Albania Created an ‘A.I. Minister’ to Curb Corruption. Then Its Developers Were Accused of Graft.
Staff at Albania’s National Information Agency watching Diella, the first government minister created by artificial intelligence.
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Board of Peace Set to Hand Trump Sweeping Powers Over Gaza
President Trump at the Board of Peace Charter announcement at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, last Thursday.
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on January 2026
How Trump’s Threats to Greenland Made Him a Liability for Europe’s Far Right
President Trump leaving for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he made a rambling speech that underscored his disdain for Europe.
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UK Seeks Trade With China Without Triggering Trump’s Fury
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain and Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, attending a meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2024.
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on January 2026
Trump Vows Higher Tariffs for South Korea Months After Trade Deal
President Trump received gilded gifts from South Korea’s leader, Lee Jae Myung, when he visited the country in October.
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on January 2026
ICE Agents Will Join Olympics Delegation in Italy. Many Italians are Angry.
Federal agents confronting protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last week.
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on January 2026
As Trump Eyes Greenland, Denmark’s Leader Is Unsure How Long U.S. Will Be an Ally
The Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, is visiting European capitals with Greenland’s leader this week, apparently seeking to shore up support for Denmark’s position in talks with the United States.
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Israel Recovers Body of Ran Gvili From Gaza, Closing a Chapter
Pictures of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili at a plaza known as Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Monday.
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on January 2026
As U.S. Warships Get Closer, Iran Ramps Up Threats to Retaliate
A billboard in Enghelab Square in Tehran, threatening action against American warships.
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on January 2026
In Venezuela, Freeing the Economy, but Nothing Else
Morning commuters in Caracas earlier this month.
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on January 2026
Shift to Drone Fighting in Ukraine War Means No Winter Lull
Ukrainian soldiers building and arming a fiber optic first-person-view, or FPV, drone last summer inside an underground bunker in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine.
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Israel Says It Will Reopen Gaza-Egypt Border Crossing in Days
The Rafah border crossing with Egypt in October 2023. Israel agreed to allow the crossing to reopen as part of the cease-fire deal struck in October.
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In Xi’s China, Top General’s Fall Shows Precariousness of Power
Zhang Youxia at a legislative meeting in Beijing in March. General Zhang was one of the commanders tapped by China’s leader to help lead his overhaul of the People’s Liberation Army.
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Troop Casualties in Ukraine War Near 2 Million, Study Finds
The funeral of a Ukrainian soldier in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, last year. The latest accounting of casualties came after talks among Russian, Ukrainian and American officials ended on Saturday on a rare positive note.
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Trinidadian Families File Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Boat Strike by U.S. Military
A memorial held by family members of Chad Joseph, one of two Trinidadian men whom the U.S. military apparently killed in a boat strike in the fall, in Las Cuevas, Trinidad and Tobago, in October.
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Record Debt in the World’s Richest Nations Threatens Global Growth
Record-high debt in the United States, Britain, France, Italy and Japan risks slowing growth and destabilizing the global economy.
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on January 2026
Trump Briefed on Intelligence Saying Iran’s Government Is Weaker
A street in Tehran on Sunday. The reports signal that the Iranian government’s hold on power is at its weakest point since the shah was overthrown in the 1979 revolution.
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on January 2026
Canada’s Marineland Whales Could Find New Homes in U.S.
Beluga whales in November at the now-closed Arctic Cove exhibit at Marineland, in Niagara Falls, Canada.
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on January 2026
Chinese Pandas Leave Japanese Zoo
Visitors taking last photos of Xiao Xiao at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo on Sunday.
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on January 2026
NATO Chief Says Europe Is ‘Dreaming’ if It Thinks It Can Defend Itself Without U.S.
Secretary General Mark Rutte of NATO, right, at the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday.
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on January 2026
Xi’s Purge of the Chinese Military
General Zhang Youxia, in 2024.
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on January 2026
Russia Says Talks to End War in Ukraine Will Continue
An artillery unit of Ukraine's 59th Assault Brigade firing at Russian positions near the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk last month.
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on January 2026
Thousands of Flights Canceled Monday After Snowstorm
Passengers at LaGuardia Airport dealt with delays and cancellations from the storm on Sunday.
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on January 2026
Gunmen Kill 11 After Soccer Match in Mexico
Mexican National Guard members at the scene where 11 people were killed in Salamanca, Mexico, on Sunday.
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The Taliban Say They’re Ready to Release U.S. Prisoners. But Which Ones?
Zabiullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, in 2021. In a recent interview with The New York Times, he expressed the Taliban’s desire to secure the release of an Afghan inmate at Guantánamo Bay.
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on January 2026
Winter Storm Pummels Toronto With Record Snowfall
Toronto on Monday. The city had a record-breaking 22 inches of snow.
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on January 2026
Another Fatal Shooting in Minneapolis
Federal agents confronted protesters in Minneapolis on Saturday.
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on January 2026
How Iran Crushed a Citizen Uprising With Lethal Force
Videos and witness testimony reveal how Iran crushed a civilian uprising with lethal force.
