Can This Man Finally Defeat Mexico’s Cartels?
Omar García Harfuch, Mexico’s secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, in his office.
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on December 2025
To Secure Money for Ukraine, Europe Had to Resort to a Messy Compromise
A Ukrainian soldier with a mortar, hidden from the sight of drones, near Kupiansk, in May. The European Union will funnel 90 billion euros’ worth of loans to Ukraine.
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on December 2025
Germany’s Christmas Markets Are Now Ringed With Security Barriers
Security personnel standing next to bollards blocking the main entrance to the Christmas Market in Augsburg, Germany, in December.
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on December 2025
Gaza City Famine Averted, Global Experts Say, but Palestinians Face Major Difficulties Accessing Food
Palestinians lining up to receive food packages during a distribution in a town in the central Gaza Strip.
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on December 2025
Putin Offers to Suspend Deep Strikes During Potential Ukraine Vote
President Vladimir V. Putin at his annual year-end news conference in Moscow, on Friday. He said Russia was not ready to settle the Ukraine conflict diplomatically unless its demands were met.
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Riots Erupt in Bangladesh After the Killing of a Student Leader
Crowds in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Friday near the office of the Prothom Alo newspaper, where a targeted arson occurred after the death of Sharif Osman bin Hadi, a student leader.
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Three Killed in Stabbing Attack in Taiwan
An injured woman being transported in the Zhongshan area of Taipei, Taiwan, after a knife attack on Friday.
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Toronto Man Accused of Working With ISIS Faces Terror Charges Targeting Jews and Women
The skyline of Toronto. Terror charges were filed after investigations into two failed kidnapping attempts in the Toronto area earlier this year.
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With New E.U. Loan, Ukraine Avoids Budget Crunch and Can Plan War Effort
Members of Ukraine’s 148th Artillery Brigade at a firing position in the Zaporizhzhia region of eastern Ukraine, in October.
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Trump Signs Law Repealing Tough Sanctions on Syria
A heavily damaged neighborhood in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, Syria, in August. The lifting of U.S. sanctions will bolster Syria’s new government’s efforts to rebuild a nation in ruins.
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Australia Announces Plan to Buy Back Guns in Wake of Bondi Attack
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, right, at a news conference in Canberra, Australia, on Friday. He announced a nationwide gun buyback plan on the heels of a deadly mass shooting in Sydney last weekend.
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Before the Massacre, Bondi Suspects Spent Weeks at a Philippine Hotel
The suspects in the Bondi Beach mass shooting stayed at the GV Hotel in the Philippine city of Davao for most of November, hotel staff said.
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Britain Is Preparing for Attacks on Its Soil. Critics Say It Must Move Faster.
British soldiers during an exercise in Smardan, Romania, in February. In June, the British government published a strategic defense review that said the country must move to “war-fighting readiness.”
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on December 2025
How Venezuela Went From U.S. Ally to Trump Target
Venezuelans surrounding Vice President Richard M. Nixon’s motorcade in Caracas in 1958.
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on December 2025
What We Know About the Suspects in the Bondi Beach Shooting
The police conducting a search operation at a house in a suburb of Sydney, Australia, on Sunday.
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on December 2025
After Bondi Beach Shooting, Australia Debates New Laws to Restrict Speech and Protests
Police officers at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, two days after gunmen killed 15 people at a Jewish celebration.
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Mexico’s Security Chief on His Fight Against the Cartels
Omar García Harfuch, Mexico’s security secretary, during an interview at his office this month.
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on December 2025
‘A Singularly Turbulent Time’: Deeper Uncertainty in Store for Global Economy
Una fábrica de muebles en Vietnam. Las exportaciones chinas se están disparando no solo hacia Europa, sino también hacia el Sudeste Asiático.
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on December 2025
For the First Time, a Former Refugee Will Lead the U.N.’s Refugee Agency
Barham Salih speaking before the United Nations in 2019, when he was the president of Iraq.
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on December 2025
Christian Turner Is Appointed New UK Ambassador to US
Christian Turner, right, will become the next British ambassador to the United States after his predecessor was dismissed over his links to the financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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on December 2025
Australian Police Detain 7 on Suspicion of Planning a ‘Violent Act’
Seven men were detained in the police operation in the Liverpool neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, on Thursday.
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on December 2025
French Doctor Sentenced to Life for Fatally Poisoning 12 People
Frédéric Péchier, a former anesthesiologist, outside a courthouse in France this week.
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on December 2025
Zelensky Appeals to E.U. Leaders for Frozen Russian Funds to Fight War
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, spoke during a news conference on Thursday as part of the European Council meeting in Brussels on Thursday.
