Israel Raids Al-Shifa Hospital Again; Netanyahu to Send Team for Talks in D.C.
Palestinian children waiting in line last month in Beit Lahia, Gaza, for food provided by donors.
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on March 2024
Putin Urges Russians to Unite on Ukraine War
Thousands of Russians gathered on Red Square in Moscow on Monday, a day after Vladimir V. Putin was declared the winner of a stage-managed presidential election.
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on March 2024
Gambia Votes to Overturn Landmark Ban on Female Genital Cutting
Protesters outside the National Assembly in the capital of Gambia on Monday hold signs asking legislators not to repeal the law banning female genital cutting.
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on March 2024
Pakistani Airstrikes in Afghanistan Kill at Least 8, Taliban Officials Say
Security officials searching vehicles in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Monday following the strikes by Pakistan.
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on March 2024
Haiti’s Hospitals Survived Cholera and Covid. Gangs Are Closing Them.
An older woman was carried off the street this month in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where gang violence has forced the closure of more than half of the city’s medical facilities.
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Middle East Crisis: Israel Will Dispatch Team to Hear Biden Administration Worries on Rafah
Palestinians flee the area after Israeli bombardment in central Gaza City on Monday.
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on March 2024
Putin’s Orchestrated Election Leaves Russians With No Other Choices
Voters at a polling station in Moscow on Sunday, as part of a protest against President Vladimir V. Putin.
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on March 2024
Iceland Volcano Erupts in Plumes of Fire With Little Notice
Lava flowed from a volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland on Saturday, in a handout photograph released by the Icelandic Coast Guard.
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on March 2024
Five Takeaways From Putin’s Win in Russia
President Vladimir Putin said the election results reflected “internal consolidation” that would let Russia “act effectively at the front line” in Ukraine.
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on March 2024
Who Australia Caught When It Went Looking for Chinese Spies
Di Sanh Duong at his warehouse in December in Melbourne, Australia.
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on March 2024
Rebellious Russians Stage Daring Attacks From Ukraine on Russian Soil
Russian soldiers who are fighting for Ukraine gather in a farmhouse on Thursday near the Russian border as they prepare for an assault.
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on March 2024
Chile’s Deadliest Wildfire Is Said to Have Been Made Worse by a Lack of Water
Ariel Orellana with a photo of his sister, Anastasia, who was killed in the fire, along with their mother. Forensic experts identified her remains a week after the fire.
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In Occupied Ukraine, Soldiers and Poll Workers Collect Votes for Putin
Members of a local election commission, accompanied by a soldier, prepared a mobile polling station for early voting in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region of Ukraine on Thursday.
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on March 2024
What the Philippines Is Doing About South China Sea Tensions
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. of the Philippines and Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany this past week at the chancellery in Berlin.
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on March 2024
Tuesday Briefing: Putin’s Victory Spectacle
Russian incumbent President Vladimir Putin addresses the crowd at a rally in Red Square in Moscow on Monday.
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on March 2024
Who was Marwan Issa, the Hamas commander killed by Israel?
There are few photos of Marwan Issa, the senior-most Hamas leader killed by Israel since the start of the war. An official in the group’s military wing, he kept a low profile.
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on March 2024
Israeli Negotiators Head to Qatar for Cease-Fire Talks, Officials Say
In Tel Aviv this month, people held photos of a hostage believed to have been taken during the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on Oct. 7. Some Israelis say their government is not doing enough to secure the captives’ release.
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on March 2024
Famine Is ‘Imminent’ in Northern Gaza, Report Warns
Palestinian children waiting in line for food provided by donors in Deir al Balah, Gaza, in February.
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on March 2024
In Seoul, Blinken Warns of Disinformation Threat to Democracies
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke about threats to global security posed by A.I.-generated disinformation at the Summit for Democracy in Seoul on Monday.
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on March 2024
Monday Briefing
President Vladimir Putin said the election results reflected “internal consolidation” that would allow Russia to “act effectively at the front line” in Ukraine.
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on March 2024
Storing Renewable Energy, One Balloon at a Time
A carbon dioxide storage prototype built by Energy Dome in Ottana, Sardinia.
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on March 2024
What Meltdown? Crypto Comes Roaring Back in the Philippines.
Customers at an internet cafe in Quezon City, Philippines, can play games that reward players with cryptocurrency tokens.
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on March 2024
Steve Harley, ‘Make Me Smile’ Singer, Dies at 73
Steve Harley formed the band Cockney Rebel in the early 1970s.
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on March 2024
Putin Wins Russian Presidential Election
A presidential election poster in Moscow on Sunday.
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on March 2024
Netanyahu Rejects Schumer Call for Israeli Election
An Israeli tank moving near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on Sunday.
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on March 2024
Putin Breaks Silence on Navalny’s Death, Calling It an ‘Unfortunate Incident’
On Sunday, Mr. Putin made his first public remarks about Aleksei A. Navalny’s death.
