Amid Tariff Chaos, U.S. Allies Try to Redraw the Trade Map
A Volkswagen factory in Zwickau, Germany. President Trump’s tariffs have E.U. leaders looking elsewhere for reliable trading partners.
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on July 2025
Why Trump’s Abraham Accords Have Not Meant Mideast Peace
President Trump leading Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and officials from Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates outside the White House to sign the Abraham Accords in 2020.
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on July 2025
South African President Opens Corruption Inquiry of Police Leader
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, who has been facing turmoil from within his coalition government, announced on Sunday that he was forming a commission to investigate allegations against Senzo Mchunu, the country’s police minister.
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on July 2025
Children Among at Least 10 Killed in Israeli Strike in Central Gaza, Officials Say
Palestinians mourning a relative killed on Sunday in an Israeli strike in Gaza City.
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on July 2025
For Families of Air India Crash Victims, Report Brings No Closure
Relatives of one of the victims of the Air India plane crash awaiting his body at home in Ahmedabad last month.
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on July 2025
France Announces Agreement to Give New Caledonia More Autonomy
New Caledonia last year. A new agreement would make the semiautonomous territory a state within the French Republic.
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on July 2025
A Landscape of Death: What’s Left Where Ukraine Invaded Russia
Last year, Ukraine turned a corner of Russia into a battlefield. It is now a place of desolation and death.
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on July 2025
Modi Wants More Indians to Speak Hindi. Some States Are Shouting ‘No.’
Raj Thackeray, left, and Uddhav Thackeray at a recent rally in Mumbai. They are cousins and both politicians in Maharashtra. Though they had a falling-out years ago and started rival parties, the effort to require primary schools in Maharashtra to teach Hindi has reunited them in opposition to the plan.
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on July 2025
Two Palestinians Are Killed in a West Bank Clash With Israeli Settlers
Israeli soldiers holding back Palestinians trying to get to injured Palestinians after clashes with Israeli settlers in Sinjil in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday.
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on July 2025
They Fled War in Ethiopia. Then American Bombs Found Them.
“The place and everyone in it were mangled,” said Fanta Ali Ahmed, 32, from the Tigray region of Ethiopia. He was injured in April in the bombing of a migrant detention center in Saada, Yemen.
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on July 2025
How to Panic Italians? Jack Up the Price of Espresso.
A cup of espresso at the Lavazza Museum in Turin, Italy. Executives from Lavazza and Illy have warned for more than a year that higher coffee prices are most likely here to stay.
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on July 2025
Bluffs and Bluster Aside, Trump’s Tariffs Are Here to Stay
President Trump argues that low tariffs have left the country at a disadvantage in the past, allowing Americans to import cheap products that put U.S. factories out of business and left the country dependent on foreign nations.
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on July 2025
Trump’s Willingness to Arm Ukraine Puts Him Closer to Biden Approach
The approach President Trump is taking seems designed to keep him at least one arm’s length away from the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
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on July 2025
In His Own Words: How Trump Changed His Tone on Putin and the War in Ukraine
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Trump in 2019. While he was running for president in 2024, Mr. Trump said he could settle the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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on July 2025
Trump Is Expected to Announce New Weapons Pipeline for Ukraine
Firefighters on the scene of a Russian attack on a neighborhood next to a military recruitment center in Odesa, Ukraine, on Saturday.
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on July 2025
It’s Paradise Lost as Climate Change Remakes Europe’s Summers
Increasingly frequent storms have washed much of the sand from the beach at Montgat, near Barcelona in Spain.
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on July 2025
King Charles III Will Host Trump for U.K. State Visit in September
In February, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain gave President Trump an invitation from King Charles for a state visit.
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on July 2025
Macron Increases Military Spending, Saying Freedom Is Threatened
President Emmanuel Macron of France delivering a speech to army leaders in Paris on Sunday.
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on July 2025
Timeline Details Final Seconds of Crashed Air India Flight
Investigators at the crash site of Air India Flight 171 in Ahmedabad, India, last month.
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on July 2025
A Beloved Canadian Chocolate Bar Disappears From the Market
Neilson Jersey Milk Bars are no longer on Canadian store shelves.
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on July 2025
Flash Floods Are the ‘Hardest Kind’ of Disaster to Prevent, Experts Say
Flood-damaged homes lining the river in Chiva, near Valencia, Spain, in November. A flood alert system was in place but was not immediately activated.
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on July 2025
Ben Jealous, Sierra Club’s Executive Director, on Leave After Rocky Tenure
Ben Jealous, executive director of the Sierra Club, at a climate rally in Washington in 2023. He is now on leave.
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on July 2025
Air India Plane Crash Report Says Fuel to Engines Was Cut Off
Workers removing the airplane’s tail from the wreckage of the Air India crash last month.
