Zelensky and Other European Leaders Work With Trump on Russia-Ukraine Strategy
Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany welcoming President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Berlin, on Wednesday.
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on August 2025
Beijing Evacuated Thousands Before Deadly Floods, but Not a Nursing Home
Flooded buildings in Taishitun, northeast of central Beijing, last month.
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on August 2025
Israel Hasn’t Prosecuted a Single Suspect for the Oct. 7 Attack
Damage at kibbutz Be’eri, which was a target during the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack, the deadliest in Israel’s history.
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on August 2025
Why Cristiano Ronaldo’s Engagement Raised Eyebrows in Saudi Arabia
Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez attending an event held by the Saudi team he plays for, Al Nassr, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2023.
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on August 2025
Trump and Putin Could Decide Others’ Fates, Echoing Yalta Summit
From left, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta summit in 1945. The meeting, during which the three leaders redrew the map of Europe, has become a symbol for how superpowers can decide the fates of other nations.
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on August 2025
JD Vance Meets Nigel Farage, Another Right Wing Populist, on Trip to UK
Vice President JD Vance was hosted on Friday by David Lammy, the British foreign secretary, at a government-owned estate in southern England.
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on August 2025
Typhoon Podul Heads Toward China After Lashing Taiwan
Waves breaking along the coast as Typhoon Podul approached in Taitung, Taiwan, on Wednesday.
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on August 2025
Dozens of Migrants Drown Off Lampedusa, Italy
Migrant survivors stand on a dock after a shipwreck near Lampedusa, Italy, on Wednesday.
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on August 2025
U.K. Secretly Spent $3.2 Million to Stop Journalists From Reporting on Data Breach
British and Canadian soldiers guarding the Kabul airport after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 as Afghans hoping to flee the country stood by.
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on August 2025
Europe Battles Deadly Wildfires as High Winds Fuel Flames
Fighting a wildfire on the outskirts of Patras, Greece, on Wednesday.
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on August 2025
Under Pressure by Trump, Mexico Sends 26 Accused Cartel Operatives to U.S.
White powder, purportedly finished fentanyl, at a Sinaloa Cartel fentanyl lab in Culiacán, Mexico, last year. The Mexican government has launched an aggressive crackdown against the cartel.
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on August 2025
Gaza Plan Stokes Tension Between Israel’s Military Chief and Government
Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, the Israeli military’s chief of staff, in Jerusalem in March. He has been criticized over promotions of top officers and for consulting with outside advisers.
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on August 2025
A Year After the Revolution, Bangladesh Grapples With Frustration
Bangladeshis celebrated the one-year anniversary of the downfall of Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister, on Aug. 5 in Dhaka.
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on August 2025
Sudan Hit by Its ‘Worst Cholera Outbreak’ in Years, Medical Charity Says
Patients received treatment in the cholera ward of a refugee camp in the town of Tawila in the western Darfur region of Sudan on Tuesday.
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on August 2025
Thursday Briefing: Air Conditioning Politics
Only about a quarter of French households have air conditioning.
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on August 2025
How a Call From Trump Ignited a Frantic Week of Diplomacy by Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany in Berlin on Wednesday.
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on August 2025
U.S. Pilot Stranded in Antarctica Says It’s ‘Isolating and Lonely’
An aircraft lands at the Chilean military base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva on King George Island in 2014.
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on August 2025
Canada’s Wildfire Season Is One of Its Worst Ever, and It’s Not Over Yet
Mandatory evacuation orders were issued for several communities in Newfoundland and Labrador Province this month. Five fires continue to be classified as out of control in the province.
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on August 2025
After Reassuring Europe, Trump Strikes a Different Tone About Russian Threats
A residential building in Kyiv destroyed by a Russian missile last month.
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on August 2025
Thursday Briefing: Air Conditioning Politics
Only about a quarter of French households have air conditioning.
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on August 2025
Top Iranian Official Visits Lebanon as Hezbollah Bucks Calls to Disarm
Ali Larijani, second right, head of Iran’s National Security Council, arrived in Beirut on Wednesday to meet Lebanese leaders.
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on August 2025
Pakistan Is in Trump’s Good Graces, but for How Long?
A poster of Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, Pakistan’s army chief, in Lahore.
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on August 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Russian Forces Advance in Ukraine
On the Donetsk region front line in Ukraine last week.
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on August 2025
Trump to Meet Putin at U.S. Military Base in Anchorage
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in 2020.
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on August 2025
Human Rights Report Under Trump Blunts Language on Israel and El Salvador
The Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in March. El Salvador has faced criticism over high incarceration rates and overcrowding of prisons.
