Beyond Borders

Mansour Abbas, leader of Raam, in Nazareth, Israel, in September.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida in December.

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The courtyard of the Al-Khair Education System school in Peshawar, Pakistan, after its roof collapsed on Thursday.

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Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, has been rocked by Houthi attacks in recent weeks that have forced the authorities to close the city’s main international airport.

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Visitors to a former safe house used by an armed gang in Cota 905, a neighborhood in Caracas.

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A destroyed garage on Oct. 7 after an attack on an industrial complex that killed two security guards in Kyiv.

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A worker tending to a sugarcane crop in Maharashtra, India, in September.

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The entrance to St.-Dominique, a kindergarten in Paris where 16 current and former employees were arrested following accusations of child abuse.

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Japan's prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, said her all-male team of aides has had trouble adapting to her schedule.

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The Herbert Park Hotel in Dublin in 2021.

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A nurse gestures inside Nairobi Hospital, where an Ebola patient was isolated immediately upon arrival and treated at the hospital’s East Wing Isolation Facility. The patient later died.

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A protester confronting riot police during an anti-government demonstration in central Tirana, Albania, on Thursday.

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Neha Bora, president of the All India Students’ Association, in New Delhi in October.

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President Trump had appointed himself chairman of the Kennedy Center.

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President Trump during a campaign stop in Alaska on Tuesday. He has not delivered on his promises to end the war in Ukraine, or to lower prices, and recent deals with Russia could complicate both issues.

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While expressing frustration that she is stuck abroad, María Corina Machado vowed to return to Venezuela and rally supporters for a future election.

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Ken Paxton and James Talarico.

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Fikile Mbalula, the secretary general of the African National Congress, in Cape Town in May.

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“The Colorful Life,” by Wassily Kandinsky, at Christie’s auction rooms last week.

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Firefighters at the site of a strike on an apartment building in Kyiv on Wednesday.

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A picture released by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute showing specialists working in a laboratory in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, in 2019.

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A jet drone struck the National Academy of Sciences building in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 28

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in London on Wednesday.

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A rescue worker carried a child from a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Thursday, after the roof of the building collapsed.

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The New Yalu River Bridge seen from Dandong, China, on Thursday, the day it opened.

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Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Wednesday. The service was held by Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle in Pope Leo’s absence, and included special prayers for the pontiff’s health.

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A military parade marked Saudi National Day in Riyadh last month.

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The interior of Rules, a British mainstay in the Covent Garden neighborhood of London. In the centuries since it opened, the restaurant has served London’s wealthy and wordy, its royals and its regulars.

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The San Francisco offices of OpenAI. According to a court filing, a thumb-size recording device wrapped in toilet paper was found plugged into the back of a television in an executive conference room.

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A student turning over his phone before entering a classroom in Mexico City on Tuesday. Mexico has clamped down on phone use in schools.

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A student protest in Bordeaux, France, on Tuesday.

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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brasília on Monday. He is taking on a right-wing candidate in a runoff on Oct. 25.

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Sally Rooney in Dublin in 2021.

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Turkish police officers outside the headquarters of Halk TV in Istanbul on Wednesday.

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A statue of Pope John Paul II outside the hospital in Rome where Pope Leo XIV was hospitalized. The statue has become a gathering point for prayers.

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The Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper headquarters in Sapporo, Japan on Wednesday. A journalist from the newspaper was arrested in Russia and accused of spying.

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Firefighters at the site of a strike at an apartment building in Kyiv on Wednesday.

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Prime Minister Andy Burnham welcoming President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine outside 10 Downing Street, in London, on Wednesday.

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Pope Leo celebrating Mass in a room at Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Friday.

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Mourners carrying the body of Mahmoud Barqawi, 33, at his funeral in Amman, Jordan, on Monday. He was killed in a Houthi missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday.

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Telecommunications antennas in Kabul, Afghanistan, where transmissions of BBC broadcasts from FM radio stations were suspended.

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The cover of the “Book of Revelation,” which was created by Salvador Dalí.

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Security personnel detained protesters demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi, India, in October.

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Celia Melamed, a pet psychic, was hired by President Javier Milei of Argentina to talk to his dogs.

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Park Chung-hee, a South Korean military dictator, and his wife, Yook Young-soo, in 1964.

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Members of the Ethiopian Federal Police on patrol aboard a pickup truck as they continued operations after federal forces pushed back the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front in Mekelle, Ethiopia, last week.

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A weak currency has helped make Chinese goods more competitive overseas while raising the cost of imported products at home.

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Pope Leo XIV was welcomed by Daniele Franco, the president of Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, before an operation to remove a mass from his lung on Tuesday.

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Pope Leo arriving at a hospital in Rome ahead of his surgery on Tuesday. The cancer diagnosis changes the outlook for a pope whose relative youth suggested he might have decades to reign.

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The letter, led by Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, came just weeks after Congress overwhelmingly approved legislation intended to increase economic pressure on Moscow and its allies.

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Japan has been hit by a wave of cyberattacks that have affected businesses and government.

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