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Our photographer Federico Rios joined aid flights in Chocó to document earthquake rescue efforts in remote communities. source https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/americas/100000011097252/a-rescue-mission-in-remote-colombia.html

With a second term, Hakainde Hichilema must navigate relations with the Trump administration, which has sought greater access to the copper-rich nation’s natural resources. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/world/africa/zambia-election-hichilema.html

Venezuela and Japan both experienced major quakes this summer. Their responses differed, and not just because of money. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/world/earthquake-response-japan-venezuela.html

The spotlight on the country’s only antiwar party has brought a spark to what had looked like another dull, tightly controlled election campaign. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/world/europe/russia-yabloko-party-election.html

In a social media post, the president scolded South Korea for not helping denuclearize Iran, and also praised North Korea and its leader. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/us/politics/trump-south-korea-military-exercises.html

China is exporting more than A.I. models. It wants its data to influence the world’s chatbots, raising fears that Beijing’s narratives will spread with the technology. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/world/asia/china-ai-data-chatbots.html

The move puts the principality in the majority among nearby nations with royal families. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/world/europe/liechtenstein-royal-succession-women.html

The U.S. is building an archipelago of overseas detention sites where deportees are often held indefinitely without charge. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/world/deportations-eswatini-italy-heist.html

The president’s adviser met with representatives of the armed Palestinian group in Egypt, several officials said. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/world/middleeast/kushner-hamas-talks.html

Immigrants have long eased labor shortages on farms and factories in Italy. But churches also need foreign-born priests, like the Rev. Vincent Souly of the Ivory Coast. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/world/europe/italy-priest-shortage.html

Construction workers found an estimated $10 million worth of gold while drilling below a building in Belgium. The director of a nonprofit that now owns the building said local prosecutors would investigate whether the gold had been stolen. source https://www.nytimes.c…

A construction worker’s drill struck gold during a renovation project in East Flanders, setting off a search for the owners of the stashed fortune. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/world/europe/gold-bars-coins-belgium.html

The authorities tracked the animal after a string of close encounters with residents, reigniting a bitter debate over how a small, densely populated country should live with wolves. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/world/europe/rare-wolf-denmark-conservation-…

Nigel Farage, the Reform U.K. leader who resigned from Parliament and won back his seat on Thursday, stays on the offensive and says voters don’t care about allegations of financial impropriety. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/world/europe/farage-britain-tru…

The global weather disrupter appears to be taking a toll, and its peak could still be months away. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/climate/el-nino-effects.html

Emergency services said they were working at the scene of a train derailment near Lewes, in East Sussex, on Thursday. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/world/europe/train-derails-southern-england.html

Mar Carretero-Castrillo, an astrophysicist, returned to her remote village in Spain to be in the path of totality. Hundreds of partygoers came too. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/world/europe/spain-eclipse-astrophysicist-festival.html

The Kremlin released Robert Gilman, whose family and an advocacy group had said he was in dire physical condition, on “a humanitarian basis,” President Trump said. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/europe/russia-robert-gilman-release.html

President Trump was part of a particularly elaborate deception last month, boarding one jet before being spirited away to another. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/americas/presidents-secret-flights-trump-turkey.html

Thousands of youth protesters in the eastern state of Jharkhand faced police batons, tear gas, barricades and water cannons as they demanded an investigation into irregularities in the civil service exams. source https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/10000001108285…