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Rubio Restricts U.S. Criticism of Tainted Foreign Elections
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a department cable that public comments on foreign elections “should be brief, focused on congratulating the winning candidate and, when appropriate, noting shared foreign policy interests.”
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on July 2025
UK, France and Germany Plan for a Post-U.S. Future
From left: President Emmanuel Macron of France, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain and Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany at a summit in Tirana, Albania, in May.
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on July 2025
Who Are the Druse? The Religious Minority at the Center of Israel and Syria’s Tensions
Clerics praying during a funeral for people killed during clashes between Druse fighters and Bedouin tribes in Sweida, Syria, on Monday.
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on July 2025
Floods and Heavy Rain Kill Dozens in Pakistan
A flooded village in northern Pakistan on Thursday.
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Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Former President, Ordered to Wear Ankle Monitor Before Trial
Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, outside the Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration on Friday. Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered him to stay away from foreign embassies because it fears he could flee justice.
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on July 2025
Blood in the Streets and Death in the Air: Residents Survey Damage in Syrian City
Buildings that were burned and looted near Sweida, Syria, on Tuesday.
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on July 2025
Extra! Extra! Read All About Last Newspaper Hawker in Paris
Ali Akbar, 72, has been hawking newspapers in the streets of Paris for more than a half-century.
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on July 2025
Cuban Minister Resigns After Accusing Beggars of Faking Poverty
Cuban Minister of Labour and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, in 2023.
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on July 2025
The UK Plans to Lower the Voting Age to 16. Here’s What to Know.
A polling station in Brighton and Hove in England last year. Britain has set the minimum voting age for general elections at 18 since 1969.
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on July 2025
Prominent Human Rights Group Flees El Salvador
Ruth López, the anti-corruption director of Cristosal, leaving a courthouse in June, following her May arrest.
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on July 2025
Iraq Shopping Mall Fire Kills at Least 61
The shopping center in Kut, Iraq, on Thursday after the blaze.
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on July 2025
Trump’s Brazil Tariff Threats Rekindle Support for President Lula
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil has seen a surge in popularity after confronting President Trump over tariffs.
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on July 2025
China’s Aircraft Carriers Push Into Waters Long Dominated by U.S.
Fighter jets could be seen on the flight deck of China’s first domestically built aircraft carrier, the Shandong, as it was anchored in Hong Kong this month.
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on July 2025
Felix Baumgartner, Skydiver Who Jumped From the Edge of Space, Dies Paragliding at 56
Mr. Baumgartner saluting before jumping toward Earth over Roswell, N.M., in 2012.
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on July 2025
Musk Clears Final Hurdles for Tesla and Starlink in India
The first Tesla showroom in India, in Mumbai, on Tuesday.
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on July 2025
Iran’s Fordo Nuclear Site Was Badly Damaged by U.S. Strikes, New Assessment Finds
A satellite image of the Iranian nuclear facility at Fordo after the U.S. attacks last month.
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on July 2025
5 Charged in U.C. Berkeley Professor’s Killing in Greece, Including His Ex-Wife
An image from video showing police officers arresting five people over the killing of a University of California, Berkeley, professor in a suburb of Athens.
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on July 2025
Friday Briefing: Bloodshed in a Syrian City
Syrian security forces in Sweida on Wednesday.
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on July 2025
‘Bonjour’ Sets Off a Linguistic Dispute on a Belgian Train
Commuters at a train station in Leuven, Belgium, in 2022. Language rules in the Flanders region can get complicated.
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on July 2025
Israeli Strike on a Gaza Church Kills Three
Transporting a person who was injured in the strike on the Holy Family Catholic Church to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Thursday.
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on July 2025
Rescuers Seek American Hiker Missing for Days in the Pyrenees
Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, in the Pyrenees mountains of Spain.
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on July 2025
Prince Harry Follows Diana’s Footsteps in Angola as Specter of Land Mines Returns
Prince Harry, left, walking through a minefield in Cuito Cuanavale, Angola, on Wednesday, in a photo released by The Halo Trust. He repeated the journey that his mother, Diana, took in 1997.
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on July 2025
They Grew Up on Mexican Coke. Trump’s Cane Sugar Plan Makes Them Uneasy.
A Coca-Cola truck driving through Izamal, Mexico, last year.
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on July 2025
Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s Decade of Legal Woes Ends
Lee Jae-yong, the chairman of Samsung Electronics, arriving for a court appearance in Seoul in February.
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on July 2025
Why Israel Attacked Syria
An Israeli airstrike damaged the entrance to Syria’s defense ministry headquarters on Wednesday.
