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via NYT > World News The development carries potential benefits for both sides but still faces stiff international opposition, 34 years after the region broke away from Somalia.

via NYT > World News The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, known as the R.S.S., has survived bans and vilification to emerge as the force reshaping India’s secular republic into a Hindu nation.

via NYT > World News We look back at the lives of some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in 2025.

via NYT > World News The first draft essentially called for Ukraine’s surrender. The revised version includes the security guarantees Kyiv wants to prevent future Russian aggression.

via NYT > World News She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it.

via NYT > World News Nasry Asfura was endorsed by President Trump in a contentious election. The process of counting votes experienced technical problems, revisions of disputed ballot boxes and claims of fraud.

via NYT > World News Oil exports, the country’s financial lifeblood, have plummeted after the United States took action against three ships that have been used to carry its crude.

via NYT > World News The bot has been marketed as a general-purpose tool that can write code, summarize documents and give advice. But can it be a good boyfriend?

via NYT > World News French lawmakers passed a special law on Tuesday to avoid a shutdown until a budget is adopted. Negotiations will resume in January.

via NYT > World News Why is it harder for men to have intimate friendships into adulthood?

via NYT > World News Philip Young, 49, is accused of drugging and raping his now ex-wife over a 13-year period.

via NYT > World News Proposals that emerged in recent negotiations with the United States were “rather unconstructive,” a Kremlin official said on Sunday.

via NYT > World News Mr. Kimmel will speak out against fascism and about the importance of free speech in the holiday address, according to a Channel 4 spokesman.

via NYT > World News Parenting is closely studied, but sibling relationships have gotten much less attention.

via NYT > World News U.S. forces had boarded a different tanker on Saturday. The actions signaled a crackdown on such vessels.

via NYT > World News The attacker killed at last week’s Hanukkah celebration in Australia came from a Muslim area whose residents have long gone abroad to seek better lives.

via NYT > World News The vessel, which was flying a Panamanian flag, was not on a list of tankers under U.S. sanctions.

via NYT > World News Investigators said they were unsure of the attacker’s motives. But clues pointed to an isolated and increasingly troubled life, and no accomplices.

via NYT > World News No one knows the true toll of the massacre, and the city remains isolated. Now, refugee camps in Chad are flooded with newly displaced Sudanese.

via NYT > World News Starting on Feb. 1, Rome will charge tourists a fee to go down into the basin of the famed 18th-century fountain. Not every one is happy (except Romans, who won’t have to pay).