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Yesterday — 16 October 2025Main stream

Israel Begins Burying Its Dead Hostages

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By: Isabel Kershner
16 October 2025 at 17:32
With the bodies of 10 people returned from Gaza, Israelis elated by the release of hostages began mourning those who did not make it home alive.

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Mourners walking behind a vehicle carrying the coffin of Guy Iluz in Israel on Wednesday.

Malala Yousafzai Thought She’d Never Fall in Love

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By: Anna Martin， Reva Goldberg， Emily Lang， Davis Land， Christina Djossa， Amy Pearl， Sara Curtis， Elisa Gutierrez， Jen Poyant， Lynn Levy， Daniel Ramirez， Dan Powell， Rowan Niemisto and Elisheba Ittoop
15 October 2025 at 20:02
The global activist gets candid in her new memoir. She spoke with us about struggling with panic attacks, finding her personal style and changing her mind about what marriage could be.

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Remembering D’Angelo’s Musical Art of Seduction

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By: Wesley Morris
16 October 2025 at 03:54
The singer and songwriter’s art of elegant seduction never required him to raise his voice, or lose his desperation, humor or awareness.

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D’Angelo onstage in 2000. The singer, songwriter and producer who helped reshape R&B in the 1990s and 2000s died on Tuesday at 51.

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

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By: Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz
16 October 2025 at 03:15
The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.

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Some of the dozens of white South Africans who accepted an invitation from the Trump administration to come to the United States as refugees arrived at an air hangar in Dulles, Va., in May.

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

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By: Julian E. Barnes and Tyler Pager
16 October 2025 at 01:56
The development comes as the U.S. military is drawing up options for President Trump to consider, including possible strikes inside the country.

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Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, in Caracas last month. American officials have been clear, privately, that the Trump administration aims to drive Mr. Maduro from power.

With Truce in Place, Hamas Pursues Bloody Crackdown on Rivals in Gaza

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By: Iyad Abuheweila， Aaron Boxerman and Sanjana Varghese
16 October 2025 at 02:56
A video this week captured Hamas fighters in Gaza executing Palestinian rivals as the militant group tries to assert that it is still the dominant force in the territory after two years of war with Israel.

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Palestinian militants standing guard on Monday, the day that hostages in Gaza were handed over to the Red Cross as part of a cease-fire deal between Hamas and Israel.

U.S. to Take Control of More Companies as China’s Rare Earth Dominance Grows

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By: Alan Rappeport and Ana Swanson
16 October 2025 at 00:59
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said China’s dominance of rare earths calls for a more assertive American industrial policy.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, left, with the U.S. trade representative, Jamieson Greer. Mr. Bessent said the United States must become less reliant on China for rare-earth minerals.
Before yesterdayMain stream

With Tariff Threat and Trade Controls, China and U.S. Renew Game of Chicken

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By: David Pierson
15 October 2025 at 23:12
Xi Jinping’s need to project strength before a crucial meeting of Communist Party leaders may help explain why Beijing announced new rare earth controls.

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President Trump greeting China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, at the Group of 20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019.

First Burials to Be Held for Israelis Returned From Gaza

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By: Adam Rasgon
16 October 2025 at 02:46
Hamas has handed over the bodies of eight people, but says it is struggling to find the remains of others after two years of war.

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Mourners walking behind a vehicle carrying the coffin of Guy Ilouz in Israel on Wednesday.

Syria’s New Leaders Are Talking to Russia, a Former Enemy

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By: Carlotta Gall and Nicole Tung
15 October 2025 at 19:18
President Ahmed al-Shara is making his first trip to Moscow, which backed the regime his rebels overthrew. Both sides have reasons to put the past aside.

Russian military vehicles near Hmeimim, Syria, in August. Moscow still has an air base in the area, despite the overthrow last year of its ally Bashar al-Assad.

Inmates Make Brazen Escape in Guatemala

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By: Annie Correal and Jody García
15 October 2025 at 08:56
“I’m not going to deny the reality — there’s no good explanation,” the interior minister said of how the 20 inmates had slipped out, perhaps over a period of time.

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The Guatemalan interior minister, Francisco Jiménez, at a news conference on Monday.

Trump Says He May Give Tomahawks to Ukraine. Is He Bluffing?

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By: Luke Broadwater and Eric Schmitt
15 October 2025 at 06:49
President Trump’s threats to provide the missiles to Ukraine, whether he follows through on them or not, are a sign of his growing frustration with Moscow.

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A Tomahawk missile launches from the U.S.S. Barry in 2011.

U.S. Military Kills 6 People in Boat Attack Near Venezuela, Trump Says

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By: Charlie Savage
15 October 2025 at 04:01
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

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President Trump aboard Air Force One on Tuesday. The administration has not explained how a boat in the southern Caribbean Sea posed an imminent threat of armed attack that could prompt a right to use force in self-defense.

