Iranians Live With Pain and Powerlessness, Beneath a Smooth Veneer
An emotional goodbye on Iran’s border with Turkey before an Iranian family headed to Australia for work, not knowing when they would reunite with loved ones at home.
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Attacks on Jewish Targets in Europe Suggest Hybrid Warfare
An arson attack in the Golders Green neighborhood of London in March destroyed four ambulances run by a Jewish organization.
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Ukraine Reacts With Shrug to Phone Call Between Trump and Putin
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Trump in Anchorage in August. On Wednesday, the two leaders spoke by phone for the first time this year.
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Police in Australia Were Warned of Terror Risk Before Bondi Attack, Report Says
A memorial at Bondi Beach, the site of the attack, in Sydney, Australia, in December.
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Israel Intercepts Aid Flotilla Heading to Breach Naval Blockade of Gaza
Boats carrying activists and humanitarian aid bound for Gaza, as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, in Barcelona, Spain, this month.
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In France, Trump’s Triumphal Arch Draws Eye Rolls
Conceived in 1806 by Napoleon, the Arc de Triomphe has come to symbolize very different things in modern France.
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Mother Runs for Office in India After Daughter Was Raped and Killed
Ratna Debnath, center, campaigning in the North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal this month.
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How the War in Iran is Affecting Africa’s Economy and Fuel Supply
A girl using a solar-powered light to study during electricity rationing in Juba, South Sudan, last month.
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Missing Indigenous Girl in Australia Is Found Dead After 5-Day Search
Volunteers and officials searching for a missing five-year-old girl in Alice Springs, Australia, on Tuesday.
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Gallows Humor Provides Respite From Mideast Wars
Samer Moumneh, wearing a red headband, recording a new sketch in a cafe in Beirut, Lebanon, last week.
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U.S. Indictment Accuses Mexican Governor of Conspiring With Sinaloa Cartel
Rubén Rocha Moya, the governor of Sinaloa state, is the highest-ranking member of Mexico’s dominant political party, Morena, to be indicted by the United States.
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Korean Air Bans Roosters on U.S. Flights to the Philippines
An animal welfare group said that roosters were being shipped from the United States to the Philippines on Korean Air flights.
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Rising Fuel Prices Could Force Excruciating Choices on Economic Policies
A gas station in Paris. The war in Iran had an almost immediate impact on European inflation, increasing gasoline prices as well as airfares and other fuel-intensive activities.
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British Royals Crisscross Manhattan in Brief Visit Packed With Photo Ops
Michael Bloomberg, left, King Charles III and Queen Camilla laid flowers at the 9/11 memorial on Wednesday morning, the first of several stops during the royal couple’s visit to New York City.
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Testing the Waters
Ships off the Singapore coast, near the Malacca Strait, this month.
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Trump and Putin Call for a Brief Cease-Fire in Ukraine
A firefighter worked to extinguish a blaze after a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, this month.
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Russia’s Victory Day Parade Will Be Missing Tanks and Other Heavy Military Armor
Last year’s Victory Day parade in Moscow’s Red Square featured a large force of armored vehicles.
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Almost All of Europe Was Abnormally Hot in 2025, Report Finds
A scorching day in Seville, Spain, last July.
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Coast Guard Calls Off Search for Crew of Capsized Cargo Ship
Coast Guard footage of an overturned cargo vessel, the Mariana, in the Pacific. Officials called off the search for its crew members on Tuesday after 11 days.
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Trump’s Clash With Merz Shows It’s Hard to Stay Friends With the President
Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin on Monday. He told a group of German students that the Iranian government had “humiliated” America with its slow-walk approach to negotiating an end to the war.
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Indian Tycoon Offers Refuge to Pablo Escobar’s Condemned Hippos
Hippos descended from four imported by the drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in Colombia, in a 2023 photo.
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Stabbing in Jewish Area in North London Treated as a Terrorist Incident, Police Say
The stabbing occurred in the Golders Green neighborhood of London, home to a large Jewish population, and came at a time of heightened anxiety after several antisemitic attacks.
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Men Accused in Fires Targeting Starmer Received Orders in Russian, Prosecutors Say
A police officer outside a home in north London owned by Prime Minister Keir Starmer after it was damaged by fire last year.
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A Look Back at Charles’s U.S. Trips
Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, toured the Point Reyes farmers market near San Francisco in 2005.
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Loss of Emirates Further Weakens OPEC’s Influence
Oil storage in Big Spring, Texas. OPEC is less powerful than it once was, in no small part because of the rise of U.S. oil production.
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Meta Charged With Failing to Keep Children Off Instagram and Facebook in Europe
Regulators in Europe said Meta appears to be violating the Digital Services Act, an E.U. law passed in 2022 to force social media companies to police their platforms more aggressively.
