Slovakia’s Politics Were Toxic Long Before Its Prime Minister Was Shot
Police and security officers on Wednesday outside the hospital in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, where Prime Minister Robert Fico was treated after he was shot.
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on May 2024
As Russia Advances, NATO Considers Sending Trainers Into Ukraine
A convoy of military vehicles, part of a NATO exercise, traveling from Germany to Poland. Ukrainian officials have asked their American and NATO counterparts to help train 150,000 new recruits closer to the front line for faster deployment.
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Russia Expels British Diplomat After U.K. Booted His Counterpart
The Russian Foreign Ministry building, in the center with the spire, in Moscow.
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on May 2024
Zelensky Visits Embattled Kharkiv as Russia Presses Broad Assaults
A woman who was evacuated from her home near Vovchansk, Ukraine, registering for humanitarian aid in Kharkiv on Wednesday.
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on May 2024
How Extremist Settlers Took Over Israel
A member of a group known as the Hilltop Youth, which seeks to tear down Israel’s institutions and establish ‘‘Jewish rule.’’
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on May 2024
White House Considers Easing Sanctions on Israeli Billionaire
A cobalt mine in Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo. The central African nation produced 76 percent of the world’s supply of the metal last year.
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Putin and Xi Hail ‘New Model’ of Ties Between Powers in Show of Unity
A photograph provided by Russian state media showed China’s leader, Xi Jinping, welcoming President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia with a ceremony in Beijing.
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on May 2024
Heat Stress Is Hitting Caribbean Reefs Earlier Than Ever This Year
Bleached corals off Brazil this week. The world is currently experiencing a global coral bleaching event, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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C.D.C. Warns of a Resurgence of Mpox
A health official investigating and treating a probable case of mpox at the Yalolia health center in Tshopo, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2022.
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on May 2024
Friday Briefing: NATO Considers Sending Trainers to Ukraine
Military vehicles traveling from Germany to Poland as part of a NATO exercise.
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on May 2024
Venezuela’s 2024 Presidential Election: What to Know
President Nicolás Maduro firmly controls Venezuela’s political, financial and security institutions.
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on May 2024
Calls to Pause Slovakia’s E.U. Election Campaigning Raise Questions
The presidential palace in Bratislava, Slovakia, last month.
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on May 2024
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico Shot in Attempted Killing: What to Know
Medical workers transferring Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia to a hospital in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, on Wednesday.
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on May 2024
ICJ Hears Arguments from South Africa on Israel’s Rafah Offensive
Representatives of South Africa at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Thursday.
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on May 2024
U.S. Military Installs Temporary Pier in Gaza for Aid
An American ship, the Sagamore, setting sail from Cyprus last week.
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on May 2024
Israel’s Settler Violence and Impunity: Takeaways From the Times Investigation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir in Israel’s parliament last year.
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on May 2024
Thursday Briefing
Security officers moved Prime Minister Robert Fico in a car after the shooting.
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on May 2024
Slovakia Has Charted Its Own Course Since the Fall of the Soviet Union
The Slovak national flag, left, next to the flag of the European Union flying at the Presidential Palace in the Slovakian capital, Bratislava.
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on May 2024
Attempted Assassination of Slovak Leader Puts Europe on Edge
The scene moments after Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia was shot in Handlova on Wednesday.
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on May 2024
Thursday Briefing: Slovakia’s Leader Was Shot
Security officers moved Prime Minister Robert Fico in a car after the shooting.
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on May 2024
Blinken Warns Fighting Could Undo Aid Gains in Gaza
Displaced Palestinians packing their tent on Wednesday before leaving an unsafe area in Rafah.
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on May 2024
U.S. Suspends Funding for Group at Center of Covid Origins Fight
Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, faced a barrage of questions during a congressional hearing this month.
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on May 2024
Dutch Right-Wing Parties Reach Preliminary Deal to Form a Government
Geert Wilders, the leader of Party for Freedom, speaks to members of the news media after the government formation talks in The Hague on Wednesday.
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on May 2024
Swiss Court Convicts Ousman Sonko, Ex-Gambian Minister, of Crimes Against Humanity
Fatoumatta Sandeng, a plaintiff in the case and the daughter of the tortured opposition leader, with Nina Burri, her lawyer, after the conviction of Ousman Sonko in Bellinzona, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
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on May 2024
A France in Shock Confronts the Violence in Its Midst
A bullet-ridden prison van at the site of the attack that killed two prison guards on Tuesday in Incarville, France.
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on May 2024
Who Is Robert Fico, the Prime Minister of Slovakia?
Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot and seriously wounded on Wednesday.
