Faced With Trump’s English Mandate, Mexico’s Truckers Report to Class
Mexican truck drivers who work transporting cargo to the United States attending a six-week crash course in English this month in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
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on August 2025
Rising Cost of a Day at the Beach Angers Italians
The beach of Santa Marinella, north of Rome, in 2024.
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on August 2025
Tourists Go to Siquijor Island in the Philippines for ‘Magic’ Healing
Seraphine Ehigue, a visitor from Cameroon, wrapped in linen and undergoing a “tuob,” a traditional remedy with smoking charcoal, on the Philippine island of Siquijor in April.
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on August 2025
Iran’s Evin Prison Is Holding Dissidents Again
The office building of Evin prison in June after it was hit by Israeli strikes on Tehran, the Iranian capital.
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on August 2025
Has Russia Advanced? Ukrainians Use This Online Map to Check Every Morning.
Ruslan Mykula, 30, left, and Roman Pohorilyi, 26, the co-founders of DeepState, a Ukrainian group that maps changes to the frontline in Ukraine.
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on August 2025
Gaza City and Surrounding Areas Officially Hit by Famine, Global Group Says
Palestinians jostling for food outside a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Friday.
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on August 2025
Iran Extends Government Shutdowns Amid Soaring Heat and Power Cuts
Iran has been closing public offices since July as the country experiences power and water outages, and grapples with a summer of extreme heat.
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on August 2025
Canada To Drop Some Retaliatory Tariffs on U.S. Products, Carney Says
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and President Trump during a Group of 7 meeting in June in Kananaskis, Canada.
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on August 2025
‘No Meeting Planned’ Between Putin and Zelensky, Top Russian Diplomat Says
Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister. He has cast doubt on any imminent meeting between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine.
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on August 2025
Global Monitors Confirm Famine in Part of Gaza. What Does That Mean?
A charity kitchen distributing food in Gaza City on Friday.
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on August 2025
Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe Arrested on Corruption Charges
Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka’s former president, arriving at court in the country’s capital, Colombo, on Friday.
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on August 2025
The Hobbyist Restorer Who Rocked the Art World With an A.I. Innovation
The collapsed Church of San Salvatore in Campi on Oct. 31, 2016, a day after a 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit central Italy.
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on August 2025
North Korea Honors Its Soldiers Who Fought in Ukraine
A photo released by North Korean state media on Friday showed Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, at a ceremony for soldiers who had fought in the war in Ukraine.
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on August 2025
Hong Kong Denies Visa Renewal for Senior Bloomberg Journalist
Hong Kong was long a bastion of press freedom, but conditions have changed since China moved to stifle dissent and calls for democracy.
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on August 2025
Trump Begins Buildup of U.S. Naval Forces Outside Venezuela, but Many Remain Skeptical
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela during a parade in Caracas earlier this year. Mr. Maduro said on Monday that he was deploying 4.5 million militiamen around the country.
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on August 2025
Tiébilé Dramé, Voice for Rights in Mali, Is Dead at 70
Tiébilé Dramé in 2019. He was often on the edge of power in Mali but never at the center.
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on August 2025
Is the Trump Administration Building Up to a Military Confrontation With Venezuela?
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela at a military event in January. The Trump administration has labeled him a terrorist-cartel leader.
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on August 2025
Members of Congress Seek to Expand Sports Diplomacy
Representative Sydney Kamlager-Dove of California at a news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday highlighting nearly $80 million in funding to electrify the city’s bus system ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics.
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on August 2025
Trump’s Cuts May Spell the End for America’s Only Antarctic Research Ship
The Nathaniel B. Palmer heading out from McMurdo Station, a U.S. research base on Ross Island, Antarctica.
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on August 2025
Friday Briefing: U.S. and Europe Flesh Out Trade Deal
Cars from a Volkswagen factory in Zwickau, Germany, last year.
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on August 2025
Large Earthquake Strikes Drake Passage Near Argentina and Chile
An earthquake struck more than 700 km southeast of Argentina’s city of Ushuaia.
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on August 2025
Thaksin Shinawatra, Former Thai Premier, Cleared of Insulting Monarchy
Thaksin Shinawatra, a former prime minister who has long jostled for power in Thailand, had defamation charges against him dismissed on Friday.
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on August 2025
Trump Budget Office Is Withholding H.I.V. Funds That Congress Appropriated
Antiretroviral drugs on a shelf at Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi earlier this year.
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on August 2025
‘Flying Blind’: Trump Strips Government of Expertise at a High-Stakes Moment
President Trump has made it clear he believes his personal connection with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia can help him secure a peace deal on Ukraine.