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on January 2026
Why Japan’s Leader Won’t Enter the Male-Dominated Sumo Ring
The Ukrainian Danylo Yavhusishyn, also known by his Japanese ring name, Aonishiki Arata, receiving his trophy at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo on Sunday.
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on January 2026
The Woman Who Stands Between Donald Trump and Greenland
Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, in her office in Copenhagen.
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on January 2026
The Podcaster Poking at France’s Biggest Secrets
Philippe Collin, a journalist, author and podcaster, recording in Paris in November.
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on January 2026
William H. Foege, Key Figure in the Eradication of Smallpox, Dies at 89
William H. Foege in 1985. He played a critical role in making smallpox the first infectious disease to be altogether eliminated. He stood beside a bust of Hygeia, the Greek goddess of health, at C.D.C. headquarters in Atlanta.
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Syria Announces Cease-Fire Extension, Hours After Truce With Kurds Expired
Kurdish-led militia fighters in northeastern Syria on Saturday. A cease-fire agreed upon with the government last Sunday called for the integration of Kurdish troops into the national army.
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on January 2026
Trump Threatens Canada With Tariffs as Post-Davos Fallout Continues
President Trump on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday, after returning from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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on January 2026
Ukraine Peace Talks End on Positive Note as Zelensky Teases Future Meeting
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Thursday in Switzerland. He said this week that he expected “at least some answers” from Russia on a draft of a peace plan.
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Cold Comfort
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Mark Carney Takes On Donald Trump and Emerges as a Global Political Star
Prime Minister Mark Carney received a standing ovation for his speech at the World Economic Forum.
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on January 2026
How a Photographer Stumbled Upon a Key Picture of the Spain Train Crash
The undercarriage of a train found near the crash site in Adamuz, Spain.
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on January 2026
Despite Trump’s Words, China and Russia Are Not Threatening Greenland
President Trump has repeatedly cited security as his rationale for wanting to acquire Greenland.
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on January 2026
How a Year of Trump Changed Britain
President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Chequers, near London, in September during Mr. Trump’s state visit to Britain. During the debate over Greenland, Mr. Trump has had sharp words for Mr. Starmer.
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on January 2026
How a Water Balloon Fight in Venezuela Ended in Charges of Treason
A 17-year-old boy who was one of 25 people detained in Barcelona, Venezuela, days after President Nicolás Maduro was captured.
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on January 2026
Iran’s Leadership Stumbles After War and Unrest
Military leaders and clerics at a ceremony in July in a Tehran mosque to mark the deaths of those killed during Israeli airstrikes in June.
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on January 2026
Australian Boy, 12, Dies After Shark Attack Near Sydney
A closed beach at Vaucluse near Sydney on Monday. Nico Antic was attacked on Sunday afternoon by what the authorities believed to have been a bull shark.
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on January 2026
Xi’s Purge of China’s Military Brings Its Top General Down
Gen. Zhang Youxia, a vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, has been accused of “violations of discipline and the law,” the Ministry of National Defense said on Saturday.
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on January 2026
An Unlikely Source of Crypto Innovation: Afghanistan
Local beneficiaries wait in line to receive their aid payments as part of a Mercy Corps pilot project using HesabPay, a blockchain-based payment system developed in Afghanistan, in the town of Halfaya, Syria.
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What Europe Learned From the Greenland Crisis
A protest against President Trump’s attempt to take over Greenland, in Nuuk, last week.
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on January 2026
Russia Jails U.S. Navy Veteran for Five Years
Steve Witkoff, the presidential envoy who has been negotiating with the Kremlin on a peace deal in the Ukraine war, was believed to have raised the issue of incarcerated Americans during his repeated visits to Moscow.
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on January 2026
Joint Chiefs Chairman Issues Rare Invitation to Foreign Military Heads
Gen. Dan Caine’s meeting comes at a fraught time for Washington’s relations with its immediate neighbors as well as allies in Europe.
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Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark Visits Greenland
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark, in the tan coat; the mayor of Nuuk, Greenland, Avaaraq Olsenand; and Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen of Greenland set off on a highly choreographed walk through the city on Friday.
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on January 2026
Under Pressure from Trump, Venezuela Agrees to Accept More U.S. Deportation Flights
A deportation flight from the United States arriving at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Venezuela on Thursday.
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on January 2026
Trump’s Turnabout on Greenland Shows the Limits of His Coercive Powers
President Donald J. Trump on Air Force One en route to Washington on Thursday night.
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on January 2026
Court Dismisses Bid to Prevent Auction of Nelson Mandela Memorabilia
Shirts that had belonged to Nelson Mandela at an auction in New York City in 2021. Guernsey’s in New York scheduled a separate online auction in 2024 that received widespread criticism in South Africa.
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on January 2026
Trump’s Push to Take Greenland Holds Promise and Peril for Putin
President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Anchorage, in August.
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on January 2026
Amid Two-Week Internet Blackout, Some Iranians Are Getting Back Online
Prosecutors in Spain End Investigation Into Julio Iglesias
All-Night Concerts in War-Ravaged Myanmar