Would Europe Actually Retaliate Against Trump’s Tariffs?
Shipping containers at a port in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. European Union officials say that if President Trump follows through on his tariff threats, it could upend trans-Atlantic trade.
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on July 2025
Netanyahu’s Ultra-Orthodox Allies Threaten His Coalition Government
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Parliament on Monday. His government is fracturing because of the debate over whether ultra-Orthodox students must serve in the military.
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on July 2025
Trump’s Shift on Ukraine Is Good News for Europe, for Now
Firefighters in Odesa, Ukraine, this month after a Russian strike. President Trump warned Moscow that he would impose new economic punishments if it did not agree to a peace deal within 50 days.
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on July 2025
Israel Targets Syria and Lebanon in Wave of Airstrikes
Syrian government forces entered the predominantly Druse city of Sweida on Tuesday. Israel intervened after days of deadly sectarian clashes in the southern Sweida region.
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on July 2025
Blazes in Northern Ireland Recall an Old Message: You Are Not Welcome Here
A fire set in the streets during an anti-immigrant riot last month in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. Violence there erupted after two boys were charged with the attempted oral rape of a teenage girl.
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on July 2025
U.K. Secretly Resettled 4,500 Afghans in Britain After Huge Data Exposure
British soldiers in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, in 2020. The disclosure about the data exposure comes at a time when immigration is a sensitive issue in British politics.
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on July 2025
What We Know About the U.S. Deal for a Weapons Pipeline to Ukraine
President Trump with Mark Rutte, the NATO secretary general, left, at the White House on Monday.
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on July 2025
Australian Premier Albanese Meets China’s Xi in Beijing
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia arriving in Beijing on Monday.
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on July 2025
Zelensky Announces Plan for Major Government Shake-Up in Ukraine
Mr. Zelensky said on Facebook that he would nominate for prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko, a loyalist now serving as a first deputy prime minister.
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on July 2025
Chinese University Expels Woman for ‘Improper Contact’ With a Foreigner
Danylo Teslenko, who goes by the nickname Zeus, at a gaming event in Poland in 2019. Mr. Teslenko had shared videos of himself with a Chinese woman that led to her expulsion from university.
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on July 2025
Plan to Indefinitely Displace Palestinians Threatens to Derail Gaza Truce
A tent camp housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah, southern Gaza, last year.
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on July 2025
It’s Paradise Lost as Climate Change Remakes Europe’s Summers
Increasingly frequent storms have washed much of the sand from the beach at Montgat, near Barcelona in Spain.
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on July 2025
Clashes Between Bedouin and Druse in Syria Kill More Than 50, Health Official and Rights Group Say
A member of the Syrian security forces walks past a burning car near Al Mazra in Sweida Province on Monday. The violence in the heartland of the Druse community threatens to further exacerbate tensions stemming from the civil war.
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on July 2025
China Puts New Restrictions on E.V. Battery Manufacturing Technology
CATL, a Chinese company that is the world’s largest producer of electric vehicle batteries, displayed at the Shanghai auto show in April a lithium-ion battery that can be recharged in five minutes.
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on July 2025
Air India Crash Findings Prompt Inspections of Boeing Fuel Switches
Workers removing the airplane’s tail from the wreckage of the Air India crash, in Ahmedabad, India, last month.
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on July 2025
Tuesday Briefing: More Weapons for Ukraine
Ukrainian firefighters after a Russian drone attack in Odesa last week.
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on July 2025
Behind Trump’s Tough Talk on Russia and Putin, Doubts and Missing Details
Ukrainian soldiers near the front lines in the Kharkiv region in May.
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on July 2025
Tuesday Briefing: More Weapons for Ukraine
Ukrainian firefighters after a Russian drone attack in Odesa last week.
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on July 2025
Canada Wildfire Smoke Triggers Toronto and U.S. Air Quality Alerts
Smoke from Canadian wildfires partially obscured the Chicago skyline last month.
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on July 2025
Trump Threatens Russia With Sanctions and Vows U.S. Weapon Support for Ukraine
President Trump in the Oval Office with Mark Rutte, NATO’s secretary general, on Monday.
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on July 2025
Excavation of Children’s Remains Begins at Irish Home for Unwed Mothers
The site of the former St. Mary’s Mother and Baby Home, a home for unmarried mothers and their children run by the Bon Secours order in Tuam, Ireland, in 2022.
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on July 2025
BBC Ends Ties With ‘MasterChef’ Host Gregg Wallace After Investigation
Gregg Wallace at Windsor Castle, a royal residence outside London, last year.
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on July 2025
E.U. Says Trump’s Threat of 30% Tariffs Would Hobble Trade With U.S.
Maros Sefcovic, the European Union trade commissioner, said that the bloc thought it was close to a trade deal with Trump administration last week.
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on July 2025
It’s No Bluff: The Tariff Rate Is Soaring Under Trump
President Trump argues that low tariffs have left the country at a disadvantage in the past, allowing Americans to import cheap products that put U.S. factories out of business and left the country dependent on foreign nations.
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on July 2025
Trump Reluctantly Comes Around to Backing Ukraine. Will He Stick With It?
