Iran’s Supreme Leader Signals Intention to Keep Country on a War Footing
A rally in Tehran in April, with posters of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei. The ayatollah has not been seen in public since being named supreme leader of Iran.
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How Ukraine’s Satellites Help Drive Its War Drones
A Ukrainian soldier preparing a drone for a strike on a Russian target in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine last month.
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China Wants Its Data to Power the World’s A.I.
A Google booth during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai last month. China wants a greater voice in the development of A.I. chatbots.
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Kushner Meets Netanyahu in Israel in Effort to Break Logjam Over Gaza
Jared Kushner speaking about the Board of Peace, an organization backed by the Trump administration to end the war in Gaza, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January.
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Andy Burnham, UK Prime Minister, Exchanged Texts With Someone Posing as Trump’s Chief of Staff
Prime Minister Andy Burnham of Britain speaking in London this month. An official said Mr. Burnham had exchanged a few messages of no significance with an impersonator.
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Houthis Claim Strike on Saudi Vessel as Red Sea Violence Escalates
Flames and smoke rising from the port of Mokha in Yemen on Friday. The Houthis have bombarded the city with drones and missiles n recent weeks.
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U.S. and Iran Blow Through Deadline to Agree to a Broad Deal to End War
People in Tehran, Iran, last month. Iranians are coping with severe economic strain from six months of war.
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‘Posh George,’ the Convicted Fraudster in Nigel Farage’s Inner Circle
Nigel Farage and George Cottrell in Brussels in 2020, as the European Parliament ratified the terms of Brexit, which both men campaigned for.
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As Iran War Turns Into Economic Battle, a New U.S. Strategy Recalls Old Ones
Ships anchored this month in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran.
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Trump’s Other Hold on the Americas: The Visa
The State Department overseen by Marco Rubio has restored the visas of political figures in Central America once penalized by the U.S. government and has revoked visas for others.
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Liechtenstein Changes Its Law to Allow Women to Ascend the Throne
Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein, arriving at the country’s National Day celebrations in Vaduz, the capital, on Saturday.
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How a Ukrainian Bank Worker Came to Face Life in a Russian Prison
Artem Murdid during a trip with friends to a beach on the Sea of Azov in the Zaporizhzhia region in 2019. He says he was tortured into confessing to Russian terrorism charges.
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American Hiker Dies After Lightning Strike on Mount Etna in Italy
Volcanic activity at Mount Etna as seen from Mareneve near Catania in Italy last week. Italian authorities say a 29-year-old American hiker was killed by lightning while hiking on Europe’s most active volcano.
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No Way Out
Roberto Mosquera is being held in a maximum-security prison in Eswatini.
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Cholera Outbreak Sickens Over 90 in Myanmar’s Biggest City
The emergency department of Yangon General Hospital on Friday.
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After Women in India Joined Protests, Online Harassment Followed
Rhiya Ahir has suffered constant online abuse from trolls after an image of her at a protest in Mumbai last month went viral.
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Bou Meng, Rare Survivor of Khmer Rouge Torture House, Dies at 85
Bou Meng, who was imprisoned at the notorious Khmer Rouge interrogation and torture facility Tuol Sleng, in 2009 at the prison, which became a genocide museum.
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$10 Million in Gold Found Buried Under Former Brewery in Belgium
Gold bars found at the site where a 19th-century brewery had stood in Dendermonde, Belgium. The police do not know who put the gold there, or what its fate might be.
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Syrian Convicted in Austria of Civil War Abuses Is Detained in Syria
Musab Abu Rukbah, right, and Roman Valach, one of Mr. Abu Rukbah’s lawyers, leaving a Vienna courtroom after a hearing in June.
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Iran Says Qatar Captured Its Pilots Months Ago, a Claim Qatar Rejects
Smoke rising from an Iranian missile attack in Doha, Qatar, in March.
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Israeli Strikes in Lebanon Kill 11, Health Officials Say
The aftermath of an Israeli strike in Deir al-Zahrani, a town in southern Lebanon, on Saturday.
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Quit Lit
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Canadian Petition to Expel U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra Takes Off
Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, at the embassy’s July 4 party at his official residence in Ottawa.
