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As it tries to demonstrate its continuing ability to fight, Ukraine said it had used drones to inflict serious damage on a Russian Kilo-class submarine at a Black Sea port. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/yG8Dd0o

Gunmen killed at least 15 people attending a Jewish celebration at the city’s popular Bondi Beach in what Australian officials are calling a terrorist attack. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/IXG3f1r

After gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia, rabbis across the United States reflected on how to protect their congregations during their own events. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/mNxpoj1

Jimmy Lai, the publisher of a popular tabloid, has spent years fighting the landmark national security case brought over his support of the city’s now vanquished pro-democracy movement. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/Aghz1xd

Anyone in the area should take shelter, the police said. They declined to elaborate, and details of the shooting were not immediately clear. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/QJogi7n

Opponents of AfD lawmakers say that their push to publish sensitive details about national security could benefit Russian military planning. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/IhDKZP3

The strike on a United Nations base in the southern Kordofan region was the deadliest single episode for the body’s personnel in Sudan’s civil war. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/LegCXx9

Mujib Mashal, our South Asia bureau chief, takes us to Kandy in Sri Lanka, which suffered the worst of the devastation from last month’s cyclone. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/VpWUOJQ

Young Bulgarians turned out in protests that helped unseat their government. Whether that will translate into higher turnout in upcoming elections is up to them. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/I4JuTxh

The human rights activist was released on furlough from prison last year, but was detained again on Friday, along with several other human rights activists. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/7gnuepB

Western museums are returning the Benin Bronzes — priceless items looted during colonialism — to Nigeria, but political infighting has jeopardized the ability to display and maintain the masterpieces. Our reporter, Alex Marshall, traveled to Nigeria to see some of the Bronzes. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/IGHtXBT

A parachutist in Queensland, Australia, survived by cutting the chute free at 15,000 feet when a reserve parachute accidentally deployed, according to a government report. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/x9a8CrW

Barred from leaving Romania, Andrew Tate courted powerful figures on the American right, from Tucker Carlson to Barron Trump. Then an extraordinary order let him go. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/AB4ZG5e

The Southern Transitional Council has seized control of parts of Yemen over the past week, with ambitions to create a “south Arabian state.” from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/kLUHTsj

The United States’ history in the region includes several about-faces, contradictions and missteps. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/EsCiNdH

The country’s attorney general said he had issued an international arrest warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/DXKrEbH

Chinese exports are flooding the developing world, and the social consequences are bound to be profound. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/exdbDQL

Municipal officials say the action was about unpaid taxes. The U.N. relief agency for Palestinians says it is exempt from taxes and should be immune from such a raid, calling it illegal. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/wIyc0Dg

The plane, carrying about 50 Iranians and other deportees, took off from Arizona on Sunday, under a deal the Trump administration reached with Iran two months ago. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/kXltAQB

The country certainly still faces many challenges. But some things are now going right there — and those are worth our attention, too. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/OcDUTu6

Ms. Perry and Mr. Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada, posed together in photos and videos on Instagram, making them “Instagram official.” from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/VdG4ePY

Officials told the Indian news media that the fire tore through a nightclub in the southwestern state of Goa, a popular tourist destination. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/J879ZYq

President Trump backed Nasry Asfura days before the Nov. 30 election and denounced his opponents. In a close race, that has potentially tipped the scales. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/VnzHtlG

Two people were rescued from a half-sunken boat off the island of Crete on Saturday evening, but 17 others died in the wreck. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/JkHbitY

Venezuelan officials say María Corina Machado will be considered a fugitive if she goes to Oslo, laying bare the risks for the opposition leader. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/hEsSiwY

Beijing is curbing Japanese movies, music and art as it seeks to punish Tokyo for its support of Taiwan. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/5RDzYk2

The man ingested the egg locket at a jewelry store in New Zealand last week, according to the authorities. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/gXQfIuD

The arc of mobile phones and social media may foretell the future of artificial intelligence in schools. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/6hjrnCI

While in prison in 1981, he befriended the dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Later, he became a conservative voice in Rome. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/HNMPSoQ

But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other leadership roles in the Catholic Church. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/IPbBEfR

Dignitas has helped more than 3,000 people take their own lives, an act that Mr. Minelli maintained was a fundamental exercise of free will. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/KyaWjHU

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/PqUZgR1

The trip comes days before the anniversary of the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and as Lebanon is navigating the cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/PY3gzC1

Joe Kahn, The New York Times’s executive editor, was asked about how we cover the news and make judgment calls in our reporting and editing. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/lSDW8q1

The floods and landslides that have killed more than 1,350 people in recent weeks are a grim reminder of the risks of a warming planet. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/iW2wCDJ

“Nessun Dorma?” More like “Ice, Ice Baby,” as a statue in Italy is overshadowed. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/CZ0JfKR

Joaquín Guzmán López admitted to having the once-untouchable drug kingpin Ismael Zambada García abducted and flown to the United States, among a sweeping set of other crimes. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/XWE0ASB

President Trump warned that if his favored candidate didn’t win, the United States would “not be throwing good money after bad” at the country. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/woRb5P1

Tourism accounts for nearly a third of Jamaica’s economy, so officials are rushing to reopen dozens of hotels in time to salvage the vital winter travel season. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/byjEJNx

The president called the nationwide flooding the largest and most challenging natural disaster in the island’s history, as emergency rescue efforts continue. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/UgYNmMo