How FlyDubai Passengers and Crew Averted Disaster After Pilot Was Stabbed During Flight
A FlyDubai plane carrying Israeli passengers who had earlier been aboard another FlyDubai aircraft that made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia approaches Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
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Separatists Are Poised to Win Quebec’s Election. Independence Is Still a Hard Sell.
Supporters at the Québec Solidaire campaign office in Jean-Lesage watch Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, the leader of the Parti Québécois, during the leaders’ debate last month.
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Omani Co-Pilot on FlyDubai Flight Is Said to Have Extremist Views
A FlyDubai aircraft that returned passengers who had been aboard Flight 1073, at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
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American High School Students Are Selling Guns Bound for Cartels
Two teenage American weapons traffickers — who provide weapons to Mexico’s deadly drug cartels — practice shooting at targets in the desert outside of Phoenix, Ariz.
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Russia Turns to Striking Kyiv’s Bridges, Threatening a Vital Lifeline
A Russian drone striking a bridge, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday.
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FlyDubai Co-Pilot Used Crash Ax in ‘Terrorist’ Cockpit Attack, Emirates Says
A FlyDubai plane carrying passengers from an earlier flight that had been forced to divert after a cockpit attack, arriving near Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
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Iraq Wins U.S. Permission to Resume Iran Flights, Prime Minister Says
An airport in Najaf, Iraq, last month. Flights will be allowed to resume between the holy city and Iran, according to Iraq’s prime minister.
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What We Learned About American Teenagers Supplying Guns to Cartels
Two teenage American weapons traffickers known as El Flaco, left, and Chuy, in the desert outside Phoenix, where they shot rifles.
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Student Protests Rattle France as Police Clashes Bring Blockades and Tear Gas
Trying to kick a tear-gas canister during clashes with the police on Thursday in Seine-Saint-Denis, near Paris. Students in about 1,000 French schools are protesting a lack of resources in education.
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India Faces Fresh Protests, This Time Over Voter Rolls
Protesters demanding the resignation of India’s election chief were put onto buses by the police in New Delhi on Friday.
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What to Know About Fighting Between Ethiopia and Rebels in Tigray
A shattered window of Tigray Television Station after a drone strike in Mekelle, Ethiopia, last week.
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Why U.S. Diesel Is So Important to Major Trading Partners
Adjusting the price of gasoline in Pôrto Alegre, Brazil, this year.
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China’s Push Into A.I. Has Led to a Problem: Too Much Usage
The Chinese government is imposing regulations on the use of A.I. apps and chatbots out of concern that the technology could interfere with human relationships and undermine social order.
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What to Know About France’s High School Protests
Police officers and student protesters facing off outside a school in Paris on Thursday.
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How RAF Fairford in a Quiet Corner of England Became a U.S.-Iran Flashpoint
A police roadblock near the R.A.F. Fairford air base. Prime Minister Andy Burnham of Britain said on Wednesday that there were “strong indications that Iran played a part” in the previous weekend’s events there.
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Whale Batters a Yacht, Leaving Its Crew Stranded for 18 Hours
Tai Tam, a 52-foot yacht, sinking in the South Pacific as the four people who had been on board await rescuing from their life raft.
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Understanding Canada’s Europe Pivot
Prime Minister Mark Carney at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Sept. 17.
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Israel Lists 170 Killed in Gaza It Says Were Militants Posing as Media Workers
The site, near a hospital in Gaza City, was hit by an Israeli strike that killed an Al Jazeera reporter and several of his colleagues in August last year.
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FlyDubai Attack Raises Questions About Pilot Background Checks
In the United States, pilots undergo a criminal history check as well as a threat assessment to see if they have ever been flagged as a “person of interest” in federal law enforcement databases.
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Widdecombe Murder Suspect Charged With Preparing Acts of Terrorism, Including Against Farage
A photo of Ann Widdecombe, a former Conservative lawmaker who became a spokeswoman for the Reform U.K. party, during a party conference in Birmingham, England, last month where Nigel Farage spoke.
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Mass Shootings Surge in South Africa as Illegal Guns Flood Streets
Residents stood behind police tape near the scene where gunmen armed with assault rifles stormed a bar in Johannesburg on Sunday.
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Why Were 4 Pilots Aboard FlyDubai Flight 1073?
A FlyDubai plane carried passengers to Tel Aviv on Wednesday after a midair cockpit attack on their earlier flight. Two other pilots who were seated in the cabin safely landed that plane.
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U.S. and Allies Agree to Release Diesel Reserves as Prices Soar
The release of diesel and crude oil is designed to “stabilize immediate energy supplies,” the Group of 7 countries said in an announcement.
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Ukraine Reports First Combat Use of Its Own Ballistic Missile
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine trumpeted the launch of the country’s first domestically made ballistic missile.
