As Trump Quits UNESCO, China Expands Influence
The Temple of Heaven in Beijing is a UNESCO World Heritage site. China has spent years trying to influence the U.N. cultural agency.
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on July 2025
Zelensky Faces Criticism in Ukraine Over Effort to Rein In Corruption Agencies
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is facing growing pressure over a new law to curtail agencies that fight graft.
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on July 2025
Aid Groups Blame Israel’s Siege of Gaza for ‘Mass Starvation’
Waiting for food in Gaza City on Wednesday. A statement by more than 100 organizations is the latest attempt to draw attention to the hunger crisis in Gaza.
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on July 2025
Officials in Iran Suspect Sabotage in Wave of Fires and Explosions
A fire at a major oil refinery in Abadan, Iran, on Saturday killed one person.
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on July 2025
Chinese Hackers Are Exploiting Flaws in Widely Used Software, Microsoft Says
A Microsoft office in Beijing. The company said groups linked to the Chinese government had been taking advantage of security flaws in its SharePoint software.
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on July 2025
Britain Moves to Curb Migrant Trafficking, and Ease Anger at Home
Migrants left coastal France near Calais this month in an attempt to reach Britain. The number of migrants arriving in small boats after crossing the English Channel has surged in the past year.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Zelensky’s Government Takes Aim at Ukraine’s Corruption Fighters
The fight against corruption helped propel President Volodymyr Zelensky to power in 2019.
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on July 2025
Israel Expands Attacks in Central Gaza City and Raids W.H.O. Offices
Gazans hauling belongings on Tuesday in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, after the Israeli military broadened its operations in the area.
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on July 2025
Bangladesh Mourns After Deadly Plane Crash During School Lunch Break
Raiyan, 14, a student, received treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, after suffering injuries when a military jet crashed into a school in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Monday.
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on July 2025
With Russia and Ukraine to Meet Again, Here’s What to Know About the Peace Talks
From left, members of the Russian, Turkish and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul last month for the second round of peace talks.
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on July 2025
TV Show Helps Identify Mother and Child Found Dead in Rome Park, and a Suspect
Forensic police officers working last month at the park where a woman and child were found dead in Rome.
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on July 2025
What to Know About the U.S. Move to Withdraw From UNESCO
UNESCO’s director general, Audrey Azoulay, at the agency’s headquarters in Paris, in 2023.
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on July 2025
A Long, Overdue Reporting Trip Through Syria
A Syrian girl sells snacks in her destroyed neighborhood near the Alawite community Zahra neighborhood in Homs, Syria
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on July 2025
Power Bank Suspected as Cause of Fire on Virgin Australia Flight
A Virgin Australia plane. One of the airline’s flights was plunged into chaos after a fire started in an overhead bin. The company said it believes a battery caught fire.
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on July 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Israel Expands Gaza Offensive
Smoke rising over Deir al-Balah in central Gaza yesterday.
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on July 2025
North Carolina’s Bogs Have a Dirty Secret, and That’s a Good Thing
Peat soil at Angola Bay Game Land in North Carolina.
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on July 2025
Rip Current Survival Tips: What to Do if You Get Caught in One
Green dye, in an image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows the track of a rip current.
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Thomas
on July 2025
What to Know About the $250 Visa Integrity Fee for U.S. Tourists
Travelers arriving on international flights at Kennedy Airport in June.
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on July 2025
Canada Won’t Accept a Trade Deal With the U.S. at ‘Any Cost’
Prime Minister Mark Carney during a visit to a steel plant this month in Hamilton, Ontario.
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on July 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Israel Expands Gaza Offensive
Smoke rising over Deir al-Balah in central Gaza yesterday.
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on July 2025
Syrian Inquiry Says Military Leaders Did Not Order Sectarian Killings in March
Members of Syria’s government security forces in Baniyas, Syria, in March. The city was the site of some of the worst sectarian violence in Syria that month.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Zelensky Targeted in Wartime Protests in Ukraine for the First Time
At a protest against legislation stripping the independence of anti-corruption agencies, a woman holds a phone saying “Veto” in Ukrainian, in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Trump Administration Keeps 19 Percent Tariff on Indonesia in Trade Deal
The tariffs on Indonesia appear to be broadly in line with those President Trump has agreed on with other Southeast Asian nations.
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on July 2025
FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Chief Resigns, Citing Agency ‘Chaos’, Colleagues Said
Search and rescue personnel near the Guadalupe River in Texas on July 8 after catastrophic flooding.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Russia and Ukraine to Renew Talks, but Peace Remains Elusive
Ukrainian soldiers firing toward Russian positions in the Donetsk region of Ukraine in May.
