Crimea, Once a Crossroad of Civilizations, Finds Itself Isolated and Under Attack
Yalta, Crimea, last month. Roughly six million Ukrainians and Russians visited annually before Russia annexed the peninsula, but the numbers plummeted afterward and the nose-dived again with the invasion of Ukraine.
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More Chaos Plagues New Gaza Aid System
Gazans carrying relief supplies distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday.
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U.S. and China Meet at Precarious Moment in Trade War
The U.S. Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, at Lancaster House in London on Monday as trade talks resumed between the United States and China.
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What to Know About Israel’s Seizure of the Gaza Aid Boat Carrying Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg in Catania, Sicily, shortly before sailing aboard the Madleen for Gaza earlier this month.
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Ukraine Says Russia Launched 499 Missiles and Drones in Biggest Air Assault of War
Sheltering in a metro station in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, on Friday. Amid intensified bombardment, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has urged civilians to pay attention to air-raid warnings.
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Italian Referendum to Loosen Citizenship Rules Fails
A polling station in Rome on Sunday.
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Iran to Crack Down on Dog Walkers
Iranians with their dogs at a park in Tehran on Sunday.
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Israel Intercepts Gaza-Bound Aid Ship With Greta Thunberg Aboard
Greta Thunberg and members of the crew of the Madleen in Catania, Italy, ahead of their departure.
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Touring a Tunnel in Gaza That Leads Underneath a Hospital
A tunnel near a major hospital in southern Gaza that leads to a tiny room where the Israeli military says a top Hamas militant commander was killed.
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A Colombian Senator, Miguel Uribe, Is Shot at a Campaign Event
Mr. Uribe, 39, has said that he intends to run for president.
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They Went to Syria to Fight With Rebels. Now Some Are Joining the New Army.
A man from Turkestan, who fought with the Syrian rebels who ousted the Assad regime, at his shop in Binnish, Syria. He is one of many foreign fighters whose future is in limbo.
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Soccer Fans Fear Being Targets of U.S. Immigration Raids
Mehdi Taremi, an Iranian soccer player, posing with fans after Iran defeated Qatar in a World Cup qualifier on Thursday. Iran, the first team from Asia to qualify for the World Cup, is on a list of 12 countries that President Trump banned from travel to the United States.
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Hits a Roadblock in Its March Across South America
A Starlink satellite internet antenna in rural Brazil in 2024.
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Japan Flexes Its Military Muscle at China, and Trump
Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers of the Seventh Regiment going through physical tests at Camp Katsuren in Okinawa, Japan, last month.
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A Trump Family Project Spurs Resignations and a Criminal Charge in Serbia
The site of the Trump hotel project is a bombed-out building that serves as an icon to Serbians’ suffering during a 1999 conflict.
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Monday Briefing
National Guard troops in Los Angeles yesterday.
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Attack on Colombia Senator, Miguel Uribe Turbay, Caught on Video
A video shows people carrying Miguel Uribe Turbay after he was shot in Bogotá, Colombia, on Saturday.
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Monday Briefing: Tensions Flare in Los Angeles
National Guard troops in Los Angeles yesterday.
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Ukraine Says It Has Stepped Up Its Drone Game, Again
The Magura V7 unmanned marine vehicle being presented at an undisclosed location last month in Ukraine.
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Russian Drone Swarms Test a Volunteer Air-Defense Unit Near Kyiv
A Russian airstrike on Friday in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russia has launched hundreds of drones and decoys across Ukraine since the end of May.
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Italians Prepare to Vote in Citizenship Referendum
A banner promoting the referendum on citizenship in Milan on Wednesday. Turnout must exceed 50 percent for the referendum to count; a majority is required for passage.
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Hero or Traitor? Ernest Wilimowski, a Long-Dead Soccer Star, Is Revived, and Reviled.
People walking by a mural of Ernest Wilimowski in May in Chorzow, Poland.
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Macron Will Visit Greenland This Month, Defying Trump
In Ilulisaat, Greenland, early this year. President Emmanuel Macron of France will visit the Arctic island this month with the aim of “contributing to the reinforcement of European sovereignty.”
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Israel Recovers Body of Thai Farmworker in Gaza
The aftermath of an Israeli attack in Gaza City that killed and injured Palestinians, on Saturday, in Gaza.
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Russia Pummels Kharkiv With Drones and Bombs, Ukraine Says
A firefighter extinguishing a blaze at a civilian plant after Russian attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Saturday.
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Will Hudson’s Bay’s 355-Year-Old Charter Go to the Highest Bidder?
