From Triumph in Iran to Starvation in Gaza: Netanyahu Squanders His Moment to Halt the War
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in Jerusalem in July.
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A Weakened Hezbollah Resists Pressure to Give Up Its Weapons
Hezbollah supporters in late June in the group’s stronghold of Dahiya on the southern outskirts of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.
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What’s It Like to Deal With Brutal U.S. Tariffs? Ask Malaysia.
Kuala Lumpur. Over the last decade, Malaysia rose to become one of the world’s biggest makers of solar panels, but only two solar panel makers remain today.
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on August 2025
No Passports, No Study Abroad: China Limits Public Employees’ Travel
Candidates lining up for a civil service exam in Nanjing, China, last year.
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on August 2025
Ukraine Announces Arrests Targeting Corruption in Military Procurement
A protest in Kyiv, Ukraine, last week against legislation stripping the independence of anti-corruption agencies.
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on August 2025
Sykes-Picot, the 109-Year-Old Pact That Looms Over French and British Moves to Recognize a Palestinian State
Speaking at the United Nations on Tuesday, Britain’s foreign secretary, David Lammy, evoked Britain’s role in the creation of Israel.
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on August 2025
New Zealand Woman Arrested After Toddler Discovered in Suitcase
An Intercity bus preparing to depart from Timaru, New Zealand.
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on August 2025
Putin Widens Effort to Control Russia’s Internet
A new state-sanctioned messenger service, MAX, will come preinstalled by law on all new smartphones sold in Russia starting in September.
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on August 2025
India Will Buy Russian Oil Despite Trump’s Threats, Officials Say
An oil refinery in Guwahati, India, in 2023. Russia is the source of more than one-third of India’s oil imports.
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on August 2025
Monday Briefing: An ‘All or Nothing’ Gaza Deal
A protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday to call for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza.
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on August 2025
He Survived the Khmer Rouge and Built a Musical Legacy
Kong Nay teaching the chapei dang veng, a long-necked lute, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 2003.
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on August 2025
Oasis Fan Dies in Apparent Fall at Wembley
Oasis fans arriving for a concert last month at Wembley Stadium, where Saturday night’s death occurred.
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on August 2025
Monday Briefing: An ‘All or Nothing’ Gaza Deal
A protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday to call for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza.
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on August 2025
More Than 60 Migrants Dead After Boat Capsizes Off the Coast of Yemen
The Gulf of Aden seen from Sirah Island, Yemen. Crossing the gulf is the first step in one of the world’s most dangerous journeys for migrants. Tens of thousands attempted the trip last year.
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on August 2025
Sandra Grimes, Who Helped Unmask a C.I.A. Traitor, Dies at 79
Sandra Grimes in 2013. She had planned to retire from the C.I.A. in 1991, but stayed on to help track down a traitor.
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on August 2025
U.S. and Israeli Officials Float Idea of ‘All or Nothing’ Gaza Deal
Protesters in Tel Aviv demanding an immediate end to the war and the release of all hostages held in Gaza.
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on August 2025
Storm Floris Is Set to Hit UK With Powerful Winds and Heavy Rain
The U.K. Met Office issued warnings for strong winds across much of the country for Monday.
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on August 2025
With Festivities and Papal Prayer, the Vatican Aims to Attract the Young
Pope Leo XIV arriving at the festival in a Roman suburb on Saturday evening, the culmination of the Vatican’s six-day celebration of youth in the church.
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on August 2025
A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia
Firefighters in British Columbia say they believe a brush fire started after an osprey dropped a fish onto a set of power lines on Wednesday.
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on August 2025
Protesters in Thailand Denounce Prime Minister After Clashes With Cambodia
A rally in Bangkok on Saturday calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra of Thailand.
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on August 2025
What Do Trump’s Tariff Hikes Mean for Canada’s Trade-Dependent Economy?
Tiff Macklem, the governor of the Bank of Canada, said that tariffs on cars, steel and aluminum were “having a very direct, severe effect” on some industries.
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on August 2025
U.S. Victims of Hamas and Hezbollah Attacks Sue UNRWA
American citizens living in Israel and the United States filed a lawsuit accusing UNRWA of providing support to Hamas and Hezbollah.
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on August 2025
Mike Huckabee, Israel’s Passionate Defender as Gaza War Drives Allies Away
Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, on Tuesday at his official residence in Jerusalem.
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on August 2025
A Bid to Undo a Colonial-Era Wrong Touches a People’s Old Wounds
Members of a Naga delegation visited the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, England, in June.
