As El Niño Dries Indonesia, Wildfires Intensify
A firefighter battles a wildfire in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra, Indonesia, earlier this month. This fire season, the country has had an unusually high number of hot spots, according to one estimate.
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UK Prime Minister Burnham Arrives in Ukraine as Russia Amps Up Warnings
Prime Minister Andy Burnham of Britain on Monday at the tomb of the unknown soldier at Ukraine’s national military memorial cemetery in Hatne, southwest of Kyiv.
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Some of Russia’s A.I. Drones Are Powered by Nvidia Microcomputers, Ukrainian Officials Say
A Nvidia Jetson Orin minicomputer that Ukrainian officials say was found in an autonomous drone that Russia recently tested in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
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U.S. Marines Cancel Drill With South Korea, Citing Iran War Demands
South Korean marines participate in the Ssangyong, or “Twin Dragons,” exercise in Pohang, South Korea, in 2024.
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Syria and Israel Hold U.S.-Mediated Talks to Try to Ease Tensions
The Abu al-Duhur air base in northwestern Syria last week after Israeli strikes.
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Echoing Trump, Latin America’s Leaders Boost Allies Across Borders
President Javier Milei of Argentina, left, with Flávio Bolsonaro, who hopes to be Brazil’s next president, last month. Mr. Milei’s strident support of Mr. Bolsonaro’s candidacy led to a rift with the current Brazilian president.
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Iran Warns Gulf States Not to Join Trump’s Economic War
Mohsen Rezaei, Iran’s new security chief, last month in Tehran. Though hostilities have largely ceased, the United States and Iran are locked in an economic standoff.
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Zelensky Says His Ex-Defense Minister Was Wrong to Call for Elections
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine this month in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has.
Nicole Suszek last month with a phone showing a missing-person poster for her older brother, Sylwester Suszek.
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What to Know About the Ebola Outbreak Centered in Congo
Health workers disinfected a morgue and prepared to bury a probable Ebola victim in Rwampara, Democratic Republic of Congo, earlier this month.
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Iceland’s Murder Rate Is Off the Charts — in Its Books, at Least
Crime novels on display in a bookstore in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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The Price of Bread
A combine harvester in Seeluebbe, Germany, this month.
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A Murder Trial in Massachusetts
A close-up of Lindsay Clancy in court on Friday.
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U.S.-Canada Trade War: What to Know About Tariffs and the Negotiations
In a powerful speech on Saturday, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said the country was under attack by President Trump’s tariffs and “at war” with the United States.
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The World’s Breadbaskets Are Getting Pounded by War, Weather and Trade Spats
A combine harvester threshing wheat in a field in Seeluebbe, Germany, this month. Yields in the country are down for several crops, including wheat, because of drought and heat.
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Trump’s Top Trade Representative Details Offer That Canada Rejected
Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said Canada would have been given the most preferential treatment of any trading partner.
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Carney Slams U.S.-Canada Trade Proposal and Vows Retaliation
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said that he had pulled negotiators out of trade talks with the United States because the Trump administration had “asked too much and offered too little.”
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Waking Up to an Escalating Canada-U.S. Trade War
Dominic LeBlanc and Janice Charette at the Canadian Embassy in Washington in June.
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What Does Harry and Meghan’s Return to England Mean for Their Children?
A view of Eton College, the boarding school that both Harry and his brother, William, attended.
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Carney Stands Up to Trump in U.S.-Canada Trade War
Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, said on Saturday that “Canada is becoming stronger and less dependent on America.”
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Lebanon’s Efforts to Tame Hezbollah Stall Amid Israel War
A demonstration showing support for Hezbollah and opposition to the decision of Lebanese authorities to engage in direct negotiations with Israel, in Beirut in April.
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Yvette Roudy, France’s First Minister for Women’s Rights, Dies at 97
Yvette Roudy in 2006. After her death, President Emmanuel Macron of France saluted her for “a life spent making equality between men and women a real right” and for her “untiring capacity for indignation.”
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How Two British Historians Made a Smash Hit Podcast
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland last month at Hampton Court Palace in southwest London. The podcast they began during the pandemic now gets about 30 million downloads and streams a month.
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How a Trump Envoy Uses Vodka and Dirty Jokes to Conduct U.S. Diplomacy
John Coale, the U.S. special envoy to Belarus, was on hand last year in Lithuania for the arrival of released prisoners from Belarus.
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Cities Compete in Dizzying ‘Gold Rush’ to Be Japan’s Backup Capital
Looking out across the city of Sapporo, in Hokkaido, Japan.
