After Two Decades, U.S. Forces Leave Iraq to an Uncertain Future
A giant Iraqi flag hung from the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul’s old city on Tuesday. With the end of Operation Inherent Resolve, the last of the 2,500 U.S. forces stationed in Iraq this year are now gone.
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A Way Out of the A.I. Arms Race?
The U.N. Security Council convened its first meeting on artificial intelligence last week.
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American Forces Withdraw From Iraq 23 Years After Invading
In March 2003, a statue of Saddam Hussein was still standing near a communications center in Baghdad that had been bombed two days earlier. A month later, the statue would be downed as well.
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In Fractious France, Politicians Agree on One Thing: Pope Leo Was a Hit
Pope Leo XIV, riding down Avenue des Champs-Élysées on Saturday. The crowds were striking display of reverence from a proudly secular country.
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Israeli Settlers Stop Soldiers From Returning Palestinians to Their Home
Mahmoud Toubassi with his wife, Aedah, in the village of Jalud in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Tuesday.
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No Bombs Found in U.K. Case, but Officials Say Threat to Bases Is Real
A police officer at a roadblock near R.A.F. Fairford air base, possibly the target of an attack plot, in Fairford, Gloucestershire, England, on Tuesday.
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Why the U.S. Is Imposing New Visa Restrictions on South Africa
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa sent a six-page letter to President Trump laying out efforts to address Washington’s concerns over policies it thought hurt white South Africans.
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Bomb by Bomb, the Slow Death of My Hometown in Ukraine
Police medics responding to an early morning bombing of a residential area in Kramatorsk, Ukraine.
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Dozens Killed in Myanmar Military Bombing
The aftermath of the attack in Kyauktaw, Rakhine State, in Myanmar, on Monday.
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Accusations of Antisemitism Hit a Star of the French Far Right
Jordan Bardella, the president of France’s main far-right party, National Rally, in Paris this month.
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Malaysia Begins Repatriation of Migrants to War-Torn Myanmar Despite Critics’ Warnings
A bus carrying Myanmar nationals being repatriated from Malaysia to their homeland, seen heading toward the Lumut Naval Base, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday.
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham Lays Out Plan to Change UK in Emotional Speech at Labour Conference
Prime Minister Andy Burnham of Britain during his speech on Tuesday. “The British right talk about taking back control,” he said, while speaking about privatization. “Never let them forget, they are the ones that gave it away in the first place.”
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AMLO Son Poses Political Problems for Mexico’s President Sheinbaum
Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, a politician and son of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, at Mexico’s National Palace.
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How Ukraine’s Naval Drones Are Remaking War at Sea
A Magura sea drone at a test site in central Ukraine in June.
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A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported.
Yehonatan Ovadia, center, at a demonstration against Israel in New York this year. He is in federal immigration detention because of a protest he attended in 2023.
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Prison Officials Suspended After Inmates Are Found Living in Luxury
Indonesian officials with an inmate at Cibinong prison, near Jakarta, in 2019. Inspectors found some inmates receiving V.I.P. treatment during a surprise visit last week.
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Morocco’s King Names a Female Prime Minister, in a Historic First
Morocco’s new prime minister, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, celebrating election results with members of her party last week in Rabat, Morocco.
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Ukrainian Science Academy, Struck by Drone, Played Key Role in Research
A Russian drone strike on the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, Ukraine, killed at least two people on Monday.
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Evicted Woman Set to Return Home as Spain Announces Plans to Fix Housing Crisis
María del Carmen Abascal at home in Madrid last week, waiting for the police to arrive before being evicted. Her removal brought large protests in Spain.
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Rubio Says Incident at UK Air Base RAF Fairford ‘Clearly Involved’ a Foreign Actor
Police officers guarded an area on Tuesday as roadblocks remained in place near R.A.F. Fairford air base.
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As A.I. Panic Grows, Javier Milei Is Pitching Argentina As a Rules-Free Haven
President Javier Milei at the United Nations last week where he asserted Argentina’s “commitment to not preemptively regulate A.I.”
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OpenAI Apologizes for Australia Medicare Hack
OpenAI’s offices in San Francisco. The company said it would work to rebuild trust with Australians.
