Croquet, Anyone? Making Moscow a Vast Fun Zone to Divert Minds From War.
People relaxing at a theater festival as part of the celebrations.
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on August 2025
3 Dead in Indonesia After Jumping From Building Protesters Set on Fire, Official Says
Demonstrators throwing tear-gas canisters that had been fired at them by police officers on Friday in Surabaya, Indonesia.
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on August 2025
China Revisits Its War With Japan, Stirring Pride and Fears of Hatred
Posters for the films “Dead to Rights,” left, and “Dongji Rescue,” second left, at a cinema in Shanghai this month.
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on August 2025
Mexico’s President Struggles to Escape Trump’s Growing Demands
President Claudia Sheinbaum and her cabinet are said to be frustrated that they have worked hard to meet Washington’s demands, and yet it never seems to be enough.
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on August 2025
Weapons to Start Flowing Into Ukraine Under European Deal With Trump
Russia has continued to pound Kyiv and other areas of Ukraine with airstrikes, including a barrage on Thursday that killed at least 23 people in the capital.
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on August 2025
Israel Resumes Daytime Operations in Gaza City, Signaling Buildup to Assault
Displaced Palestinians leaving Gaza City toward the southern areas of the Gaza Strip on Thursday. The Israeli military has not yet issued a blanket evacuation order for the city.
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on August 2025
As Bolsonaro Heads to Trial, Brazil Faces a Dilemma: How to Prosecute a President?
Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, during an interview with The New York Times at his party’s headquarters in January.
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on August 2025
August in Paris: When the City Empties Out, Locals Left Behind Rejoice
The Île de la Cité, on the River Seine in Paris, is usually crowded and frenetic. But in August, it’s nearly deserted.
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on August 2025
London Man Admits to Wave of Sexual Assaults Over 3 Years
Xu Chao admitted to dozens of sexual offenses against at least 12 women.
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on August 2025
U.K. Court Overturns Ruling on Hotel at Center of Asylum Seeker Debate
Outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, southeastern England, this month. The hotel became the center of protests after an asylum seeker who was being housed there was charged with sexual assault.
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on August 2025
Why Three Wealthy Bidders Are Fighting for What’s Left of Hudson’s Bay
Most landlords of Hudson’s Bay stores opposed Ruby Liu’s ambitious plan to revive the stores under her name.
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on August 2025
Targeting Iran’s Leaders, Israel Found a Weak Link: Their Bodyguards
A banner in Tehran showing pictures of Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists killed by Israeli strikes. Israel used its technological and intelligence capabilities to track and target key figures in Iran during the 12-day war in June.
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on August 2025
Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs Invalidated by Appeals Court
President Trump’s punishing slate of tariffs immediately drew legal challenges from small businesses and state governments.
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on August 2025
Transportation Dept. Cancels $679 Million for Offshore Wind Projects
Friday’s move is the latest in a series of escalating attacks by the Trump administration against the wind industry.
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on August 2025
Trump Administration Bars Palestinian Officials From U.N. Meeting in New York
The move by Secretary of State Marco Rubio could be aimed at weakening discussion of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations meeting.
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on August 2025
Israel Military Says It Recovered Body of Ilan Weiss, Oct. 7 Victim, From Gaza
Demonstrators hold posters with photographs of Ilan Weiss at a rally in Tel Aviv last year.
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on August 2025
Britain Bars Israeli Government From a Leading Arms Trade Fair
The Defense and Security Equipment International fair in London in 2023.
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on August 2025
Tran Trong Duyet, John McCain’s Captor at the ‘Hanoi Hilton,’ Dies at 92
Tran Trong Duyet pointing at himself in a photograph speaking to captured U.S. pilots before their release in 1973.
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on August 2025
Ukraine’s Donetsk Faces Water Crisis Under Russian Occupation
Residents waiting last month to collect drinking water in Donetsk, a Russian-controlled city in Ukraine.
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on August 2025
This Summer, a Hostile Reception for Many Israelis Abroad
Greek riot police officers stood guard as pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested against the arrival of a cruise liner carrying Israeli tourists, in Agios Nikolaos on the island of Crete, in July.
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on August 2025
Protests Spread Across Indonesia After a Deadly Clash With Police
Protesters in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, on Friday. Demonstrators have been calling for an end to housing allowances for lawmakers.
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on August 2025
Russia’s Deadly Attack on Kyiv
Kyiv after Russia’s assault yesterday.
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on August 2025
When Mailing a Letter to the U.S. Becomes a Global Headache
A distribution center in Yangzhou, China, in June. President Trump’s rule change has reverberated far beyond China for people who want to mail any kind of document, letters or package to the United States.
