After Decades of Hostility, Israeli-Syrian Relations Begin to Thaw
An Israeli military vehicle driving in March along the buffer zone separating Israeli and Syrian forces in the Golan Heights.
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South Korea Returns Stranded North Korean Fishermen
South Korea’s Unification Ministry released this photo, which it said showed fishermen returning to North Korean waters on Wednesday.
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on July 2025
French Police Raid National Rally Over Campaign Finances
Jordan Bardella, the National Rally’s president, accused the French authorities of harassment and called the raid a threat to “pluralism and democratic change.”
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on July 2025
Wildfire on Edge of Marseille Injures More Than 100, Officials Say
People look on near the Plage des Corbieres, on the outskirts of Marseille in southern France on Tuesday.
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on July 2025
Ukrainians Are Cautiously Optimistic After Trump Says U.S. Will Send More Military Aid
Damage after a Russian missile attack in Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine, last month.
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on July 2025
With a Nobel Prize Nomination, Netanyahu Is the Latest to Use Flattery to Woo Trump
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents President Donald Trump a letter nominating him for Nobel Peace Prize as they meet for dinner at the White House on Monday.
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on July 2025
Wildfires Scar Syria Anew
Emergency responders with the Syrian Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets, near the town of Rabia, in the Latakia countryside of Syria, late Sunday.
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on July 2025
Canadian Armed Group Charged in Plot to Seize Quebec Land
As part of a terrorism investigation, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police released a photo showing people engaged in military-style training.
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on July 2025
I.C.C. Seeks Arrests of Taliban Leaders Over Persecution of Women
A woman walking past an abandoned military outpost near Ghazni, Afghanistan, in December 2021.
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on July 2025
How Do Israel and Hamas Negotiate in Qatar?
Displaced Palestinians at a tent camp in Gaza City last month. Officials from Israel and Hamas have been negotiating for a possible cease-fire.
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on July 2025
The Mexican Businessman Grateful for Trump’s Tariffs
Jorge H. Martínez, the owner of Micro Partes, at his factory in Monterrey, Mexico.
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on July 2025
Umbrellas Optional? East Asia’s Monsoon Rains Are No Longer a Sure Thing
Seoul in June, when the rainy season would typically begin.
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on July 2025
Philadelphia Public Workers Reach Deal to End Strike
A garbage collection site in Philadelphia last week during the municipal workers’ strike.
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on July 2025
Guatemala Closes Schools in Capital After Earthquakes
Office workers and security personnel standing in the street in Guatemala City after an earthquake on Tuesday.
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on July 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Rare Earths, Made in Europe?
A rare earths factory in La Rochelle, France.
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on July 2025
Research Suggests Climate Change Added Excess Deaths in European Heat Wave
The sun rising in Paris on July 1, when temperatures in the city hit 99 degrees Fahrenheit.
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on July 2025
Trump’s Frustration With Putin Preceded Resumption of U.S. Weapons to Ukraine
Ukrainian rescue workers carry the body of a victim of a Russian air bombing from an apartment building in Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, last month.
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on July 2025
Antigovernment Protests Erupt Across Kenya, Killing Dozens
Protesters at a barricade in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday.
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on July 2025
The Bayeux Tapestry, a British Masterpiece, Returns to England After 900 Years
The Bayeux Tapestry, a large embroidery that chronicles the Norman Conquest of England, on display in Bayeux, France. It will be shown at the British Museum in London from September 2026 to July 2027.
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on July 2025
U.S. Botched a Deal to Swap Venezuelans in El Salvador for American Prisoners
Inmates at the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a maximum-security prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in March.
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on July 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Rare Earths, Made in Europe?
A rare earths factory in La Rochelle, France.
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on July 2025
What Is a Trade Deal? Trump Takes an Expansive View.
In a cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday, President Trump used the term “deal” to refer to arrangements that other countries had not consented to at all.
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on July 2025
Royal Family Welcomes President Macron to UK for State Visit With Pomp and Pizazz
King Charles speaking at the state banquet for Emmanuel Macron, president of France, at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.
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on July 2025
Marco Rubio Impersonation Under State Dept. Investigation
The person or people impersonating Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent messages to at least five people outside the State Department.
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on July 2025
Attack on Cargo Ship in the Red Sea Kills 2 Crew Members
The Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Eternity C in Split, Croatia, in 2023. It was attacked on Monday.
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on July 2025
The Wild Russian Plot to Burn a London Restaurant and Kidnap Its Owner
Hide, a Michelin-starred restaurant in London, was the target of an arson plot directed by Russian operatives.
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on July 2025
Wildfires Burn Across Europe After Blistering Heat Wave
A fire in Narbonne, southern France, on Monday. More than 1,000 firefighters have been working to bring the blaze under control.