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on May 2024
Wildfire Nears Canada’s Largest Oil-Producing Area, Forcing Thousands to Evacuate
This photo released by the government of Alberta on Monday shows columns of smoke from wildfires near Fort McMurray.
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on May 2024
King Charles III and a History of Polarizing Royal Portraits
The artist Jonathan Yeo and King Charles III at the unveiling of Mr. Yeo’s portrait of the king at Buckingham Palace in London on Tuesday.
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on May 2024
France Declares State of Emergency Amid Protests in New Caledonia
Walking next to a burned-out car while a man holds a flag of the Socialist Kanak National Liberation Front after a supermarket was looted and shops vandalized in the New Caledonian capital, Noumea, on Tuesday.
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on May 2024
After Outlawing Public Zoos, Costa Rica Relocates Hundreds of Animals
A net was used to get animals out of the water after the closure of the Simon Bolivar State Zoo.
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on May 2024
Gaza Aid Gains May Be Lost as Fighting Rages in Rafah, U.S. Says
Trucks waiting on an Egyptian road along the border with Israel, near the Rafah border crossing with Gaza, earlier this month.
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on May 2024
Ukraine Fights to Hold Off Fierce Russian Assaults in Northeast
Residents of Vovchansk and surrounding villages in northeastern Ukraine being evacuated to the city of Kharkiv on Tuesday.
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on May 2024
Interpol Issues Alert for French Inmate on the Run After Deadly Ambush
Forensic investigators at the site of the ambush in Incarville, in northern France, on Tuesday.
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on May 2024
Ethnic ‘Balancer’ for Government Jobs Becomes Focus of Ethnic Division
An ethnic Albanian shepherd with his flock in a village on the outskirts of Tetovo, North Macedonia.
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on May 2024
Putin Is Selling Victory, and Many Russians Are Buying It
Miltary cadets at an exhibition of equipment captured from NATO countries in front of the Victory Museum in Moscow.
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on May 2024
First, He Conquered Paris. Now, a Japanese Chef Wants to Become a Brand.
“If you make a compromise, or think ‘OK, this is good,’ then it is time to quit,” said Kei Kobayashi, pictured at one of his new Tokyo restaurants.
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on May 2024
Wednesday Briefing
Donald Trump’s attorneys attempted to portray Michael Cohen as an opportunist.
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on May 2024
FIFA Set to Roll Back Reforms Enacted After Corruption Scandal
Gianni Infantino, the FIFA president, center, in Washington in April. He has overseen the weakening of changes he championed as a candidate for the position.
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on May 2024
China Deploys Dozens of Ships to Block Philippine Protest Flotilla
Philippine fishing boats near the town of Masinloc on Luzon Island on Wednesday morning, on their way to the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
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on May 2024
What Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Did for Singapore
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore with his wife, Ho Ching, during a trip to Indonesia last year. He leaves office on Wednesday.
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on May 2024
King Charles III Unveils First Official Painted Portrait Since Coronation
Jonathan Yeo’s oil-on-canvas portrait of King Charles III depicts him wearing the uniform of the Welsh Guards, of which he was a Regimental Colonel.
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on May 2024
Wednesday Briefing: Michael Cohen Faced Donald Trump’s Lawyers
Michael Cohen, center, on his way to court yesterday.
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on May 2024
U.K. Summons Chinese Ambassador for Reprimand as Tensions Rise
A protester placing a cardboard protest sign with photos of three men charged with assisting Hong Kong’s foreign intelligence service in Britain on the door of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office on Tuesday in London.
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on May 2024
German Court Fines Far-Right Leader for Using Nazi Phrase
Björn Höcke at his trial in Halle, eastern Germany, in April. He claimed during the proceedings that he had not known about the phrase’s Nazi origin.
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on May 2024
Russia Detains Senior General, Widening Military Purge
A photo made available by the Russian Defense Ministry of Lt. Gen. Yuri Kuznetsov.
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on May 2024
UN Begins Citing a Lower Death Toll For Women and Children in Gaza
A woman mourning the loss of her siblings killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip in October.
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on May 2024
Summer 2023 Was the Northern Hemisphere’s Hottest in 2,000 Years, Study Finds
A 730-year-old fir tree in Mount Rainier National Park, Wash. Researchers used data from 10,000 trees across the Northern Hemisphere.
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on May 2024
5 Israeli Soldiers Killed in Friendly Fire Incident in Northern Gaza
Rafael Grossi of the IAEA Acts as the West’s Mediator With Putin and Iran
Satellite Images Show Widening Destruction in Rafah Amid Israeli Invasion
Middle East Crisis: Israel Says It Will Send More Troops to Rafah, Defying International Pressure
Dancing Past the Venus de Milo
What to Know About the Summit Between Putin and Xi in China