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The Olympics Is Transforming Their Neighborhood. And Kicking Them Out.
The Games brought billions to redevelop this Paris suburb. What will the thousands of homeless people who live there do?
By Sarah Hurtes
The Games brought billions to redevelop this Paris suburb. What will the thousands of homeless people who live there do?
By Sarah Hurtes
“I’m just bringing the cool factor to it,” said the American hip-hop producer, who has spent millions of dollars on 48 camels for a team he calls “Saudi Bronx.”
By Vivian Nereim
British Columbia recognized the Haida’s aboriginal title to their islands decades after the Indigenous group launched a battle on the ground and in the courts.
By Norimitsu Onishi and Amber Bracken
In the towns of Tulkarm and Jenin, armed militants are flocking to more hard-line factions, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, while the Israeli military tries to rein them in.
By Steven Erlanger and Sergey Ponomarev
Indonesia’s Bajo people, who once spent most of their lives in boats or offshore huts, are adopting more sedentary habits, but without forsaking their deep connection to the sea.
By Muktita Suhartono and Ulet Ifansasti
Some aging residents of Ste.-Mère-Église in Normandy can still recall the American paratroopers who dropped into their backyard. It’s been a love affair ever since.
By Catherine Porter and Andrea Mantovani
Since the war in Gaza began, armed Israeli settlers, often accompanied by the army, have stepped up seizures of land long used by Palestinians.
By Ben Hubbard and Sergey Ponomarev
A festival of classic cars from the communist era brings out some nostalgia in eastern Germany for pre-unification days, although the abuses that occurred behind the Iron Curtain aren’t forgotten.
By Christopher F. Schuetze
In a small English village, a group of dedicated locals has unearthed the remains of a long-vanished palace that had been home to Henry VIII’s grandmother.
By Megan Specia
When the director and crew of “Io Capitano” toured Senegal with their acclaimed movie, audiences responded with their life stories.
By Elian Peltier and Annika Hammerschlag
The Louvre is joining in the celebration for the Olympics by opening up for dance and exercise classes early in the morning. Tickets sold out in a flash.
By Catherine Porter and Dmitry Kostyukov
On an island whose religious diversity is part of its democratic identity, many of the faithful participating in a pilgrimage for Mazu, Goddess of the Sea, were in their 20s and teens.
By Chris Buckley, Amy Chang Chien and Lam Yik Fei
As the war drags on, communities that were steadfast in their commitment to the effort have been shaken by the unending violence on the front line.
By Natalia Yermak and Brendan Hoffman
Even through the Myanmar army’s communications blackout, residents of a conflict zone find moments of grace, and occasional connectivity, away from the battlefield.
By Hannah Beech and Adam Ferguson
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Coffee shops and kiosks are everywhere in Ukraine’s capital, their popularity both an act of wartime defiance and a symbol of closer ties to the rest of Europe.
By Constant Méheut, Daria Mitiuk and Brendan Hoffman
To lure swiftlets, whose saliva-built nests fetch high prices in China, people in Borneo compete to build them the most luxurious accommodations: safe, clean, dark and with pools for bathing.
By Richard C. Paddock, Muktita Suhartono and Nyimas Laula
Al-Shifa Hospital lies in ruins after a battle there between Israeli soldiers and Gazan gunmen. Shortly before withdrawing, the Israeli military brought journalists from The Times to witness the damage.
By Patrick Kingsley and Avishag Shaar-Yashuv
Thirteen years ago, a stork landed on a fisherman’s boat looking for food. He has come back every year since, drawing national attention.
By Ben Hubbard, Safak Timur and Ivor Prickett
Once a semipro baseball player in Japan, Yukihiro Shimura has now become a baseball missionary.
By Jack Nicas and Dado Galdieri
Business is good for snake catchers in Australia, as the period of brumation, a sort of hibernation for reptiles, is shrinking — a result of the warming earth.
By Natasha Frost and David Maurice Smith
The British-designed capital, Belmopan, is bureaucratic and, some say, boring. Some in the city want it to stay that way.
By Simon Romero and Alejandro Cegarra
An epidemic of auto thefts in Canada’s largest city has left many residents exasperated, with some getting creative about deterrence efforts, such as installing bollards in home driveways.
By Vjosa Isai
A plaza in Tel Aviv has become a home away from home. “If I don’t know what to do, I come here,” one relative said.
By Roni Caryn Rabin
Sheffield says it was home to the planet’s first real soccer culture. Staking a claim to that honor may hold the key to its future.
By Rory Smith
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The Brazilian city of Olinda has become famous for its giant puppets during Carnival, including one made just after “Saturday Night Fever.”
By Jack Nicas and Dado Galdieri
Kibbutz Kfar Azza was evacuated after more than 60 residents were murdered and at least 18 were kidnapped on Oct. 7. But one family has returned.
By Roni Caryn Rabin
Growing a spice once worth its weight in gold, a tiny isle in Indonesia was so coveted that the Dutch traded Manhattan for it. Some 350 years later, life on the two islands couldn’t be more different.
By Richard C. Paddock, Muktita Suhartono and Nyimas Laula
The Grand Trunk Road is buzzing with talk of the coming vote, and of the country’s future.
By Christina Goldbaum, Zia ur-Rehman and Saiyna Bashir
Young Chinese are flocking to the picturesque mountain town of Dali to escape the cutthroat competition and suffocating political environment of the country’s megacities.
By Gilles Sabrié and Vivian Wang
Some new mothers say postpartum care centers are the best part of childbirth in South Korea, where fewer people are deciding to have children because of high costs.
By Lauretta Charlton
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