Sergey Ponomarev

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1 month ago | nytimes.com | Sergey Ponomarev |Jack Nicas |Adam Sella

They weren't supposed to fight. At Israel's founding in 1948, the new nation's leaders agreed that ultra-Orthodox men - known as the Haredim, or God-fearing, in Hebrew - would be spared from mandatory military service. In exchange, Haredi leaders lent their support for the largely secular state. The arrangement held for Israel's first 75 years, until the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023. The resulting war in Gaza pulled hundreds of thousands of Israelis into battle - but hardly any ultra-Orthodox.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Sergey Ponomarev |Adam Sella |Jim Tankersley

A new band of influencers unafraid of confrontation has helped elevate the Alternative for Germany party to second in pre-election polls. The Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, with its anti-immigrant and nationalist platform, has long been the pariah of German politics. Its members have been fined for Nazi slogans and labeled extremist by the government.

Dec 25, 2024 | nytimes.com | John Eligon |Julie Bourdin |Sergey Ponomarev

After a vicious cyclone this month razed slums housing many undocumented immigrants on the French island territory of Mayotte, Safina Soula did not shed a tear. As the leader of an advocacy organization representing people from Mayotte, Ms. Soula staunchly supported an operation that the French authorities started last year to destroy the slums and deport undocumented immigrants, most of whom come from the nearby Comoros islands.

Dec 20, 2024 | nytimes.com | Julie Bourdin |John Eligon |Sergey Ponomarev

Although the reports of 60,000 dead were "unreasonable," he said, he believed the death toll could be hundreds or as much as a thousand. "We will only be able to verify after the excavations," he said. Part of the uncertainty around the death toll is that some villages outside the capital remain isolated and have yet to receive any government outreach, residents said. The French authorities say that they are mounting a concerted effort to clarify the toll and to reach out to those communities.