Albania Plans to Create a Muslim State in Tirana as Symbol of Tolerance
The compound in Tirana, the Albanian capital, that would become the Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order.
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on September 2024
Nigel Farage’s Anti-Immigration Party Has Big Plans. Can It See Them Through?
Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform U.K. party, at its conference in Birmingham, England, on Friday.
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on September 2024
Senior Hezbollah Leader Is Killed in Beirut in Israeli Airstrike
People gathering at a residential building in Beirut’s southern suburbs that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike on Friday.
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on September 2024
What Is The Radwan Force, the Elite Hezbollah Unit Linked to Ibrahim Aqeel?
Fighters wearing the insignia of the Hezbollah’s Radwan force during a training exercise in southern Lebanon in May 2023.
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on September 2024
Lebanese Talk of Revenge for Pager Attacks
Hezbollah supporters on Thursday surrounded the coffins of two people killed during explosions in Lebanon on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
Unmarked Graves at Canada’s Former Indigenous Schools Fuel A Debate
The Kamloopa Powwow in Kamloops, British Columbia in June. Since unmarked graves were identified with ground penetrating radar in 2020, there has been a national conversation about the legacy of Residential Schools, but the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc community is still working through the aftermath.
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on September 2024
Europe’s New Defense Chief: ‘A King Without a Kingdom’?
Andrius Kubilius, a former prime minister of Lithuania, has been named as the European Union commissioner for defense.
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on September 2024
E.U. Will Offer $39 Billion Loan for Ukraine Without U.S. Help
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, at a war memorial on Friday. She traveled to Kyiv to reassure Ukraine’s president about the bloc’s financial support.
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on September 2024
China To ‘Gradually’ Resume Imports of Japanese Seafood
Sorting seafood at a port in the Fukushima prefecture of Japan last September, days after Japan started discharging treated water from the crippled nuclear plant nearby.
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on September 2024
Harrods Will Be Sued by Mohamed al-Fayed’s Alleged Victims, Lawyers Say
Mohamed al-Fayed in 2008. A BBC documentary this week detailed allegations that Mr. al-Fayed, who died last year, had raped and sexually assaulted multiple female employees.
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on September 2024
Shoulder Season
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on September 2024
Canadian Doctors Group Apologizes for Health Harms to Indigenous People
The former home of Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman who was mocked and neglected by staff members in a Quebec hospital while she died.
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on September 2024
Israel’s Attacks on Hezbollah Alter Balance of Power in a Long-Running Fight
Hezbollah supporters mourning the deaths of two people after a second wave of explosions followed this week’s pager attack.
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on September 2024
Car Parts, Fiberglass and a Dream: How a Teacher Built a Hovercraft
It took Robert Tymofichuk, a teacher and assistant principle, a year to build a working hovercraft out of salvaged parts, including a 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
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on September 2024
How the Kremlin Might Get Past RT Bans to Spread Its Message
A control room for the Russian state media broadcaster RT, in Moscow, in 2018.
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on September 2024
How Dangerous Is PFAS in Food?
PFAS-contaminated beef from a farm in Maine.
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on September 2024
Remembering Toto Schillaci and a Summer That Changed Soccer
Salvatore Schillaci in 1990, the summer when he burst onto the stage at the World Cup. He died on Wednesday at age 59.
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on September 2024
Israel’s Attacks on Hezbollah Have Intensified but Stop Short of All-Out War
People gathering at the scene of an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday.
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on September 2024
Who Is Ibrahim Aqeel, the Hezbollah Commander Targeted by Israel?
The scene of an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday.
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on September 2024
After Pager Attack, Israel and Hezbollah Return to Familiar Deadlock
Hezbollah supporters mourning the deaths of two people during a second wave of explosions that struck Lebanon following the pager bomb attack.
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on September 2024
With Focus Shifting to Lebanon, Some in Gaza Fear Cease-Fire Talks Will Be Sidelined
Palestinians walk past rubble in Bureij in central Gaza on Tuesday.
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on September 2024
Three Mile Island Plans to Reopen as Demand for Nuclear Power Grows
The Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Londonderry Township, Pa.
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on September 2024
A North Korean Trash Balloon Hits a Seoul Government Compound, Again
A view from Paju, South Korea, of balloons launched by North Korea earlier this month.
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on September 2024
Biden Will Take Cancer ‘Moonshot’ Global at Summit in Delaware
President Biden in August. He began his cancer initiative in 2016, when he was vice president, after the death of his son Beau from an aggressive brain cancer.
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on September 2024
In Australia, an Old-Fashioned Art Is Having a Revival
Australian-themed stained glass windows in Queensland, Australia, in 2018.
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on September 2024
Israel Strikes Hezbollah as Nasrallah Vows Retribution
Hezbollah supporters in Beirut on Thursday mourned the deaths of two of their members in a second wave of explosions that struck Lebanon.
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on September 2024
Walkie-Talkie and Pager Attacks Against Hezbollah Set Off Legal Debate
Relatives and friends mourning Fatima Abdullah, 9, who was killed by a pager explosion.
