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Nguyen Qui Duc, the proprietor of a salon and exhibition space that became a Hanoi landmark, where both Vietnamese and foreigners gathered for music, poetry and long nights of drinks and sushi, died on Nov. 22 in a hospital in Hanoi. He was 65. The cause was lung cancer, said his sister and sole survivor,…

Venezuela’s top prosecutor accused several top opposition figures of treason and ordered their arrest on Wednesday, the latest blow to prospects for credible elections that the government has agreed to hold next year in exchange for the lifting of crippling U.S. economic sanctions. The attorney general, Tarek William Saab, said that opponents of the leftist…

Republicans on Wednesday blocked an emergency spending bill to fund the war in Ukraine, demanding strict new border restrictions in exchange and severely jeopardizing President Biden’s push to replenish the war chests of American allies before the end of the year. The failed vote highlighted waning support in the United States for continuing to fund…

Since the war began, more than 15,000 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the territory’s health officials, and much of the region’s housing stock has been damaged or destroyed. Nearly 1.9 million people, or about 85 percent of the total population of Gaza, have fled their homes, squeezing into an area covering less…

A former Ukrainian lawmaker who had settled in Russia and was sentenced in Ukraine for treason, was shot and killed in a village outside Moscow, Russian investigators said on Wednesday. The lawmaker, Illia Kyva, 46, who had called for Ukraine to surrender when Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, was discovered in the…

Gazans flee Khan Younis, but refuge is hard to find The Israeli offensive in the southern Gaza Strip has set off another migration of distressed civilians, as thousands of people flee the city of Khan Younis, where the Israeli military is waging close-quarter battles with Hamas fighters. Many Palestinians have fled to the southern border…

Faced with fierce fighting in the south of Gaza, large numbers of civilians have fled to a tiny seaside village where Israel has said they can find safety. Its name is Al-Mawasi — and once there, Gazans have found no shelter, no humanitarian and little in the way even of basic infrastructure. Yousef Hammash, an…

The Israeli military on Tuesday released an annotated photo of senior Hamas military leaders, in which the army said that five of the 11 gathered commanders had been killed. Among those in the photo the army said it had eliminated were the head of Hamas’s aerial division, two battalion commanders, a brigade commander and a…

President Biden called on Congress on Wednesday to put aside partisan differences and promptly pass a multibillion-dollar aid package for Ukraine, warning that failure to do so could enable President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to reclaim momentum in the war. Efforts to resupply Ukraine as well as Israel appear at an impasse as Republicans…

His plane flanked by four fighter jets, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia began a rare trip on Wednesday to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, two oil-rich Gulf nations that have resisted pressure to take sides in the Ukraine war. The talks touched on international crises, primarily Israel’s two-month-old war with Hamas —…

One of the most delightful decisions I made this year was to declare a “summer of snob.” For a few gloriously hot and sunny months, my fiction (and sometimes nonfiction) reading was loosely organized around the theme of snobbery. Loopy heiresses, high-society murders and class anxiety galore populated my reading list, giving just enough of…

The Ukrainian opposition leader, Petro O. Poroshenko, has appealed for political unity as turmoil intensifies in his country after he was blocked from leaving for a trip abroad that he said was aimed at lobbying for more military support. “It was a surprise and shock for me when they tried to stop me,” Mr. Poroshenko…