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    1. Nigeria dispatch

      The Hit Erotica Writers Outwitting Nigeria’s Religious Censors

      Zealous officials burned their predecessors’ romance novels. Now, young Muslim women in northern Nigeria publish their erotic books in installments on WhatsApp.

       By Ruth MacleanIsmail Auwal and

      CreditTaiwo Aina for The New York Times
  1. 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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    President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in the city of Slovyansk, Ukraine, last month.
    CreditBrendan Hoffman for The New York Times
  2. 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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    Gustave Eiffel, left, and a friend on the spiral staircase of the newly built Eiffel Tower in 1889.
    CreditBettmann, via Getty Images
  3. 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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    Dmitry Muratov, a Nobel laureate, during a meeting at Novaya Gazeta’s office in Moscow last year.
    CreditNanna Heitmann for The New York Times
  4. 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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    Pro-government demonstrators in Tehran early on Wednesday, after the cease-fire was announced.
    CreditArash Khamooshi for The New York Times
  5. 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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    Defense Secretary John Healey said on Thursday that the U.K. military operation “reinforces the seriousness with which we take the Russian threat.”
    CreditPool photo by Yui Mok
  1. 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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    File footage of a North Korea missile launch shown at a train station in Seoul on Wednesday.
    CreditAhn Young-Joon/Associated Press
  2. 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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    At an underground bomb shelter being used as a hospital in Haifa, Israel, on Thursday, a television showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the nation.
    CreditMarco Longari/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
  3. 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.

     By Jim Tankersley and

    Supporters of the Alternative for Germany party at its election campaign launch in Halle, Germany, in January of last year.
    CreditSergey Ponomarev for The New York Times
  4. 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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    A drone with a weighted dummy explosive attached.
    CreditMauricio Lima for The New York Times
  5. 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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    Churches like the St. Nicholas in Pluckley were once the beating heart of every British village, but have declined in number.
    CreditAndrew Testa for The New York Times

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  1. 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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    Dmitri A. Muratov at his office at Novaya Gazeta in Moscow in December.
    CreditNanna Heitmann for The New York Times
  2. 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.

     By Genevieve Glatsky and

    Luis Carlos Rúa, in his white elephant character costume, at an abandoned government construction site in Pereira, Colombia.
    CreditEsteban Vanegas for The New York Times
  3. 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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    Joseph Kabila returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo last year, to territory controlled by rebels.
    CreditGuerchom Ndebo for The New York Times
  4. 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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    Maria Kalesnikava with her flute this week in Berlin, where she now lives in exile.
    CreditSergey Ponomarev for The New York Times
  5. 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.

     By Amelia Nierenberg and

    Helgi Hjorleifsson driving through lava fields in southwestern Iceland in February.
    CreditSergey Ponomarev for The New York Times

Dispatches

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  1. 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.

     By Damien Cave and

    A boat transporting newly harvested rice in My Thanh Ward, Dong Thap Province, Vietnam, in late March.
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  2. ‘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.

     By Andrew Higgins and

    The Shanghai History Museum, housed in the former Shanghai Race Club.
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  3. ‘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.

     By Choe Sang-Hun and

    CreditChang W. Lee/The New York Times
  4. 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.

     By Norimitsu Onishi and

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  5. 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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    CreditIsmaeel Naar/The New York Times

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  1. 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.

     By Daniel Politi and

    El presidente de Argentina, Javier Milei, en Buenos Aires en 2024
    CreditMagali Druscovich para The New York Times
  2. 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.

     By Alexandra Stevenson and

    Tanques de almacenamiento de petróleo e instalaciones de una planta de Sinopec en Shanghái el mes pasado.
    CreditGo Nakamura/Reuters
  3. 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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    Un torero realizando un pase durante la Corrida Picassiana en Málaga en 2024.
    CreditJorge Guerrero/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
  4. 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.

     By André Paultre and

    Una masacre en la región agrícola haitiana de Artibonite dejó hasta 70 muertos.
    CreditKendy Jean
  5. 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.

     Por Emiliano Rodríguez Mega y

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  7. How Iranians Feel Now

    The fragile cease-fire has brought relief. But hope for change seems farther away than ever.

    By Katrin Bennhold

     
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