No Pills or Needles, Just Paper: How Deadly Drugs Are Changing
The Division 9 Maximum Security Dormitory of the Cook County Department of Corrections — where inmates have been found using deadly illicit drugs — saturated onto paper — in the pages of books, letters from family and legal documents.
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Zelensky Sends Negotiators to the U.S., Hoping to Revive Peace Talks
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Wednesday in Madrid. He has called for the resumption of peace talks, which have lost momentum in recent weeks.
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The Road to the Battle of Hastings in 1066? Maybe Not a Road After All.
Re-enactors setting out from Clifford’s Tower in York, England, to follow the supposed journey of King Harold to the site of the Battle of Hastings, for the 950th anniversary of the battle in 2016.
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Iranian Sailors, Including Survivors of Torpedoed Ship, Remain in Limbo
A Sri Lankan Navy vessel rescuing survivors of the Dena, an Iranian warship torpedoed earlier this month by a U.S. submarine, in a photo provided by the Sri Lankan Navy.
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At Least 14 Killed in South Korean Factory Fire
Firefighters spraying water to extinguish a fire at a factory in Daejeon, South Korea, on Friday.
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A Public Holiday Every Week? Sri Lankans Bemoan the Enforced Day Off.
A vendor waiting for customers at a railway station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Wednesday, after the government announced a weekly holiday on Wednesdays to save fuel.
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Chelsea Chief Under Abramovich Could Face Scrutiny Over Soccer Cheating
Marina Granovskaia before a match at Wembley Stadium in London in 2022, when she was a Chelsea board member.
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Trump Organization Eyes Transylvania Golf Course Deal
The Trump Organization is considering a real estate project in Romania that would be near a landfill and a makeshift settlement known as Pata Rat.
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With Fire and Song, Kurds in Turkey Hail the Start of Spring
Kurds celebrating Newroz, an ancient holiday that marks the start of spring in the northern hemisphere, in Diyarbakir, Turkey.
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Patriarch Filaret Dies at 97, Orthodox Church of Ukraine Says
Patriarch Filaret, center, at St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, in June 2022. President Volodymyr Zelensky called him “one of the most steadfast defenders” of Ukrainian statehood.
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Internet Blackout Keeps Iranians From Reaching Loved Ones During Nowruz Holiday
Shoppers in Tehran prepare for Nowruz, the Persian New Year, even as travel difficulties and an internet blackout keep families apart.
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How the Litani River Shapes the Israel-Hezbollah War
Damage to a bridge over the Litani river in southern Lebanon after it was struck on Wednesday.
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Umberto Bossi, Fiery Founder of Italian Separatist Party, Dies at 84
Umberto Bossi in 2008. He appealed to disaffected northerners who saw Italy’s Rome-centered, “colonialist” national government as having robbed them of their hard-earned money and their cultural identity.
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Israel Strikes Across Lebanon Amid Fierce Ground Fighting in the South
Damaged buildings in the southern neighborhoods of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on Saturday, after an Israeli airstrike.
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Middle East War Leaves Hamas Balancing Allies on Opposite Sides
Armed members of Hamas in Gaza City in November.
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Iranian Man Arrested After Trying to Enter U.K. Naval Base, Police Say
One of Britain’s nuclear-powered submarines undergoing maintenance at H.M. Naval Base Clyde in Scotland in 2023.
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Spring Awakening
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Canada Shifts From Peacekeeping to Building a Strong Military
A Norwegian tank at a NATO winter training exercise in Badufoss, Norway, this month.
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These BTS Fans Waited 15 Hours to See Their Idols
International BTS fans waiting for the concert on Saturday, from left: Thycianne Santos, Corrine van der Moolen, Leimomi Kamiya, Betty Pietraszora, Kayla Sanchez, Niki Anchala and Emi Noguchi.
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Trump Signals Retreat From Goal of Regime Change in Iran
People at an apartment building that was hit by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in Tehran last week.
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U.S. Pauses Sanctions on Some Iranian Oil to Get More to Market
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a post on X that Iran would see little economic benefit from the temporary removal of the sanctions.
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A Look at the Escalating Battle for the Strait of Hormuz
The village of Kumzar, along the Strait of Hormuz in Oman.
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Here’s What Happened in the War in Iran in Its Third Week
Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr at the Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque in Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday.
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U.S. Attacks Iranian Targets to Try to Open Strait of Hormuz
Iran has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz to most Western ships, helping to drive up oil prices and rocking the global economy.
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Switzerland Blocks Arms Sales to U.S. Over Iran War
The United States is one of the biggest markets for Swiss weapons exports, including small arms.