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on July 2025
U.S. Is Missing the Century’s ‘Greatest Economic Opportunity,’ U.N. Chief Says
The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, at the U.N. headquarters in New York last month.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Air India Finds ‘No Issues’ After Inspections of Boeing Fuel Switches
The crashed Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft in Ahmedabad, India, last month.
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on July 2025
U.S. Says It Will Withdraw From UNESCO, Again
President Trump at the White House on Friday. The move to leave UNESCO reflects Mr. Trump’s deep mistrust and distaste of multilateralism and international institutions.
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Thomas
on July 2025
‘Bye, Bro’: British Fighter Jet, Stranded in India, Finally Leaves for Home
A British F-35B fighter jet on the tarmac at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport before taking off, on Tuesday, 22 July.
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on July 2025
Austria Prepares to Give Up ‘Dream’ of Disarmament
Chancellor Christian Stocker of Austria in Vienna this month. The principle of neutrality, he said, “obligates us to national defense, comprehensive national defense in particular.”
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Thomas
on July 2025
Fiona Hill on Trump, Putin and Why Great Powers Fall
“Inability to act is the real challenge for all democratic systems,” Fiona Hill said. “Populism offers quick fixes for extraordinarily difficult problems.”
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on July 2025
Philippines’ Leader Meets With Trump to Clinch Trade Deal
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines at the Pentagon on Monday.
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on July 2025
Tuesday Briefing: A Deadly Jet Crash in Bangladesh
A search and rescue operation yesterday at the crash site in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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on July 2025
Sharing a Bed With Your Kid? It’s Totally Normal in Asia.
Erin Lim, second from right, and Tommy Kim in their bedroom with their sons in Seoul this month.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Tuesday Briefing: A Deadly Jet Crash in Bangladesh
A search and rescue operation yesterday at the crash site in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Climate Change Is Making Fire Weather Worse for World’s Forests
Fires at Tatkin Lake in British Columbia, Canada, in July 2023.
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on July 2025
Chinese Officers Questioned U.S. Government Employee About His Army Service
The Commerce Department employee is one of a handful of Americans barred by China from leaving the country, in a shadowy practice called an “exit ban” that the Chinese government has used for years.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Seabed-Mining Firm Faces Legal Questions Over Trump Policy
A ship chartered by The Metals Company in 2021 to explore the potential of seabed mining.
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on July 2025
In Japan, Anti-Establishment Parties Resonate With Young Voters
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan and other leaders of the Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Monday, a day after the party’s defeat in parliamentary elections.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Syrian Government Evacuates Bedouin Families After Deadly Clashes
Bedouin tribe members, evacuating in the back of a truck, stopped at a security checkpoint in Taarah, in Syria’s southern Sweida Province, on Monday.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Did Jeju Air Pilots Shut Down Wrong Engine Before Deadly Crash?
The site of the Jeju Air plane crash at Muan International Airport, South Korea, in 2024.
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on July 2025
Shootings, Devastation, Hunger: Israel Fails to Address Gaza’s Power Vacuum
Mourners after Israeli troops opened fire on people trying to get aid north of Gaza City on Sunday.
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on July 2025
Israel Refuses to Renew Visa of Top UN Humanitarian Official for Gaza
In a screen grab taken from a handout video provided by the United Nations, Jonathan Whittall is shown standing near a destroyed hospital in Gaza in 2024.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Bangladesh Air Force Jet Crashes Into School, Killing at Least 20
Firefighters and soldiers next to the wreckage of a military aircraft after it crashed into a school campus in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Monday.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Chinese Officials Helped Cover Up Lead Poisoning of Children, Report Says
A family outside a pediatric hospital in Beijing, China, in July.
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on July 2025
Iran to Hold Nuclear Talks With France, Germany and U.K. After Sanctions Threat
Walking by a mural of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, right, and Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of the Islamic revolution, in Tehran.
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on July 2025
Venezuela Targets Economists as Inflation Surges Under Trump’s Sanctions
U.S. dollar bills and Venezuelan bolívars. Though the bolívar is Venezuela’s official currency, the country operates on a dual-currency system, and many people paid in bolívars spend in dollars.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Iran’s Leaders Turn to a New Brand of Nationalism After Israeli and U.S. Attacks
Gold Miners Feared Dead in Congo After Landslide
A New Golf Course and Old Grudges Await Trump in Scotland
How Native Homes in New Mexico Are Tapping the Sun
Grizzlies Were Raiding Montana Farms. Then Came Some Formidable Dogs.
Why This Pennsylvania City Put Its Streetlights on a Dimmer
SkyWest Plane Aborts Landing to Avoid Midair Collision With B-52 Bomber