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on August 2025
Six Convicted in 2017 Fire That Killed 41 Girls in Guatemala Group Home
Relatives of victims and survivors of the 2017 fire at the Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción attended the hearing on Tuesday in Guatemala City.
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on August 2025
Remains of British Researcher Lost in 1959 Are Discovered Off Antarctica
Dennis Bell, left, with his research colleagues and the dogs that helped them to work in Antarctica in 1959 at Admiralty Bay Base.
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on August 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Russian Forces Advance in Ukraine
On the Donetsk region front line in Ukraine last week.
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on August 2025
Mexico and Brazil Rebut Trump’s Claims About Violence in Their Cities
Mayor Clara Brugada of Mexico City, center, with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, right, during an event in January in Mexico City focused on a gun-buyback program.
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on August 2025
South Korea’s Ex-First Lady Kim Keon Hee Is Arrested on Corruption Charges
Kim Keon Hee, wife of the impeached former President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea, arriving on Tuesday for a court hearing in Seoul.
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on August 2025
When Trump Meets Putin, Anything Could Happen
President Trump sided with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on whether the Kremlin had meddled in the 2016 U.S. election during their meeting in Helsinki in 2018.
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on August 2025
Philippines Condemns China After South China Sea Collision Captured on Video
A Chinese Navy vessel, left, accidentally collided with a Chinese Coast Guard ship, right, while chasing a Philippine fisheries boat, foreground, near Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea on Monday.
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on August 2025
New Delhi Is Ordered to Round Up Hundreds of Thousands of Stray Dogs
Stray dogs in New Delhi on Tuesday. There has been a rash of incidents in recent years in which children have been mauled and in some cases killed by street dogs.
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on August 2025
Russia Makes Battlefield Advances in Ukraine, Seeking an Edge in Trump Talks
A Ukrainian soldier firing a howitzer toward Russians in the Donetsk region of Ukraine last week.
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on August 2025
Rescuers Find Body of American Hiker Who Was Missing in Pyrenees
The Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park in Spain, where American hiker Cole Henderson went missing.
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on August 2025
What to Know About the Heat Wave in Southern Europe
Battling a wildfire in Congosta, Spain, on Monday.
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on August 2025
A Glow-Up Gone Awry
The statue of the Virgin Mary, also known simply as the Macarena, in her basilica in Seville, Spain, this month.
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on August 2025
Israeli Hostage Families Call for Nationwide Walkout
Relatives of hostages marched with tens of thousands of other Israelis to call for a deal to free their loved ones in Tel Aviv on Saturday.
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on August 2025
Why Surrendering a Key Eastern Region Would Be Hard for Ukraine
A Ukrainian soldier scanning the sky for Russian drones in the destroyed and mostly abandoned town of Kostiantynivka, in June.
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on August 2025
Tuesday Briefing: Trump’s Washington Crackdown
President Trump at the White House yesterday.
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on August 2025
Are Samosas Unhealthy? Some Indians Find Official Advice Hard to Swallow.
Eating a snack from a shop selling Samosas and Kachoris in New Delhi, India, in July.
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on August 2025
Foreign Recruits in Ukraine Military Are Killed in Russian Missile Strike
Thousands of flags and portraits of fallen Ukrainian soldiers and volunteer fighters from foreign countries at a makeshift memorial in Kyiv, Ukraine, in March.
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on August 2025
Trump Says He’s Going to Alaska to See What Putin ‘Has in Mind’
President Trump’s description of his goals for the negotiation, the most high-stakes international meeting yet in his second term, were telling — as much for what he omitted as for what he included.
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on August 2025
Tuesday Briefing: Trump’s Washington Crackdown
President Trump at the White House yesterday.
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on August 2025
Brazil Clamped Down on Big Tech. Trump’s Tariffs Could Change That.
A demonstration last year to protest the Brazilian Supreme Court’s move to ban Elon Musk’s X.
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on August 2025
What to Know About Al Jazeera, the Broadcaster Israel Accuses of Supporting Hamas
The funeral of five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel on Monday in Gaza City.
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on August 2025
Who Were the Al Jazeera Journalists Killed in an Israeli Strike in Gaza?
Al Jazeera staff members gathering at the network’s studios in Doha, Qatar, on Monday, to remember their colleagues killed in Gaza.
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on August 2025
Kabul, Afghanistan’s Capital, Could Run Out of Water by 2030
The South Korean Collector Who Fell for Posters From Communist Poland
As Europe’s Heat Waves Intensify, France Bickers About Air-Conditioning
Zakaria Zubeidi, Palestinian Militia and Theater Leader, Speaks After Release From Prison