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Iran Had Vowed to Retaliate. Now, It Faces Grim Choices.

Par :Farnaz Fassihi
Iran’s foreign minister warned that the U.S. decision to join Israel’s war against Iran would have “everlasting consequences.”

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Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, in Geneva on Friday.
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Far-Right Party Tries to Expand Its Appeal in Germany’s West

Par :Clay Risen
To reach voters outside its Eastern heartlands, the AfD is putting a new gloss on its anti-immigrant message — while sticking with its agenda.

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Duisburg has long been at the heart of Germany’s steel industry. The site of one former steel plant is now an urban park.
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Republican Lawmakers Cheer Strike on Iran as Top Democrats Condemn It

Par :Robert Jimison and Michael Gold
Republicans in Congress praised President Trump’s decision to hit Iran. Many Democrats and some G.O.P. lawmakers said he should have consulted Congress.

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Speaker Mike Johnson, center, released a statement saying the strikes were necessary.
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With Decision to Bomb Iran, Trump Injects U.S. Into Middle East Conflict

Par :Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
By bombing three nuclear sites in Iran, the United States has joined Israel’s war against the country. Now it is bracing for Iranian retaliation.

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President Trump returned to the White House from Bedminster, N.J., on Saturday evening and announced the strikes on Iran shortly afterward.
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No U.S. Decision on Joining War Yet, Though It Could Come in Days, Israeli Officials Say

Par :Ronen Bergman and Javier C. Hernández
Israel on Saturday struck sites in southwestern Iran that would most likely be on any potential flight path used by U.S. warplanes on the way to attack a key Iranian nuclear facility.

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President Trump is weighing whether to have the United States join Israel’s effort to destroy Iran’s nuclear sites.
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No U.S. Decision on Joining War Yet, Though It Could Come in Days, Israeli Officials Say

Par :Ronen Bergman and Javier C. Hernández
Israel on Saturday struck sites in southwestern Iran that would most likely be on any potential flight path used by U.S. warplanes on the way to attack a key Iranian nuclear facility.

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President Trump is weighing whether to have the United States join Israel’s effort to destroy Iran’s nuclear sites.
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Israeli Attacks in Iran Kill Three More Commanders, Israel Says

Par :Ronen Bergman · Aaron Boxerman and Thomas Fuller
The claims by the Israeli military came as aircraft tracker data indicated American B-2 bombers might be moving into position for joining the assault on Iran.

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A crowd in Tehran on Friday protested Israel’s attacks on Iran.
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Iranians Find Pockets of Connection Amid Internet Blackout

Par :Parin Behrooz
Iranians managed to gain some unreliable connection to the internet on Friday after a near-total blackout that lasted four days.

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Many Iranians rely on virtual private networks, or VPNs, to evade government restrictions on the internet, but even many of those have been disrupted since Israel’s attacks began.
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U.S. Deploys B-2 Bombers as Trump Plans to Meet National Security Team

Par :Maggie Haberman · Devon Lum · Eric Schmitt and David E. Sanger
The planes can carry bombs capable of striking an underground nuclear facility in Iran if President Trump decides to join the conflict.

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A B-2 stealth bomber assigned to Whiteman Air Force Base in 2020. It is not unusual to shift military assets into position to provide options to the president and military commanders even if they are not ultimately deployed.
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Trump Sends Envoy to Belarus, Courting Ties With Russia’s Close Ally

Par :Andrew Higgins and Tomas Dapkus
The outreach to Belarus’s autocratic leader, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, comes as the country has released at least 14 political prisoners.

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U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg in Warsaw, Poland, in February.
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Israel Says It Killed Top Iran Commander Who Oversees Proxy Militias

Par :Ronen Bergman and Aaron Boxerman
Mohammed Said Izadi, one of the commanders Israel said it killed, was one of the few people who knew in advance about Hamas’s plan to launch a surprise attack on Israel, The New York Times has reported.

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A crowd marched in Tehran on Friday to protest against Israel’s attacks on Iran.
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With Few Discount Airlines, Canadian Travelers Face Steeper Fares

Par :Vjosa Isai
A new report by Canada’s Competition Bureau recommends opening more of the country’s domestic airline market to foreign companies to help lower fares.

