Live Updates: Israel Begins Ground Operations in Southern Lebanon
Israeli artillery shells hit areas near villages in southern Lebanon along the border with Israel, as seen from the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, on Monday.
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As Israel Strikes Hezbollah, Iran-Backed Militias Fail to Provide Aid
After the killing of the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Tehran has put his image on billboards. But it has not retaliated directly.
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on September 2024
Separated by the Ukraine War, Two Soul Mates Reconnect
Polina Muzhychkova, left, and Sofia Malina in Odesa, Ukraine, in July.
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on September 2024
Crisis at The Jewish Chronicle: Fabrications and Resignations
The Jewish Chronicle, a weekly founded in 1841, bills itself as the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper.
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on September 2024
Zelensky Returns to Russian Strikes in Eastern Ukraine and Counterattacks in Kursk Region
Damage in Kurakhove, in eastern Ukraine. Moscow’s troops have been trying to encircle the town.
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on September 2024
Dozens Feared Dead After Migrant Boat Sinks Off Canary Islands
Rescuers helping some of the 27 people rescued at the port of La Restinga on the island of El Hierro, Spain, on Monday.
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on September 2024
Marine Le Pen’s Party Goes on Trial in France on Embezzlement Charges
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen speaking to journalists during the French parliamentary elections in Paris in July.
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on September 2024
Russia to Boost Defense Budget as Ukraine War Drags On
Preparing for a military parade in Moscow last year. The Kremlin plans to boost military spending by 25 percent in 2025.
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on September 2024
Saudi Arabia Pledges to Send Financial Aid to Palestine
Palestinians lining up this summer at A.T.M.s in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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on September 2024
Senior Officer Gets 3 Years Over South Korea Crowd Crush
Lee Im-jae was the chief of police in Yongsan District, the area in central Seoul where the disaster happened.
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on September 2024
As Mexico’s President Steps Down, Some Laud His Legacy, but Others Fear It
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico and his wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, during Independence Day celebrations in Mexico City this month.
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on September 2024
Iran Projects Caution After Israeli Strikes Against Hezbollah
Government supporters in Tehran’s Palestine Square mourning the death of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, on Saturday.
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on September 2024
Austria’s Far Right Wins Election but May Fall Short of Forming a Government
Herbert Kickl, center left, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria, on Sunday in Vienna, where he said he has a clear mandate to form a government.
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on September 2024
How Mexican Novelist Yuri Herrera Found Himself in New Orleans
Much of Yuri Herrera’s work has touched on social realities in Mexico. Now he has turned his attention to New Orleans, a uniquely American city that has been his home for 13 years.
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on September 2024
Humberto Ortega, Former Miliary Chief in Nicaragua, Dies at 77
Humberto Ortega, the former head of Nicaragua’s armed forces, during a news conference in Managua in 2000. His death was announced Monday.
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on September 2024
Israeli Military Begins Ground Invasion of Southern Lebanon
Residents in central Beirut, Lebanon, cleaning up on Monday after an overnight bombing by Israeli forces. It was believed to have been the first Israeli strike in central Beirut since at least 2006.
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on September 2024
Tuesday Briefing: Israel Conducts Raids in Lebanon
An Israeli tank in a staging area in northern Israel on Sunday.
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on September 2024
Why Helene Was So Destructive in Florida, the Carolinas and Appalachia
Damage to Highway 64 near Bat Cave, N.C., on Monday.
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on September 2024
U.S. and Allies Sound Alarm Over Their Adversaries’ Military Ties
In speeches and closed-door talks, most recently at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, U.S. officials have been sounding the alarm on the coalition of powers working to strengthen one another’s militaries to defeat America’s partners.
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on September 2024
Britain Shuts Down Last Coal Plant, ‘Turning Its Back on Coal Forever’
The 2,000-megawatt Ratcliffe-on-Soar power plant in England will close Monday.
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on September 2024
Around the World, Diplomats Gird for a Trump Assault on Climate Action
Donald J. Trump addressing the 74th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in 2019.
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on September 2024
Israeli Strike Inside Beirut City Limits Puts Residents on Edge
An apartment block damaged by a blast on Monday in Beirut, Lebanon.
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on September 2024
Hezbollah Deputy Commander Says Group Is Ready For Possible Ground Incursion
Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Qassem, speaks on video from an unknown location, days after the Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
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on September 2024
Israeli Commandos Making Raids Into Lebanon, Officials Say
An Israeli tank in a staging area in northern Israel, on Sunday.
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on September 2024
Dockworkers Strike at U.S. Ports Could Begin Tuesday
The longshoremen’s union has not held a strike at all the East and Gulf Coast ports since 1977.
