The Sudden Death of a Man Who Told Chinese Kids How to Succeed
Zhang Xuefeng during a lecture at a university in the central city of Zhengzhou in 2017. He rose to fame for his advice on how to succeed in a hypercompetitive environment.
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Olympic Committee Bars Transgender Athletes From Women’s Events
Kirsty Coventry, president of the International Olympic Committee and a former Olympic swimmer from Zimbabwe.
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Hungary Opens Espionage Case Against Journalist
The investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi in Budapest in 2021. He dismissed the government’s espionage claims as a “false” and “completely unjust accusation.”
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Russian Lawmakers Go to U.S. for First Time Since Invasion of Ukraine
Svetlana Zhurova, a member of Russia’s State Duma and a former Olympian, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2022. She is one of four Russian lawmakers traveling to the United States, despite personal sanctions.
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Under Carney, Canada Finally Hits NATO’s 2% Spending Target
Members of the Canadian military during an exercise last month on Victoria Island in the country’s Arctic region.
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India Appears Sidelined as Pakistan Tries to Play Peacemaker in Iran
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India has endured rocky relations with the United States during President Trump’s second term.
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Malaysia Says Iran Will Allow Its Ships to Pass Through the Strait of Hormuz
Ships anchored in Muscat, Oman, near the Strait of Hormuz, on Wednesday.
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Trump’s Threats to Europe Put Its Leaders in a Double Bind Over Iran
President Donald Trump disembarking from Air Force One in Maryland on Monday.
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How U.S.A.I.D. Birth Control Meant for Africa Was Ruined
A warehouse in Geel, Belgium, where contraceptives have been stranded since U.S.A.I.D. was defunded and dismantled last year.
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Zelensky Says U.S. Is Conditioning Ukraine’s Security Guarantees on Donbas Surrender
President Volodymyr Zelensky at a command post near Sloviansk, in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine.
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Rubio Says Allies Should Help Secure Strait by Iran for Oil and Gas Ships
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking at a cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday.
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Displaced by War, Many Seek Shelter in Beirut
Zouheir Chahine fled his hometown in southern Lebanon and now lives at a temporary shelter at a local school in the capital, Beirut.
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Standoff With Iran Raises Fresh Doubts About Trump’s Freestyle Diplomacy
As the war stretches on, President Trump appears to be casting about for a diplomatic offramp even as he threatens an escalation.
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Hello? It’s Pakistan Calling.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan.
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Trump Extends Iran Deadline on Strait of Hormuz as Stocks Tumble
President Trump, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, on Thursday at the White House. Mr. Trump said if Iran did not negotiate, “we’ll just keep blowing them away.”
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Air Canada C.E.O. Apologizes for English-Language Condolences After Plane Crash
Air Canada’s chief executive, Michael Rousseau, in 2024. He said he was “still unable” to express himself “adequately in French,” despite his many lessons.
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Winter Sea Ice in the Arctic Ties a Record Low
The disappearing ice also affects wildlife habitat. A polar bear on Norwegian sea ice last April.
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Europeans Worry Russia Is Preparing to Deliver Drones to Iran
Ukrainian war crimes prosecutors with a Russian Shahed-style drone, in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine last year. While Iran initially supplied hundreds of drones in 2022, Russia then built its own production facility and evolved the design.
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After Wooing Trump With Deals, Pakistan Gets a Seat at the Table
The Roosevelt Hotel in New York, which is owned by Pakistan, in 2023.
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The head of NATO says Europe needs time to help secure the Strait of Hormuz.
NATO’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, said European leaders could not be expected to quickly assist in the Persian Gulf because they were not given advance notice of the Feb. 28 attack on Iran.
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Two Killed in Abu Dhabi as Gulf States Face Fresh Attacks
The waterfront in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates last week.
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U.S. Military Kills 4 People in Boat Strike in Caribbean
The Pentagon said it blew up a boat in the Caribbean on Wednesday, the 47th such attack since the campaign started in early September.
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After ‘Sausage Making,’ European Lawmakers Approve U.S. Trade Deal
President Trump and Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Scotland, where a U.S.-E.U. trade deal was signed last July.
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Who Is Alireza Tangsiri, the Latest Iranian Commander Targeted by Israel?
Alireza Tangsiri in a photo released by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps last month.
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Here’s the latest.
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Rescuers Work to Save a 32-Foot Humpback Whale Trapped in the Baltic Sea
A photograph released by Sea Shepherd Deutschland showing a stranded humpback whale off the Baltic Sea coast of Timmendorfer Strand near Lübeck, northern Germany, on Tuesday.
