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03/02/2025

If the bird flu gains the ability to spread from person to person, it could produce the next pandemic. So some flu experts are anxiously tracking changes that could make the virus airborne.

Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu.

27/01/2025

Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians were walking toward their homes in northern Gaza on Monday, nearly 16 months after they were forced to flee at the start of Israel’s military offensive.

The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas remained in place after it appeared to falter over the weekend, but it was unclear what the displaced Gazans would be returning to.

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Palestinians began arriving in northern Gaza, months after Israel ordered them to flee. The Israel-Hamas truce was holding after it appeared to falter over the weekend.

16/01/2025

10/01/2025

Officials warned that a fire that broke out Thursday was expanding rapidly, as the death toll from blazes across Los Angeles rose to 10 people. Follow live updates.

The Kenneth fire exploded in a few hours. The Palisades and Eaton fires each appeared to have destroyed some 5,000 or more structures, officials said, which would put them both among the five most destructive fires in California history.

05/01/2025

Even quaint corners of France are seeing a rise in drug violence and crime. “We are confronting a tide of co***ne — a new thing,” said Jean-Paul Vermot, the mayor of Morlaix, which has a population of about 15,000.

Now, French officials nationwide are embracing proposals to crack down on traffickers.

Even quaint corners of the country are seeing a rise in drug violence and crime. Just ask the mayor of Morlaix, which has a population of about 15,000.

01/01/2025

People gathered across the globe to commemorate the end of 2024 and welcome the New Year. See celebrations from around the world:

See how people across the globe celebrated.

30/12/2024

Leaders around the world mourned President Jimmy Carter after his death on Sunday at age 100, with many celebrating his decades fighting for peace and combating social inequality.

LiveUpdated Dec. 29, 2024, 11:20 p.m. ETLatest Updates: Jimmy Carter Dies at 100The former president, who rose from peanut farmer to Middle East peacemaker, was known as much for his charity and diplomatic work later in life as he was for his single presidential term, which ended in 1981.Share full....

27/12/2024

Elon Musk has expanded his footprint in Texas, moving his companies from California and building offices, warehouses and manufacturing plants across a growing number of Texas counties. Now Musk is trying to do something that few titans of industry have done in a century: create his own company town.

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Employees of SpaceX have filed a formal petition to create the city of Starbase. Its first mayor would be a security manager for the company.

25/12/2024

What causes autism? It isn’t vaccines, studies show. Here are some possibilities that researchers are exploring:

There is no one factor that causes autism — or explains its growing prevalence. Researchers are seeking explanations for the surge. Here are some possibilities.

22/12/2024

For years, Germany has been strengthening security measures around Christmas markets in reaction to an attack in 2016 in which a man killed 12 people by driving a truck into a market in central Berlin. The latest deadly assault on a beloved German tradition illustrates the challenge of holiday safety.

The latest deadly assault on a beloved German tradition illustrates the challenge of holiday safety.

20/12/2024

Viktoria Roshchyna died in September in Russian custody. The journalist reported from places most other Ukrainian journalists would not go and was one of the last to write openly from the territory in Ukraine forcibly taken by Russian troops. Her courage took her even further—into Russia itself. The circumstances of her death remain unclear, as is what she intended to do in Russia. She was 25.

Viktoria Roshchyna died in September in Russian custody. The reporter had been well-known for her stories about life in parts of occupied Ukraine.

19/12/2024

Grief and wonder: New York Times photographers captured the moments that defined 2024.

See the full Year in Pictures and read our photographers’ reflections here:

Photographers captured historic moments of war, grief and wonder that defined the year.

18/12/2024

Honda and Nissan, Japan’s second- and third-largest automakers, are discussing ways to deepen their ties, including the possibility of a merger that could restructure Japan’s car industry as it faces mounting global challenges.

The automakers, Japan’s second- and third-largest, are said to be discussing a tie-up that could reshape the country’s industry.

16/12/2024

Tropical Storm Chido destroyed homes, schools and businesses with wind gusts of up 124 miles per hour. The French territory of Mayotte off the eastern coast of Africa was left devastated. French authorities said it could take days to establish a death toll.

The official death toll so far is 14, but there are fears that the number killed in the French territory by Tropical Cyclone Chido could be much higher.

15/12/2024

Tropical Cyclone Chido made landfall in Mozambique on Sunday after causing destruction in Mayotte, a French archipelago in the Indian Ocean, where at least 11 people died, France’s interior ministry said on Sunday.

The prefect of Mayotte said the death toll could climb. The storm, the equivalent of a Category 3, made landfall in Mozambique on Sunday.

14/12/2024

Guided by cellphone flashlights, Syrians searched one of the country’s most notorious detention centers in Damascus for traces of loved ones who were snatched during the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

Guided by cellphone flashlights, relatives searched a notorious lockup in Damascus for traces of loved ones who were snatched during the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

12/12/2024

For over a decade, tens of thousands of people living in Syria would disappear without explanation. After the Assad regime’s fall, families of the missing flooded a prison and a morgue, only to find unrecognizable corpses.

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Syrians raced to newly emptied prisons to reunite with loved ones snatched away by the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad, but their quest sometimes took them to the morgue.

11/12/2024

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