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on September 2024
Monday Briefing: The Aftermath of Nasrallah’s Death
Supporters attending the funeral of Hezbollah fighters in the southern suburbs of Beirut last week.
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on September 2024
Israel Targets Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and Hamas in Gaza
Israeli military forces in northern Israel, near Kiryat Shmona, on Sunday.
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on September 2024
Monday Briefing: The Aftermath of Nasrallah’s Death
Supporters attending the funeral of Hezbollah fighters in the southern suburbs of Beirut last week.
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on September 2024
Gideon Saar Joins Netanyahu Coalition
Gideon Saar had been a longtime opponent of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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on September 2024
Israel Strikes the Houthis, an Iranian Ally, in Yemen
The capital of Yemen last week. The war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has expanded to other parts of the Arab world where Iranian-backed groups dominate, including Yemen.
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on September 2024
Nepal Flooding and Landslides Kill at Least 190 People
Rescue workers retrieving bodies of victims on Sunday after a landslide in Dhading, Nepal.
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on September 2024
Netanyahu, Ignoring Allies and Defying Critics, Basks in a Rare Triumph
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel spoke on Friday at the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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on September 2024
Why the World’s Biggest Powers Can’t Stop a Middle East War
A man walking through the rubble of buildings in Baalbek, Lebanon, last week after Israeli airstrikes.
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on September 2024
Can Mainstream Media Save Itself?
The business of news is under siege, with newspapers facing diminishing readership and revenues. Some 2,900 newspapers in the United States have shuttered since 2005.
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on September 2024
In a Year of Elections, Democracy is on the Line
Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation on Sept. 12. Activity there was suspended pending judicial reforms proposed by the departing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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on September 2024
Put Vladimir Putin on Trial for War Crimes? That’s One Lawyer’s Demand.
The aftermath of a missile strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, in October 2022. “I don’t think there’s very much that Putin could say,” the lawyer Geoffrey Robertson said of the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. “We’ve got television pictures of his tanks rolling toward Kyiv. We know exactly what he did, what he ordered.”
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on September 2024
Studying at an English-Speaking University? In Quebec, That May Cost Extra.
McGill University students on the campus grounds in downtown Montreal.
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on September 2024
As Austrians Vote, Far Right Awaits Its Biggest Success
Herbert Kickl, the leader of the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party, in February.
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on September 2024
Death of Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s Leader, Pushes Mideast Conflict Into New Territory
The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday that killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah.
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on September 2024
As Hezbollah Threat Loomed, Israel Built Up Its Spy Agencies
A billboard featured Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon.
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on September 2024
Protesters Mourn Nasrallah’s Death Around the World
Mourning in Palestine Square in Tehran on Saturday.
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on September 2024
Antônio Delfim Netto, Brazilian Economic Czar, Dies at 96
The longtime Brazilian finance minister Antônio Delfim Netto in about 1970. He was a bundle of contradictions, variously categorized as a technocrat, a neo-capitalist and a promoter of greater state control over the economy.
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on September 2024
Can Hezbollah Recover From the Death of Hassan Nasrallah?
Hassan Nasrallah on a poster in Beirut in 2017.
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on September 2024
Nepal Flooding and Landslides Kill Dozens
Rescuers in Kathmandu taking residents to safety from the overflowing Bagmati River on Saturday.
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on September 2024
Amadou Mahtar M’Bow, 103, Dies; His Tenure Leading UNESCO Was Stormy
Amadou Mahtar M’Bow in 1983. He led UNESCO for 13 years while withstanding accusations of mismanagement and nepotism.
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on September 2024
Hezbollah Leader, Hassan Nasrallah, Killed by Israeli Strike at 64
Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah, seen on a screen in Baalbek, Lebanon, in 2018.
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on September 2024
Strike on Hezbollah Leader Suggests Major Strategic Miscalculation
Supporters attending the funeral of Hezbollah fighters in the souther suburbs of Beirut last week.
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on September 2024
Hezbollah’s Victims Voice Relief at Its Disarray
Syrians gathered in the rebel stronghold of Idlib on Saturday celebrated news of the death of Hassan Nasrallah.
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on September 2024
At Capacity
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Manhunt Underway After South Africa Mass Shooting Leaves 17 Dead
Police officials on Saturday at one of the shooting scenes, in a photograph released by the South African police.
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on September 2024
Newfoundland and Labrador Promoted on Barrow AFC Jerseys
Barrow’s players will carry Newfoundland and Labrador’s name on their jerseys for two seasons.
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on September 2024
Israel Tracked Nasrallah for Months Before Assassination, Officials Say
Israel’s Attack in Central Beirut Was Its First There in Years
A Blast in Central Beirut Damages a Building
Here’s Who Remains in Hezbollah’s Leadership
A Decimated Hezbollah Is a Serious Blow for Iran