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on July 2025
Evidence Supports War Crimes Allegations in Darfur, I.C.C. Prosecutor Says
A refugee camp in Adré, Chad, last year, where many people from Darfur have fled.
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on July 2025
Appeals Court Overturns Plea Deal in 9/11 Case
Camp Justice at the U.S. naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 2023.
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on July 2025
Trump Says NATO Countries Will Buy Weapons to Give to Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers firing American-made munitions, last year.
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on July 2025
Netanyahu Ends Washington Trip Without a Gaza Truce
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
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on July 2025
Strava Fitness App Revealed Locations of Swedish Leaders
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson of Sweden with his wife, Birgitta Ed, in 2024. Fitness data from bodyguards gave away the location of his private residence, a newspaper report found.
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on July 2025
Republicans Blame Canada for Wildfire Smoke ‘Suffocating’ the U.S.
A wildfire burning last month in Squamish, British Columbia.
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on July 2025
Germany Takes an Unassuming Approach to Tax Cuts, in Contrast to Trump
Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, right, and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil in Berlin on Friday.
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on July 2025
Trump’s Latest Canada Tariff Threats Come Despite Cordial Negotiations With Carney
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and President Trump at the Group of 7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, last month. The two leaders have had a friendly relationship.
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on July 2025
Kurdish PKK Fighters Burn Weapons in Step Toward Peace With Turkey
Arms belonging to Kurdish P.K.K. insurgents from Turkey were set on fire during a ceremony in northern Iraq on Friday.
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on July 2025
Cairo Telecommunications Building Hit With 2nd Fire in a Week
The initial fire broke out on Monday at a telecommunications hub in central Cairo, killing at least four people.
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on July 2025
As Trump Sows Tariff Confusion, Rules of Global Commerce Give Way to Chaos
After President Trump unveiled tariff numbers at the White House in April, a rapid volley of negotiations began.
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on July 2025
Behind Trump’s Decision to Tax Brazil to Save Bolsonaro
President Trump said the new 50 percent tariffs on Brazilian imports would take effect on Aug. 1, just before Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, is to stand trial.
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on July 2025
Takeaways From the Times Investigation Into Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu leaving the King David Hotel in Jerusalem to visit the Western Wall on June 12, shortly before Israel attacked Iran.
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on July 2025
How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on June 5.
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on July 2025
Manitoba Declares Second Wildfire Emergency in a Near-Record Year
A view of a wildfire in northern Manitoba in June.
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on July 2025
What to Know About the Rare Earths Mining Boom in Myanmar
A gold mine in Karen State in Myanmar last year. Chinese state-owned firms and criminal networks control the extraction of many natural resources in Myanmar.
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on July 2025
Rare Earths Mining in Myanmar Is Polluting Thailand’s Kok River
Levels of arsenic and other toxic metals have spiked to dangerous levels in Thai waterways like the Kok River, seen here in June.
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on July 2025
Friday Briefing: Iran Has Some Uranium Left, Israel Says
A uranium processing site in Isfahan, Iran, in 2005.
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on July 2025
At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says
Thousands of postal workers were wrongfully accused of crimes over more than a decade in the British post office scandal, according to a report.
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on July 2025
Friday Briefing: Israel Says Iran Has Some Uranium Left
A uranium processing site in Isfahan, Iran, in 2005.
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on July 2025
Coal, the Last Survivor of Canada’s Parliament Hill Cat Colony, Dies
Coal, with the Centre Block building in the background, in Ottawa.
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on July 2025
Targeting Brazil, Trump Tests Legal Limit of His Tariff Powers
President Trump linked his threat of a 50 percent tariff on Brazil this week to that country’s treatment of its former president Jair Bolsonaro, above.
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on July 2025
US-Brazil Tariffs: What to Know About Trump’s History With Bolsonaro
Then-President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil with President Trump during a visit to the White House in 2019. In Mr. Trump’s first term, few world leaders were a more reliable ally than Mr. Bolsonaro.
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on July 2025
Four More Rescued in Red Sea, as Houthis Vow to Keep Up Attacks
This image released by the Houthis’ Ansarullah Media Center on Wednesday shows what the group says is the Eternity C, a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier, sinking after it was attacked by the Houthis.
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on July 2025
Some of Iran’s Enriched Uranium Survived Attacks, Israeli Official Says
A uranium processing site in Isfahan, which hosts Iran’s nuclear laboratory, seen in 2005.
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on July 2025
U.K. Faces Rising Threat From Iranian Plots, Intelligence Committee Says
Kevan Jones, the chairman of Britain’s parliamentary intelligence committee, in a photo provided by the British Parliament.
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on July 2025
Monday Briefing: America’s Brain Drain and the World
Monday Briefing: America’s Brain Drain and the World
When It’s This Hot, ‘We Are Enduring, Not Living’
Police Investigate Burning of Migrant-Boat Effigy in Northern Ireland as a Hate Crime
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