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Close and Loving, or Oppressive? A Novelist Takes Aim at Italian Families.
Andrea Bajani in Rome last year. An English translation of his best-selling novel, “The Anniversary,” will be published on Tuesday.
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Canada-U.S. Trade War Escalates as Talks Collapse
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said he suspended the trade talks because the American side introduced last-minute terms that ”called into question the reliability of any deal.”
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Mexican Governor, Accused by U.S. of Helping Cartel, Returns to His Job
Rubén Rocha Moya, the governor of Sinaloa state, during an annual earthquake drill in Culiacán, Mexico, in 2024.
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Turkey Requests Netanyahu’s Arrest, Saying Israel Abused Flotilla Activists
A flotilla of about 50 boats carrying humanitarian aid departed Marmaris, Turkey, in May, intending to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Israeli forces boarded the boats and detained 400 people.
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5 Deportees Are Flown by US to Equatorial Guinea After they Resist Deplaning in Liberia
The Bamy Hotel, where migrants are held, in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
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Zambia’s Democratic Facade Fractures in Post-Election Crackdown
Zambian police officers watched as supporters of President-elect Hakainde Hichilema celebrated his victory in the street in the capital, Lusaka, on Tuesday.
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Swiss Tourist Sentenced to Prison After Violating ‘Day of Silence’ in Bali
Luzian Andrin Zgraggen in court in Denpasar, Indonesia, on Thursday.
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Mark Zuckerberg Buys an Irish Castle
Strancally Castle in Waterford, Ireland, was built around 1830 and renovated in the early 2000s. It now belongs to Mark Zuckerberg.
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Germany Identifies a Plot After Finding a Weapons Cache, but Names No Culprit
“This case shows that we are working on the assumption that the risk level is high,” Alexander Dobrindt, the German interior minister, said at a news conference on Friday.
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Canada-U.S. Tariff Talks Continue as Trump’s Midnight Deadline Looms
The ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario. President Trump hit the Canadian steel industry with tariffs of up to 50 percent last year.
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Prince Harry, Elton John and Others Told to Pay Daily Mail Publisher $13 Million
Prince Harry leaving the Royal Courts of Justice in London during his trial against Associated Newspapers in January.
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‘They’re Always Going to Be Polarizing’: Britons Split on Harry and Meghan’s Return
Prince Harry and Meghan during a visit to Australia earlier this year.
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In China’s Biggest Car Recall, Tesla and 8 Others Will Address Door Safety
China is requiring nine automakers to take measures to improve the reliability of retractable door handles popular on electric vehicles.
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Palestinian Teenager Killed After Israeli Settlers Enter West Bank Village
Mourners with the body of Kareem Shlaldeh at a hospital in the West Bank city of Hebron, on Friday.
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Why China Thinks It Can Resist Trump’s Economic Threats on Iran
Oil storage tanks and facilities in Shanghai in March. China has large stockpiles of oil that make it less vulnerable to energy supply disruptions.
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Iran Must Plan to Overcome U.S. Sanctions After Trump’s ‘Economic D-Day’ Threats, Tehran Official Says
In Tehran last month. Before the latest round of sanctions was announced, Iranians were already contending with sky-high inflation and other economic hardships.
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Giorgia Meloni Has a Lot to Say: The Takeaways
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy.
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Muslim Charity in Britain Faces Scrutiny for Possible Links to Hamas
Marking Eid at an event organized in association with Al-Khair Foundation in London in 2017.
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England’s Ancient Trees Are Dying in the Heat
The Major Oak at Sherwood Forest Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire, England, in May.
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Giorgia Meloni Cuts the Hard Right a Path to Power
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at Palazzo Chigi in Rome last month.
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Rare South American Diseases Offer Clues on the Next Pandemic
Preparing a dose of the Candid #1 vaccine against Argentine hemorrhagic fever at Carrasco Hospital in Rosario, Argentina.
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At 77, She Walked 9 Miles Under Drone-Filled Skies to Escape From ‘Hell’
Nina Ivanova at an evacuation center in Sloviansk, Ukraine. She and her daughters took their chances on the road, as countless Ukrainians have done before them all along the front line.
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Iran Cracks Down on One Luxury Left to Its Youth: Coffee Shops
Mexican Governor Accused by U.S. of Aiding Cartel Leaves Office, Again
A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.
A Chinese Robot Beat Usain Bolt’s 100-Meter Record. Should We Be Impressed?
What Canadian Goods Will Take Trump’s 50% Tariffs? Some Pretty Strange Items.
Someone Was Impersonating Collien Fernandes Online. She Says It Was Her Husband.