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A Turkish Doughnut Maker Whose Sweets Honor the Dead
Niyazi Dumlu handing out lokma, a kind of Turkish doughnut, from his food truck near an Istanbul mosque in November.d
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Netanyahu Visits Emirati Leader After Reports on Warning About Hamas Attack
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday.
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The Voices Behind ‘Made in China’
Outside the SEG Plaza in Shenzhen last year.
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The Rural English Villages Around RAF Fairford at the Center of a Possible Terrorist Plot
Police officers outside the Fairford Youth Football Club near the R.A.F. Fairford base in England on Sunday. The counterterrorism police said they were investigating a possible terrorist plot targeting the base.
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3 Egyptian Officials Convicted of Kidnapping Slain Italian Student
Paola Deffendi, Giulio Regeni’s mother, outside a courtroom on Monday in Rome after three Egyptian security officials were found guilty of kidnapping her son.
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German Town Votes to Stop Adding Memorials Outside Homes of Slain Jews
The artist Gunter Demnig placing plaques called “Stolpersteine,” or “stumbling stones,” on a street in Berlin in May.
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Over 800 Killed in Renewed Houthi-Saudi War in Yemen, W.H.O. Says
A man carries an injured child at a hospital following a drone strike south of Hodeidah on Yemen’s Red Sea coast, in August.
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Pope Leo Praises Europe’s Democracy, Diverging Once Again From Trump
In Metz, in northeastern France, Pope Leo XIV spoke of a Europe that would “continue to flourish and to inspire the whole world.” President Emmanuel Macron of France looked on.
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Release of Suspects in U.K. Prompts New Questions Over Possible Terror Plot at RAF Fairford Base
Armed police officers stand guard on a road outside the perimeter of R.A.F. Fairford air base in southern England on Monday.
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Brazil’s Biggest Election Question?: Donald Trump’s Next Move
Supporters of the right-wing presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro waved American flags and brandished a blowup doll of President Trump clutching an imprisoned President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at a rally this month in São Paulo, Brazil.
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What We Saw in One Venezuelan Gold Town
El Callao, the town at the heart of Venezuela’s gold mining industry.
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Their Sons Are Dying on Battlefields in Ukraine. They Still Back Russia’s War.
Oksana Abaeva and her husband, Khetag Zaseyev, at the grave of her son, Albert Abaev, in Vladikavkaz, the capital of the Russian region of North Ossetia.
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Possible Terrorist Plot at RAF Fairford Air Base in U.K.: What We Know
Police officers at an entrance to the R.A.F Fairford base in southern England on Sunday.
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Why China Is Requiring Ninth Graders to Read ‘Jane Eyre’
A woman reads at a bookstore in Beijing in August. “Jane Eyre” has found generations of readers in China since it was first translated into Chinese a century ago.
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Xi Jinping of China arriving for a state visit last week. China has the world’s fastest-growing military.
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Serbia’s Longtime President Aleksandar Vucic Resigns Post
President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia in his office in Belgrade, Serbia.
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A Growing North Korea Problem
South Korea’s president, Lee Jae Myung, during an interview earlier this month.
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A Transcript From The Times Interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at The New York Times on Sept. 23, 2026.
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Standoff Rocks a Northern Irish Town Over Contentious Sectarian March
People blocked the Garvaghy Road area, a Catholic enclave in the town of Portadown in Northern Ireland, on Sunday as a Protestant group was expected to march through.
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Giant Pandas, Icons of China’s Soft Diplomacy, Arrive in Atlanta
Yun Chuan, a 5-year-old male panda, at the San Diego Zoo in 2024. Two pandas were sent on Sunday to Zoo Atlanta, bringing the total number of giant pandas in the United States to six.
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Iran Still Awaits ‘Official’ U.S. Response Despite Trump’s Rebuff of Cease-Fire Offer
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, at the United Nations in New York on Friday.
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At Least 27 Killed in 2 Overnight Mass Shootings in South Africa
Members of South Africa’s Forensic Pathology Service and South African National Defence Force on Sunday at the scene of the shooting near Johannesburg.
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It
Live Updates: Flight to Israel Is Diverted After Pilots Clash in Cockpit
The Latin American Right’s Big Bet
Turkish Confectioner Hands Out Doughnuts to Honor the Dead