Marseille’s Tight Mayoral Race Is a Bellwether for France’s Future
Supporters of Benoît Payan, the incumbent mayor of Marseille, France, distributing leaflets in the city on Friday. Mr. Payan is competing in a tight race featuring a strong far-right candidate.
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Nordic Leaders Praise Carney as They Discuss Arctic Security
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada attended a meeting of the leaders of the five Nordic countries on Sunday in Norway.
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Iceland’s Chief ‘Lava Cooler’ Is Bracing for the Next Volcanic Eruption
Helgi Hjorleifsson driving through lava fields in southwestern Iceland in February.
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A Timeline of the Fraught Relationship Between Iran and the U.S.
Iranians hammering nails in a mock coffin draped with an American flag on Friday at the annual Jerusalem Day rally in Tehran.
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Amid War in Iran, Europe’s Flashes of Military Strength Also Show Its Weakness
President Emmanuel Macron of France singing the French national anthem in Cyprus on Monday with the crew of an aircraft carrier deployed in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Three More Iranian Soccer Players Withdraw Bid for Asylum in Australia
Members of the Iranian women’s national soccer team before a match this month in Australia.
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Some Olympic Leaders Want to See Fixed Winter Games Host Cities
The International Olympic Committee has had to pivot toward flexibility as the number of bidders for its marquee winter event has started to dwindle.
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Netanyahu Has the War He Always Wanted, but on Trump’s Terms
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in January at the funeral of an Israeli hostage.
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Mahmood Mamdani, Father of NYC Mayor, Is Writing a Book on Gaza
Since his days as a scholar in Tanzania in the 1970s, Mahmood Mamdani has wrestled with subjects including the nature of colonialism and its enduring consequences.
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His Film Is Spain’s Submission to the Oscars. He’s Not Sure How Spanish It Is.
The Spanish director Oliver Laxe questioned “if my cinema is Spanish or not,” and said that his Oscar-nominated film, “Sirat,” differed from the work of his Spanish peers.
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‘Doctor Who’ Fans Have Fresh Chance to Time Travel With Found Episodes
From left, Nicholas Courtney as Bret Vyon, William Hartnell as the Doctor, Adrienne Hill as Katarina, and Peter Purves as Steven in a newly found “Dr. Who” episode called “The Devil’s Planet.”
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Pakistani-Afghan War Takes Heavy Toll on Civilians
A border market in Torkham, Afghanistan. that was damaged by a strike from Pakistan.
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Entering War’s Third Week, Trump Faces Stark Choices
President Trump has wrestled publicly with his stay-or-leave options, sometimes suggesting that the war is all but won and at others seeming to acknowledge that there is still heavy fighting ahead.
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State Department Cuts Price of Renouncing U.S. Citizenship to $450
The State Department significantly reduced the cost of giving up rights to a U.S. passport.
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Oil Prices May Not Fall Soon, U.S. Energy Secretary Says
In an interview with ABC News on Sunday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright expressed some confidence that the United States would be able to secure the Strait of Hormuz within weeks.
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Israel Says Michigan Synagogue Attacker’s Brother Was a Hezbollah Commander
A sheriff’s vehicle is parked in the driveway of Temple Israel, where an attacker drove his car into the synagogue on Thursday before being killed by armed guards, in West Bloomfield, Mich.
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Trump adds to speculation about Iranian leader’s condition.
During a rally in Tehran on Friday, a woman held a photo of Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader, in front of a banner showing his father, who was killed in recent U.S.-Israeli strikes.
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Warning to Americans to leave Iraq is a sign the Iran war is spilling over the border.
U.S. embassy personnel inspect the damage caused by an attack on the building in Baghdad on Saturday.
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Here’s What Happened in the U.S.-Israel War With Iran on Saturday
Officials said that more than 800 people have been killed in Lebanon since the start of the war, with more than 2,100 people killed across the region.
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Tehran Seems Largely Empty, as Many Flee and Others Weary of the Fighting
The Tajrish Bazaar in Tehran on Saturday. More than 1,348 civilians have been killed in Iran since the beginning of the war, according to the country’s representative to the United Nations.
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Sandstorm Batters Gaza, Slamming Makeshift Shelters
Displaced Palestinians faced a sandstorm in Gaza City on Saturday.