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on September 2024
Friday Briefing: Israel Bombards Hezbollah
A Hezbollah supporter at a funeral for four people killed in the pager attacks.
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on September 2024
U.N. Says Israeli War in Gaza Has ‘Catastrophic Consequences’ for Children
Palestinian children after a strike in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, in July.
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on September 2024
Hezbollah Leader Says Israel Will Face Retribution After Lebanon Explosions
Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader, in his first televised remarks in Lebanon on Thursday.
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on September 2024
Ukraine Says Russia Hits Nursing Home Near Border, Killing 1
An image released by Ukraine’s Emergency Service showed an older woman being assisted after a Russian strike hit a care home in Sumy, Ukraine, on Thursday.
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on September 2024
Edmundo González, Venezuela’s Opposition Leader, Says He Was Forced to Sign Letter Recognizing Maduro
The Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate, Edmundo González, at a political event in June. He has since fled to Spain.
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on September 2024
Prehistoric Earth Was Very Hot. That Offers Clues About Future Earth.
An artist’s impression of life on Earth during the Carboniferous Period, 300 million years ago.
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on September 2024
A New Era in Sabotage: Turning Ordinary Devices Into Grenades, on a Mass Scale
A portable radio with the battery removed during a funeral in Beirut, Lebanon, on Wednesday. The presumed Israeli sabotage of wireless devices used by Hezbollah turned ordinary communication devices into miniature grenades.
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on September 2024
Mali Attack Killed 50 or More, but Leaders Say Little
Crowds near the site of Tuesday’s attack, when Islamist rebels killed at least 50 members of Mali’s armed forces in an assault on the capital, Bamako.
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on September 2024
Asphalt Schoolyards Get a Shady Makeover
Recess at Highland Arts Elementary School in Mesa, Ariz.
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on September 2024
Pager Attack Highlights Tension Between Israel’s Might and Strategic Fog
Lebanese army soldiers standing guard as an ambulance rushes wounded people to a hospital in Beirut on Tuesday.
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on September 2024
Mohamed al-Fayed, Former Harrods Owner, Accused of Raping 5 Women
Mohamed al-Fayed, then owner of Harrods, in 2007. On Thursday, a BBC documentary detailed allegations that he had raped and sexually assaulted female employees.
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on September 2024
Saudi Crown Prince Says No to Israel Ties Without Palestinian State
In a photo provided by Saudi state media, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman delivers a speech in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
Anxiety Mounts as Lebanon Reels From Pager and Walkie-Talkie Attacks
A Hezbollah supporter on Wednesday at a funeral for four people killed in the pager attacks.
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on September 2024
Israel and Hezbollah Trade Fire After Pager and Walkie-Talkie Attacks
Smoke billowed from the site of an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of al-Taybeh on Thursday.
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on September 2024
They Said the Virgin Mary Appeared. The Vatican Is Finally Weighing In.
Pilgrims gathered in 2015 above the Bosnian village of Medjugorje to pray to the Virgin Mary.
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on September 2024
Methane Levels Still Rising, Despite Global Methane Pledge
The concentration of methane in the atmosphere is now more than two-and-a-half times greater than preindustrial levels.
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on September 2024
Tropical Storm Pulasan Nears Shanghai After Grazing Japan
Shanghai was bracing for Tropical Storm Pulasan days after it was battered by Typhoon Bebinca, the strongest to hit the city in 75 years.
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on September 2024
How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers
Hezbollah supporters on Wednesday mourning the deaths of four comrades killed in the explosions.
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on September 2024
U.N. Body Demands Israel End Its ‘Unlawful Presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’
Riyad Mansour, left, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, applauding the result of a vote during an emergency session at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
Trump’s Derision of Haitians Goes Back Years
An asylum seeker from Haiti was cleaning the kitchen of a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, as former President Donald J. Trump debated Vice President Kamala Harris this month.
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on September 2024
Second Wave of Hezbollah Devices Explodes in Lebanon, Killing at Least 20
Ambulances arriving after a device reportedly exploded during the funeral in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Wednesday for people killed when hundreds of pagers exploded across Lebanon a day earlier.
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on September 2024
Thursday Briefing: A Second Day of Explosions in Lebanon
Hezbollah supporters mourned the deaths of four fighters.
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on September 2024
Israel’s Focus Shifts From Hamas in Gaza to Hezbollah in Lebanon
Hezbollah supporters mourned the deaths of four of the group’s members, on Wednesday.
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on September 2024
Middle East Crisis: Live Updates: With Death Toll Rising, Tensions Run High After Israeli Strike in Beirut
How a U.S. Ally Uses Aid as a Cover in War
The Incumbent, the Marxist and the Heir: Sri Lanka’s Tight Race for President
Did PFAS From Sewage Sludge Poison a Family Farm?
Israeli Soldiers Throw Three Seemingly Lifeless Palestinians Off a Roof
Interest Rates Fall, but Central Banks Are No Longer in Lock Step