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How Cyclospora Evaded the U.S. Food Safety System to Sicken Thousands
Last year the Food and Drug Administration cut a program that tracked cyclospora outbreaks and delayed a rule that would have required companies to swiftly provide supply chain records in investigations of foodborne disease outbreaks.
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As China Pushes to Expand in Asia, Trump Focuses on Iran
The Sierra Madre, a Philippine naval ship, in the South China Sea in 2023. Last month, a Chinese Coast Guard vessel began circling the ship and confronted Philippine service members.
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Where Future Champions Race Against the Tide
The jockeys at Omey are young, the sponsors modest, the grand prize less than $1,000.
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Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring
Cambridge University in May. Jason Arday was hired in 2023, becoming the university’s youngest Black professor.
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At Least 47 Dead as 7.7-Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Indonesia
Damaged houses after a strong earthquake hit Indonesia early on Saturday.
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Entrenched, Embattled and Defiant, the Taliban Celebrate 5 Years in Power
Afghans celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul, Afghanistan, early on Saturday.
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Heat Deaths in a ‘Cold’ Country Are a Warning to the Rest of Europe
Treating a 77-year-old woman for heat-related illness last month at MontLégia hospital in the Belgian city of Liège.
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Wary of Trump, Europe Seeks Role in Eventual Russia-Ukraine Talks
Rescue workers at the site of a Russian strike on a residential building in Odesa, Ukraine, this week.
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As Army Fails to Protect Palestinians, Israeli Leaders Sympathize With Settlers
Israeli soldiers patrolling a street Thursday during an operation in the village of Qusra, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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When a Rare Wolf Got Too Close, Denmark Faced a Conservation Dilemma
A wild wolf in West Jutland, Denmark, last year. The return of the animals to a country with few predators has recently come under scrutiny after a wolf was spotted near a small town, apparently unafraid of people.
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A Prominent Mexican Politician Says U.S. Revoked His Visa
Andrés Manuel López Beltrán is the son of Mexico’s former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who is still a key leader of Morena, Mexico’s dominant political party.
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Britain’s Farage Takes a Page From Trump’s Playbook Amid Investigations
Nigel Farage arriving to vote in Walton-on-the-Naze, England, on Thursday.
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The Taliban Kicked the U.S. Out of Afghanistan. Now They Want It Back.
Afghanistan’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, during an interview with The New York Times in Kabul this week.
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France’s Top Court Strikes Down Ban on Social Media for Children
France’s Constitutional Council said that the ban was too wide-ranging, and did not take into account the age, maturity or family situation of children.
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Zambia Halts Presidential Election Vote Count Over Violence and Fraud Allegations
A voting station’s presiding officer holds a marked ballot during the counting process at Woodlands Primary School in Lusaka, Zambia, on Thursday.
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With Trump’s Hamas Deal in Peril, Kushner Set to Visit Israel for Gaza Talks
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s senior aide and son-in-law, at the Capitol in Washington in February.
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Heat Is Hammering Europe, Again. Here’s What That Looks Like.
A sweltering day near Tower Bridge in London on Thursday.
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8 Matisse Works, Looted from Library in Brazil, Are Recovered
A handout photo released by the São Paulo police press office showing the recovered Matisse works.
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Kevin Rideout, American Missionary Kidnapped in Niger, Is Released
Niamey, Niger, this year. U.S. officials said it was unclear which group had held the American missionary Kevin Rideout at the end of his captivity.
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Record-Breaking Rainfall Leaves Eight Dead and Thousands Stranded in Japan
Vehicles submerged on a flooded road in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, on Friday.
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Kushner Meets With Hamas to Advance Trump’s Gaza Plan
A Shooting at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto Exposes a Neighborhood’s Guns-for-Hire Network
Trump’s Overture to North Korea Strains Alliance With the South
Art Heist: 4 Antonello da Messina Paintings Stolen From Sicily
With Priests Scarce in Rural Italy, an African Pastor Is Filling the Void
Where to Eat and Drink at a Barcelona Bar Like a Local
Five Arrested in Connection to Stolen Works by Cézanne, Renoir and Matisse, Prosecutors Say