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Fighting Intensifies in Yemen, Raising Fresh Fears of All-Out War
Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, was hit by airstrikes on Friday.
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Sales of Hulking Pickups and S.U.V.s Sag as Fuel Prices Soar
Sales of the Chevrolet Silverado were up, but the growth came from a light-duty version of the truck. Sales of heavy-duty Silverados slumped as Americans shift away from full-size pickups and S.U.V.s.
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Coast Guard Says It Stopped Ships Carrying Fuel to Cuba
“The high seas are not a sanctuary for lawlessness,” Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Kevin Lunday, said of the seizure of boats.
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Indian Pilot Stabbed on FlyDubai Flight Recalls Sudden Attack
Capt. Smit Machchhar in a photo released by Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
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Airlines Set to Bring Israelis Back From U.A.E. After FlyDubai Cockpit Attack
Israeli carriers in Cyprus in 2025. Two Israeli airlines, Israir and Arkia, said Friday that they had obtained “the required permissions” to land at Dubai’s airport.
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Russia’s Latest Propaganda? A.I.-Generated War Songs.
Russian society is becoming increasingly militaristic since the war in Ukraine began. These soldiers marched in Moscow in a parade in 2023.
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Oil Flows Are Up, but Iran Is Still Menacing the Strait of Hormuz
Ships in the Persian Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, in July. Oil exports from the Middle East have rebounded in recent weeks.
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A Front Line at the Border: How Russia Uses Migrants as Weapons Against Europe
A Latvian guard patrols the border with Belarus. Migrants have streamed into Latvia, many through considerable border defenses, cutting gaps in fencing or burrowing under it.
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Russia Is Planning Its Most Powerful Blow Yet to Try to Freeze Ukraine
Overlooking the Dnipro River before the autumn and winter period in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Investigators Seek Motive for FlyDubai Cockpit Attack
A FlyDubai plane carrying Israeli passengers who had earlier been aboard another FlyDubai aircraft forced to make an emergency landing after a cockpit attack.
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Mike Smith, Bubbles on ‘Trailer Park Boys,’ Has Sexual Assault Charge Dismissed
Mike Smith in 2014. A sexual assault charge against Mr. Smith, who plays Bubbles in the Canadian mockumentary series “Trailer Park Boys,” was dismissed on Thursday. He had pleaded not guilty.
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A Climate Change Rebrand
Richmond Park, London, in August.
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2 passengers who helped thwart the FlyDubai attack add details in a TV interview.
Asaf Rajuan, right, arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport on Wednesday. He and a fellow passenger gave an interview on Israeli television about a struggle in the cockpit with a pilot who attacked his colleague.
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Canada’s Proposed Oil Pipeline Offers Carney Relief From Domestic and Global Turmoil
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada speaking about an oil pipeline planned to connect distribution points in Alberta to ports in British Columbia on Thursday in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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FlyDubai Under Scrutiny After Cockpit Attack
A passenger raises his arms in relief as he walks through the domestic arrivals doors with his dog and luggage at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
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Nigerian Charged With Running Fake Government Agency
Adeniyi Adeyemi, center, at the Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria on Wednesday.
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Israelis Take Pride in Bravery of Passengers Who Saved FlyDubai Flight
Passengers at the arrivals terminal after landing at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
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Egypt Arrests 6 Matsaddash Journalists on Claims of Spreading Disinformation
The Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo, which was the center of a Muslim Brotherhood protest in 2013.
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The Boeing 737 Max 8 stayed intact despite the enormous stress of its plunge.
A FlyDubai airplane landing at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on Wednesday. The Boeing 737 Max 8, whose cockpit devolved into carnage on Wednesday, withstood a rapid decrease in altitude.
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UK-Iranian Man Arrested in Connection to RAF Fairford Air Base Incident
Concrete barriers were in place by the R.A.F. Fairford main entrance on Thursday in Fairford, England.
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American University of Afghanistan at Risk of Closure Amid Funding Cuts
A graduation ceremony at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul in 2019.
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Investigators Seek to Determine How a Weapon Entered FlyDubai Cockpit
A FlyDubai jet on Wednesday near Tel Aviv at Ben Gurion International Airport, where passengers on the disrupted flight were flown after an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.
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Argentina’s ‘Golden Passport’ Program Offers Citizenship in Exchange for Foreign Cash
Iran Jails Hard-Line Lawmaker, Exposing Deep Rifts in Its Leadership
U.S. Suspends Consular Services in Brazil on Eve of Elections
Swedish Company Uses A.I. Likeness of Greta Garbo in Ad
In India, a Food Inspector Sparks Fear in Mumbai Restaurants
Spanish Lawmakers Reject Eviction Freeze, Spurring Calls for Early Elections