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Suspect in Madeleine McCann Disappearance Refuses Interview With UK Police
Christian Brückner, the main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann in Portugal, at his trial on unrelated sexual assault charges in Braunschweig, Germany, in 2024.
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on September 2025
Pope Leo Says He Cannot Broker a Peace Deal for Ukraine
Pope Leo XIV presiding over a ceremony in Rome on Sunday.
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on September 2025
German Far Right Gains in Bellwether Election, but Fails to Sweep
Voters in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on Sunday.
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on September 2025
What to Know About Malawi’s Presidential Election
Lazarus Chakwera, the incumbent president of Malawi, in Lilongwe in July. Malawians will head to the polls on Sept. 16.
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on September 2025
U.S., China Conclude Talks With ‘Framework’ on TikTok Sale
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, center, and Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, far right, following trade talks with Chinese officials on Monday.
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on September 2025
G.O.P. Plan on Pesticides Faces Revolt From MAHA Moms
A bill could protect pesticide makers from billions of dollars in payouts to plaintiffs in lawsuits claiming their products cause cancer.
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on September 2025
Protests Against an Israeli Cycling Team Shut Down a Major Race
Palestinian supporters protesting an Israeli team’s participation at a cycling race in Montreal on Sunday.
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on September 2025
Kim Seongmin, Defector Who Pierced North Korea by Radio, Dies at 63
Kim Seongmin last November. His shortwave radio reports brought North Koreans information they could not get through their government-controlled news media.
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After Fiery Protests, Nepal’s Leader Promises a Brief, Caretaker Term
Sushila Karki, who is Nepal’s first female prime minister, arriving for her first day in office in Kathmandu on Sunday.
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Ricky Hatton, British Boxer and Former World Champion, Is Dead
Ricky Hatton with his Ring Magazine Light Welterweight Champion Belt, right, and his IBO Light Welterweight world championship belt in Ashton-u-Lyne, Manchester, England, in 2009.
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Arab Ministers Meet on Response to Israeli Attack in Qatar
A damaged building in Doha, Qatar, last week after an Israeli strike. Arab foreign ministers gathered on Sunday to debate how to respond to Israel’s missile attack.
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U.S. and China Resume Talks on Tariffs and TikTok
Jamieson Greer, left, the U.S. trade representative, and Scott Bessent, the U.S. Treasury secretary, met for trade talks in May with He Lifeng, China’s vice premier for economic policy, in Geneva.
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Russia Made Drone Production a Supreme Priority. Now It Swarms the Skies.
Ukrainian firefighters battling a blaze in central Kharkiv after several Russian drones struck the area in July.
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on September 2025
How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System
A desk in a cancer-research lab at UMass Chan. Decades of federally funded efforts have led to accelerating results: Between 1991 and 2022, the death rate from cancer in the United States fell by 34 percent.
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on September 2025
After Bolsonaro’s Conviction, Brazil Already Considers His Amnesty
Federal agents standing guard this month in Brasília, with Brazil’s Congress in the background, where negotiations about amnesty for Jair Bolsonaro have already begun.
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on September 2025
Romania Says Russian Drone Entered Its Airspace
A Romanian Air Force F-16 last month during an air show in Romania.
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on September 2025
Dozens of Students Among Over 200 Dead in Two Boat Disasters in Congo
A boat makes its way down the Congo River in 2021.
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on September 2025
Rubio Heads to a Defiant Israel After Qatar Strike
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Israel on Sunday.
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on September 2025
Focus Point
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In Toronto, a Spotlight on Canadian Films
Ryan Reynolds flashed an image of the Canadian actor John Candy, who died in 1994 and is the subject of a new documentary.
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on September 2025
Brazil Defies Trump’s Demands by Convicting Bolsonaro
Security officers at Brazil’s Supreme Court in Brasília this month.
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‘You Burned This Country Down’: After Arsons, Nepal Reckons With Its Future
Doctors attended to Sibam Sah, left, and his cousin Birendra Kumar Sah, whose face and body were also ravaged by burns.
