With Moves on West Bank and Gaza City, Israel Defies Global Outcry
An Israeli military vehicle on Israel’s side of the border with Gaza on Tuesday.
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on August 2025
What Russia Is Doing to Grab Ukrainian Land While It Still Can
The scene after a Russian attack near Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on Sunday. Ukrainian forces have largely pushed the Russians back from their recent gains, though the fighting remains intense.
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on August 2025
Hong Kong Government Fixates on ‘Soft Resistance’
An independent book fair in Hong Kong last month. A pro-Beijing newspaper said the fair was “full of soft-resistance intentions.”
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on August 2025
Ireland’s Last Leprechaun Whisperer Pitches TV Show
A display in Carlingford, Ireland. For many Irish, especially older ones, leprechauns should not be dismissed completely.
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on August 2025
Gazans Fear Looming Israeli Operation
An Israeli strike hits a building on Wednesday in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip.
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on August 2025
Xi Jinping Visits Tibet as Dalai Lama’s Succession Looms
Taking photos in front of a portrait of President Xi Jinping in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, in March.
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on August 2025
Syrian and Israeli Officials Meet for U.S. Brokered Talks
Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani of Syria pictured in Athens on Wednesday a day after a Paris meeting with an Israeli delegation.
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on August 2025
Russia Demands Role in Guaranteeing Ukraine’s Postwar Security
Russian soldiers in uniforms without identifying insignia in Crimea in 2014. Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine began that year with the seizure of the territory.
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on August 2025
Italians Pay Final Respects to Pippo Baudo, Their ‘King of Television’
Pippo Baudo in Verona, Italy, in 2021. He helmed some of the country’s most popular prime-time variety shows.
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on August 2025
Drone Explosion in Haiti Kills 2 SWAT Members and Injures 6 Others
Haitian police officers patrol in a suburb of Port-au-Prince earlier this month.
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on August 2025
Canada and Mexico Look to Team Up as Trump’s Tariff Threats Loom
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada in June during a summit of the Group of 7 nations in Kananaskis, Alberta.
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on August 2025
Soccer Match in Argentina Ends Early After Violence in Stands
A fan preparing to throw a an object during a soccer game in Avellaneda, Argentina, on Wednesday. The match was canceled because of the violence.
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on August 2025
Thursday Briefing: Israeli Troops Near Gaza City
An Israeli military vehicle on the Gaza border on Tuesday.
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on August 2025
Women in Indian Sports Sweat for Their Share of a Booming Market
The Sports Women Huddle was held in Mumbai this month. From left, Sharda Ugra, a sports journalist; Sania Mirza, a former tennis player; Jinisha Sharma, owner of UP Warriorz in the Women’s Premier League; Deepa Malik, a former Paralympian in shot put; P. V. Sindhu, a badminton player; and Atiqa Mir, a kart racing driver.
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on August 2025
Jair Bolsonaro Planned to Seek Asylum in Argentina, Brazil’s Police Say
Former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil is under house arrest, awaiting trial next month on charges that he plotted to stay in power after losing the 2022 election.
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Rubio Takes on Tricky Task of Drafting Security Guarantees for Ukraine
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, speaking with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, during a joint news conference in Anchorage, where President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin met for a summit on Friday.
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on August 2025
Thursday Briefing: Israel’s Planned Offensive
An Israeli military vehicle on the Gaza border on Tuesday.
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on August 2025
Israel Approves Settlements, a Blow to Faded Hopes for a Palestinian State
Israeli policemen stand guard near the settlement of Maale Adumim, in a land corridor known as E1, outside Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, last week.
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on August 2025
Trump Calls Netanyahu a ‘War Hero’ and Adds: ‘I Guess I Am, Too’
President Trump at a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in July.
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on August 2025
Why Georgia, Once on Democracy’s Vanguard, Is Drifting Toward Russia
Anti-government protests in Tbilisi, Georgia, in March 2025.
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on August 2025
Wednesday Briefing: An Uncertain Path to Peace in Ukraine
The Ukraine talks at the White House on Monday.
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on August 2025
Israel Says It Killed a Hamas Militant Involved in Yarden Bibas Kidnapping
Israeli hostage Yarden Bibas is handed over to the Red Cross as part of the hostage exchange deal between Hamas and Israel in Khan Younis, Gaza, in February.
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on August 2025
Will Putin Meet With Zelensky to End the Ukraine War?
