Iran War Live Updates: Israel Agrees to Talks With Lebanon but Keeps Striking Hezbollah
Iran has insisted that Lebanon is covered by the cease-fire, while the United States and Israel have said it is not, threatening the truce.

Iran has insisted that Lebanon is covered by the cease-fire, while the United States and Israel have said it is not, threatening the truce.

For Iran’s theocratic rulers, just surviving the U.S.-Israeli onslaught means victory. But the seeds of their next crisis may already be planted.
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Critics wonder if this is America’s “Suez moment,” when a leading power signals the start of its international decline.
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Zealous officials burned their predecessors’ romance novels. Now, young Muslim women in northern Nigeria publish their erotic books in installments on WhatsApp.
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Zelensky Sees Small Window for Peace
Talks to end the war in Ukraine could resume soon, said President Volodymyr Zelensky as he expressed skepticism about a breakthrough.
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137-Year-Old Piece of Eiffel Tower to Be Auctioned in Paris
A section of the landmark’s original staircase will go up for auction next month and could sell for a towering sum.
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A Newspaper Is Raided and a Rights Group Outlawed Amid Kremlin Crackdown
As Moscow throttles Russia’s few remaining independent voices, the authorities targeted two of the most prominent, one a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the other headed by a Nobel laureate.
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What to Know About the U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire
The two-week truce agreement already seems to be on shaky ground over two issues, the Strait of Hormuz and the status of Lebanon.
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3 Russian Submarines Detected Near Britain Were Spying, U.K. Says
John Healey, the defense secretary, said the vessels were gathering information about undersea pipelines, and said he believed President Vladimir V. Putin “would want us to be distracted by the Middle East.”
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North Korea Tests New Weapons, Drawing Lessons from Iran War
The country has been leveraging armed conflicts abroad, such as Russia’s war against Ukraine, to bolster its own military capabilities.
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For Israel’s Netanyahu, the War With Iran Is Unfinished Business
As the focus shifts to negotiations between the United States and Iran, no formal Israeli participation is planned.
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In Germany’s East, the Far Right Could Soon Take Power. This Is Its Plan.
In the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Alternative for Germany could win control of the government this fall. Once in power, it has a plan to overhaul German society.
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He Made a Gadget to Amuse Pets. Then He Turned to Killer Drones.
An entrepreneur behind drones that make the final strike themselves epitomizes the transformation of Ukraine’s civilian technology industry into a defense powerhouse.
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No, Britain Is Not Having a Christian Revival
A study said church attendance had soared among British young people, a trend reversal that excited religious conservatives around the world. Turns out it wasn’t true.
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In a Muzzled Russia, He Still Speaks His Mind
While hundreds of other journalists fled into exile after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitri A. Muratov stayed. But he did not stay quiet.
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He Rode an Elephant Costume Into Colombia’s Senate
After years of anonymously documenting abandoned public works projects in Colombia, Luis Carlos Rúa revealed himself days before his election.
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He Led Congo for 18 Years. Now, He’s a Hunted Man.
Joseph Kabila, the former president, faces the death penalty after the government convicted him of treason last year. He says the charges are bogus.
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An Autocrat Jailed Her, but She Wants the World to Talk to Him
Maria Kalesnikava is campaigning for the West to engage with the regime in Belarus that imprisoned her for more than five years.
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Iceland’s Chief ‘Lava Cooler’ Is Bracing for the Next Eruption
Helgi Hjorleifsson, a firefighter, is a leader in a national experiment to steer rivers of lava away from important sites. Some called it crazy, but it worked.
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How War in the Middle East Paralyzed an Asian Food Giant
Vietnam, the world’s No. 2 rice exporter, cut production as power prices surged. Even with a temporary cease-fire in Iran, worries linger over the world’s food supply.
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‘City of Parasites’ or ‘Glamorous Metropolis’? China’s Cosmopolitan Contradiction.
Shanghai’s many layers of architecture, culture and politics have made it a difficult fit for the Communist Party’s preferred narrative of Chinese victimhood and Western sins.
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‘Nowhere Else to Go’: The Squatters in the Richest Part of Seoul
The city wants to redevelop a shantytown in Gangnam district, where hundreds are defying eviction, fighting for a right to own a home in an area notorious for the exorbitant cost of housing.
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Halfway Through Lent, a Small Quebec Island Celebrates With Masks and Jigs
Few islanders still observe Lent, but they cling to a tradition once seen as defying the all-powerful Roman Catholic Church.
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In Sleepy Town on Strait of Hormuz, War Rages Just Over Horizon
For centuries, an Omani exclave has been defined by a peculiar duality: rugged isolation and proximity to one of the world’s most important trade routes.
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Nuevas revelaciones reavivan el criptoescándalo que implica a Javier Milei
Los documentos judiciales plantean dudas sobre las declaraciones del presidente argentino en el sentido de que no tenía ninguna relación con el lanzamiento de la criptomoneda $Libra.
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Esta no es la guerra de China, pero el país estaba preparado para ella
Preocupada desde hace tiempo por las crisis geopolíticas, China redobló sus esfuerzos para garantizar la seguridad energética desde el primer mandato de Donald Trump.
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Un torero retirado muere tras ser embestido por un toro en Málaga
El accidente ocurrió antes de la Corrida Picassiana, un evento anual en Málaga que rinde homenaje al pintor Pablo Picasso.
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Decenas de muertos en una masacre en Haití mientras llega la fuerza internacional
Las pandillas arrasaron varias comunidades el pasado fin de semana, lo que destaca los retos a los que se enfrentará la nueva Fuerza de Supresión de Pandillas, respaldada por la ONU.
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19 cubanos cuentan cómo es vivir sin combustible
Residentes de la isla contaron a The New York Times cómo la escasez de combustible les ha trastornado la vida.
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Vice President JD Vance will lead the United States delegation which is set to meet with Iranian officials in Pakistan on Saturday.
By Ashley Ahn

Erick Valencia Salazar, a co-founder of one of Mexico’s deadliest gangs, faces 10 years to life in prison after making a plea deal in a Washington court.
By Ephrat Livni

President Trump is citing the unwillingness of European nations to back the United States in the conflict as another reason to scale back or abandon the alliance. And he still wants Greenland.
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The cease-fire would be in effect this weekend, the Kremlin said, but each side accused the other of violating a similar pause announced last year.
By Valerie Hopkins and Constant Méheut

The move opens the country’s coveted mineral fortune up to foreign investors, the latest move that Venezuela’s leadership has taken to satisfy the Trump administration.
By Luis Ferré-Sadurní

With Greece expected to ban social media for children under the age of 15, some Greeks shared their skepticism of the legislation while others approved it.
By Cynthia Silva and Jorge Mitssunaga

The fragile cease-fire has brought relief. But hope for change seems farther away than ever.
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But the Israeli prime minister said his country would continue its attacks against the Iran-backed armed group.
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Europeans and Iran warned that the Israeli offensive against Hezbollah threatened the truce in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.
By Aaron Boxerman, Amelia Nierenberg, Christina Goldbaum and Michael Levenson

The Trump administration aims to deploy counterterrorism tools against far-left groups, even as it has offered little evidence they present a dire threat.
By Jack Nicas, Alan Feuer, Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Edward Wong and Jim Tankersley
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