At Site of Deaths, Our Reporters Find Cost of U.S.-ISIS Battle
Times reporters are in Mosul, Iraq, to assess reports that less time is being taken to weigh risks for civilians as the battle intensifies.
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Photo CreditDan Peled/Australian Associated Press, via Reuters Cyclone Debbie Strikes Australia’s Coastline as Thousands Flee
Emergency responders struggled to assess the full force of the storm after the loss of telephone service and power in at least 48,000 homes.
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Photo CreditDebbie Yazbek/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Ahmed Kathrada, Anti-Apartheid Activist in South Africa, Dies at 87
He spent 26 years in prison, many alongside his close friend Nelson Mandela, for resisting white minority rule.
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‘Just See How I Shoot.’ In Norway, Women Are Joining the Hunt.
Women are increasingly taking up this traditional masculine pastime, looking to connect with nature and the food chain.
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State of Emergency
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Photo CreditPatrick Kingsley/The New York Times Syrians in Turkey: The Human Smuggler and the Young Refugee
Since 2015, migration between Turkey and Greece has fallen sharply, and a smuggler says he has left the business. Homeless in Turkey, a Syrian refugee boy must continue to roam for work.
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Photo Credit Inside Turkey: The Crackdown, and the Loyalist
Meet a neighborhood leader who became a hero and the family of an imprisoned journalist in the second part of our series about besieged Turkey.
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Photo CreditPatrick Kingsley/The New York Times A Message From Turkey, a Nation Under Pressure
Our correspondent Patrick Kingsley shares the story of a curious gift he received from Turkish diplomats that sets the tone for this tumultuous moment in the country’s civic life.
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Memo From Turkey
Photo CreditSergey Ponomarev for The New York Times A Threat on Migration That May Prove to Be Empty
Enough has changed on the ground that even if Turkey were to revoke its deal with the European Union to curb migration, people would probably stay put.
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Photo CreditChris Mcgrath/Getty Images Turkey, Facing Disunity Under Erdogan, Finds an Enemy in Europe
While President Recep Tayyip Erdogan complains of European hypocrisy on free speech, his opponents say he is suppressing the same freedoms at home.
Europe
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Photo CreditDaniel Rodrigues for The New York Times Auschwitz Demonstrators Who Killed Sheep Weren’t Neo-Nazis, Officials Say
The 11 people arrested, who told prosecutors they were trying to send an antiwar message, face criminal charges for their stunt near the gate of the former Nazi death camp.
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Photo CreditPool photo by Russell Cheyne Daily Mail Compares 2 U.K. Leaders — Their Legs, Not Their Ideas
A front page with Theresa May, Britain’s prime minister, and Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister of Scotland, elicited immediate outrage.
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Photo CreditBara Kristinsdottir for The New York Times Equal Pay for Men and Women? Iceland Wants Employers to Prove It
Although the country has had equal pay laws for half a century, gaps still exist, and new legislation is intended to address the imbalances more forcefully.
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Feature
Photo CreditSian Davey for The New York Times Can a Former Islamist Make It Cool to Be Moderate?
Maajid Nawaz has started a foundation to combat Muslim extremism — and has made a lot of enemies in the process.
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News Analysis
Photo CreditAlexander Utkin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images In Protests, Kremlin Fears a Young Generation Stirring
The youthfulness of the anticorruption protesters across Russia this weekend surprised even organizers, and clearly rattled the government of Vladimir V. Putin.
Asia
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Photo CreditAdam Ferguson for The New York Times Afghan General Tasked With Cutting Corruption Is Now Accused of It
Maj. Gen. M. Moein Faqir was arrested on charges that included misuse of food money meant to supply his soldiers, officials say.
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Photo CreditEd Jones/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Samsung May Bring Back Its Fire-Plagued Galaxy Note 7
The South Korean giant is considering offering refurbished models of its canceled smartphone, a move that has raised eyebrows in the technology world.
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Photo CreditOrlin Wagner/Associated Press Indian-Americans Reward Man Who Intervened in Kansas Shooting
Ian Grillot, who was shot and wounded when he reacted to an attack on two Indians, received a $100,000 check from India House Houston to help buy a home.
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Photo CreditSouth Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, via Associated Press Bones Aboard South Korean Ferry Stir Hope, Then Anguish, in Relatives
Officials reported finding human remains on the Sewol, nearly three years after the ship sank, but later said the bones were from an animal.
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Photo CreditAlberto Estevez/European Pressphoto Agency Didi Chuxing, China’s Ride-Hailing Giant, Holds Talks With SoftBank
Having bought out Uber in China, the company now wants SoftBank of Japan to join in a multibillion-dollar investment round, people familiar with the talks say.
Middle East
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Photo CreditBahman Jalali, courtesy Ag Galerie Tehran Iranian Art Gallery Cancels Its Part in New York Show, Citing Trump’s Travel Ban
The owners of the Ag Galerie didn’t want to risk traveling to the United States, or having art held up in customs.
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Photo CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times Engulfed in Battle, Mosul’s Civilians Run for Their Lives
On the front lines of the fight against ISIS in west Mosul, a photojournalist for The Times documents the toll on Iraqis who have no safe way to escape.
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Photo CreditJoshua Roberts/Reuters Netanyahu and Trump Skip Aipac Meeting
The absence of the president and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the high-profile conference spoke to the fluidity of the nations’ relationship.
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Photo Credit What We Know About the Airstrike That Might Have Killed Hundreds in Mosul
A U.S. airstrike targeting ISIS fighters and equipment on March 17 may have killed as many as 200 people, including civilians, according to Iraqi officials.