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At State Dinner, King Charles Charms the Court of Trump
President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, welcomed King Charles III of Britain and Queen Camilla to the White House on Tuesday evening for a state dinner.
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Acid Attack in Indonesia Evokes Brutality of Suharto Era
A mural featuring Andrie Yunus, the deputy coordinator of the Kontras rights group, who was the victim of an acid attack, in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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The British public has taken a dim view of the king’s visit.
King Charles III’s visit to Washington has been unpopular among the public in Britain, where some politicians even called for it to be canceled.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney Says Canada’s Economy Is Expected to Grow and Deficit to Fall
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada arriving at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday.
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The E.P.A.’s Lost Science
Bryan Hubbell, the former head of the air, climate and energy program at the Environmental Protection Agency’s research office. “The state of science is struggling,” he said.
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Dirty Gold
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Britain Summons Iran’s Ambassador Over Message to Iranians in U.K.
The Iranian ambassador to Britain, Seyed Ali Mousavi, presenting his credentials to King Charles III at Buckingham Palace in June.
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Treasury Issues More Sanctions on Iranian Oil Exports
“Iran’s shadow banking system serves as a critical financial lifeline for its armed forces, enabling activities that disrupt global trade and fuel violence across the Middle East,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement.
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It’s Not Just War That’s Making the U.A.E. Leave OPEC
Smoke billowing from an oil facility in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, in March.
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Mexico Says 4 Foreigners Were at Cartel Raid Where 2 C.I.A. Officers Died
A suspected methamphetamine lab in a remote part of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.
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Prisoner Swap Between Belarus, Poland and Other Nations Frees 10
A photograph released by Poland’s government showing Prime Minister Donald Tusk, back to camera, greeting Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut after his release from a prison in Belarus, in an unknown location somewhere on the Poland-Belarus border on Tuesday.
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Iraq’s Prime Minister-Designate Thrust Into U.S.-Iran Power Struggle
The Iraqi prime minister-designate, Ali al-Zaidi, at his office in Baghdad on Tuesday. The photo was released by his office.
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Afghanistan Accuses Pakistan of Artillery Strike on a University
The damaged Faculty of Education building at a university in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, on Monday.
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Sri Lanka Arrests 22 Monks After 240 Pounds of Cannabis Found in Luggage
Monks arriving at a court after their arrest, in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on Sunday.
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Man Pleads Guilty to Planning Attack at Taylor Swift Concert in Vienna
Police officers outside the court in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, where the trial was taking place on Tuesday.
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First Fully Loaded L.N.G. Tanker Since War Began Appears to Have Crossed the Strait
Before the war, about 20 percent of the world’s liquefied natural gas originated in the Middle East, virtually all of it headed to Asia.
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Luxury Yacht Linked to Russian Oligarch Passes Through Strait of Hormuz
The Nord, anchored off Hong Kong in 2022. In that year, the U.S. State Department publicly raised concerns after Hong Kong said it would not seize the vessel.
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The Small U.K. Agency That’s a 911 for Ships in the Strait of Hormuz
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre monitors shipping around the Arabian Peninsula, aiding vessels in trouble.
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Internet Restrictions Spur Russians to Openly Question Putin’s Moves
On a subway in Moscow. As Russians criticize the internet restrictions, the discontent has helped send the approval rating of President Vladimir V. Putin to its lowest level since before the war with Ukraine.
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They Lost Their Homes in Cuba to the Communist Government. Will They Ever Get Them Back?
Teo A. Babún, Jr., in Miami this month. Consultants hired by his family estimated the value of its lost holdings in Cuba to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars by 2018.
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Ron Paul Saw The U.S. Mint’s Gold Problems Coming
Ron Paul, then a Texas congressman for the Republican Party, in 1983.
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Trains Collide in Indonesia, Killing at Least 14 and Injuring Dozens
Rescuers at the wreckage of a passenger train near Jakarta, Indonesia, on Tuesday.
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In Iran, Cheetah Sightings Offer Rare Spots of Hope Amid War
A female Asiatic cheetah named Dalbar in the Pardisan Park in Tehran in 2017. The species is under constant threat of hunters, speeding cars and wild dogs.
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Iraq Taps Businessman, Ali al-Zaidi, to Form New Government
The ceremony in Baghdad on Monday at which Ali al-Zaidi was announced as prime minister-designate. The photograph was released by the president’s media office.
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Iceland’s Pools and Hot Tubs Are Now UNESCO-Recognized. Some Locals Aren’t Thrilled.
U.S. Gas Prices Climb Further as Effects of Iran War Reverberate
In France, American Universities Lose Their Allure in the Trump Era
Global Deforestation Slows, W.R.I. Report Finds. But Wildfires Are Taking a Toll.
How South Korea Uses A.I. to Check on Its Elderly