Beyond Borders

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

Dr. Dania Al-Deeb embraced the body of her 4-year-old daughter in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Wednesday. She said their home had been bombed.

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom, speaking last month in Denmark. He is known for his anti-Islam and anti-immigrant stances.

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Population growth and a lack of new homes are among the factors leading to a housing crisis in the Netherlands.

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Veronica Durughian left Moldova in search of better wages to support her son. She returned home with health problems after caring for three elderly Italians.

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China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, and other members of the Politburo standing committee in Beijing this month. Mr. Xi and senior officials released a five-year plan for the country that outlines a continued push on industrial and technical power.

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The Pyramid of the Sun at the ruins of Teotihuacan, in Mexico.

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A bear scurrying in the city center of Morioka in northeastern Japan’s Iwate Prefecture last week.

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A shelter in El Fasher, Sudan, where displaced people protected themselves from shelling this month. The country’s military said Monday that it had withdrawn from the city.

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Mr. Wilders and his party, the PVV, unexpectedly collapsed the government in June, by withdrawing from the governing coalition out of frustration that it wouldn’t take a more extreme stance on immigration.

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A firefighter at the scene of an Israeli strike near Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Monday, is under pressure to show he has a plan to move Canada away from its long-established economic dependence on the United States.

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Russian-made howitzers and rocket launchers on parade in September during the celebration of Vietnam’s 80th National Day in Hanoi, the capital.

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The U.S. has been pushing Korea to buy more liquefied natural gas. A tanker in South Korea in 2019.

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A Ukrainian solder launching a reconnaissance drone near the town of Pokrovsk this month.

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President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea presented President Trump with a replica of a golden crown excavated from one of the ancient royal tombs in Gyeongju.

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A cattle herder at a watering hole in northeast Senegal last year.

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Ola Källenius, center, the chief executive of Mercedes-Benz, unveiled a new electric vehicle at an auto show in Munich in September.

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The BBC’s headquarters in London. The broadcaster has long been a target of Vietnam’s censors, in part because it publishes in Vietnamese.

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Biologists examined juvenile coho salmon, Chinook salmon and steelhead trout in a branch of the Klamath River system in Northern California last year.

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

Annabel Vane‐Tempest‐Stewart in 1954. Not quite a decade later, her first husband named his new nightclub after her, and Annabel’s was a hit.

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President Trump speaking in Japan on Tuesday. Mr. Trump, who is scheduled to arrive in South Korea on Wednesday, has repeatedly offered to meet with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un.

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

Gyeongju, South Korea, the venue for 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum does not have the infrastructure to host a major international gathering.

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

Police officers with people detained during a drug gang sweep on Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro.

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A man walking along the coastline in Kingston, Jamaica, on Tuesday as Hurricane Melissa approaches.

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Brigitte Macron, with her husband, President Emmanuel Macron of France, at the Élysée Palace in Paris this month.

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A resident of Port Royal, Jamaica, tried to protect a chicken coop this week ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Melissa.

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Migrants boarding a dinghy to try to cross the English Channel in Gravelines, France, in August.

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Posted by Thomas on October 2025

Colombian soldiers patrolling the jungle for cocaine labs. Colombia is the latest Latin American country to end up in Mr. Trump’s cross hairs because of what he and his top aides perceive as ideological chasms.

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivering remarks during an event at the Pentagon last month. Mr. Hegseth said that the latest strikes — three of them — took place in international waters and that there had been one survivor.

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President Trump meeting with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan in Tokyo, on Tuesday.

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Jim Tankersley and his son Max at the Wilco concert in Dortmund, Germany, that they made it to only after a (very) speedy drive from Berlin in June.

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

A photo released by the Vatican showing Pope Leo, a White Sox fan, smiling after receiving a Cubs jersey from His Holiness Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East.

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

President Trump and President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea at a welcome ceremony at Gyeongju National Museum in South Korea on Wednesday.

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A car believed to be carrying defendant Tetsuya Yamagami entering the Nara District Court for his first trial in Nara, Japan, on Tuesday.

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A fallen tree in Kingston, Jamaica, on Monday as Hurricane Melissa drew closer.

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Xi Jinping, China’s leader, in Beijing last month. He wants to absorb Taiwan and blunt U.S. power in the region.

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

President Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast, speaking at an election rally earlier this month, won election to a fourth term in a vote critics called flawed.

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President Javier Milei celebrating election results with supporters in Buenos Aires on Sunday.

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An institute in Delhi offers language classes to students who hope to get jobs abroad.

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

Aid from the World Food Program being distributed at a school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 2024.

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

Taking cover near the scene of shelling as a drone flew overhead in Kherson, Ukraine, in 2023.

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

A crew member aboard the Viking Star cruise ship “was observed going overboard” in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, Viking Cruises said in a statement.

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

Sami Hamdi, a British commentator, at the Convention for Palestine in Illinois last November. The U.S. government has said he will be deported.

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

President Paul Biya, 92, after voting in Yaoundé in October. Cameroon provides the starkest example in Africa of a country of young people being ruled by leaders from a bygone era.

Posted by Thomas on October 2025

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, left, and President Trump in Israel’s Parliament this month. A new phase in the countries’ relationship has been taking form.

Posted by Thomas on October 2025