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on August 2025
U.S. Kills Islamic State Operative in Rare Raid in Syria
Adm. Brad Cooper, in Bahrain in 2023, became the head of U.S. Central Command in August.
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on August 2025
Texas Mother Wanted for Son’s Murder Arrested in India
The house in Everman, Texas, where Cindy Rodriguez Singh and her son Noel Alvarez lived. The boy was last seen alive in October 2022.
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on August 2025
Friday Briefing: The U.S. and Europe Flesh Out a Trade Deal
Cars from a Volkswagen factory in Zwickau, Germany, last year.
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on August 2025
Denmark Wants Kids to Read More. Will a Tax Cut Help?
Readers in Copenhagen in March. Denmark announced this week that it planned to lift the value-added tax on books in a bid to promote literacy.
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on August 2025
Vance Recounts Telling Zelensky to ‘Behave’ in Trump Meeting
Vice President JD Vance, right, at the White House last month. Mr. Vance sparred with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine during a meeting in the Oval Office in February.
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on August 2025
Sonallah Ibrahim, Egyptian Novelist of Irony and Dissent, Dies at 88
The Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim in 1999. He chronicled his country’s submission to dictatorship and materialism with deadpan irony.
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on August 2025
Suspect Is Arrested in Sabotage of Pipelines Between Russia and Germany
A photo released by Danish authorities showed bubbles pooling on the Baltic Sea after the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was severed in 2022.
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on August 2025
Analysis: What Progress Has Trump Really Made in Ukraine Peace Talks?
President Trump with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at the White House, on Monday. Mr. Zelensky sounded guardedly upbeat after the meeting.
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on August 2025
Europe Gets a Written Trump Trade Deal, With a Caveat for Automakers
Cars at the Port of Zeebrugge, Belgium. European automakers face 27.5 percent tariffs on vehicles exported to the United States.
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on August 2025
Brazil-U.S. Talks on Mining Rare Earth Minerals Are Complicated by Trump’s Tariffs
A mine in Minaçu, Goias state, Brazil, that produces rare earth elements, including neodymium, praseodymium, terbium and dysprosium.
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on August 2025
How Tiffany Trump’s Husband Benefited From Proximity to Power
Michael Boulos and his wife, Tiffany Trump, at the Liberty Ball for the inauguration of President Trump’s second term in Washington, in January.
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on August 2025
Zelensky Projects More Confidence in Ukraine Peace Talks After Trump Meeting
President Trump with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at the White House on Monday. The meeting was different than their last one.
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on August 2025
Soccer Match in Argentina Ends Early After Violence in Stands
A fan preparing to throw a an object during a soccer game in Avellaneda, Argentina, on Wednesday. The match was canceled because of the violence.
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on August 2025
Thursday Briefing: Israeli Troops Near Gaza City
An Israeli military vehicle on the Gaza border on Tuesday.
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on August 2025
Women in Indian Sports Sweat for Their Share of a Booming Market
The Sports Women Huddle was held in Mumbai this month. From left, Sharda Ugra, a sports journalist; Sania Mirza, a former tennis player; Jinisha Sharma, owner of UP Warriorz in the Women’s Premier League; Deepa Malik, a former Paralympian in shot put; P. V. Sindhu, a badminton player; and Atiqa Mir, a kart racing driver.
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on August 2025
Jair Bolsonaro Planned to Seek Asylum in Argentina, Brazil’s Police Say
Former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil is under house arrest, awaiting trial next month on charges that he plotted to stay in power after losing the 2022 election.
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on August 2025
Rubio Takes on Tricky Task of Drafting Security Guarantees for Ukraine
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, speaking with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, during a joint news conference in Anchorage, where President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin met for a summit on Friday.
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on August 2025
Thursday Briefing: Israel’s Planned Offensive
An Israeli military vehicle on the Gaza border on Tuesday.
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on August 2025
Israel Approves Settlements, a Blow to Faded Hopes for a Palestinian State
Israeli policemen stand guard near the settlement of Maale Adumim, in a land corridor known as E1, outside Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, last week.
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on August 2025
Gazans Fear Looming Israeli Operation
An Israeli strike hits a building on Wednesday in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip.
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on August 2025
Ukrainian Family’s Prisoner of War Son Returns, Changed by Trauma
Where U.S. Medicines Are Made and How Trump’s Tariffs Could Affect Them
Joao Silva’s Journey Back to Afghanistan
A Miles-Long Cave in Kentucky Was a Smelly Disaster. Now It’s Spectacular.
Dusky Gopher Frogs Are Making a Comeback in Mississippi
Why Shop? In Maine, the Library of Things Has It All (Almost).