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on August 2025
Photos From a Gaza Airdrop
A devastated Gaza, as seen from a Jordanian Air Force Hercules during a coordinated aid drop by Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, delivering 18 tons of food and basic necessities.
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on August 2025
SpaceX, NASA Launch Astronauts to Space Station as Clouds Stay Just Far Enough Away
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching on Friday. It was carrying NASA’s Crew-11 astronauts to the International Space Station.
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on August 2025
Trump Turns to Untested Tariffs to Reorder Global Trade
Economists remain skeptical that President Trump’s approach to tariffs will work as he intends.
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on August 2025
Putin Blames Frustration Over Ukraine Talks on ‘Inflated Expectations’
Ukrainian firefighters in the courtyard of a tuberculosis hospital after a Russian bomb struck its roof in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in July.
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on August 2025
Derk Sauer, Champion of Free Press in a New Russia, Dies at 72
Derk Sauer in the Netherlands last year. After Russia invaded Ukraine, he became a champion of Russian journalists who had fled to escape repression.
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on August 2025
Corruption Scandal Puts Mexico’s President on Defense Against Trump
Adán Augusto López Hernández when he was Mexico’s interior minister. He is at the center of a scandal around men he appointed to security positions in Tabasco State when he was governor.
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on August 2025
In Delhi and New York, Hindu Right Wing Lines Up Against Mamdani
Some Hindu American groups accuse Zohran Mamdani, seen here addressing a group of Muslim men in March, of promoting an anti-Hindu agenda.
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on August 2025
At Least 1 Dead and 5 Missing After Mine Collapse in Chile
At least one person was killed and five are missing at Codelco’s El Teniente copper mine in Chile.
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on August 2025
El Salvador Ends Term Limits, Letting Bukele Seek Re-Election Indefinitely
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador at the White House in April.
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on August 2025
Trump Gives Mexico a Reprieve but Slams Canada With Higher Tariffs
In June, when Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada hosted a Group of 7 meeting, he announced that he had an agreement to reach a trade deal with Mr. Trump by July 21. It didn’t materialize.
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on August 2025
Friday Briefing: Trump’s Tariff Day
A port in Tampa, Fla.
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on August 2025
E.U. Did Not Retain Texts Sought by Journalists on Covid Vaccine Deal
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, in London, in March.
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on August 2025
A French Beach Town’s Plea to Tourists: Keep Your Clothes On
La Grande Plage, the beach in Les Sables d’Olonne, France, in 2021. The town fines tourists who venture beyond the sand in their swimsuits.
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on August 2025
Cécile Dionne, Who Found Fame and Despair as a Quintuplet, Dies at 91
Cécile, left, and Annette Dionne in 2017, when they were the last two surviving Dionne quintuplets.
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on August 2025
Arab States Call for Hamas to Disarm Amid Push for a Palestinian State
The surprise move, in a declaration endorsed on Tuesday by the 22 member nations of the Arab League, also condemned Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, which set off the devastating war in Gaza.
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on August 2025
Here’s What to Know About Trump’s 50% Tariffs on Brazil
Workers stockpiled coffee bean bags in Vila Valerio, northern Espírito Santo, Brazil in July. Brazil is the world’s biggest exporter of coffee beans and a major supplier to the U.S. market.
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on August 2025
Friday Briefing: Trump’s Tariff Day
A port in Tampa, Fla.
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Dozens Killed in Protests Over Gas Prices in Angola
A burned vehicle in Luanda, Angola, during a general strike against rising fuel prices on Tuesday.
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on August 2025
ISIS Militant Sentenced to Life for Role in Burning Pilot Alive in Syria
Stockholm District Court in 2024. Though Osama Krayem denied any wrongdoing, video evidence showed him participating in the gruesome murder of First Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh in 2015.
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on August 2025
A Short History of Awkward Gift Giving Between U.S. and U.K. Leaders
President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain in Aberdeen, Scotland, on Monday. On the visit, Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney, presented Mr. Trump with gifts including a document dating from 1853 that registered the marriage of Mr. Trump’s maternal great-grandparents.
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on August 2025
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Steps Down
Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas speaking at a news conference in February.
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on August 2025
Iran Is Holding at Least 4 US Citizens, Rights Groups and Families Say
How Trump Is Transforming the U.S. Government’s Environmental Role
Long-Dormant Russian Volcano Erupts for the First Time in Centuries
New Hostage Videos Sow Fear and Horror in Israel
Trump Envoy Witkoff Visits Gaza as Aid Crisis Deepens
Fleeing Domestic Violence, and the Russian Advance
How the Threat of Trump’s Highest Tariff Derailed an African Nation