The approach President Trump is taking seems intended to keep him at least one arm’s length away from the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
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on July 2025
How Trump Changed His Tone on Putin and the Russia-Ukraine War
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Trump in 2019. While he was running for president in 2024, Mr. Trump said he could settle the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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on July 2025
King Charles III Will Host Trump for U.K. State Visit in September
In February, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain gave President Trump an invitation from King Charles for a state visit.
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on July 2025
Macron Increases Military Spending, Saying Freedom Is Threatened
President Emmanuel Macron of France delivering a speech to army leaders in Paris on Sunday.
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on July 2025
South African President Opens Corruption Inquiry of Police Leader
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, who has been facing turmoil from within his coalition government, announced on Sunday that he was forming a commission to investigate allegations against Senzo Mchunu, the country’s police minister.
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on July 2025
Children Among at Least 10 Killed in Israeli Strike in Central Gaza, Officials Say
Palestinians mourning a relative killed on Sunday in an Israeli strike in Gaza City.
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on July 2025
France Announces Agreement to Give New Caledonia More Autonomy
New Caledonia last year. A new agreement would make the semiautonomous territory a state within the French Republic.
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on July 2025
Amid Tariff Chaos, U.S. Allies Try to Redraw the Trade Map
A Volkswagen factory in Zwickau, Germany. President Trump’s tariffs have E.U. leaders looking elsewhere for reliable trading partners.
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on July 2025
Trump Administration Poised to Ramp Up Deportations to Distant Countries
Downtown Juba, South Sudan, last year. Third-country deportations could accelerate under new internal guidance issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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on July 2025
Why Trump’s Abraham Accords Have Not Meant Mideast Peace
President Trump leading Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and officials from Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates outside the White House to sign the Abraham Accords in 2020.
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on July 2025
For Families of Air India Crash Victims, Report Brings No Closure
Relatives of one of the victims of the Air India plane crash awaiting his body at home in Ahmedabad last month.
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on July 2025
Modi Wants More Indians to Speak Hindi. Some States Are Shouting ‘No.’
Raj Thackeray, left, and Uddhav Thackeray at a recent rally in Mumbai. They are cousins and both politicians in Maharashtra. Though they had a falling-out years ago and started rival parties, the effort to require primary schools in Maharashtra to teach Hindi has reunited them in opposition to the plan.
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on July 2025
Timeline Details Final Seconds of Crashed Air India Flight
Investigators at the crash site of Air India Flight 171 in Ahmedabad, India, last month.
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on July 2025
Two Palestinians Are Killed in a West Bank Clash With Israeli Settlers
Israeli soldiers holding back Palestinians trying to get to injured Palestinians after clashes with Israeli settlers in Sinjil in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday.
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on July 2025
A Beloved Canadian Chocolate Bar Disappears From the Market
Neilson Jersey Milk Bars are no longer on Canadian store shelves.
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on July 2025
They Fled War in Ethiopia. Then American Bombs Found Them.
“The place and everyone in it were mangled,” said Fanta Ali Ahmed, 32, from the Tigray region of Ethiopia. He was injured in April in the bombing of a migrant detention center in Saada, Yemen.
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on July 2025
Flash Floods Are the ‘Hardest Kind’ of Disaster to Prevent, Experts Say
Flood-damaged homes lining the river in Chiva, near Valencia, Spain, in November. A flood alert system was in place but was not immediately activated.
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on July 2025
A Landscape of Death: What’s Left Where Ukraine Invaded Russia
Russian soldiers remove the corpse of a civilian from his home in Cherkasskoye Porechnoye.
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on July 2025
How to Panic Italians? Jack Up the Price of Espresso.
A cup of espresso at the Lavazza Museum in Turin, Italy. Executives from Lavazza and Illy have warned for more than a year that higher coffee prices are most likely here to stay.
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on July 2025
Ben Jealous, Sierra Club’s Executive Director, on Leave After Rocky Tenure
Ben Jealous, executive director of the Sierra Club, at a climate rally in Washington in 2023. He is now on leave.
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on July 2025
Air India Plane Crash Report Says Fuel to Engines Was Cut Off
Workers removing the airplane’s tail from the wreckage of the Air India crash last month.
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on July 2025
Evidence Supports War Crimes Allegations in Darfur, I.C.C. Prosecutor Says
A refugee camp in Adré, Chad, last year, where many people from Darfur have fled.
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on July 2025
Appeals Court Overturns Plea Deal in 9/11 Case
Camp Justice at the U.S. naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 2023.
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on July 2025
Trump Says NATO Countries Will Buy Weapons to Give to Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers firing American-made munitions, last year.
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on July 2025
Netanyahu Ends Washington Trip Without a Gaza Truce
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
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on July 2025
Strava Fitness App Revealed Locations of Swedish Leaders
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson of Sweden with his wife, Birgitta Ed, in 2024. Fitness data from bodyguards gave away the location of his private residence, a newspaper report found.
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on July 2025
Monday Briefing: America’s Brain Drain and the World
Monday Briefing: America’s Brain Drain and the World
Trump Is Expected to Announce New Weapons Pipeline for Ukraine
When It’s This Hot, ‘We Are Enduring, Not Living’
Police Investigate Burning of Migrant-Boat Effigy in Northern Ireland as a Hate Crime
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