What’s Next for Ukraine After All That Diplomacy?
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Trump at the White House last week.
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on August 2025
Israeli Hospital Strike Kills 20 in Gaza, Including 5 Journalists
Palestinian medics helping an injured man at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Monday.
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on August 2025
E1 Settlement in West Bank Tied to Greater Israel Goal
A view of the E1 area near an Israeli settlement, Maale Adumim, on Friday.
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on August 2025
Expecting on the Front Lines: Motherhood in Ukraine’s Military
Nadia, a military radio operator, getting an ultrasound at the Poltava hospital in central Ukraine in January. She served until she was eight and a half months pregnant.
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on August 2025
What to Know About the Journalists Killed in Gaza
A photo made available by the family of Mariam Dagga, a freelancer photographer for The Associated Press and other news outlets, of her father leading her funeral prayer after she was killed.
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on August 2025
France Summons U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner Over Antisemitism Comments
Charles Kushner, the U.S. ambassador to France, and his wife, Seryl Kushner, leaving the Élysée Palace in Paris in July.
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on August 2025
At Least One Dead as Typhoon Kajiki Slams Vietnam
Typhoon Kajiki brought heavy rain to Vinh, a city in Nghe An Province of Vietnam, on Monday.
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on August 2025
German Prosecutors Charge American With Attempted Spying for China
The Chinese Embassy in Berlin last year. The American had worked as a Defense Department contractor from 2017 to spring 2023, the prosecutors said in a statement.
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on August 2025
Singer Marko Perkovic’s Fascist-Era Salute Evokes a Bloody Time in Croatia
Thompson, the stage name of Marko Perkovic, performing this month in Sinj, Croatia.
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on August 2025
Zelensky Marks Ukraine’s Independence Day With Diplomacy in Kyiv and a Plea for Peace
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada with President Volodymyr Zelensky during Independence Day celebrations on Sunday in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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on August 2025
Peace Talks in Ukraine All Lead to the Donbas
Ukrainian soldiers firing toward a Russian target in the Donetsk region this year. The Donbas, made up of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, has become the focus of territorial disputes between Ukraine and Russia.
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on August 2025
China Looms Large as South Korea’s President Meets With Trump
President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea will meet with President Trump on Monday during his first official trip to Washington.
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on August 2025
Tuesday Briefing: Israeli Strikes Killed Five Journalists
The Israeli strikes hit Nasser Hospital yesterday.
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on August 2025
French Prime Minister Calls Special Parliamentary Session to Address Ballooning Debt
“There’s no way out if we don’t realize the gravity of this risk,” Prime Minister François Bayrou of France said of the country’s deficit during a news conference in Paris on Monday.
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on August 2025
Abrego Garcia Detained Again After Government Signaled It Would Re-Deport Him
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the immigrant who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March, speaking in Baltimore on Monday.
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on August 2025
Trump Relies on Personal Diplomacy With Putin. The Result Is a Strategic Muddle.
President Trump waiting to greet President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage this month.
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on August 2025
How China Influences Elections in America’s Biggest City
American and Chinese flags outside the Fukien Benevolent Association, a community group in Chinatown, Manhattan.
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on August 2025
Monday Briefing: Would Ukraine Give Up the Donbas?
Ukrainian soldiers in the Donetsk region this year.
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on August 2025
Monday Briefing: Would Ukraine Give Up the Donbas?
Ukrainian soldiers in the Donetsk region this year.
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on August 2025
Revealing Taste
Vice President JD Vance, whose playlists were part of a prankish Spotify leak.
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on August 2025
Hundreds Languish in Pakistan’s Prisons on Blasphemy Charges
Family members of people accused of online blasphemy at a news conference in October in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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on August 2025
China’s Tropical Resort Island Orders Evacuations as Typhoon Kajiki Nears
Navigating heavy rain on Sunday in the Hainan Province of China as Typhoon Kajiki approaches.
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on August 2025
As Other Israelis Die in War, Ultra-Orthodox Resist Call to Fight
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man being carried by Israeli security forces during a protest against conscription last week in Kfar Yona.
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on August 2025
Collapse of Bridge Under Construction in China Leaves 12 Dead
The aftermath of a bridge collapse on the Sichuan-Qinghai Railway in northwest China on Friday in a photo released by Chinese state media.
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on August 2025
The Water Cure
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on August 2025
An Unusual Sight Over Canada’s Arctic: Wildfire Smoke
Wildfires in northern Saskatchewan.
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on August 2025
After Gaza Famine Report, U.S. Is Mostly Silent and Israel Defiant
A charity kitchen distributing food in Gaza City on Friday. A new U.N.-backed report found that the city and surrounding areas were experiencing famine.
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on August 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Ukrainian Family’s Prisoner of War Son Returns, Changed by Trauma
Should I Get a Portable Induction Cooktop?
Where U.S. Medicines Are Made and How Trump’s Tariffs Could Affect Them