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As Sabotage in Europe Mounts, So Do Calls to Retaliate Against Russia
A house that was badly damaged by debris from a Russian drone that was shot down in the village of Wyryki-Wola, in eastern Poland, on Wednesday.
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Extreme Heat Spurs New Laws Aimed at Protecting Workers Worldwide
A construction worker in Boston in July, when temperatures were in the 90s. Boston passed a law this summer requiring city projects to have a “heat illness prevention plan.”
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on September 2025
Trump Administration Questions Colombia’s Anti-Drug Efforts and Weighs Cutting Aid
Soldiers standing amid a coca crop in Cúcuta, Colombia, in 2020. Colombia is the world’s top producer of cocaine, but it has also been a key ally of the United States in trying to combat the drug trade.
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on September 2025
A Chaotic Showdown Over Election Integrity in India
Protesters in Kolkata, India, last month after the country’s election commission announced the revision of voter rolls ahead of elections in the state of Bihar.
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Tesla Board Chair Defend’s Elon Musk’s Humongous Pay Proposal
Robyn Denholm, Tesla’s board chair, argues that Elon Musk deserves his compensation package even though the company’s sales and profits have shrunk under his leadership.
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Unusual Climate Case Accusing Oil Giants of Racketeering Is Dismissed
Damage from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017.
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on September 2025
Bolsonaro was Sentenced to 27 Years for Plotting a Coup in Brazil. What Comes Next?
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, in São Paulo last year.
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Amid Drought, Some U.K. Residents Fume as Blackstone C.E.O. Fills Private Lake
The American billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman has been refurbishing a country house in the village of Conholt in east Wiltshire, about 80 miles southwest of London.
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on September 2025
NATO Steps Up Defenses After Russian Drones Violate Polish Airspace
Officials inspecting a house that was damaged when a Russian drone was shot down in the village of Wyryki-Wola, in eastern Poland, on Wednesday.
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on September 2025
Belgian Authorities Say $10 Million Supply of Birth Control Has Not Yet Been Destroyed
Belgian officials said the contraceptives the Trump administration claimed to have destroyed were still at this warehouse outside Antwerp, Belgium.
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on September 2025
Former Judge Sushila Karki Named Nepal’s Leader After Gen Z Protests
Sushila Karki, a former chief justice, was sworn in at a ceremony in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Friday.
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on September 2025
Rubio Leads Charge in Trump’s New War in Latin America
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has long sought the ouster of anti-American leftist strongmen in Latin America.
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on September 2025
Prince Harry Meets War Veterans in Surprise Visit to Ukraine
Prince Harry with a wounded Ukrainian serviceman during a surprise visit to Kyiv on Friday.
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on September 2025
Freed South Korean Workers Return From the U.S. to Tearful Cheers
South Korean workers arriving at Incheon International Airport in Incheon on Friday.
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on September 2025
Supporters of Ukraine Anti-Corruption Investigator Call His Jailing Absurd
A protest in July. Ukrainians have expressed strong support for ensuring that anti-corruption agencies can operate independently.
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on September 2025
Qatar Prime Minister to Meet Trump Officials After Israeli Strikes in Doha
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, has said that Israel crossed a line with its strike on Tuesday in his country’s capital, Doha.
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on September 2025
Secret Report Undercuts U.K. Condemnations of Palestine Action Group
A rally last month in Parliament Square in London called for lifting a British government ban on the group Palestine Action.
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on September 2025
A Defender of Darkness in the Darkest Place on Earth
Eduardo Unda-Sanzana at the Paranal Observatory in Antofagasta, Chile.
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on September 2025
Funicular Crash Has Jarred Lisbon’s Sense of Itself
Far-Right Rally in London Draws Huge Crowd and a Counterprotest
7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Russia’s Far East
California Wants to Ban ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Pans. These Chefs Say Don’t Do It.