Live Updates: Human Rights Lawyer Navi Pillay Is Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
The South African judge Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
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Houthi Attacks on Riyadh Airport Leave 3 Dead, Saudi Arabia Says
A still from a video obtained from social media and verified by The New York Times showing a blast at King Khalid Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday.
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Palestinian Authority Says Elections Are to Be Postponed
Hussein al-Sheikh, deputy to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in Ramallah, West Bank, in February. He was said to have sent the letters to European officials notifying them of the postponement.
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As Putin Wages Shadow War, Europe Looks for a Way to Hit Back
Gathering evidence at the Leipzig-Halle airport, Germany, in August after an explosive-laden drone was found.
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Nobel Peace Prize Choice Amounts to Implicit Rebuke of Trump
The International Criminal Court in The Hague has come under particular attack by the Trump administration.
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India Cancels Trains, Floods Capital with Police to Block Protests
There was a heavy police presence in central New Delhi on Friday, with yellow barricades chained together near the site of a planned protest.
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In a Dead Hero’s Ashes, El Salvador’s Ruler Finds a New Spark
A Salvadoran honor guard inside the new mausoleum of Francisco Morazán in San Salvador, the capital.
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In South Africa, Pillay forged a career fighting apartheid.
Navi Pillay, front row center, with other judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in 2000.
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Paintings Stolen From Renoir Museum Are Recovered, Authorities Say
A police officer at the entrance to the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France after the robbery in September.
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A Rural Village Voted to Leave the U.K., Stirring Britain’s Migration Debate
Local residents unveiled a “Principality of Piddington” sign in the village of Piddington, Oxfordshire, England, after they voted to become independent in a symbolic “referendum.”
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France’s Long, Fervent History of Protest
A student attacking the police in Paris during the May 1968 student uprising.
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Labour Holds Off Green Party in Election for Starmer’s Former London Seat
Labour’s candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali takes a selfie with supporters during her campaign launch in London last month.
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French Student Protests Continue as Government Seeks Way Out of Crisis
Protesters in Nantes, France, clashed with the police on Thursday as part of a wave of demonstrations across the country.
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The criteria for the Peace Prize have changed over time.
Albert Luthuli, a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist, arriving with his wife in Oslo, Norway, in 1961.
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The Nobel Peace Prize recipient is selected in secret by five Norwegians.
“There is friction” inside the room where the Nobel committee meets to select the recipient of the Peace Prize, said the director of the Nobel Institute, Kristian Berg Harpviken.
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Nobel Prize Winners Don’t Get a Heads-Up
The winners of the Nobel Prizes remain a secret, even to the winners themselves until shortly before the public announcement.
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Navi Pillay, a South African Human Rights Lawyer, Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Navi Pillay was recognized “for her efforts to promote peace and international law,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday.
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How the Epstein Files forced the Nobel Peace Prize to reckon with impartiality.
Thorbjorn Jagland, former chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in Oslo in 2013. A tranche of emails released this year revealed ties between him and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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A Venezuelan opposition leader won the 2025 prize, setting off an unusual year.
María Corina Machado, recipient of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, greeted supporters from a hotel balcony in Oslo, Norway, in 2025.
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Spain’s Protesters See ‘Madness’ of Rising Rent and a ‘Martyr’ in Maricarmen
Protesters marched in memory of Maria del Carmen Abascal, who was widely known as Maricarmen, in Madrid on Thursday. Soaring rents have far outpaced wage growth in Spain, according to an analysis by the newspaper El País.
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The Man City Scandal Is About More Than Football
City lifting the Premier League trophy in 2012.
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U.N. Warns Against Technology Used to Read Citizens’ Minds
While neurotechnologies have become powerful clinical tools for patients with brain injuries, the United Nations on Thursday warned that future technologies could be abused by governments.
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Margaret Papandreou, American-Born First Lady of Greece, Dies at 102
Margaret Papandreou in 1986. “The women’s movement is a political movement,” she once said. “It is a social revolution.”
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2 Latvians Arrested after Breaching Perimeter of RAF Molesworth, UK Air Base Used by US
A police car leaving R.A.F. Molesworth, after two Latvian citizens were arrested there in the early hours of Thursday morning.
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Russia’s Silence on Possible Plague Outbreak Stokes Fears of a Cover-Up
The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, Russia, on Wednesday. The researcher who died worked in the lab.
