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Over 100 Migrants Are Dead After Boat Capsizes Near Djibouti

The shipwreck is among the deadliest ever recorded on the route to Yemen, the International Organization for Migration said. Dozens remain missing, and the bodies of 15 children were recovered.

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A photo released on Sunday showing the shipwreck of a boat that sank off the shores of Djibouti between Thursday night and Friday morning.
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3 Men Found Guilty in Murders of Tourists on Mexico Surf Trip

The 2024 killings of two Australian brothers and their American friend drew international attention.

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Debra and Martin Robinson, the parents of Callum and Jake Robinson, who were murdered during a surfing trip, outside court in Ensenada, Mexico, on Thursday.
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Nobel Prize Winners Don’t Get a Heads-Up

Navi Pillay wasn’t the first Nobel laureate that the prize committees have struggled to reach. Many weren’t even awake when the news broke.

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The winners of the Nobel Prizes remain a secret, even to the winners themselves until shortly before the public announcement.
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Kash Patel Is Engaged to the Country Singer Alexis Wilkins

The director of the F.B.I. and his girlfriend announced their engagement on social media over the weekend.

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Kash Patel, the director of the F.B.I., and Alexis Wilkins in June.
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Mixed Human Feelings After a Day at a Park Full of Robots

I went to Galaxy Robot Park in Seoul to see how we might one day live with robots. It was part cutting-edge technology, part theatrics.

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Court Tosses ​​Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim ‘Forgiving’ His Killer Is Played

An appellate court in Arizona threw out the prison sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter after an A.I.-generated video of his victim was played at a trial.

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Stacey Wales with an enlarged photo of her brother, Christopher Pelkey. She created a video using artificial intelligence to depict her dead brother speaking at the sentencing of his killer.
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Whale Batters a Yacht, Leaving Its Crew Stranded for 18 Hours

Four people were rescued after being adrift in a life raft in the South Pacific. One of them said he thought he had a better chance of winning the lottery than of being hit by a whale.

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Tai Tam, a 52-foot yacht, sinking in the South Pacific as the four people who had been on board await rescuing from their life raft.
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In India, a Food Inspector Sparks Fear in Mumbai Restaurants

Tukaram Mundhe’s surprise raids of Mumbai kitchens have made him an unlikely celebrity and set off a conversation about food standards in India.

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FlyDubai Attack Raises Questions About Pilot Background Checks

Health screenings and criminal background checks may go only so far in identifying pilots who have become radicalized or try to hide their mental health issues, experts said.

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In the United States, pilots undergo a criminal history check as well as a threat assessment to see if they have ever been flagged as a “person of interest” in federal law enforcement databases.
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3 Dead in Medical Helicopter Crash Near California Coast

The aircraft went down near Catalina Island on Wednesday night with five people aboard, the authorities said. Two aboard were retrieved with injuries.

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Catalina Island in 2025. A medevac helicopter crashed after taking off from the small California Island near Los Angeles late Wednesday night.
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Gunman Kills 2 Co-Workers at Virginia Rental Business

A 37-year-old man shot three employees at an equipment rental business, then killed himself after a standoff with the police, the authorities said.

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Police officers near the scene of a shooting in Manassas, Va., on Wednesday.
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Man Gets Life Sentence for Strangling 15-Year-Old Girl in San Francisco in 1978

Mark Personette, 80, eluded the authorities for 43 years before he was arrested and eventually convicted of first-degree murder for killing Marissa Harvey.

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An undated photo of Marissa Harvey, who was 15 when she was found dead in San Francisco in 1978.
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Driver Strikes 4 People Outside a Mall in British Columbia, Killing 2, Police Say

The accident occurred as hundreds of people were gathering nearby for a National Day of Truth and Reconciliation march near Delta, a city south of Vancouver, the authorities said.

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At least two people were killed near Delta, British Columbia, on Wednesday when a driver lost control of a vehicle and crashed into a crowd during an event observing the past suffering of Indigenous people in Canada.
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T.S.A. Agents Are Told to Get on Their Feet During Airport ID Checks

The agency said that requiring agents to stand while examining documents was a “welcome change.” The union representing them was less welcoming.

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A Transportation Security Administration agent at a security checkpoint at Pittsburgh International Airport in March. The agency recently told agents that they must stand during ID checks.
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Why China Is Requiring Ninth Graders to Read ‘Jane Eyre’

The Victorian heroine has long been celebrated in China for her independence and insistence on equality.

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A woman reads at a bookstore in Beijing in August. “Jane Eyre” has found generations of readers in China since it was first translated into Chinese a century ago.
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Giant Pandas, Icons of China’s Soft Diplomacy, Arrive in Atlanta

A male named Ping Ping and a female named Fu Shuang landed on Sunday, days after China’s leader said he would dispatch “envoys of friendship” to the United States.

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Yun Chuan, a 5-year-old male panda, at the San Diego Zoo in 2024. Two pandas were sent on Sunday to Zoo Atlanta, bringing the total number of giant pandas in the United States to six.
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He Ran a Top Lady Gaga Fan Page. Then He Vanished.

Kirill Nguyen, the founder of Gaga Daily, said he had been imprisoned in Belarus for participating in pro-democracy protests. He resurfaced this week after an absence of more than two years.

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Lady Gaga performing at Madison Square Garden in New York in August 2025.
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You Get an Eagle, and You Get an Eagle: Xi Takes Home Trump’s Go-To Gift

The president has often reached for statues of the national bird on diplomatic occasions in his second term. (Ronald Reagan favored them, too.)

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President Trump gave Xi Jinping, China’s leader, a statue of a bald eagle as a gift on Thursday.
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Why Nepal’s Prime Minister Balen Shah Wears Sunglasses

Balendra Shah wore them as a rapper, as Kathmandu’s mayor and on his way to becoming prime minister. Now he has taken the look to the United Nations.

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Prime Minister Balendra Shah of Nepal speaks at the United Nations on Thursday.
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