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A decision in China not to charge a man who fathered children with a woman with a mental illness has set off a debate about consent and the state’s push for babies.
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A decision in China not to charge a man who fathered children with a woman with a mental illness has set off a debate about consent and the state’s push for babies.
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A Ukrainian Railways train, which was carrying more than 200 passengers, was attacked by three drones on Tuesday. Five people were killed in the strike, the latest in Russia’s monthslong campaign against the Ukrainian rail infrastructure.
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One Ukrainian passenger, who escaped injury after stepping out of a carriage for a cigarette, recalled carrying a bloodied woman away from the burning train.
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Albania’s minister for artificial intelligence, an A.I. avatar named Diella, is programmed to detect government corruption. But Diella did not catch the alleged wrongdoing by its human creators.
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The Albanian avatar known as Diella, a public anticorruption crusader, has been described as the world’s first government minister created by artificial intelligence.
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Breaking News: Israel said it will reopen Gaza’s border with Egypt to foot traffic within days, advancing the government’s fragile cease-fire with Hamas.
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The Rafah crossing will open at the end of Israel’s search for the remains of the last captive in Gaza.
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Breaking News: Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder, was arrested and charged with murder and smuggling cocaine.
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Ryan Wedding, 44, who competed in snowboarding in the 2002 Winter Olympics, has been charged with murder and smuggling cocaine into the United States.
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Negotiations to resolve the future of Greenland have focused on proposals to increase NATO’s presence in the Arctic, give the U.S. a sovereign claim to pockets of territory and block potentially hostile adversaries from mining the island’s minerals.
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Negotiators have discussed proposals to check Russian and Chinese influence in the Arctic and transfer sovereignty over pockets of Greenlandic land to the United States, an idea opposed by Denmark.
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Rescuers were trying to retrieve bodies from the wreckage after two trains crashed in southern Spain on Sunday, killing at least 39 people. A labor union said it had warned authorities last year about problems with Spain’s rail infrastructure.
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Crews were working to retrieve bodies after two high-speed trains derailed in southern Spain. The regional authorities said 41 people were hospitalized, with a dozen of them in intensive care.
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A special counsel on Tuesday asked a court in Seoul to sentence South Korea’s impeached and ousted former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, to death, on the charge of leading an insurrection when he briefly imposed martial law on his country in late 2024.
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Former President Yoon Suk Yeol faces an insurrection charge after his failed attempt to put his country under martial law in 2024.
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Protests kindled by deepening economic hardship and fueled by anger at Iran’s government have swept the country for more than a week, driving crowds into the streets of major cities, including the capital, Tehran. Here's what to know.
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The nationwide demonstrations that have roiled Iran for weeks appear to have been largely quelled by a brutal government crackdown.
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Breaking News: The U.S. military was attempting to intercept a Russian-flagged oil tanker that defied a blockade on Venezuela, Russian state media reported. Follow live updates.
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After the secretary of state unveiled a proposal for managing Venezuela and the U.S. forces boarded a Russian-flagged tanker and a second ship, President Trump had a phone call with President Gustavo...
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Nicolás Maduro, the ousted Venezuelan president, and his wife are expected to appear at noon on Monday in federal court in Manhattan to face charges of drug trafficking and other crimes, two days after they were captured in a U.S. military raid in Caracas.
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American allies including France objected to the military incursion into a sovereign state and the capture of the Venezuelan president as a violation of international law.
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The authorities in Switzerland were working on Friday to identify bodies and pinpoint the cause of a fire that ripped through a popular bar during a New Year’s celebration in the Alps, killing around 40 people and injuring more than 100 others.
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An official said the sparklers were attached to bottles of champagne held too close to the ceiling. Forty people died and more than 100 were injured. Many of the victims were teenagers.
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President Vladimir Putin has hailed the troops fighting his war of attrition as sacred heroes. But more than 6,000 confidential complaints about the war reviewed by The Times show that anger and discontent simmer beneath the surface.
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Confidential complaints filed by troops and their families reveal patterns of wrongdoing in the ranks that are hidden from the Russian public.
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The C.I.A. conducted a drone strike on a port facility in Venezuela last week, according to people briefed on the operation, a development that suggests an aggressive new phase of the Trump administration’s campaign against the Maduro government has begun.
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The attack last week, on a dock purportedly used for shipping narcotics, did not kill anyone, people briefed on the operation said. But it was the first known U.S. operation inside Venezuela.
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A scorched boat, two mangled bodies: The first physical evidence of U.S. strikes in the Caribbean has washed up in Colombia.
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First came the scorched boat. Then the mangled bodies. Then the packets with traces of marijuana. Now, fishermen fear the ocean that feeds them.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters on Tuesday that he was ready to pull his troops back from areas of the eastern Donetsk region still under Kyiv’s control and turn them into a demilitarized zone as part of a possible peace deal with Moscow.
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The offer was the closest Mr. Zelensky has come to addressing the thorny territorial disputes in Donetsk that have repeatedly derailed peace talks.
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A Times investigation into the whereabouts of top Syrian officials who fled after the regime’s fall shows many remain free — shielded by wealth and accommodating host nations.
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A Times investigation into the whereabouts of top Syrian officials who fled after the regime’s fall shows many remain free — shielded by wealth and accommodating host nations.
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A Venezuela-bound vessel fled after rebuffing an attempt by the Coast Guard to seize it, the latest twist in the escalating U.S. pressure campaign against the Maduro government.
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U.S. forces seized two tankers, including one under a Russian flag, on Wednesday, as officials try to choke off most exports of Venezuelan crude oil.
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The surviving suspect in the mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, was charged on Wednesday with murder, terrorism and causing grievous bodily harm with intent to murder, the police said.
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The Australian authorities said the 24-year-old man, who had been shot by the police, woke from a coma on Tuesday afternoon.
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Breaking News: Bulgaria’s prime minister resigned after less than a year in office, following mass protests against his government.
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Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, the sixth prime minister in five years, bowed out amid public anger over corruption and democratic dysfunction.
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