How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on June 5.
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on July 2025
Rare Earths Mining in Myanmar Is Polluting Thailand’s Kok River
Levels of arsenic and other toxic metals have spiked to dangerous levels in Thai waterways like the Kok River, seen here in June.
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on July 2025
Good Vibes in Trump Trade Talks Haven’t Shielded Canada From Chaos
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and President Trump at the Group of 7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, last month. The two leaders have had a friendly relationship.
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on July 2025
Behind Trump’s Decision to Tax Brazil to Save Bolsonaro
President Trump said the new 50 percent tariffs on Brazilian imports would take effect on Aug. 1, just before Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, is to stand trial.
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on July 2025
Rubio and China’s Top Envoy Vie for Influence in Asia Over Trump’s Tariffs
Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Friday.
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on July 2025
Trump’s Seesawing on Tariffs Gives the World Whiplash
After President Trump unveiled tariff numbers at the White House in April, a rapid volley of negotiations began.
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on July 2025
Republicans Blame Canada for Wildfire Smoke ‘Suffocating’ the U.S.
A wildfire burning last month in Squamish, British Columbia.
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on July 2025
Germany Takes an Unassuming Approach to Tax Cuts, in Contrast to Trump
Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, right, and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil in Berlin on Friday.
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on July 2025
Kurdish PKK Fighters Burn Weapons in Step Toward Peace With Turkey
Arms belonging to Kurdish P.K.K. insurgents from Turkey were set on fire during a ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday.
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on July 2025
Trump Threatens 35% Tariffs on Canada in the Middle of Trade Talks
The border crossing to Canada from Point Roberts, Wash. Tariffs of 35 percent on Canadian goods, if applied widely, could cause serious harm to Canada’s export-dependent economy.
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on July 2025
How El Salvador Is Reaping Rewards From Trump’s Deportation Agenda
President Donald Trump and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador holding a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office in April.
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on July 2025
Israel Will Allow More Aid Into Gaza, Officials Say
Palestinians waiting in line to receive flour from an aid center in Gaza City in June.
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on July 2025
Cairo Telecommunications Building Hit With 2nd Fire in a Week
The initial fire broke out on Monday at a telecommunications hub in central Cairo, killing at least four people.
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on July 2025
Takeaways From the Times Investigation Into Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu leaving the King David Hotel in Jerusalem to visit the Western Wall on June 12, shortly before Israel attacked Iran.
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on July 2025
Manitoba Declares Second Wildfire Emergency in a Near-Record Year
A view of a wildfire in northern Manitoba in June.
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on July 2025
What to Know About the Rare Earths Mining Boom in Myanmar
A gold mine in Karen State in Myanmar last year. Chinese state-owned firms and criminal networks control the extraction of many natural resources in Myanmar.
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on July 2025
Friday Briefing: Iran Has Some Uranium Left, Israel Says
A uranium processing site in Isfahan, Iran, in 2005.
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on July 2025
At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says
Thousands of postal workers were wrongfully accused of crimes over more than a decade in the British post office scandal, according to a report.
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on July 2025
Friday Briefing: Israel Says Iran Has Some Uranium Left
A uranium processing site in Isfahan, Iran, in 2005.
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on July 2025
Coal, the Last Survivor of Canada’s Parliament Hill Cat Colony, Dies
Coal, with the Centre Block building in the background, in Ottawa.
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on July 2025
Targeting Brazil, Trump Tests Legal Limit of His Tariff Powers
President Trump linked his threat of a 50 percent tariff on Brazil this week to that country’s treatment of its former president Jair Bolsonaro, above.
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on July 2025
US-Brazil Tariffs: What to Know About Trump’s History With Bolsonaro
Then-President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil with President Trump during a visit to the White House in 2019. In Mr. Trump’s first term, few world leaders were a more reliable ally than Mr. Bolsonaro.
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on July 2025
Four More Rescued in Red Sea, as Houthis Vow to Keep Up Attacks
This image released by the Houthis’ Ansarullah Media Center on Wednesday shows what the group says is the Eternity C, a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier, sinking after it was attacked by the Houthis.
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on July 2025
Some of Iran’s Enriched Uranium Survived Attacks, Israeli Official Says
A uranium processing site in Isfahan, which hosts Iran’s nuclear laboratory, seen in 2005.
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on July 2025
U.K. Faces Rising Threat From Iranian Plots, Intelligence Committee Says
Kevan Jones, the chairman of Britain’s parliamentary intelligence committee, in a photo provided by the British Parliament.
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on July 2025
UK Braces for Record Temperatures as Third Heat Wave Spreads
A spectator on Day 11 of Wimbledon in London on Thursday. In the coming days, most of England, eastern Scotland and eastern Northern Ireland are likely to meet the official heat wave criteria.
