Hindu-first policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and his increasing intolerance of scrutiny have spilled over into Indian communities worldwide, experts say.

Senator Ben Cardin replaced Senator Robert Menendez as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Lise Meitner, the Austrian-born physicist, was a longtime collaborator of Otto Hahn, who won the Nobel Prize in 1944. She did not share in the award with him.

A Palestinian shepherd in the West Bank, a few miles from Al Baqa.

Supporters of reforms by the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, gathered in Bogotá.

Greece has suffered an ongoing series of climate-related catastrophes, including flooding in the Volos area recently after a storm, Elias, dumped heavy rains.

A firefighting plane made a water drop as a wildfire burned near the village of Provatonas in Greece in September. More than 20 people died in wildfires in Greece.

Britta Mortensen told the AFP she was forced to have an IUD implanted, without her parents’ knowledge, while she was living at a boarding school in Greenland in 1974.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the Conservative Party’s conference in Manchester, England, on Wednesday. “The facts have changed,” he said, explaining his decision on a rail project.

Pope Francis, who has tried to use his profile to put a focus on environmental issues, leading a Mass on Wednesday, the opening day of the Synod on Synodality, at the Vatican.

The scene in Nanxinfang, a village outside Beijing, after flooding in August.

The topic of Saudi Arabia’s normalizing relations with Israel was at the center of a meeting last month between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and President Biden.

The French agriculture minister, Marc Fesneau, center, at a foie gras tasting session at the start of the country’s national duck vaccination campaign, in Labarthete, France, on Monday.

Ukrainian military and police gathering remains at a playground in the Ukrainian village of Hroza yesterday.

People playing basketball in Montellano, Dominican Republic, where Castillo Javier Police, a man born in the country to Haitian migrants, said he was detained by the police.

Piet De Becker, the manager of the Doode Bemde nature preserve, walking in the sanctuary, which has helped prevent catastrophic flooding in nearby Leuven, Belgium.

“There’s always fear and there are different levels of fear” in the Sikh community, Harjit Sajjan said.

A building destroyed by Israeli strikes in Gaza City on Saturday.

A fire burning after a rocket attack on Saturday in Ashkelon, Israel.

Smoke rising in Gaza City after Israeli strikes on Saturday.

Farid El Haïry in June in Hazebrouck, France.

A beauty counter at a department store in Beijing. Some women are rejecting the costly devotion to mainstream notions of attractiveness.

Israeli soldiers leaving a shelter after rocket sirens were sounded in Sderot, Israel, on Sunday.

Israeli soldiers driving near Sderot, Israel, on Sunday. The Pentagon announced it would send munitions to Israel and move warships closer to the country.

Relatives of an Israeli who went missing after an attack by Hamas fighters during a news conference on Sunday in Ramat Gan.

At just over 8,000 meters, Mount Shishapangma, in Tibet, is the world’s 14th highest peak.

Israeli soldiers in a cotton field on Monday near Kfar Menahem, Israel.

President Biden issued a statement on Monday evening confirming 11 American deaths in Israel and acknowledging the possibility that others could be hostages.

Avian flu has killed countless farmed and wild birds. Scientists worry that it could acquire mutations that help it spread more easily among humans, potentially setting off a pandemic.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Jerusalem in 2020. Since the Hamas attack, he has not yet called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, even though they have developed a close relationship.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel during a cabinet meeting last month.

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Since Hamas launched a deadly cross-border attack into Israel over the weekend, violent videos and graphic images have flooded social media.

President Biden spoke to reporters after wrapping up a call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem last month. He met with four U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday.

Rolling barrages of artillery strikes have cratered and pockmarked the hills and forests of eastern Ukraine.

A man showing signs of torture after he was released from the custody of the Syrian government in 2012.

The United States and Europe have been trying to reach a deal that encourages cleaner production of steel and aluminum.

Palestinians inspecting damage on Wednesday after overnight Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younes, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli security forces on Wednesday guarding the city of Sderot.

Smoke billowing from the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt after an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken promised American help to defend Israel “as long as America exists” on Thursday.

An Israeli tank near the town of Sderot at the border with Gaza during the seven-week war with Hamas in 2014.

Volunteers making wreaths for bereaved families in Moshav Zeitan, Israel, on Thursday.

In his first stop of a sweep through the Middle East, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, “We will always be there by your side.”