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Pita Limjaroenrat: The Leader Thailand Could Have Had
Pita Limjaroenrat’s Move Forward Party won the most votes in Thailand’s election in 2023. But his party failed to get enough support in the military-backed Senate. A few months later, the party was disbanded, and Mr. Pita was banned from politics for 10 years.
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At the Athens Democracy Forum, Debating the Risks Posed by A.I.
At the Athens Democracy Forum, one panel after another warned of the potential risks that social media, deepfakes, cyberattacks and A.I. posed to humanity.
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Nana Patekar, Indian Actor Who Embodied the Everyman, Dies at 75
Nana Patekar in 2023. He was a theater actor who brought intensity and coarse baritone to the screen.
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In Trump’s Russian Oil Deal, Middle East Funds Are the Biggest Owners
A Lukoil refinery near Burgas, Bulgaria. Once the sale of the Lukoil international assets is complete, the buyers plan to expand and retrofit different parts of its operations in Bulgaria and Romania.
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The Wave of Student Protests Roiling France
Protesters in Nantes, France, clashed with the police on Thursday as part of a wave of demonstrations across the country.
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Warrants to Search Former Prince Andrew’s Properties Were Unlawful, Court Says
Officers at an entrance to Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, eastern England, in February after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest. He was later released without charge and has denied wrongdoing.
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Escalating Assaults on Ukrainian Cities Are Taking an Enormous Toll
A handout photo shows firefighters in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, where a bus was struck by projectiles on Thursday.
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South Korea Recalls Envoy From Ukraine in Dispute Over North Korean POWs
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who said last month that two North Korean soldiers had been transferred to South Korea, angering Seoul.
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Houthi Attacks on Saudi Airports Prompt Mass Cancellations
A highway in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in February. The Houthis have escalated their targeting of the city in recent days.
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Hacker Used Chinese-Developed A.I. Tool to Target South Korean Banks, CrowdStrike Says
CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm, said in a report on Wednesday that it had found evidence of the use of A.I. in the attacks.
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Myanmar’s Strongman President Is on a Global Quest for Legitimacy. Next Stop, Malaysia.
Myanmar’s U Min Aung Hlaing, left, and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on Thursday.
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‘Absolute Nightmare’: Inside the Russian Warehouses Bombarded by Ukraine
A warehouse for a Russian e-commerce company near St. Petersburg after it was hit by Ukrainian drones in July.
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At a Potato Festival, Our Berlin Reporter Deepened His Ties to a New Land
Nora and Hugo Tankersley with their mother, Lily, at a family outing to a potato festival last month in Berlin.
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How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel
David Milstein, a top official in the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, has been entrusted with much of the mission’s portfolio by Ambassador Mike Huckabee.
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Indian Opposition Leaders Detained as Protests Over Voter Rolls Intensify
Police detaining Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, during a protest organized by opposition parties demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday.
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Israel and U.K. Cut Last-Minute Deal to Avoid Full Closure of British Consulate in East Jerusalem
The British Consulate in East Jerusalem on Thursday. The building will now be known as the U.K. Mission, Jerusalem.
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India’s Cockroach Party Leader Carries Gen Z’s Demands. They Are Many.
Abhijeet Dipke, who founded the Cockroach Janta Party as a joke, now leads a wide movement representing Gen Z's frustrations.
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Italy Weighs Controversial Law Giving Bonus Seats to Election Winners
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy speaking on Wednesday at a summit meeting in Split, Croatia. She has set a record for leading Italy’s longest-serving government.
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For France’s Resurgent Far Left, Student Protests Are an Opening and a Threat
Jean-Luc Mélenchon at a demonstration in Paris on Tuesday. The protests have provided him with both opportunity and peril.
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A Plague Mystery in Siberia
A hospital in Shelekhov yesterday, where an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute died.
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3 Killed and Dozens Injured in Attacks on Saudi Airports, as Houthis Claim Strikes
A poster showing the Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi during a rally to recruit more fighters, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Wednesday.
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‘Maricarmen,’ Whose Eviction Enraged Spaniards, Dies at 87
María del Carmen Abascal packs a bag with her belongings in Madrid last month.
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Russia Plague Scare: What to Know About Fears of an Outbreak
A security person looks out the door of an infectious diseases hospital in the Russian town of Shelekhov, where an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute died.
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India’s Young Put Their Bodies on the Line to Be Heard
China Expands Its Military Reach by Building a Base in Laos