Nobel Peace Prize Winner Machado Says U.S. Helped Her Leave Venezuela
María Corina Machado at a news conference in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday after spending more than a year in hiding.
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Syria, Rebuilding Its Military, Relies on Loyalists and Religious Teaching
Syrian security officers at their graduation ceremony in Damascus in February.
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Former King Juan Carlos I of Spain, Seeking Relevance, Publishes Book
Juan Carlos I of Spain, in February. He has been mostly left out of recent celebrations of the 50th anniversary of Spain’s transition to democracy, in which he was instrumental.
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Zelensky Says Revised U.S. Plan Still Calls for Ukraine to Leave Donbas
After a Russian missile attack in Ternopil, western Ukraine, last month.
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Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Resigns in the Face of Mass Protests
Protesters filled the streets outside Parliament on Wednesday during an anti-government rally in Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia.
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After Australia, Which Countries Could Be Next to Ban Social Media for Children
Elementary school children in Denmark, which could become the first country in the European Union to impose an age limit on access to social media.
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María Corina Machado Appears in Norway After Missing Nobel Ceremony
María Corina Machado greeting supporters in Oslo from a hotel balcony early on Thursday morning.
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Russia Warns Poland Over Arrest of a Researcher Wanted by Ukraine
The detention center where the Russian archaeologist Alexander Butyagin is held after being detained by Polish authorities, in Warsaw.
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Ahead of Trump Call, Fighting Between Thailand and Cambodia Intensifies
Evacuees sleeping at a shelter at the Chang International Circuit in Buriram, Thailand, on Thursday.
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Mexico Approves 50% Tariffs on Many Chinese Imports
A display of cars by the Chinese automaker BYD in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez. China is the second largest exporter to Mexico after the United States.
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Here’s What to Know About Japan’s Mega Quake Advisory
A vehicle teetered on a collapsed road in Tohoku Town off the coast of northern Japan.
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Chip Company Plotted to Send Technology to China, Ex-C.E.O. Says
On a production line of the Dutch semiconductor company Nexperia in Hamburg, Germany, last year. Dutch officials seized the company in September.
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U.S. Helped to Weaken Report at U.N. Environment Talks, Participants Say
The opening session of the 7th United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday.
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Hatching the Automobile’s Future in a Cloistered Los Angeles Lab
Doug Field, Ford Motor Company’s chief of electric vehicles, digital and design.
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Highways to Vancouver Closed After Flooding and Landslides
A closed road in Fraser Valley, British Columbia.
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Britain Releases New Data on ‘Grooming Gangs’ and Child Sexual Abuse
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has called for a “moment of reckoning” in the inquiry into child sexual abuse in Britain.
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M23 Rebels Seize Uvira in Eastern Congo
With the capture of Uvira, the militia M23 now controls both the North and South Kivu regions in eastern Congo.
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A Controversial Nobel Peace Prize
María Corina Machado in Caracas after voting in the presidential election last year.
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Trump Says U.S. Seized Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast
President Trump announced the seizure at the White House on Wednesday, without giving details on the operation.
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UNESCO Recognizes Italian Cooking, Kohl Makeup and Icelandic Pools
Having pasta in Rome on Wednesday. The UNESCO committee said Italy’s culinary tradition “emphasizes intimacy with food, respect for ingredients and shared moments around the table.”
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Yemeni Separatists Set Sights on Houthi-Controlled Capital
Soldiers loyal to the Southern Transitional Council, a separatist group, in Aden, Yemen, on Tuesday.
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Louvre Heist Was Filmed Live, but the Guards Weren’t Watching
French police officers stand next to a furniture elevator used by robbers to enter the Louvre, in October.
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Danish Intelligence Report Raises Concerns About Shifts in US Policy Under Trump
A Cold War-era American satellite station on a hill above the settlement of Kangerlussuaq, in southwestern Greenland, in June.
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Khmer Rouge-Era Land Mines Have a Big Role in Thailand-Cambodia Conflict
A mine clearance operation in Sisaket province in Thailand in August, near the border with Cambodia.
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ISIS Detention Camps Pose a Dangerous Problem for Syria’s Leaders
Al Hol, a detention camp in northeastern Syria, holds family members of ISIS fighters.
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The Challenges to Europe’s Security Go Beyond Trump’s Lack of Support
A convoy of U.S. military vehicles passed through Frankenberg, Germany, en route to Poland in 2024 for NATO exercises.
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Venezuela’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner Raises Stakes in Stand off With Maduro
Ana Corina Sosa, the daughter of the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, speaking at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony on Wednesday in Oslo.
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Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
Recent news reports on strike orders given by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have raised questions of potential war crimes.
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Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s Ambassador to U.S., to Leave Post
Kirsten Hillman did not specify a date for the end of her tenure but said that after she leaves, she will still be available to Canada’s negotiators.
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Ukraine Could Be ‘Ready for Elections,’ Zelensky Says
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine speaking at the White House in Washington, D.C., in October.
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U.S. Plans to Scrutinize 5 Years of Social Media History for Foreign Tourists
Visitors from countries in the visa waiver program would also be required to share a range of other information, including email addresses from the last decade.
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Seattle’s Plans for a Pride Match at World Cup Infuriates Iran and Egypt
Iran learned its group at the FIFA World Cup draw last week in Washington, D.C.
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Nobel Peace Prize for Venezuela’s María Corina Machado Draws Criticism
The opposition leader María Corina Machado in her office in Caracas last year.
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Canada Plans to Fast-Track Immigration for US H1-B Visa Holders in New Talent Drive
The University of Toronto, one of the world’s best-ranked academic institutions, picked up several top professors from Ivy League schools this year, including two from M.I.T.
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Australia’s Social Media Ban for Children Takes Effect
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, center, standing alongside 12-year-old girl Flossie, center left, who criticized social media companies during an official function to mark the start of Australia’s social media changes in Sydney on Wednesday.
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Israeli Ban on Media Entering Gaza Remains, as Legal Challenge Is Delayed
Destruction in Jabaliya, northeast of Gaza City, in November.
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Brigitte Macron’s Slur Against Feminist Protesters Prompts an Outcry in France
Brigitte Macron, wife of President Emmanuel Macron of France, jokingly vowed to protect the comedian from the protesters, and used a slur, a video showed.
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A History of U.S. Military Action in Latin America
U.S. troops in Veracruz, Mexico, in April 1914, as part of a blockade of the city’s port.
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Lithuania Declares National Emergency Over Suspicious Balloons From Belarus
An officer inspecting a balloon used to carry cigarettes into Lithuania.
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Another Front in the War in Ukraine: Who Gets to Claim a Famed Artist?
A train car dedicated to Kazimir Malevich in Kyiv, Ukraine, in October.
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Canada’s Northwest Territories Diamond Mines Are Closing
The A418 pit at the Rio Tinto Diavik Diamond Mine in Lac de Gras, Northwest Territories was closed to mining activity in 2022 and is being filled with processed kimberlite and water as part of Diavik’s agreement to remediate the landscape back to as close to its original form as possible.
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Hundreds of Thousands of Thais and Cambodians Flee
A Thai resident who fled clashes between Thai and Cambodian soldiers, using a cellphone while taking shelter in Buriram Province, Thailand, on Tuesday.
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A Single Mother’s Fight to Free Her Daughter From Saudi Arabia
She Studied Mosquitoes to Prevent Malaria. Then She Lost Her Job at U.S.A.I.D.
For Real, a Natural History of Misinformation
Trump and Europe’s Far Right
The Territorial Sticking Point Between Russia and Ukraine
All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped