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China Feels Boxed In by the U.S. but Has Few Ways to Push Back

President Biden’s effort to build American security alliances in China’s backyard is likely to reinforce the Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s view that Washington...

How the War in Gaza Mobilized the American Left

Support for Palestinians, a cause once largely championed on college campuses and in communities with ties to the region, has transformed into a...

Even Before the Olympics, a Victory Lap for a Fast-Moving French Mayor

The mayor grew up in a building so decrepit — filthy hallways, no private toilets, no showers — that his friends in nearby...

Australian aid worker says she was shot at in Gaza and is ‘lucky’ to have survived

Key PointsAn Australian UNICEF employee has told of the moment her vehicle was hit by gunfire while waiting at a checkpoint in Gaza.Tess...

Australian aid worker shot at in Gaza vows to finish mission, as government states concern

Key PointsAn Australian UNICEF employee has told of the moment her vehicle was hit by gunfire while waiting at a checkpoint in Gaza.Tess...

Friday Briefing

Fears of an Iranian strike drew a U.S. general to IsraelThe U.S. sent its top military commander for the Middle East to Israel...

Indigenous Authors and the Challenge of Telling Their Own Story

The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. This week’s issue is written...

Europe’s A.I. ‘Champion’ Sets Sights on Tech Giants in U.S.

Arthur Mensch, tall and lean with a flop of unkempt hair, arrived for a speech last month at a sprawling tech hub in...

Putin’s fiercest critic wrote a memoir before his death in prison. Now it’s being published

Key PointsRussian opposition leader Alexei Navalny started writing the memoir after he survived being poisoned in 2020.His widow Yulia has revealed the memoir...

Here’s What to Know About the Hunger Crisis in Gaza

Since 2004, when the system was set up, there have been two famines, according to that definition. In 2011, the I.P.C. declared famine...

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