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“Inability to act is the real challenge for all democratic systems,” Fiona Hill said. “Populism offers quick fixes for extraordinarily difficult problems.”

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Forensic police working last month at the site where the bodies of a mother and child were discovered in a park in Rome.

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Chancellor Christian Stocker of Austria in Vienna this month. The principle of neutrality, he said, “obligates us to national defense, comprehensive national defense in particular.”

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A march during a Tasua mourning ceremony in Tehran, Iran, this month.

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Mourners after Israeli troops opened fire on people trying to get aid north of Gaza City on Sunday.

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In a screen grab taken from a handout video provided by the United Nations, Jonathan Whittall is shown standing near a destroyed hospital in Gaza in 2024.

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Firefighters and soldiers next to the wreckage of a military aircraft after it crashed into a school campus in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Monday.

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U.S. dollar bills and Venezuelan bolívars. Though the bolívar is Venezuela’s official currency, the country operates on a dual-currency system, and many people paid in bolívars spend in dollars.

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An employee at Ukrainian Armor working on a vehicle in its factory this month in central Ukraine.

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A family outside a pediatric hospital in Beijing, China, in July.

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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan and other leaders of the Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Monday, a day after the party’s defeat in parliamentary elections.

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The European Union Headquarters in Brussels. President Trump’s pressure on military spending and trade have led some member states to work more closely together.

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The site of the Jeju Air plane crash at Muan International Airport, South Korea, in 2024.

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The damage left after torrential rain in Gapyeong, South Korea, on Monday.

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A view over Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on Monday after Israeli strikes. During the war against Hamas, Israeli troops have swept through much of the territory.

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A different F-35 fighter jet at an air show in Bengaluru, India, earlier this year.

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A search and rescue operation yesterday at the crash site in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Erin Lim, second from right, and Tommy Kim in their bedroom with their sons in Seoul this month.

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A search and rescue operation yesterday at the crash site in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Fires at Tatkin Lake in British Columbia, Canada, in July 2023.

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The Commerce Department employee is one of a handful of Americans barred by China from leaving the country, in a shadowy practice called an “exit ban” that the Chinese government has used for years.

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A ship chartered by The Metals Company in 2021 to explore the potential of seabed mining.

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Bedouin tribe members, evacuating in the back of a truck, stopped at a security checkpoint in Taarah, in Syria’s southern Sweida Province, on Monday.

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Walking by a mural of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, right, and Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of the Islamic revolution, in Tehran.

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Workers in training at the new Great Wall Motors factory in Iracemápolis, Brazil.

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A damaged metro station on Monday after a strike in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Palestinian mourners in Gaza City yesterday.

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A shipping terminal in the city of Chongqing, which connects China with countries in Europe and elsewhere.

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Palestinian mourners in Gaza City yesterday.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine’s proposal to revive peace talks came after President Trump agreed to facilitate the transfer of air defense weapons to Ukraine and threatened to impose sanctions on Russia’s trading partners.

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Jean-Pierre Azéma in 2011. A French historian and writer, he helped destroy the postwar myths that the collaborationist wartime Vichy regime had done what it could to resist the occupying Germans.

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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan, center left, vowed to stay in office despite the poor showing by his Liberal Democratic Party, which has led Japan for all but five of the last 70 years.

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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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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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Palestinians mourning at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday.

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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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Fallen trees on top of a car in Hong Kong on Sunday.

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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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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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A tourist boat capsized on Saturday in Ha Long Bay, in Vietnam’s Quang Ninh Province, northeast of Hanoi.

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Firefighters and investigators at the scene of the deadly Jeju Air crash in Muan, South Korea, in December.

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An aerial view of Sweida, Syria, on Saturday.

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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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Ava Potten is in charge of bottle-feeding Cedar.

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Army recruitment advertisements in Moscow last month. To bolster recruitment, Russia is offering outsize sign-up bonuses and salaries.

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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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Coastal walls built to protect homes from the sea in San Clemente, Calif.

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The Liberal Democratic Party, led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, seen standing, is now a minority party in both houses of Japan’s Parliament.

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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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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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