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The World in Stories: 13 Favorite Dispatches From 2023
Our correspondents ventured to some of the world’s most remote, and dangerous, locales to report stories that reveal a country’s culture and the human condition. Here are our favorites from the year.
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Clockwise from top left, a mother caresses her daughter in Afghanistan; sheep in the Shetland Islands; a Dubai beach illuminated at night; bees in Austria; an older subway rider in Seoul; a Hong Kong street. Credit...Clockwise from top left: Kiana Hayeri for NYT; Andrew Testa for NYT; Andrea DiCenzo for NYT; Ciril Jazbec for NYT; Chang W. Lee/NYT; Anthony Kwan for NYT
By Bryant Rousseau
Bryant Rousseau is an editor of Dispatches.
Dec. 31, 2023, 12:01 a.m. ET
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Bearing witness, at close range and often at great risk, is the essence of a dispatch, and in 2023, our correspondents filed 80 of them from 37 countries, capturing the human experience from almost every angle: the good, the bad and the wrenching.
In a year marked by conflicts, dozens of dispatches came directly from war zones: from a rare trip inside Gaza, where we saw a city utterly disfigured; from a ravaged Israel kibbutz, where more than 60 people were murdered on Oct. 7; and from the West Bank, where “there’s no such thing as sleeping at night.”
And we got multiple, moving reports from Ukraine, where stoic faces started to crack under the war’s emotional toll. The effects of that war are being felt globally, from Bali, where Russians and Ukrainian expatriates try to get along, to towns in Poland and the Czech Republic upended by the fighting.
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