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Dozens of Medical Workers Killed as Israel Hits Lebanon
The funeral for Youssef Assaf, a volunteer with the Lebanese Red Cross, in Tyre, Lebanon, on Wednesday.
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Lebanon’s Displaced Flee Israeli Strikes One Year Into War
A man lighting a fire to keep warm along Beirut’s waterfront, after fleeing the city’s southern suburbs last week.
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Explosion at Jewish School in Amsterdam Is 2nd Antisemitic Attack in 2 Days, Officials Say
Police officers on Saturday outside the Amsterdam school where a blast damaged an outer wall. The mayor said Jews in Amsterdam were “increasingly confronted with antisemitism.”
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What’s Good?
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Canada Takes Its Sovereignty Push to Space
The northern lights over Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Scientists worry that space is becoming cluttered with satellites and debris.
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Is Latin America Ready to Abandon Cuba?
The Capitolio Nacional in Havana. Cuba’s isolation is deepening in the region.
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Trump and Rubio’s Vision of War: The Art of Destroy and Deal
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is at the helm of President Trump’s aggressive campaigns to reshape the governments of Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and beyond.
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Cuba’s History Since the Revolution, in Photos
Old Havana, the capital’s historic center, is a warren of faded facades and sunlit plazas.
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What to Know About Kharg Island, Iran’s Key Oil Hub
Smoke billowing from a flare stack at the Port of Kharg Island oil terminal in Iran in 2017.
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Surge in Oil Prices Shakes Pakistan’s Already Fragile Economy
A fuel storage site in Lahore, Pakistan, on Tuesday.
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Trump’s War Alliance With Israel Is Reshaping the Middle East. But It Carries Risks.
President Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at Mar-a-Lago in December.
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Here’s What Happened in the War in the Middle East on Friday
A resident walks through a neighborhood of central Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on Friday.
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Messi Meets Trump and Argentina Is Divided
President Trump with Lionel Messi and other members of Inter Miami in Washington last week.
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U.S. Vows to Block Iran’s Attempt to Shut Down Strait of Hormuz
Thousands marched amid airstrikes on Quds Day, a government-sponsored event, on Friday in Tehran.
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A New Trump Envoy Stirs Fears of U.S. Meddling In Brazil’s Elections
Darren Beattie, who recently became the State Department’s new senior adviser on Brazil policy, was fired from a job in the first Trump administration for appearing at a conference attended by white nationalists.
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Britain warns its citizens in Dubai they could be jailed for sharing photos of damage from airstrikes.
A building in Dubai damaged by debris from an intercepted missile on Friday. The United Arab Emirates prosecutor said last week that taking or sharing videos documenting airstrikes or damage could be illegal.
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To Fight Iran’s Drones, U.S. Taps Ukraine’s Hard-Earned Knowledge
An American soldier, in Poland, carrying an interceptor drone used in the Merops anti-drone system. The system was deployed in Poland after Russian drones crossed into the country.
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Read Some of John F. Burns’s Reporting From Around the World
John F. Burns in 2002 in Afghanistan. Following the attacks of Sept. 11, he coordinated coverage and reported on the war from Kabul and Islamabad, in Pakistan.
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Trump’s Move to Seize Oil Tankers Costs the U.S. Tens of Millions of Dollars
The oil tanker Skipper, seized by the United States, seen off the coast of Texas near Galveston in December.
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Trump Softens Call for Protesters to Take Over Iran
President Donald J. Trump now says Iranians could face threats for protesting against the government, which his war has failed to topple so far.
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In Scolding the New U.S. Ambassador, South Africa Signals Defiance
After Trump’s Call to Send Warships to Strait of Hormuz, Nations Respond With Caution
FCC Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses Over Iran War Coverage
U.S. Attacks Iran’s Kharg Island, a Key Port for Oil Exporting, Trump Says
More Marines and Warships Being Sent to Middle East, U.S. Officials Say
Iran War Live Updates: ‘No Guarantees’ Oil Prices Drop Soon, U.S. Official Says
As Rockets Fly Overhead, Residents of Israel’s Border City Stay Underground
Two Arrested in Death of Anti-Iranian Regime Activist in Canada