Some of the dozens of mannequins on sale at the Hudson’s Bay Company store in downtown Ottawa.
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Trump’s International Student Ban Sparks Fear Among Harvard Attendees
Alfred Williamson, who is from Wales, was accepted to Harvard, making him the first person from his school to get into an Ivy League college and the first in his family to study in the United States.
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How Russian Spies Are Analyzing Data From China’s WeChat App
The Kremlin looming in the distance in February in Moscow.
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Parents in Gaza Are Running Out of Ways to Feed Their Children
A food distribution line in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, in April. The territory is facing a hunger crisis.
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How The Times Obtained Secret Russian Intelligence Documents
Outside the headquarters of the Federal Security Service, or F.S.B., in Moscow.
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Chinese Students Reconsider the U.S. as Republicans Threaten Their Visas
There are about 1,400 Chinese students at the University of Texas’ Austin campus.
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Russian Spies Are Suspicious of China, Even as Putin and Xi Grow Close
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last month in Moscow for Victory Day celebrations.
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Even Before Trump’s Visa Clampdown, U.S. Was Losing African Students
Ghanaian student Helen Dekyem, photographed near the China Pharmaceutical University, where she is enrolled, in Nanjing, China, in 2023.
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Hong Kong Looks for Ways to Win Back Big-Spending Tourists
People heading into the new Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong. The city is seeking to rebrand itself as the region’s events capital, emphasizing concerts and trade shows.
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Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner
He Tianying outside the White House on May 23. Mr. He is a member of an advisory body that seeks to broaden the Communist Party’s influence and solicit support from influential people in Chinese society.
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UK Court Warns Lawyers Can Be Prosecuted Over A.I. Tools That ‘Hallucinate’ Fake Material
The Royal Courts of Justice, England’s High Court, in central London, detailed two recent cases in which fake material generated by artificial intelligence was used in written legal arguments.
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Trump Approves Expansion of Scandal-Hit Coal Mine
The entrance to Bull Mountain mine near Billings, Mont., in 2022.
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D-Day Anniversary Brings Remembrance and Unease Among Old Allies
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a ceremony on the 81st anniversary of D-Day in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, on Friday.
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Trump’s Ambition Collides With Law on Sending Migrants to Dangerous Countries
A government vehicle that was damaged in clashes with armed militias in Tripoli, Libya, last month.
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Interpol Arrests 20 Over Network That Distributed Child Sex Abuse Material
The headquarters of Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization, in Lyon, France.
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David Beckham to Be Knighted by King Charles III
The king and the future knight.
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Who Is Yasser Abu Shabab, the Leader of the Israeli-Backed Militia in Gaza?
Palestinians carry aid packages in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Friday.
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Xi to Trump: Rein in the Hawks Trying to Derail the Tariff Truce
A meeting with Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, in Japan in 2019, during President Trump’s first term. The leaders spoke by phone on Thursday after weeks of worsening tensions between Washington and Beijing.
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Merz Cracks the Trump Code With Friendly White House Meeting
President Trump and Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany in the Oval Office on Thursday. They seemed chummy from the start.
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Africans See Trump’s New Travel Ban as ‘A Big Slap in the Face’
In Khartoum, the war-torn capital of Sudan, in March.
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An Engineering Marvel, Decades in the Making: A Rail Line to Kashmir
A passenger train on the outskirts of Jammu, Kashmir, in May, part of a new line that has connected Kashmir by rail to the rest of India.
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Friday Briefing
President Trump in the Oval Office yesterday.
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U.K. Faces ‘Extraordinary’ Threat From Russian and Iranian Plots, Official Warns
“Terrorism is something that gets public attention,” Jonathan Hall said, while state threats are “much harder to conceptualize.”
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South Koreans Have a New President, and Mixed Emotions
Lee Jae-myung, South Korea’s new president, appearing at a post-election rally with his wife, Kim Hye-kyeong, in Seoul on Wednesday.
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Russia Pummels Kyiv in Apparent Retaliation for Ukrainian Drone Assault
People taking shelter from Russian drone and missile strikes early Friday in an underground parking garage in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Marc Garneau, First Canadian in Space and Foreign Minister, Dies at 76
Marc Garneau in 2000, the year he took his third trip to space.
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Extremely Lifelike Dolls Cause a Frenzy in Brazil
Ocean Temperatures Are Increasing Around the World. See Where.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Returned to U.S. From El Salvador to Face Criminal Charges
Desperate and Hungry Palestinians Recall Deadly Shooting Near Gaza Aid Site
Videos Show Chaos Around Israeli-Backed Gaza Food Sites