How North Korea’s Kim Jong-un Is Using the Iran War to Justify His Nuclear Arsenal
A photo released by North Korean state media showing the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, speaking at Parliament in Pyongyang on Monday.
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Ukraine Spent Big to Shield Energy Industry From Drones. Is the Mideast Next?
A damaged area of a Naftogaz gas facility following Russian missile and drone attacks, in an undisclosed location in Ukraine in December.
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Trump Sours on Keir Starmer Over UK’s Decision Not to Join Attacks on Iran
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Chequers, the official estate of Britain’s leader, in September 2025.
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Pakistan Dials Up Its Information War
A live news broadcast at Asia One, a new 24/7 news channel, in Karachi earlier this year.
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Government Cuts Gut the Memory of Argentina’s Dirty War
The mothers of the disappeared marching in Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo this month.
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Europe Clinches Critical Mineral Access With Australian Trade Deal
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Union’s executive branch, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia at a signing ceremony in Canberra on Tuesday.
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A Choice of Deadly Drones Is Only a Few Clicks Away for Ukrainian Troops
A Ukrainian soldier arming a drone in the Kharkiv region last year.
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Caught Between Two Conflicts, Afghans Flee Iran
People crossing the border from Iran to Afghanistan last week at Islam Qala.
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Why the BTS Comeback Concert Was a ‘Disaster’ for Some Businesses
City officials were expecting more than a quarter of a million people at Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul on Saturday.
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Italians Reject Judicial Overhaul, Undermining Meloni
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome last month. She has staked considerable political capital on campaigning for the measures.
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Taiwan Debates Military Spending as Choices Over U.S. and China Loom
Taiwanese soldiers during a military exercise in 2023.
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Take Shorter Showers: South Korea Kicks Off an Energy-Saving Drive
South Korea’s government is encouraging people to use public transportation to help conserve energy.
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Trump Delays Threat to Iran, but War Negotiations Are in Early Stage
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, in Tehran last year. He is said to have conveyed to the U.S. that Iran would need sanctions relief and guarantees against future attacks.
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Here’s What Happened in the War in the Middle East on Monday
The outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday night. Airstrikes hit the southern parts of the capital known as a Hezbollah stronghold soon after Israel issued evacuation warnings.
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Trump Says U.S. Is Negotiating With Iran, Which Publicly Denies His Claim
An apartment building hit by a strike in Tehran on Monday.
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Trump Delays Energy Strikes, but Iran’s Infrastructure Is Already Battered
The aftermath of a strike on an oil storage facility in Tehran earlier this month.
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Energy Crisis Will Not Be Resolved Quickly if War Ends, I.E.A. Chief Warns
Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, speaks in Canberra, Australia, on Monday.
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Plane Crash Kills 66 From Military and Police in Colombia
The aircraft had taken off from Puerto Leguízamo, Colombia, at 9:50 a.m. There were 114 soldiers and police officers and 11 crew members on board, officials said.
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Israel Says Its Own Artillery Killed a Farmer, Not a Hezbollah Rocket
Ofer Moskovitz, 60, holding avocados on a dirt road near Israel’s border with Lebanon last week.
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Lionel Jospin, Who Helped Set France on Socialist Path, Dies at 88
Lionel Jospin delivering a speech in Paris in 2002. Through his parents, who were socialists, Mr. Jospin said he learned “the consequences of social misery, and the desire to change all of that.”
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Energy Attacks in War on Iran Could Turn Economic Shock Into Long-Term Damage
Hand-painted signs at a gas station in Samut Prakan, Thailand, last week said the station was out of diesel and 95-octane gasoline.
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Canada May Need to Lean on the US as Military Threats in the Arctic Rise
A North Warning System station near Cambridge Bay on Victoria Island in Canada’s Arctic. The system consists of automated radars whose technology is now widely considered outdated in the era of satellites.
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Diabetes, Overlooked and Unchecked, Poses New Risks in Africa
Habiba Sali, right, a nurse in the endocrinology department of the Maroua Regional Hospital in the far north region of Cameroon, took the vital signs of patient Aminatou Mana during a regular checkup.
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London Arson Attack on Jewish Ambulance Service Investigated as Hate Crime, Police Say
The scene where the police say four ambulances were set on fire, in Golders Green on Monday.
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In Denmark’s Election, How Will the Woman Who Took On Trump Fare?
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen greeting constituents during a campaign event on Tuesday in her hometown Aalborg, Denmark.
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Iranians Fear Trump’s Threat to Strike Power Plants
Tehran residents on Sunday, when tensions were rising over whether power would be cut to the capital and home to 10 million people.
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Israel’s Missile Defense Under Scrutiny After Iranian Attack
Peering Sunday at damage where a missile struck the night before in Arad, Israel.
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French Far Right Falls Short of Statement Win in Yardstick Local Races
Casting a ballot on Sunday in Lyon, southeastern France.
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Attack on a Sudan Hospital Kills Dozens, Head of W.H.O. Says
Refugees waiting to be registered at the Oure Cassoni camp in Chad after fleeing the civil war in Sudan, in February. The war has created a devastating humanitarian crisis.
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Iran Responds to Trump’s Energy Threat With Defiance and Warnings of Its Own
Iran’s first vice president, Mohammad Reza Aref, center, in February.
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Israel Orders Military to Intensify Demolitions in Southern Lebanon
Cars turn around on a bridge in southern Lebanon after an Israeli strike destroyed it on Sunday.
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Residents in Southern Israel Are Shaken After Direct Strikes by Iranian Missiles
Emergency workers at the site of a missile strike in Dimona, Israel, on Sunday.
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On Beirut’s Waterfront, Loss Meets Life, and Luxury, Amid War
A displaced man in Beirut, Lebanon, sitting near the sea. More than a million people have been displaced in the country since the latest conflict between Israel and Hezbollah began.
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Election in Slovenia Is a Near Tie
Voters casting their ballots in Radomlje, Slovenia, on Sunday.
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on March 2026
Terror Attacks Haunted This Brussels Community. Now It’s Trying to Move On.
Graffiti on one of the bridges over the canal dividing Molenbeek and the city of Brussels this month.
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on March 2026
France Chose Thousands of New Mayors on Sunday. Here’s Why It Matters.
Campaign posters outside a school in Marseille, France.
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The Billionaire Funding France’s Far Right
Pierre-Édouard Stérin at his chalet in the French Alps on Wednesday. He moved his family to Belgium in 2012.
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Italy’s Leader Wants to Change the Constitution. Italians Don’t Get It.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at a campaign event this month.
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Here’s What Happened in the War in the Middle East on Saturday
An Israeli soldier uses a flashlight while walking in the ruins of a damaged building in the southern Israeli city of Dimona.
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Iranian missile strikes Israeli city near main nuclear research facility.
Emergency workers approach a site where Iranian missiles struck Dimona, Israel on Saturday.
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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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on March 2026
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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on March 2026
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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on March 2026
Hasan Piker Defends Upscale Lodging During Humanitarian Mission in Cuba
Here’s What Happened in the War in the Middle East on Sunday
Iran War Live Updates: Tehran Fires Missile Barrage at Israel After U.S. Claims Progress on Talks
Sidelined by War With Iran, Gaza Residents Remain in Limbo
‘Strong Talks’ With Iran?
Trump’s Ultimatum to Iran