Gaza City and Surrounding Areas Officially Hit by Famine, Global Group Says
Palestinians jostling for food outside a charity kitchen in central Gaza City this month.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Crowdfunded War Map That Ukrainians 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
Nathaniel B. Palmer, a U.S. Icebreaker, May Have Sailed Its Last Expedition
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
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
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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Thomas
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
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
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
Russia Demands Role in Guaranteeing Ukraine’s Postwar Security
Russian soldiers in uniforms without identifying insignia in Crimea in 2014. Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine began that year with the seizure of the territory.
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on August 2025
Xi Jinping Visits Tibet as Dalai Lama’s Succession Looms
Taking photos in front of a portrait of President Xi Jinping in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, in March.
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on August 2025
Italians Pay Final Respects to Pippo Baudo, Their ‘King of Television’
Pippo Baudo in Verona, Italy, in 2021. He helmed some of the country’s most popular prime-time variety shows.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Drone Explosion in Haiti Kills 2 SWAT Members and Injures 6 Others
Haitian police officers patrol in a suburb of Port-au-Prince earlier this month.
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on August 2025
What Russia Is Doing to Grab Ukrainian Land While It Still Can
The scene after a Russian attack near Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on Sunday. Ukrainian forces have largely pushed the Russians back from their recent gains, though the fighting remains intense.
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on August 2025
Syrian and Israeli Officials Meet for U.S. Brokered Talks
Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani of Syria pictured in Athens on Wednesday a day after a Paris meeting with an Israeli delegation.
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on August 2025
Trump Calls Netanyahu a ‘War Hero’ and Adds: ‘I Guess I Am, Too’
President Trump at a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in July.
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on August 2025
With Moves on West Bank and Gaza City, Israel Defies Global Outcry
An Israeli military vehicle on Israel’s side of the border with Gaza on Tuesday.
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on August 2025
Canada and Mexico Look to Team Up as Trump’s Tariff Threats Loom
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada in June during a summit of the Group of 7 nations in Kananaskis, Alberta.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Ireland’s Last Leprechaun Whisperer Pitches TV Show
A display in Carlingford, Ireland. For many Irish, especially older ones, leprechauns should not be dismissed completely.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Why Georgia, Once on Democracy’s Vanguard, Is Drifting Toward Russia
Anti-government protests in Tbilisi, Georgia, in March 2025.
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on August 2025
Wednesday Briefing: An Uncertain Path to Peace in Ukraine
The Ukraine talks at the White House on Monday.
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on August 2025
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).
Monsoon Rains Bring Mumbai to a Standstill
More Than 70 Afghans Returning From Iran Die in Fiery Bus Crash
Unregulated Sexual Stimulants Flood West Africa