Dozens Are Killed at Aid Site Near Border, Gaza Health Officials Say
Palestinians mourning their relatives at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday.
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A Kite Surfer, Navy SEAL and Makeup Artist: Freed in a U.S.-Venezuela Swap
Venezuelan migrants who were jailed in El Salvador arrived at Simon Bolivar International Airport, outside Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, on Friday.
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Calls for Japan’s Leader to Resign as His Party Faces Election Defeat
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan, center left, after the parliamentary elections at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday.
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The K-Pop Band Big Ocean Is Making Waves With Sign Language
The members of Big Ocean (from left), Kim Ji-seok, Park Hyun-jin and Lee Chan-yeon, in Seoul in 2024.
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Typhoon Wipha Pounds Hong Kong and Macau With Rain and Wind
Fallen trees on top of a car in Hong Kong on Sunday.
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China Exit Ban on Wells Fargo Executive Stokes Foreign Business Anxiety
A Wells Fargo branch in New York City. Wells Fargo is one of six global banks that dominate the processing of dollar-denominated payments for China’s exports and imports.
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Syria Declares Cease-Fire After a Week of Upheaval
An aerial view of Sweida, Syria, on Saturday.
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Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building.
Chen Tianming’s house, which evokes a Dr. Seuss drawing, has drawn gawkers to his rural corner of Guizhou Province, in southwestern China.
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At Least 28 Dead After Tourist Boat Capsizes in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay
A tourist boat capsized on Saturday in Ha Long Bay, in Vietnam’s Quang Ninh Province, northeast of Hanoi.
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Japan Election 2025: What to Know
Supporters putting up election campaign posters this month on a bulletin board in Tokyo.
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on July 2025
South Korea Pulls Report Into Jeju Air Crash After Victims’ Families Protest
Firefighters and investigators at the scene of the deadly Jeju Air crash in Muan, South Korea, in December.
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on July 2025
They Vanished in Syria’s Long Occupation of Lebanon. Now Their Families Want Answers.
Family members looking for any signs of missing relatives in the Sednaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, in December.
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on July 2025
The Pelicot Trial Returns, This Time to the Stage
“The Pelicot Trial,” at the Avignon Festival in southern France, on Friday night.
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Passenger Ship Fire Kills at Least 3 People in Indonesia
In this photo made from a video released by Indonesia’s rescue agency, a rescue ship approaches the KM Barcelona 5 after it caught fire on Sunday.
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As Trump Courts a More Assertive Beijing, China Hawks Are Losing Out
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, left, and Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, second from right, meeting with Chinese officials in Geneva in May.
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on July 2025
Gaza Health Ministry Says Israeli Military Killed 32 Near Aid Site
Mourners at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Saturday with the bodies of two people killed near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site.
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Open Season
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Russia Makes Gains in Ukraine in Summer Offensive
Army recruitment advertisements in Moscow last month. To bolster recruitment, Russia is offering outsize sign-up bonuses and salaries.
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on July 2025
An Ancient Law Could Shape the Modern Future of America’s Beaches. Here’s How.
Coastal walls built to protect homes from the sea in San Clemente, Calif.
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Sohei Kamiya Brings Trump-Style Populism to Japan’s Election
Sohei Kamiya, the leader of an upstart right-wing political party called Sanseito, delivering a campaign speech this month at Takasaki Station in Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo.
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Rubio Restricts U.S. Criticism of Tainted Foreign Elections
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a department cable that public comments on foreign elections “should be brief, focused on congratulating the winning candidate and, when appropriate, noting shared foreign policy interests.”
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on July 2025
Cuban Minister Resigns After Accusing Beggars of Faking Poverty
Cuban Minister of Labour and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, in 2023.
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on July 2025
Felix Baumgartner, Skydiver Who Jumped From the Edge of Space, Dies Paragliding at 56
En 2003, Baumgartner aterrizó en Calais, Francia, tras cruzar volando el canal de la Mancha con un ala de fibra de carbono.
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Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Former President, Ordered to Wear Ankle Monitor Before Trial
Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, outside the Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration on Friday. Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered him to stay away from foreign embassies because it fears he could flee justice.
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Floods and Heavy Rain Kill Dozens in Pakistan
A flooded village in northern Pakistan on Thursday.
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UK, France and Germany Plan for a Post-U.S. Future
From left: President Emmanuel Macron of France, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain and Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany at a summit in Tirana, Albania, in May.
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Who Are the Druse? The Religious Minority at the Center of Israel and Syria’s Tensions
Clerics praying during a funeral for people killed during clashes between Druse fighters and Bedouin tribes in Sweida, Syria, on Monday.
