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Removing a wrecked carriage at the scene of the crash near Urda, Spain, on Friday. At least 69 people were killed.

At a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, in July.

The site of a building that partially collapsed following an explosion last month in the Plaka area, a popular area for tourists, in Athens.

The Nobel laureate Dmitri Muratov, second from left, with colleagues at Novaya Gazeta’s offices in Moscow last year.

An undated image of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell released by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Protesters in Tiananmen Square on May 4, 1989.

I experienced war’s subterranean future as drones dominate the skies. I didn’t like it.

Édouard Philippe, the leading centrist candidate in France’s presidential race, has struggled in the polls since widespread protests broke out across the country last month.

Campaign posters for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party, and Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party, in Hadera, Israel, on Tuesday.

“Romanzo Criminale,” an opera based on the best-selling novel, at the Maggio Musicale theater in Florence, Italy, this month.

Ukrainian soldiers are traveling underground through abandoned gas pipes to reach positions near the front. Our correspondent Maria Varenikova joins them on the journey through the kill zone and into positions where troops can spend weeks at a time.

Yuli Motta at her home in Guaviare province, Colombia. She says she witnessed the fatal shooting of Luis Carlos Mojica by members of the Colombian military last month.

The medieval town of Sighisoara, a popular stop along the 1,000-mile Via Transilvanica.

A “Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4” poster in Paris. The game is set in South Korea and depicts an invasion by its northern neighbor, against a backdrop of tensions between the United States and Russia.

Beijing says the popular Japanese series “Vivant” promotes negative views of China.

portrait of Emma Benoit

Ahmad Tibi, a leader of the Joint List party, with supporters on Tuesday outside a polling station in Taibe, Israel, a predominantly Arab town. “We’re ready to swallow frogs to take down Netanyahu’s government,” he said.

Using sensors developed for self-driving cars, a Chinese start-up claims it can track and destroy tiny flying targets while avoiding people, pets and reflective surfaces.

Stephen James Hubbard with relatives and U.S. officials aboard a flight to the United States after his release from Russian prison, in a photo released by the U.S. government.

Election campaign posters for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party in Adora, an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party and its allies won 53 seats in Parliament, falling short of the outright majority needed to form a government. The main opposition bloc, led by Gadi Eisenkot, won 48.

Erin Patterson leaving the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, in 2025.

Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla of Cuba during an interview with The New York Times this week.

María Corina Machado in Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday, held her first news conference since returning to the country. “Let us be free,” reads the banner behind her.

The Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Flávio Bolsonaro arriving at Opa Locka Executive Airport in Miami on Wednesday.

Flávio Bolsonaro after arriving at Opa Locka airport near Miami on Wednesday.

Temperatures approached 80 degrees Fahrenheit during this year’s Chicago marathon.

A sex worker sorting through condoms at her home in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2024.

Soldiers from the M23 rebel group in Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, in January. The United States has accused Rwanda of continuing to support the group.

A mural depicting Haiti’s last elected president, Jovenel Moïse, who was elected in 2016, and assassinated in 2021.

A silent march in Paris on Sunday to honor Pengo Bossio Wangi. He was killed on Friday in Trappes, France, by a gunman who wounded seven other people, the authorities said.

Xi Jinping, China’s leader, in Beijing last month. The Communist Party will hold its next congress in 2027, at which Mr. Xi is expected to claim a fourth five-year term as party leader.

A photo released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service after an air attack on a railway station in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Thursday.

Smoke rising from the Wang Fuk Court apartment complex in Tai Po, Hong Kong, last November.

Emergency workers were still searching for survivors and victims at the site of the crash on Thursday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacts to exit polls during a speech at his party headquarters in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

Deadlock is possible, as neither the bloc of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his main challenger appear likely to win a majority. But there are still paths to a new government.

Mr. Bushby in London. He said his journey was a reminder of people’s kindness.

Mash-up videos of beloved characters from Chinese classics — some made with A.I. — have caught the attention of the authorities.

Protesters and the police in Marseille on Saturday. The city stands as a poignant example of mounting social and economic strains in France.

The Estonian police used to respond to reports of people sniffing glue at these abandoned housing units. Now ultra-potent new synthetic drugs are keeping them busy.

Members of the media outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi.

Neither Benjamin Netanyahu nor Gadi Eisenkot won a majority in Israel’s Parliament, leaving both with a chance to form a government. Our Jerusalem bureau chief, David M. Halbfinger, explains the possible coalitions and the obstacles to an opposition alliance that could include Arab parties.

Net covered streets in Kherson protect against Russian drone assaults as people take advantage of the relative calm during a local, temporary cease-fire on Wednesday, set up to allow the upcoming evacuation of civilians from neighboring town of Oleshky.

Net covered streets in Kherson protect against Russian drone assaults as people take advantage of the relative calm during a local, temporary cease-fire on Wednesday, set up to allow the upcoming evacuation of civilians from neighboring town of Oleshky.

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas in Mexico City in 2023.

Emergency workers at the scene of a crash involving two trains near Toledo, Spain, on Wednesday.

Vice President JD Vance is said to have made the outreach in a letter sent last week via Qatari meditators and delivered Sunday to an Iranian official, Gen. Mohsen Rezaei.

Mr. Putin’s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said that “such a conversation” had been “going on for some time, though I do not know what the outcome will be.”