Live Updates: German Leader Says International Order ‘No Longer Exists’
Europe’s biggest annual security summit began in Munich on Friday.
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Tarique Rahman Is Elected Bangladesh’s New Leader
Tarique Rahman in his office in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Tuesday.
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Bangladeshis Vote in Droves for Constitutional Change in Referendum
Checking election results at the Bangladesh Election Commission building in Dhaka on Friday.
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UK Ban on Palestine Action Is Unlawful, Court Finds
Supporters of Palestine Action protesting on Friday outside the Royal Court of Justice in London.
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Heated Rivalry and Marital Bliss: Two Wives Go Head to Head in a Scary Olympic Sport
Nicole Silveira of Brazil, left, and Kim Meylemans of Belgium, a married couple, are competing against each other, but they also have their own unit: Team BB.
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Ukraine Says U.S. Is Increasing Pressure for a Deal as the Midterms Loom
An artillery unit of the Ukrainian Army preparing to fire at Russian positions near Pokrovsk, Ukraine, in December.
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Japan Seizes Chinese Fishing Boat; Move Likely to Add to Tensions
A photo released by Japan’s Fisheries Agency shows a Japanese patrol vessel, left, and a Chinese fishing boat off the coast of Nagasaki on Thursday.
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Europe’s Leaders Gather At Munich Summit, Reeling From Trump’s Criticism
Vice President JD Vance speaking at the Munich Security Conference last year.
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Canada School Shooter’s Online Life Showed Interest in Violent Extremism
The family home where the authorities say Jesse Van Rootselaar killed her mother, Jennifer Jacobs, and her brother, Emmett Jacobs.
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Do Drug Cartels Actually Use Drones at the Border?
The border wall between Mexico and the United States in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Ex-Leader of Norway Charged With Corruption Linked to Epstein
Thorbjorn Jagland, center left, a former prime minister of Norway, in Oslo on Thursday.
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Israeli Army Reservists Are Suspected of Using Inside Knowledge to Bet
Israeli military vehicles in a staging area near the border with Lebanon in 2024. Israeli reservists are accused of using classified information to place bets.
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U.S. Transfers Thousands of ISIS Prisoners to Iraq From Syria
U.S. military vehicles in Qamishli, Syria, escorted buses transporting Islamic State detainees to Iraq this month.
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A nervous Europe awaits Rubio’s speech in Munich.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio arriving in Munich on Friday.
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Why India Playing Pakistan in World Cup Cricket Matters
The cricket rivalry between India and Pakistan is one of the fiercest in any sport in the world.
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Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters
Antigovernment protesters blocked a road last month in Tehran. Iran is using facial recognition and phone data to track and detain people involved in political opposition activities.
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Milan Has an Affordable Housing Crisis. Can the Olympic Village Help?
The Olympic Village complex in Milan. The village’s developer has touted it as a great gift to the city that will provide 6 percent of the beds needed for students.
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Ontario Lifts Tuition Freeze at Public Universities
Students at the St. George Campus of the University of Toronto, Canada, last year.
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How Europe Woke Up to Trump
Trump in Davos last month.
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El Niño May Be Back This Summer, Bringing Drought and Floods
A storm in California during the last El Niño phase, in 2023. The El Niño weather pattern has far-reaching influence.
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Trump’s Actions Test the Fragile World of Air Travel
A nearly deserted security checkpoint at El Paso International Airport on Wednesday after the Federal Aviation Administration announced a 10-day ban on flights over the city.
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What is Israel Doing in Africa?
In Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, last year.
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4 Months Trapped in a Hospital for an Obsolete Way of Treating Their Disease
Asta Djouma, a tuberculosis patient in isolation at the Djarengol Kodek Health Center in Maroua, northern Cameroon, who hasn’t seen her three children since she was admitted in October. “We’re just here,” she said.
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Europe Worries Trump Poses Threat to Its Financial and Tech Sovereignty
The European Commission’s headquarters in Brussels. The Trump administration’s embrace of cryptocurrency has ratcheted up European concerns about control of the euro.
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NATO Remains Vital to U.S. Security, Ex-Ambassadors and Generals Say
A meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels on Thursday. The letter from the former U.S. officials was timed to the opening of the Munich Security Conference on Friday.
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Across Italy, the Winter Olympic Vibes Are Very Different
Spectators watched the Alpine skiing men’s super-G race from outside the Stelvio Ski Center in Bormio, Italy, on Wednesday.
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These Ukrainian Drones Don’t Just Kill. They Deliver Oatmeal Cookies.
Fruit and sweets being packed for soldiers on the front line.
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Would You Leave Your Bag Unattended at a Starbucks? They Did. For Hours.
Like many cafes and restaurants in South Korea, Starbucks does not prohibit customers from leaving personal belongings in their seats. But some go to extremes.
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Ukrainian Olympian Is Disqualified Over Helmet Honoring War Dead
Ukraine’s Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified for wearing a helmet to commemorate athletes who were killed in the war with Russia.
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Olympic Figure Skaters Are on Thin Ice Over Music Copyright Rules
The Canadian ice dancing pair Zachary Lagha and Marjorie Lajoie performing on Saturday in Milan.
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Turkish Nobel Novelist Orhan Pamuk Gets the Netflix Series He Wanted
Orhan Pamuk in his office in Istanbul, in an apartment building named for his family.
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Top U.S. Energy Official Presses Venezuela to Do More to Spur Investment
Amuay refinery, Venezuela’s largest, in Punto Fijo, Falcón state.
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Mexico May Be on Brink of Losing Its Measles-Free Status
A health worker administering a dose of the measles vaccine in Mexico City last week. “We are confident that the outbreak will be controlled,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday.
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In Tumbler Ridge, a community in stunned agony.
The secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, that was the scene of a mass shooting, on Wednesday.
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Takaichi’s New Superpowers
Sanae Takaichi’s party won a supermajority in elections on Sunday.
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Switzerland to Vote on Capping Population at 10 Million
A man walking with two children in Zurich. Switzerland will vote in June on a proposal to cap its population at 10 million through 2050.
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U.K. Police Weigh Whether to Formally Investigate Former Prince Andrew Over Epstein Accusations
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince, at a funeral in London in September.
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Epstein Files Include Grainy Videos From Inside His Florida Home
A still from a grainy black-and-white video showed Jeffrey Epstein’s home office in Florida.
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Iran Commemorates Revolution, With U.S. Warships Lurking Off the Coast
A gathering near Azadi Tower in Tehran on Wednesday, the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which overthrew the shah.
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9 Killed and 25 Injured in Shootings in Tumbler Ridge, Canada
A screenshot from a video showing the school building where a shooting took place in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on Tuesday.
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‘I will know every victim,’ says mayor of close-knit Tumbler Ridge.
A video grab handout showing students exiting a school in Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia, Canada, following the shooting on Tuesday.
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NATO Is Expected to Step Up Arctic Security. Here’s Why.
A Danish navy vessel patrolling the waters off Nuuk, Greenland, in March.
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How Hate Groups Are Using Online Games to Recruit Kids
Extremists are now using video games like Roblox to recruit new followers.
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Tumbler Ridge Shooting: What We Know About the Deadly Mass Shooting in Canada
Revelations in Epstein Files Lead to Resignations and Investigations Around the World
What We Know About the Victims of the Tumbler Ridge Mass Shooting in Canada
Chloe Kim, once a teenage phenom, loses to a new one.
From the chaos of snowboard cross, a repeat champ emerges.
Bangladesh Holds First Elections After 2024 Student Protests
Jordan Stolz Sets Olympic Record in Speedskating