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Photo CreditFelipe Dana/Associated Press Coalition Airstrikes Raising Concerns About Civilian Deaths
Recent airstrikes from U.S.-led coalition forces in Syria and Iraq have raised concerns about whether the United States military has become less selective in its targeting.
Canada
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Photo CreditFelipe Dana/Associated Press Devin Nunes, American Airlines, Oakland Raiders: Your Tuesday Briefing
Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
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Photo CreditMarcel Mettelsiefen/European Pressphoto Agency Thieves Take a Chunk of Change, All 221 Pounds of It, From a Berlin Museum
The police say robbers broke into the Bode Museum and made off with the Canadian Big Maple Leaf coin, the world’s largest.
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Photo CreditGabriella Demczuk for The New York Times Republican Party, Russia, Tar Heels: Your Monday Briefing
Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
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Refugees Welcome
Photo CreditDamon Winter/The New York Times Canadians Adopted Refugee Families for a Year. Then Came ‘Month 13.’
Everyday Canadians spent a year embracing Syrians in the world’s most personal resettlement program. Letting them go might be the biggest test yet.
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Photo CreditYannick Grandmont for The New York Times Canada Today: Restaurant Resentment and Cardboard Trudeaus
A growing ferment on Twitter about the new restaurant at Montreal’s government-owned casino, and an end to a life-size cardboard cutout.
Americas
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Agustina Castro, Sister of Fidel and Raúl, Dies at 78
Agustina del Carmen Castro Ruz, the youngest of seven Castro siblings, never served in the Cuban government and kept a low profile.
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Trilobites
Photo CreditWildlife Conservation Society Archives They Mixed Science, Art and Costume Parties to Reveal Mysteries of the Sea
The expeditions of William Beebe and his coed Department of Tropical Research are remembered at an upcoming show at The Drawing Center in New York.
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Photo CreditJody Amiet/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Strikes Shut Down French Guiana, With Effects Resonating in Paris
Presidential candidates scrambled to address the unrest as residents of the French territory in South America protest high crime and economic hardship.
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Photo CreditDrew Angerer/Getty Images United States and Allies Protest U.N. Talks to Ban Nuclear Weapons
The United States and most other nuclear powers boycotted the talks, saying that the time was not right and that a ban would be ineffective.
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Photo CreditKassie Bracken/The New York Times. Technology by Samsung. Seaside Solace in an Ocean of Pain
Juana and Miguel Rosa’s daughters were murdered in 2015. This fish market in Lima, Peru, is their workplace but also where they come to heal and move forward.
Africa
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Global Health
Photo CreditKarel Prinsloo/Gavi-Arete, via European Pressphoto Agency As Cholera Spreads, Somalia Begins Vaccination Campaign
There are few options for treating cholera in this desperately poor country. Vaccination may be the only way to contain the outbreak.
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Photo CreditTyler Hicks/The New York Times Drought and War Heighten Threat of Not Just 1 Famine, but 4
Six years after its last famine, another is about to tighten its grip on Somalia. South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen are also at risk.
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Six Aid Workers Are Killed in South Sudan Ambush
The latest in a series of attacks on humanitarian workers is the deadliest since the country’s civil war began in 2013.
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Photo CreditAaron Ross/Reuters Congolese Militia Beheads Dozens of Police Officers
A police convoy was ambushed by members of the Kamuina Nsapu militia, who then decapitated about 40 of the officers.
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Photo CreditIssouf Sanogo/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Miners Found a 706-Carat Diamond in Sierra Leone. Who Should Get the Profit?
The government will broker the sale of the gem, valued at as much as $50 million. But many are skeptical that all involved will get their fair share.
Australia
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Photo CreditPool photo by David Gray Australian Vote on Extradition Treaty With China Is Canceled
The canceling of the vote by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull signaled that concerns over China’s human rights record would continue to limit the two countries’ ties.
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Photo CreditPeter Parks/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Cyclone Debbie Strikes Queensland in Australia With Full Fury
The storm, with wind as high as 160 miles per hour, forced thousands to leave their homes, halted ferry and train service and closed an airport.
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Asia and Australia Edition
Photo CreditKin Cheung/Associated Press Mosul, Yogi Adityanath, Carrie Lam: Your Morning Briefing
Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
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Photo CreditPool photo by David Gray China Bars Professor at Australian University From Leaving, Lawyer Says
Feng Chongyi, an Australian permanent resident who has criticized Beijing’s clampdown on dissent, was being questioned in Guangzhou as a suspected national security threat, his lawyer said.
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Issue 5
Photo CreditTerry Hughes et al./Nature Tears and the Great Barrier Reef
In this week’s Australia newsletter, we explore the story behind the story of the reef, plus Rodrigo Duterte and books that will bring you joy.
Editorials and Op-Eds
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Contributing Op-Ed Writer
Photo CreditMostafa El-Shemy/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The Stinging Insult of Hosni Mubarak’s Release
The release of Egypt’s former dictator shows that our new rulers have as much contempt for justice as he did.
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Op-Ed Contributor
Photo CreditAriel Schalit/Associated Press Israel’s Next War Is Always ‘Inevitable’
The Israeli government has made clear that it intends to fight a war every few years — whether its enemies want one or not.
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Op-Ed Contributor
Photo CreditAndreas Solaro/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Why Brexit Is Best for Britain: The Left-Wing Case
The European Union is all about elite management, treaty law and money-grubbing. Britain must take back democratic control.
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Editorial
Photo CreditIvan Sekretarev/Associated Press President Putin Under Pressure
As Sunday proved, Putin has failed to crush the spirit and courage of Russian citizens.
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Contributing Op-Ed Writer
Photo CreditAgence France-Presse — Getty Images Is Free Speech Good for Muslims?
Muslims can’t support liberal values only when they are convenient.