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Air Canada, the country’s largest carrier, said taxes and other airport charges were behind higher fares.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Planning for His Possible Assassination, Picks Successors

Par :Farnaz Fassihi
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has picked replacements in case military commanders die in Israeli strikes. He has also named possible replacements for himself.

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People marching under a mural of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Friday in Tehran.
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As U.S. Enters War Against Iran, the Mideast Fears What’s Next

Par :Ben Hubbard
The fight between two well-armed Mideast powers has their neighbors worried about the conflict spreading, a concern only deepened by U.S. involvement.

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Smoke rising from Israel’s attack on an oil refinery last week in Tehran.
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Ukraine Warns Teenagers the Enemy Is Inside Their Phones

Par :Kim Barker
Ukraine’s security service is holding classes at high schools to alert teenagers of Russian efforts to recruit them.

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A lecturer from the Security Service of Ukraine leading a presentation for 10th-grade students at a high school in Lviv, in western Ukraine, on Russian schemes that try to recruit young people for minor sabotage or espionage.
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How South Korea Became a Cultural Powerhouse

Par :Jin Yu Young
With BTS poised to reunite, “Squid Game” returning and a Broadway show winning awards, the Korean cultural wave keeps on rolling.

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A fan event in Brooklyn on Friday to publicize the third season of “Squid Game.”
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Rockslide in Canada’s Banff National Park Leaves 2 Dead, 3 Injured

Par :Vjosa Isai
The hikers were struck by a cascade of sliding rocks on Thursday while traveling along a moderately difficult trail.

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A rockslide, center, near Bow Glacier Falls in Banff National Park, Canada, on Thursday.
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$40 Million Yacht That Mysteriously Sank Is Raised From Bottom of Sea

Par :Emma Bubola and Jeffrey Gettleman
Investigators are hoping to find clues as to why the Bayesian superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily 10 months ago, killing seven people.

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Cranes pulling up the Bayesian superyacht, off the coast of Sicily on Friday.
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Thousands Protest Across the Middle East as Israel-Iran Conflict Deepens

Par :Euan Ward
Demonstrators took to the streets of Iran, Iraq and Lebanon on Friday after midday prayers, expressing anger at Israel’s widening offensive.

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Large crowds took to the streets of Tehran on Friday to protest Israel’s attacks on Iran.
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Europe’s Growing Fear: How Trump Might Use U.S. Tech Dominance Against It

Par :Adam Satariano and Jeanna Smialek
To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes.

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The International Criminal Court in The Hague, which has attracted the ire of President Trump.
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Medically Assisted Dying Closer to Legalization After Vote by UK Lawmakers

Par :Stephen Castle
British lawmakers on Friday confirmed their support for assisted suicide for some terminally ill people, after months of scrutiny that followed an initial vote last year.

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Activists demonstrating at Parliament Square on Friday.
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Putin Does Not Rule Out Capturing Key Ukrainian City

Par :Ivan Nechepurenko
Moscow has hoped to mend relations with the United States while continuing to wage war in Ukraine, but Mr. Putin’s insistence on pushing his offensive has come at a diplomatic cost.

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Walking through debris at the site of a Russian strike in Odesa, Ukraine, on Friday.
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6 Months After the Pelicot Trial, a Staging Brings Insight and Despair

Par :Laura Cappelle
The stripped-back performance, based on the rape trial that shocked France and the world, ran all night at a church in Vienna.

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Actresses Safira Robens. left, and Mavie Hörbiger, center, during a performance of “The Pelicot Trial,” at the Church of St. Elisabeth in Vienna on Wednesday.
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Pro-Palestinian Activists Break Into the UK’s Largest Air Base

Par :Lizzie Dearden
The Palestine Action group said two of its members had entered R.A.F. Brize Norton on electric scooters and sprayed red paint in aircraft engines and on the runway.

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R.A.F. Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, southern England, houses about 5,800 service personnel.
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Ex-Malaysia Premier Najib Has Money Laundering Charges Dropped

Par :Zunaira Saieed
Money-laundering charges against Najib Razak were dropped because of prosecutorial delays, intensifying criticism that he was being treated leniently.

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Najib Razak’s prison sentence was halved and his fine slashed in 2024.
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