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on December 2025
Over 1,000 Were Killed in Attack on Camp in Darfur, Sudan, U.N. Says
People displaced in April after attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on the Zamzam camp in North Darfur, Sudan. A revised toll is over three times as great as earlier estimates.
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on December 2025
The Putin Confidant Who Pushed Back Against Russia’s War in Ukraine
Dmitri N. Kozak, then a deputy prime minister of Russia, in 2019. Early in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he was a rare voice of dissent.
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Nigeria Closes Lead Recycling Factories Linked to U.S. Car Industry
Collecting soil samples at True Metals, in Ogijo, Nigeria, on Tuesday.
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on December 2025
Iran’s President Says He Can’t Make ‘Miracles’ to Solve the Country’s Woes
President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran attending a protest in Tehran in June after the U.S. attacks on nuclear sites in Iran.
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Australia Mourns the Youngest Victim of the Bondi Beach Shooting
A mourner carrying a balloon bearing Matilda’s name and an illustration of a bee, an insect she was known to love, before her funeral in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday.
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on December 2025
Birthrates Are Falling, but Don’t Blame Dogs in Strollers
Strolling in Seoul. A South Korean official said young couples were choosing pets over children, but it might not be that simple.
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on December 2025
Europe to Lend $105 Billion to Ukraine, Without Touching Russian Funds
Antonio Costa, center, president of the European Council, said at a news conference early Friday in Brussels that the newly reached deal would “address the urgent financial needs of Ukraine.”
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on December 2025
At Tokyo Zoo, Visitors Worry Pandas Could Be China’s Next Target
Visitors watching Lei Lei, one of the Ueno Zoo’s two giant pandas, in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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on December 2025
Peter Arnett, Pulitzer-Winning War Correspondent, Dies at 91
Peter Arnett in Vietnam in 1967. His war coverage there earned him a Pulitzer Prize.
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on December 2025
Israel Approves $37 Billion Deal to Deliver Gas to Egypt
The Leviathan gas field in the Mediterranean Sea off Israel’s northern coast. Gas is vital to Israel’s economy, typically accounting for about 70 percent of electric power generation.
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on December 2025
Trump’s Claim That Venezuela ‘Stole’ U.S. Oil Fields Sets Off a Nationalist Reaction
Derricks in the Maracaibo oil fields of Venezuela in the early 20th century. American oil companies invested millions of dollars in the region, generating profits that flowed to the United States, rather than Venezuela.
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on December 2025
Canada’s Population Shrinks Amid Tightened Immigration
International students and others lining up for buses in Brampton, Canada, where many students and temporary workers from India have settled.
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on December 2025
A Militant’s Transformation
Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former rebel commander and now president of Syria.
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on December 2025
Finland Apologizes to China, Japan and South Korea for Racist Gesture
Prime Minister Petteri Orpo of Finland apologized after lawmakers in the country’s most prominent anti-immigration party and a beauty queen made similar gestures that mocked Asians.
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on December 2025
Two U.K. Police Forces Pledge to Arrest People Who Chant ‘Globalize the Intifada’
A demonstration in London in support of Palestinians after a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
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on December 2025
More Than 2,000 Dinosaur Footprints Are Found in the Italian Alps
Dinosaurs once roamed the earth, including, it seems, in this spot in Italy.
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on December 2025
Bondi Beach Shooting Is a Reminder of ISIS’s Power to Inspire Attacks
Paramedics wheel away a wounded man at the scene of the mass shooting in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday.
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on December 2025
South Africa Arrests Workers Processing U.S. Refugee Applications
South Africans rallying in support of President Trump outside the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, in February.
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on December 2025
UK Rejoins EU’s Erasmus Student Exchange Program That It Left After Brexit
Students taking part in the Erasmus exchange program arriving in Gdansk, Poland, in May 2019.
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on December 2025
Trump Revised Chevron’s Venezuela Deal. Maduro’s Oil Trader Profited.
A statue outside Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA headquarters in Caracas.
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on December 2025
Grief Mixes With Anger at Funeral of Rabbi Killed in Bondi Beach Attack
Mourners arriving at the Chabad of Bondi on Wednesday for the funeral of Eli Schlanger, in Sydney, Australia.
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on December 2025
On Bali, the Holiday Vibe Masks Memories of a Massacre
A graveyard on the Indonesian island of Bali where some of the victims of anti-Communist killings in the 1960s are believed to have been buried.
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on December 2025
Free Nigerian Students Recount Mass Kidnapping
The German Chancellor Betting on America
Suspect in Bondi Beach Killings Is Charged With Murder and Terrorism