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on July 2025
La Scala Warns Opera Patrons: No Flip-Flops or Tank Tops Allowed
Visitors dressed in formal attire in the Teatro alla Scala bar in December.
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on July 2025
L.A.-Area Bishop Excuses Faithful From Mass Over Fear of Immigration Raids
Bishop Alberto Rojas leading Mass at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Chino Hills, Calif., in 2023.
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on July 2025
As Israel and Ukraine Advance Drone Warfare, U.S. Sees Its Own Vulnerabilities
Ukrainian soldiers at an air defense position, where they monitor for, and shoot down armed Russian drones in May.
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on July 2025
A Lethal Israeli Airstrike Hits Near a Gaza Aid Clinic
A screen grab from a video shows a wounded child being treated in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the town of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on Thursday.
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on July 2025
K-Pop Singer Taeil Sentenced to 3½-Years in Rape of Tourist
Taeil, center, of the band NCT in New York, in 2019.
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on July 2025
Denmark Aims to Use Copyright Law to Protect People From Deepfakes
Referring to the effort to counter internet fakes, the Danish minister of culture, Jakob Engel-Schmidt, said, “Technology has outpaced our current legislation.”
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on July 2025
Trump Seems to Be Warming to What Europe Wants for Ukraine: New Russia Sanctions
An oil refinery in Volgograd, Russia, in 2022. Oil production is a crucial source of revenue for the country’s war machine.
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on July 2025
Russia Bombards Ukraine as U.S. Frustration Mounts
A blast in Kyiv during the Russian attack on Thursday. In the overnight assault, Russia launched 18 missiles and around 400 drones on Ukraine.
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on July 2025
The Calgary Stampede Captures Canada’s Western Spirit
White cowboy hats were a popular choice at a reception hosted by Devin Dreeshen, a Legislative Assembly of Alberta member, during the Calgary Stampede.
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on July 2025
Thursday Briefing: Russia’s Record Drone Attack
Debris from an exploded Russian drone in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday.
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on July 2025
U.K. and France Sign First Nuclear Pact to Fend Off Threat to Europe
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, left, with President Emmanuel Macron of France at Downing Street in London on Wednesday.
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on July 2025
Rubio Tells Top Russian Diplomat of Trump’s Frustration Over Putin’s War
Secretary of State Marco Rubio arriving at Subang Air Base outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Thursday.
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on July 2025
Mexico Sentences 10 Men to 140 Years Each in Prison for Links to Killing at Cartel Ranch
The Izaguirre ranch in Teuchitlán, a village near Guadalajara in Jalisco state, which Mexican officials said was used as a recruitment, training and operations center by the Jalisco cartel.
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on July 2025
Yemen’s Houthi Militia Took Sailors Hostage After Red Sea Attack, U.S. Says
An image released by Diaplous, a maritime security organization, shows crew members being rescued after an attack in the Red Sea. Eunavfor Aspides, a European Union military operation, said on Wednesday that it had rescued six castaway crew members of the cargo ship Eternity C.
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on July 2025
Thursday Briefing: Russia’s Record Drone Attack
Debris from an exploded Russian drone in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday.
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on July 2025
Henry Mount Charles, Whose Castle Was a Mecca for Rock, Dies at 74
Henry Mount Charles holds tickets for the “Eminem and 50 Cent European Tour” in 2005. To generate funds for the upkeep of Slane Castle, he turned its grounds into an amphitheater.
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on July 2025
Trump Pledges 50% Tariffs Against Brazil, Citing ‘Witch Hunt’ Against Bolsonaro
Former President Jair Bolsonaro in January at his political party’s headquarters in Brasília.
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on July 2025
Former President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea Is Arrested on New Charges
Yoon Suk Yeol, former president of South Korea, arrived in court in Seoul on Wednesday for a hearing to address a new arrest warrant requested by a special prosecutor.
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on July 2025
A British Surgeon Shares What She Saw in Gaza’s Hospitals
Dr. Victoria Rose at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza in May, in a picture distributed by Anadolu Agency, a Turkish state news outlet. “I’ve not seen this volume and this intensity before,” she said of the traumatic injuries she treated.
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on July 2025
Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave
The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. Over the years, the NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program has supported more than 230 researchers.
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on July 2025
Trump Discusses Economic Investment With African Leaders at White House Meeting
President Trump hosted the leaders of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal at the White House on Wednesday.
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on July 2025
A 37,000-Year Chronicle of What Once Ailed Us
Yersinia pestis, the microbe that causes plague. DNA in human fossils has revealed a surge in the disease about 5,000 years ago.
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on July 2025
Southern China and Hong Kong Brace for Floods and Fierce Winds from Danas
Thune Says Russia Sanctions Vote Could Come as Soon as This Month
China Surveys Seabeds Where Naval Rivals May One Day Clash
New Research Questions Severity of Withdrawal From Antidepressants