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on July 2025
Man Dies at Milan Airport After Being Sucked Into Jet Engine, Official Says
Flight operations were temporarily suspended at Milan Bergamo Airport on Tuesday morning, officials said.
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on July 2025
Norman Tebbit, Consertavive Force in Britain and Thatcher Ally, Dies at 94
Mr. Tebbit with Mrs. Thatcher in 1987, waving to supporters from the Conservative Party headquarters in London, after claiming victory in the general election.
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on July 2025
Trump Wants to Close the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
The site of a nitrogen leak in Georgia that killed six workers in 2021. The federal investigative team that determined the cause could face Trump administration cuts.
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on July 2025
Land Mines, a Cold War Horror, Could Return to Fortify Europe’s Borders
A demining team clearing a field in 2023 in Makariv, Ukraine, an area near Kyiv that was occupied by Russian forces during the early months of the war.
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on July 2025
Deadly Flash Floods Sweep Away Nepal-China Bridge
Damage caused by flooding on the Bhotekoshi River, north of Kathmandu, Nepal, on Tuesday.
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on July 2025
The French Seaside Factory Trying to Break China’s Chokehold on Rare Earths
A rare earth factory in La Rochelle, France, owned by the Belgium-based company Solvay. The plant produces crucial materials needed to produce modern cars, wind turbines and military equipment.
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on July 2025
5 Israeli Soldiers Killed in Gaza, Military Says
Israeli military vehicles in the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
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on July 2025
What to Know About P.O.W.s in Myanmar’s Brutal Civil War
New recruits of the Bamar People’s Liberation Army during their first day of training in 2024.
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on July 2025
Haiti’s Landmark Oloffson Hotel is Destroyed in an Apparent Arson Fire
The Oloffson Hotel, an example of gingerbread house architecture, was constructed in the late 19th century as a private home and played a key role in Graham Greene’s novel “The Comedians.”
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on July 2025
As Renewed U.S. Tariffs Loom, Emerging Economies Turn to One Another
The BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro on Monday. The group issued a thinly-veiled rebuke of President Trump’s tariff battle.
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on July 2025
Why Are Protesters in Mexico City Angry at Remote Workers?
A protester lighting an aerosol can during a march against gentrification in Mexico City on Friday.
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on July 2025
Trump and Netanyahu Meet Amid Gaza Cease-Fire Negotiations
President Trump meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for dinner at the White House on Monday.
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on July 2025
Von der Leyen Faces No-Confidence Vote in Far-Right Challenge
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission’s president, speaking before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Monday.
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on July 2025
Iran Carries Out Mass Expulsion of Afghan Refugees
Returnees cross the border from Iran into Islam Qala, Afghanistan on Thursday.
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on July 2025
Trump Revives Trade War, Threatening Steep Aug. 1 Tariffs on Allies
President Trump is continuing to impose or threaten tariffs on Japan’s and South Korea’s major exports, including cars, steel and electronics.
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on July 2025
Trump Administration Ends Deportation Protections for Hondurans and Nicaraguans
Immigration advocates attending a vigil outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Miami in June 2023.
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on July 2025
Russia Confirms Death of Minister Hours After Kremlin Dismissed Him
Roman Starovoyt, the Russian transport minister, arriving for a meeting at the Kremlin in May.
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on July 2025
‘Hallmarks of Institutional Racism’ Found in Police Killing of Kumanjayi Walker
The coroner read her findings before residents in a dusty courtyard lined with gum trees, just a few streets away from the red-walled house belonging to the victim’s grandmother, where he was killed.
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on July 2025
What’s at Stake as Netanyahu and Trump Meet in Washington
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s Parliament last month. Mr. Netanyahu will meet with President Trump this week in Washington.
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on July 2025
Indonesia Volcano Eruption Sends Ash Soaring 11 Miles High
A handout photo from the Indonesian government showing Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupting on Monday.
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on July 2025
Trump Keeps Foreign Countries on Edge as Tariff Deadline Nears
President Trump plans to impose tariffs on some of America’s largest trading partners on Aug. 1.
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on July 2025
Canada Shipping Natural Gas to Asia as It Looks Beyond the US for Trade
The Gaslog Glasgow tanker in Kitimat, British Columbia, last month. It set off for South Korea this week with Canada’s first major shipment of liquefied natural gas to Asia.
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on July 2025
Ukraine Turns to Fishing Nets to Catch Russian Drones
Nets, erected over the road to protect against armed Russian drones, standing along a highway on the outskirts of the mostly abandoned city of Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, in June.
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on July 2025
Tuesday Briefing: Trump’s New Tariff Threats
Macron’s U.K. State Visit: Migrants and the War in Ukraine Are on the Agenda
Tuesday Briefing: Trump’s New Tariff Threats
Here Are Trump’s New Tariff Threats