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Republicans in Congress Fret Over Trump Administration’s Handling of Iran War
“We will not sacrifice American lives for the same failed foreign policies,” Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina said on Wednesday.
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Canada’s Supreme Court Hears Case on Ability to Suspend Constitutional Rights
The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa has devoted four days this week to hearings on the notwithstanding clause, which allows governments to pass laws that suspend rights in the Constitution’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Here’s What Happened in the War in the Middle East on Wednesday
A damaged home in an apartment building in Bnei Brak, Israel, on Wednesday.
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Asia Is Getting Crushed Between Oil Prices and the Dollar
People lining up to refuel at a gas station in Ahmedabad in India on Monday.
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U.S. Rejects Vote to Recognize Slavery as a ‘Crime Against Humanity’
President John Mahama of Ghana during the U.N. General Assembly last year. Ghana introduced a U.N. resolution to recognize the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” this week.
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Airport Chaos
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Boubacar Ould Messaoud, Leader in an Antislavery Fight, Dies at 80
Boubacar Messaoud in 2002. “In my estimation, eradicating slavery is my duty, and I would sacrifice my life for it,” he said.
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Iran’s Attacks Force U.S. Troops to Work Remotely
A satellite image of Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in February.
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Republicans Block Democrats’ Push for Public Testimony on Iran War
Representative Gregory Meeks last month on Capitol Hill. On Wednesday he sought to question Trump administration officials about the war.
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Who Is Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf?
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf in 2024, after registering as a candidate in Iran’s presidential election.
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In Denmark, It’s All About the Pigs
Mette Frederiksen speaking at an election party in Copenhagen on Wednesday. She has been a force in Danish politics for more than 20 years. In some ways, her incumbency counted against her, analysts say.
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Trump Says He’s Talking With Iran. Iran Says He’s Not. Here’s Why.
President Trump has raised hopes that the war with Iran might end soon.
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Matt Brittin, Former Google Executive, Named the New BBC Head
The former head of Google in Europe, Matt Brittin, has been named as the new leader of the BBC.
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Israel Races to Hit Iran Hard While It Still Can, Officials Say
Workers and firefighters at an apartment building hit by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in Tehran on Monday.
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Iranians Reject Trump’s Offer for Cease-Fire but Signal Openness to Talks
Tehran on Wednesday. Iranian officials said they were considering meeting U.S. negotiators in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Israel Keeps Up Strikes in Lebanon as Hezbollah Signals Defiance
An Israeli strike in Qlaileh in southern Lebanon on Wednesday.
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Iraq Summons U.S. Diplomat After Attack on Military Base
The coffin of an Iraqi soldier killed in an airstrike on an Iraqi base on Wednesday.
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Trump Had His Eye on China, Then Plunged Into a New Mideast War
A military parade in Beijing last year. Three American presidents have entered office vowing to focus resources on the challenges posed by China. Each instead turned to crises in other parts of the world.
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U.S. and Iran Are Talking About Ways to End the War: What to Know
Tehran on Wednesday. It’s been nearly a month since the start of the conflict.
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NATO’s ‘Trump Whisperer’ Faces Blowback Over Support for Iran War
Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, has supported President Trump’s plan to go to war alongside Israel against Iran.
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Sexual Misconduct Report Leaves I.C.C.’s Path Ahead Unclear
The International Criminal Court prosecutor, Karim Khan, at a United Nations Security Council meeting last year.
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Four Takeaways From Denmark’s Election
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at an election celebration in Copenhagen early Wednesday morning. Her party won the most votes, with 22 percent.
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Ukraine Finally Got Battlefield Momentum. Now Comes a Russian Offensive.
Pokrovske, a small rural town in the Dnipropetrovsk region of eastern Ukraine, about 60 miles east of Zaporizhzhia, in January.
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Two Men Arrested in Attack on Jewish Charity Ambulances in London
Two burned-out ambulances a day after the arson attack in the Golders Green neighborhood of north London.
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Australia Temporarily Blocks Iranians With Visitor Visas From Entry
U.S. Circulates Iran Peace Plan While Sending Troops to the Middle East
Pakistan’s Army Chief Uses Relationship With Trump to Foster Talks with Iran
Air Canada C.E.O. Draws Scorn for Delivering Condolences Only in English
Iran War Live Updates: Trump Again Extends Deadline for Iran to Open Strait or Face Strikes on Power Grid
Cuban Patients Are Dying Because of U.S. Blockade, Doctors Say
In Rural Ukraine, Basic Health Care Is a Casualty of War
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