President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage on Friday. The Russian leader “appears to have decided that the time for real diplomacy has come,” one analyst said.
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on August 2025
Wednesday Briefing: An Uncertain Path to Peace in Ukraine
The Ukraine talks at the White House on Monday.
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on August 2025
Without U.S. Troops in Ukraine, Would a 'Security Guarantee’ Deter Russia?
President Trump and Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, in Scotland, in July. Mr. Starmer has talked about assembling a force drawn from a “coalition of the willing” to maintain security in a postwar Ukraine.
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on August 2025
How Europe Learned to Speak So Trump Would Listen
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine with President Trump and European leaders at the White House on Monday.
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on August 2025
Once a Source of Life and Renewal, Monsoon Brings Death to Pakistan
The funeral for Abdul Samad’s mother in Beshonai, a village in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan, on Monday.
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on August 2025
A ‘Dexter’ Obsessed Man Highlights a Gap in British Law
A screen grab from security camera footage released by the Thames Valley Police showed Jacob Power inside The White Hart Inn in Hamstead Marshall, England, in November.
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on August 2025
No Tariff Exemption for European Wine and Spirits, at Least for Now
As the United States and the European Union move closer to a final trade agreement, it looks like alcohol will be subject to a 15 percent tariff.
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on August 2025
Mexico’s President Denies New D.E.A. Partnership Against Cartels
Mexican Marines guarded the scene of a murder in June on the outskirts of Culiacán, the stronghold of the Sinaloa cartel.
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on August 2025
Russia Keeps Rejecting Idea of Western Peacekeepers in Ukraine
NATO forces participating in “Exercise Steadfast Dart 2025” in southeastern Romania in February.
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on August 2025
How Do You Move a Hundred-Year-Old Church? On Wheels, Very Slowly.
On a specially designed trolley with 224 wheels, Kiruna Church being moved for relocation in Kiruna, Sweden, on Tuesday.
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on August 2025
Macron Calls Putin an ‘Ogre at Our Doorstep’
President Emmanuel Macron of France arriving at the White House to support President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine during talks with President Trump on Monday in Washington.
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on August 2025
Sabotage Shows How Russia’s Hostility Toward Europe Goes Beyond Ukraine
Crews conduct reconnaissance near Karlskrona, Sweden, this year as part of a NATO mission aimed at securing critical underwater infrastructure.
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on August 2025
What to Know About Deforested Wood and the R.V. Industry
A logging operation in West Kalimantan Province, in Indonesian Borneo last year.
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on August 2025
The Rainforests Being Cleared to Build Your R.V.
In recent years, tens of thousands of acres of forest have been razed in Indonesian Borneo, including this logging operation in November.
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on August 2025
Relief in Ukraine as Zelensky Avoids Disaster in Washington
President Trump with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at the White House on Monday.
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on August 2025
Netanyahu Faces Pressure From Far Right Over New Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire Proposal
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, center, relies on the support of far right ministers to maintain the stability of his government.
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on August 2025
Europe’s Leaders Headed Off Giveaway to Putin, but Emerged Without a Clear Path
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and other European leaders met with President Trump at the White House on Monday.
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on August 2025
Securing Postwar Ukraine, Even With Trump’s Pledge to Help, Is Complex
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Trump in the Oval Office in Washington, on Monday.
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on August 2025
After Defying Back-to-Work Orders, Air Canada Employees Reach Tentative Deal
Air Canada says the strike has disrupted about half a million travelers’ plans.
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on August 2025
Young People of Color Flocked to This Show. It Made Them Feel Seen.
Visitors to the exhibition added messages to a wall display labeled “Dream suburbs” in which they expressed desires for things like less racism and less violence.
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on August 2025
What to Know About the Protests Outside U.K. Hotels Housing Asylum Seekers
A protest this month outside a London hotel housing asylum seekers. The British government has a legal obligation to provide accommodation for asylum seekers who would otherwise be homeless.
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on August 2025
Monsoon Rains Bring Mumbai to a Standstill
A Huge Cave in Kentucky Was a Smelly Disaster. Now It’s Spectacular.
Dusky Gopher Frogs Are Making a Comeback in Mississippi
Why Shop? In Maine, the Library of Things Has It All (Almost)
More Than 70 Afghans Returning From Iran Die in Fiery Bus Crash
Unregulated Sexual Stimulants Flood West Africa
African Union Endorses Call to Abandoned the Mercator Map