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on July 2025
Extra! Extra! Read All About Last Newspaper Hawker in Paris
Ali Akbar, 72, has been hawking newspapers in the streets of Paris for more than a half-century.
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on July 2025
Musk Clears Final Hurdles for Tesla and Starlink in India
The first Tesla showroom in India, in Mumbai, on Tuesday.
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on July 2025
Iran’s Fordo Nuclear Site Was Badly Damaged by U.S. Strikes, New Assessment Finds
A satellite image of the Iranian nuclear facility at Fordo after the U.S. attacks last month.
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on July 2025
5 Charged in U.C. Berkeley Professor’s Killing in Greece, Including His Ex-Wife
An image from video showing police officers arresting five people over the killing of a University of California, Berkeley, professor in a suburb of Athens.
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Friday Briefing: Bloodshed in a Syrian City
Syrian security forces in Sweida on Wednesday.
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on July 2025
‘Bonjour’ Sets Off a Linguistic Dispute on a Belgian Train
Commuters at a train station in Leuven, Belgium, in 2022. Language rules in the Flanders region can get complicated.
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on July 2025
Blood in the Streets and Death in the Air: Residents Survey Damage in Syrian City
Buildings that were burned and looted near Sweida, Syria, on Tuesday.
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on July 2025
Israeli Strike on a Gaza Church Kills Three
Transporting a person who was injured in the strike on the Holy Family Catholic Church to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Thursday.
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on July 2025
The UK Plans to Lower the Voting Age to 16. Here’s What to Know.
A polling station in Brighton and Hove in England last year. Britain has set the minimum voting age for general elections at 18 since 1969.
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on July 2025
Prominent Human Rights Group Flees El Salvador
Ruth López, the anti-corruption director of Cristosal, leaving a courthouse in June, following her May arrest.
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on July 2025
Rescuers Seek American Hiker Missing for Days in the Pyrenees
Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, in the Pyrenees mountains of Spain.
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Prince Harry Follows Diana’s Footsteps in Angola as Specter of Land Mines Returns
Prince Harry, left, walking through a minefield in Cuito Cuanavale, Angola, on Wednesday, in a photo released by The Halo Trust. He repeated the journey that his mother, Diana, took in 1997.
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on July 2025
They Grew Up on Mexican Coke. Trump’s Cane Sugar Plan Makes Them Uneasy.
A Coca-Cola truck driving through Izamal, Mexico, last year.
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on July 2025
Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s Decade of Legal Woes Ends
Lee Jae-yong, the chairman of Samsung Electronics, arriving for a court appearance in Seoul in February.
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on July 2025
Why Israel Attacked Syria
An Israeli airstrike damaged the entrance to Syria’s defense ministry headquarters on Wednesday.
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on July 2025
Syria’s President Condemns Israeli Strikes on Damascus
Debris in Damascus, the Syrian capital, on Wednesday, after an Israeli strike.
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on July 2025
Trump’s Brazil Tariff Threats Rekindle Support for President Lula
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil has seen a surge in popularity after confronting President Trump over tariffs.
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on July 2025
Iraq Shopping Mall Fire Kills at Least 61
The shopping center in Kut, Iraq, on Thursday after the blaze.
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on July 2025
Lauren Southern, Former Right-Wing Commentator, Says Andrew Tate Assaulted Her
Lauren Southern in 2018 during a right-wing rally in Sydney in support of white South African farmers.
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on July 2025
Thursday Briefing: Israel Strikes Damascus
Debris in Damascus yesterday, after an Israeli missile strike.
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China’s Aircraft Carriers Push Into Waters Long Dominated by U.S.
Fighter jets could be seen on the flight deck of China’s first domestically built aircraft carrier, the Shandong, as it was anchored in Hong Kong this month.
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Germany’s Merz and UK’s Starmer Sign Mutual Defense Pact as U.S. Steps Back
The Anglo-German accord, signed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain and Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, covers energy, economic cooperation and migration, in addition to defense.
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on July 2025
K-Beauty Fans Stock up on Cosmetics After Trump’s Tariff Threat
Shoppers at an Olive Young store in Seoul in April.
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on July 2025
A Rescue Center for Small Wild Animals Looks to Place a Blind Moose Calf
Interior Dept. to Put Wind and Solar Projects Through Stricter Political Review
Even as Air-Raid Sirens Blare, Ukrainians Wait for the Light to Change
Friday Briefing: Trump’s Order on Epstein Records