Why Was the President of FIFA at the Gaza Summit?

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By: Tariq Panja
15 October 2025 at 01:58
Gianni Infantino, the head of soccer’s global governing body, frequently appears alongside President Trump at events outside the realm of sports.

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The president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, traveled to Monday’s Gaza summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, at President Trump’s invitation.

French Premier Offers to Delay Pension Overhaul, in a Bid to Calm Turmoil

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By: Aurelien Breeden
15 October 2025 at 01:42
Sébastien Lecornu said the government was ready for “a new debate” on the issue, a major concession as he faces no-confidence votes that threaten to topple his government again this week.

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France’s prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, addressing Parliament on Tuesday.

How the U.S. and the Arab World Teamed Up to Seal the Gaza Deal

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By: Adam Rasgon， David M. Halbfinger， Natan Odenheimer， Ronen Bergman and Luke Broadwater
15 October 2025 at 20:25
The cease-fire talks in Egypt showed that with pressure on Hamas and Israel, seemingly huge impediments could be overcome or set aside.

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President Trump and other world leaders on Monday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where mediators successfully pressed last week for a deal between Hamas and Israel.

Trump’s Trade War With China Catches the World in Its Crossfire

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By: Patricia Cohen
14 October 2025 at 23:07
Tariffs and other restrictions between the United States and China are reverberating in unpredictable ways.

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President Trump has imposed 50 percent tariffs on most steel and aluminum coming into the United States, and some other countries have followed with steel levies of their own.

China Wants Foreign Scientists. The Public Says No, Thanks.

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By: Vivian Wang
14 October 2025 at 21:47
Since Beijing announced a new visa to attract young science and technology graduates, a backlash has erupted online, forcing the government to respond.

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Students at Peking University in Beijing in May. As new college graduates in China have struggled to find jobs, an uproar has developed over the government’s moves to attract science and tech grads from abroad.

Global Economic Growth Remains Sluggish as Trump’s Tariff Threats Loom

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By: Alan Rappeport
14 October 2025 at 21:10
The International Monetary Fund said the impact of trade tensions had been limited so far, but it expects growth to slow.

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Price pressures from the trade tensions are muted so far but building, the International Monetary Fund said in a new report.

Russia Accuses Antiwar Exiles of Terrorism

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By: Nataliya Vasilyeva
14 October 2025 at 20:48
An intelligence agency’s sweeping investigation shows that Moscow is closely following the anti-Kremlin activities of Russians abroad.

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The exiled opposition figure Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky in London last year. The F.S.B. accused a group he founded, the Russian Antiwar Committee, of plotting to overthrow the government.

Madagascar Rejoices After Military Takeover and Impeachment

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By: John Eligon
15 October 2025 at 04:39
The change in power came after Parliament voted to impeach President Andry Rajoelina, who faced mounting pressure after weeks of Gen Z protests.

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People in Madagascar cheer after the impeachment of President Andry Rajoelina, in Antananarivo, the capital, on Tuesday.

Israel Pressures Hamas to Return Bodies, but Gaza’s Destruction Poses Challenge

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By: Liam Stack and Aaron Boxerman
15 October 2025 at 04:34
The Israeli government is considering limits on aid to Gaza to penalize Hamas for not turning over more bodies of former hostages. But devastation in the enclave complicates the retrieval of all remains.

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Doris Liber, left, speaking in Washington in 2023 about her son, Guy Iluz, who was kidnapped by Hamas. His remains were returned to Israel this week,

Trump Dangles $20 Billion Lifeline for Argentina, With Strings Attached

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By: Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Alan Rappeport
15 October 2025 at 07:21
President Trump said the economic support is contingent on whether his political ally, President Javier Milei of Argentina, remains in power.

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President Trump appearing with President Javier Milei of Argentina outside the White House on Tuesday.

As Hostages and Prisoners Return Home, Trump Declares ‘New Dawn’ in Mideast

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By: David M. Halbfinger， Isabel Kershner， Aaron Boxerman， Thomas Fuller， Saher Alghorra， Daniel Berehulak， David Guttenfelder， Amit Elkayam and Kenny Holston
14 October 2025 at 05:32
With Hamas freeing the last 20 living Israeli hostages and Israel releasing some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, President Trump proclaimed an ‘end’ to the war, but big questions about Gaza’s future remain.

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Israelis celebrated as they watched a live broadcast on Monday in Tel Aviv of hostages being released from Gaza.

Madagascar’s President Goes Into Hiding

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By: John Eligon
14 October 2025 at 06:36
The move followed weeks of intense and deadly protests against the government of President Andry Rajoelina, who said he would defy growing calls to resign.

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Protesters called for more power as they rode atop a military vehicle in Antananarivo, Madagascar, on Monday.
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