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on July 2025
Syria’s President Condemns Israeli Strikes on Damascus
Debris in Damascus, the Syrian capital, on Wednesday, after an Israeli strike.
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on July 2025
Lauren Southern, Former Right-Wing Commentator, Says Andrew Tate Assaulted Her
Lauren Southern in 2018 during a right-wing rally in Sydney in support of white South African farmers.
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on July 2025
Thursday Briefing: Israel Strikes Damascus
Debris in Damascus yesterday, after an Israeli missile strike.
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on July 2025
Germany’s Merz and UK’s Starmer Sign Mutual Defense Pact as U.S. Steps Back
The Anglo-German accord, signed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain and Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, covers energy, economic cooperation and migration, in addition to defense.
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on July 2025
K-Beauty Fans Stock up on Cosmetics After Trump’s Tariff Threat
Shoppers at an Olive Young store in Seoul in April.
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on July 2025
Trump Has Promised More Tariffs on Mexico. What Happens Next?
Vehicles lining up on the Tijuana side of the U.S.-Mexico border to cross into Southern California last year.
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on July 2025
Eswatini Says It Will Repatriate Migrants Deported by the Trump Administration
Mswati III, King of Eswatini, addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 2023.
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on July 2025
Thursday Briefing: Israel Strikes Damascus
After the Israeli airstrikes on Damascus yesterday.
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on July 2025
London’s Kew Gardens Will Renovate Iconic Glasshouses
The Palm House at Kew Gardens will close for major restorations in 2027.
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on July 2025
Carney Moves to Reduce Canada’s Chinese Steel Imports in Response to Trump’s Tariffs
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced steps on Wednesday intended to reduce steel imports from China at a steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario.
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on July 2025
Norwegian Olympic Skier, Audun Groenvold, Dies After Lightning Strike
Audun Groenvold of Norway won a bronze medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
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on July 2025
Mosaic of Lovers, Taken by Nazi Officer, Is Returned to Pompeii
Archaeologists believe the mosaic may have once decorated the bedroom floor of a villa or another private residence belonging to one of Pompeii’s wealthier families.
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on July 2025
The Air India Plane Crash Took His ‘Everything’
Anil Ambalal Patel kissing a photo of his son, Harshit, and his daughter-in-law, Pooja, on the morning of their funeral.
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on July 2025
Israel Strikes Syria’s Capital, Sending Warning to Government
Smoke rising from the Syrian Defense Ministry in the capital, Damascus, on Wednesday.
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on July 2025
Russia Appears Unfazed by Trump’s Ukraine War Ultimatum
Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, center, in Malaysia this month. He said Moscow wanted to understand what was behind Mr. Trump’s remarks.
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on July 2025
Mike Huckabee Visits Netanyahu’s Trial in Israel
Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, arrived on Wednesday at the court where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on trial for corruption.
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on July 2025
At Least 20 Killed in Stampede Outside a Gaza Aid Site
Casualties were brought into Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza on Wednesday after a stampede at a food distribution site.
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on July 2025
U.K., France and Germany Threaten to Reimpose Tough U.N. Nuclear Sanctions on Iran
A satellite image released by Maxar Technologies last month showed damage at an Iranian nuclear complex after U.S. strikes.
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on July 2025
Trump Announces ‘Great Deal’ on Trade With Indonesia
President Trump called a trade agreement with Indonesia a “great deal for everybody.”
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on July 2025
The West’s Megadrought Might Not Let Up for Decades, Study Suggests
Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Arizona, where July water levels are only at a third of capacity.
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on July 2025
Migration Fears Turn Europe’s Borderless Dreams Into Traffic Nightmares
German border guards stop cars crossing from Poland last week.
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on July 2025
Iceland Volcano Erupts Again but Doesn’t Threaten Towns
Lava flowing from the Sundhnukur crater in Iceland on Wednesday, in a handout photo from the Civil Protection of Iceland.
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on July 2025
Club Drugs Strain Health System on Ibiza, Spain’s Party Island
The Pacha nightclub in Ibiza, Spain, in 2022. The island is an engine of Spain’s tourism industry, with 3.3 million visitors last year.
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on July 2025
Interior Dept. to Put Wind and Solar Projects Through Stricter Political Review
Friday Briefing: Trump’s Order on Epstein Records
Tomorrowland Music Festival Is Still On After Blaze Wrecks Main Stage
As Iran Deports a Million Afghans, ‘Where Do We Even Go?’
Afghan Women and Girls Deported From Iran Fear Returning to Afghanistan