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U.K. Allows U.S. to Use Bases to Hit Iranian Forces Menacing Strait Traffic
A B-1 bomber at a Royal Air Force base in Fairford, England, on Sunday.
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Stone Fragment Is Found in Wreck of Ship That Carried Parthenon Marbles
Divers have found a marble fragment from the wreck of the Mentor, a ship that sank in 1802 while carrying Greek antiquities.
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Aid Ship Departs for Cuba as Island Grapples With a Fuel Blockade
People watching the sunset in Havana on Monday during a blackout.
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A Few Ships Are Trickling Through the Strait of Hormuz With Iran’s Approval
Cargo ships sailing toward the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of the United Arab Emirates on Thursday.
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Denmark Was Ready to Blow Up Airfields to Stop a U.S. Invasion of Greenland
According to a report in Danish public media, Nuuk Airport in Greenland was one of two airports that the Danish military was planning to disable in the event of a U.S. invasion.
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Shigeaki Mori, Hiroshima Survivor Photographed With Obama, Dies at 88
Shigeaki Mori with President Barack Obama in 2016. The first American president to visit Hiroshima, Mr. Obama paid tribute to Mr. Mori, “a man who sought out families of Americans killed here, because he believed their loss was equal to his own.”
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Trump Officials Bypass Congress to Sell Weapons to U.A.E., Kuwait and Jordan
Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined that “an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale” of weapons to the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Jordan, according to his department.
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Iran’s New Supreme Leader Issues a Statement but Remains Unseen
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei succeeded his father as Iran’s supreme leader earlier this month but has not appeared in public or on video since then.
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U.S. Dispatches Marines and Warships to Middle East
A Marine Expeditionary Unit during training in Okinawa, Japan, last year. The unit is deployed in the Middle East.
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NATO Pulls Last Military Trainers From Iraq Amid Strikes From Iran
Air Force Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich, NATO’s top commander, speaks during an armed services hearing, in March.
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A Meningitis Outbreak at the University of Kent Evokes Covid Memories
Lining up for vaccines at the University of Kent in southeastern England on Wednesday. Two people have died and at least 29 others are believed to have been infected in the meningitis outbreak.
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In Photos: The War in Ukraine, After 4 Years
A soldier who was thought to be dead after an identification mix-up visiting the site of his own grave in the Lviv region of western Ukraine in March.
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Iran Executes 3 Men, Including Teenage Wrestler Saleh Mohammadi
Demonstrators in Tehran, in January. Protests triggered by soaring inflation and the collapse of the rial later expanded into broader demands for political change in Iran.
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BTS Leans Into Korean History With ‘Arirang.’ Here Are the Major References.
Trucks promoting the BTS comeback concert passing by the statue of King Sejong at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, on Thursday. The group performs at the square on Saturday.
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What To Know About the BTS Comeback Concert Streaming Live on Netflix
Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul on Saturday, hours before the BTS comeback concert.
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Iran War Underscores the Diverging Aims of Trump and Netanyahu
Refineries serving the South Pars gas field in Asaluyeh, Iran, in 2019. The facilities, which process most of Iran’s natural gas for domestic consumption, were damaged in an attack on Wednesday.
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U.S. Asked to Keep Military Planes in Sri Lanka Before Iran Airstrikes
A U.S. Air Force bomber jet in southwest England this month.
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Lukashenko Jailed Her in Belarus, but She Wants the World to Talk to Him
Maria Kalesnikava with her flute this week in Berlin, where she now lives in exile.
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A Diary of War From an Unlikely Author: the Son of Iran’s President
A photo released by Iranian state media shows President Masoud Pezeshkian, center, with his son Yousef Pezeshkian, in blue jacket, in Tehran last month, before the war began.
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Why K-Pop Is Hitting a Roadblock in China
Shotaro, third left, at a Riize concert in Austin, Texas, last year.
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How Japan Reacted to Trump’s Pearl Harbor Joke
President Trump met with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan in the Oval Office on Thursday.
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Seeking to Rely Less on China, U.S. Pushes a Rare Earths Partnership on a Reluctant Brazil
Hamas Considering Disarmament Plan From Trump’s Board of Peace, Officials Say
Iran War Live Updates: U.S. Bombed Thousands of Iranian Targets, but Iran Shows No Sign of Backing Down
BTS’s Comeback Show Was Heavy on Their New Album
On a Holiday of Renewal, Iranians Are Mourning and Fearful
K-Pop’s BTS Returns to the Stage
War-Weary Lebanon Marks Eid With Muted Celebration
New Data Shows Where ICE Has Been Most Active This Year
Oil Prices Tick Up and U.S. Stocks Fall Sharply