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on March 2024
Monday Briefing: Putin Extends His Rule
Voters lined up outside a polling station in Moscow at noon on Sunday, part of a protest against Vladimir Putin.
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on March 2024
Niger Orders American Troops to Leave Its Territory
American and Nigerien flags at an air base in Agadez, Niger. The Biden administration formally acknowledged last October what most countries had already concluded: that the military takeover in Niger last July was a coup.
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on March 2024
Gaza Aid Chef, José Andrés, Calls for Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
World Central Kitchen is the only aid group that has successfully delivered aid directly to Gaza by sea.
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on March 2024
Long Lines of Russian Voters Signal Discontent With Putin’s Tenure
Voters lined up outside a polling station in Moscow on Sunday.
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on March 2024
Russians Know Putin Will Be Re-Elected, but Many Worry What Comes Next
Some Russian voters are concerned that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia may introduce new economic measures after the voting.
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on March 2024
Gaza Receives First Sea-Borne Aid Amid Fears About Security and Malnutrition
The Open Arms ship towing a barge loaded with food off the coast of Gaza on Friday. The supplies were successfully offloaded for distribution in the territory.
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on March 2024
U.N. Documents More Than 24 Attacks on Gazans Waiting for Aid Since January
Palestinians who were wounded by Israeli gunfire while waiting for aid, according to health officials, rest on beds at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza this month.
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on March 2024
In Paris, the Olympics Clean Up Their Act
Construction in Place de la Concorde.
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on March 2024
A Financial Crisis May Jeopardize Local News in Most of Atlantic Canada
A lender has asked a court to dissolve Atlantic Canada’s leading news media company.
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on March 2024
Gazans Struggle to Celebrate Ramadan: ‘Practically Fasting for Months’
A Palestinian family in Deir al Balah in the central Gaza Strip prepared on Monday to break fast on the first day of Ramadan in the ruins of their family house.
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on March 2024
For Ytasha Womack, the Afrofuture is Now
Ytasha Womack, a screenwriter on “Niyah and the Multiverse,” currently playing at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, is the author of numerous works including “Black Panther: A Cultural Exploration.”
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on March 2024
Was He Secretly Working for China? This Is What He Told Us.
Di Sanh Duong in December at his office in Melbourne, Australia.
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on March 2024
Court Temporarily Halts S.E.C.’s New Climate Rules
The rules have been challenged by industry as too restrictive, but also by environmentalists as not strong enough.
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on March 2024
Iran and U.S. Held Secret Talks on Proxy Attacks and Cease-Fire
A Houthi soldier in Sana, Yemen, on Friday, at a protest against the United States and Israel. Houthi attacks have been disrupting Red Sea shipping since the start of the war in Gaza.
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on March 2024
Biden Embraces Schumer’s Speech Castigating Netanyahu
President Biden said that Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, had informed his White House staff before his speech.
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on March 2024
Another Gaza Aid Convoy Ends in Violence, With at Least 20 Killed
Palestinians performing the first Friday noon prayer of Ramadan over the ruins of Al-Farouq Mosque in Rafah, Gaza, on Friday.
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on March 2024
Kushner Developing Deals Overseas Even as His Father-in-Law Runs for President
Jared Kushner, former President Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law, set up an investment company after leaving his White House job.
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on March 2024
Hamas Softens Demand for Permanent Cease-Fire in Truce Talks, Officials Say
Pictures of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since Oct. 7 on display in Tel Aviv on Thursday.
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on March 2024
Shabab Militants Lay Siege to Hotel in Somali Capital
The damaged SYL Hotel on Friday, after the attack in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, by militants with Al Shabab, which is linked to the group Al Qaeda.
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on March 2024
Biden Embraces Schumer’s ‘Good Speech’ Castigating Netanyahu
President Biden commented on Senator Chuck Schumer’s speech while hosting the Irish prime minister at the White House on Friday.
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on March 2024
‘Welcome to Hell’: U.N. Panel Says Russian War Crimes Are Widespread
Demonstrators gathered in Kyiv last year to call attention to Ukrainian prisoners of war.
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on March 2024
Netanyahu Proceeds With Plans for Rafah Ground Invasion, Rejecting Cease-Fire Deal
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, who has come under growing international pressure to end the war and limit civilian deaths.
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on March 2024
Where’s the Next Generation of Great Coaches?
José Mourinho, back in his trophy-collecting days.
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on March 2024
First Ship Carrying Food Aid Arrives in Gaza
Aid delivered by the Open Arms vessel arrived off the coast of Gaza on Friday.
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on March 2024
20 Killed in Russian Missile Strike on Odesa, Ukraine Says
Rescue workers at the site of a missile strike in Odesa, Ukraine, on Friday.
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on March 2024
Senegal’s Opposition Leaders Freed from Jail Days Before Election
Supporters of the Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and the presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye celebrated after the men were released from prison in Dakar late Thursday.
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on March 2024