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on August 2025
China Is Trying to Expand Its Social Safety Net. Yet Many Chinese Are Worried.
Outside a maternity hospital in Beijing last year. As of Sept. 1, all employers in China must contribute to benefits for their employees, to support their pensions, medical care, maternity leave and more.
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on August 2025
What’s Behind the Political Instability in Thailand
Thaksin Shinawatra with his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra in August 2024. Both have served as prime minister, and each has been reprimanded by Thailand’s powerful Constitutional Court.
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on August 2025
Thai Court Dismisses Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra From Office
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the scion of a powerful political dynasty, at a news conference in Bangkok on Friday, after her dismissal by the Constitutional Court.
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on August 2025
A Major Russian Attack on Kyiv
Kyiv after Russia’s assault yesterday.
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on August 2025
Buried by Princess Diana, Time Capsule Brings Back the ’90s Far Too Soon
A time capsule that Princess Diana sealed at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London in March 1991 was to have stayed entombed for hundreds of years. Instead, it was opened this year.
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on August 2025
U.N. Votes to Withdraw Peacekeepers From Lebanon Over Next Two Years
A U.N. peacekeeper, center, talking with a soldier at a Lebanese army checkpoint in March.
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on August 2025
‘We Are All Shocked’: Warming Waters Bring a Stinging Sea Slug to Spain’s Coasts
A photograph of blue dragon was posted on the Facebook page of the Guardamar del Segura police department.
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on August 2025
European Nations Move to Restart Iran Sanctions Over Nuclear Program
The headquarters in Vienna of the International Atomic Energy Agency, whose inspectors have long monitored Iran’s nuclear activities.
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on August 2025
Relics From an Ancient Egyptian ‘Party Town’ Are Pulled Out of the Sea
A sea-worn portion of an ancient statue being pulled from the water off Alexandria, Egypt, last week.
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on August 2025
Russian Drones Are Flying Over U.S. Weapons Routes in Germany, Officials Say
American-made artillery shells prepared in a factory in Scranton, Pa., before being sent to Ukraine.
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on August 2025
Israel’s Exhausted Soldiers Complicate Plans for Gaza Assault
Israeli military reservists and veterans, demanding an immediate end to the war in Gaza and the return of hostages, demonstrated in Tel Aviv earlier this month.
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on August 2025
Kim Jong-un to be Among U.S. Rivals Convening in Beijing
North Korea’s state news agency released a photo on Thursday that it said showed Kim Jong-un visiting a military base at an undisclosed location.
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on August 2025
Trump Tries to Derail Climate Progress
Wind accounts for about 20 percent of the electricity mix in Europe.
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on August 2025
Austria’s Hills Are Still Alive, 60 Years Later
Actors from the Salzburg State Theater performing scenes from “The Sound of Music” during a tour of Schloss Leopoldskron in Austria.
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on August 2025
What to Know About Jimmy Lai’s Trial in Hong Kong
Mr. Lai was one of the first targets of the national security law.
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on August 2025
Jimmy Lai’s Freedom May Now Hinge on Beijing and Trump
Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong in December 2020, when he was ordered back to jail, just days after he had been granted bail.
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on August 2025
A Casualty of Trump’s Tariffs: India’s Nascent Solar Industry
A solar manufacturing plant in Gangaikondan, India.
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on August 2025
Trump’s Campaign to Reverse Global Climate Progress
Wind accounts for about 20 percent of the electricity mix in Europe.
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on August 2025
Gérard Chaliand, Intrepid Authority on Geopolitics, Dies at 91
Gérard Chaliand in 1992. His lectures on geopolitics routinely drew top-level diplomats and officers.
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on August 2025
Trump and Advisers, Including Kushner, Meet on Gaza’s Future
Palestinian families fleeing their homes north of Gaza City on Monday, after Israeli military officials announced plans for a full-scale assault on the city.
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on August 2025
Why Ukraine Is Allowing More Young Men to Leave the Country
Ukrainian military recruiters in Kyiv last year check to see if civilian men have updated their contact information with the Ukrainian draft office. Since February 2022, men between the ages of 18 and 60 have been barred from leaving the country.
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on August 2025
The ‘Economic Storm’ of Crises That Is Battering Afghanistan
Trump Officials Move to Fire Most Voice of America Journalists
A Gaza City Neighborhood Is Now a Wasteland, Satellite Images Show
London’s Peace Monk Chants, Drums and Walks to Urge an End to War
The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled
2 Weeks After Trump Talks, Russia Bombards Kyiv, Killing at Least 23