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Major Prisoner Swap Frees Americans in Venezuela for Migrants in El Salvador

18 juillet 2025 à 16:32
A deal freed 10 Americans and permanent residents detained in Venezuela for more than 200 Venezuelan migrants who were imprisoned in El Salvador after being expelled from the United States.

Cuban Minister Resigns After Accusing Beggars of Faking Poverty

18 juillet 2025 à 15:54
The labor and social security minister drew public outrage when she said “there are no beggars” in Cuba, where many people struggle to afford food.

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Cuban Minister of Labour and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, in 2023.

Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Former President, Ordered to Wear Ankle Monitor Before Trial

18 juillet 2025 à 11:50
Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered Jair Bolsonaro, the former president, to stay home most hours, defying President Trump’s demands that charges against him be dropped.

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Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, outside the country’s Senate on Thursday. Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered him to stay away from foreign embassies because it fears he could flee justice.

Floods and Heavy Rain Kill Dozens in Pakistan

18 juillet 2025 à 07:08
Relentless rain began on Wednesday, causing flooding in several cities and across vast rural stretches in the province of Punjab.

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A flooded village in northern Pakistan on Thursday.

UK, France and Germany Plan for a Post-U.S. Future

18 juillet 2025 à 05:58
The leaders of France, Germany and Britain are building parallel diplomatic institutions to defend Europe as President Trump retreats from the continent.

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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.

Who Are the Druse? The Religious Minority at the Center of Israel and Syria’s Tensions

18 juillet 2025 à 05:03
Spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, the secretive religious minority has long balanced integration and independence. Now, members are at the heart of the region’s shifting power struggles.

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Clerics praying during a funeral for people killed during clashes between Druse fighters and Bedouin tribes in Sweida, Syria, on Monday.

Extra! Extra! Read All About Last Newspaper Hawker in Paris

18 juillet 2025 à 05:02
Ali Akbar started selling papers on the streets in 1974. He is still at it, winning over Parisians and presidents with persistence, humor and his signature catchphrase: “Ça y est!”

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Ali Akbar, 72, has been hawking newspapers in the streets of Paris for more than a half-century.
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Musk Clears Final Hurdles for Tesla and Starlink in India

17 juillet 2025 à 20:15
In the first tangible inroads Elon Musk has sought for years in India, Starlink passed a final regulatory hurdle and Tesla opened its first India store.

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The first Tesla showroom in India, in Mumbai, on Tuesday.

5 Charged in U.C. Berkeley Professor’s Killing in Greece, Including His Ex-Wife

17 juillet 2025 à 22:51
Przemyslaw Jeziorski, who taught quantitative marketing at the Haas School of Business, was shot several times on July 4 outside Athens, the authorities said.

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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.

‘Bonjour’ Sets Off a Linguistic Dispute on a Belgian Train

17 juillet 2025 à 13:33
The rules can get complicated in a country with French, Dutch and German as official languages.

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Commuters at a train station in Leuven, Belgium, in 2022. Language rules in the Flanders region can get complicated.

Blood in the Streets and Death in the Air: Residents Survey Damage in Syrian City

17 juillet 2025 à 15:56
In the southern city of Sweida, residents describe the aftermath of a wave of sectarian violence.

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Buildings that were burned and looted near Sweida, Syria, on Tuesday.

Israeli Strike on a Gaza Church Kills Three

17 juillet 2025 à 16:05
As cease-fire talks stalled, a deadly strike on a Catholic church in Gaza City prompted Pope Leo XIV to call for an immediate end to the fighting.

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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.

The UK Plans to Lower the Voting Age to 16. Here’s What to Know.

17 juillet 2025 à 10:38
The plan has been described as the largest expansion of voting rights in Britain in decades.

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A polling station in Brighton, England, last year. Britain has set the minimum voting age for general elections at 18 since 1969.

Prominent Human Rights Group Flees El Salvador

17 juillet 2025 à 09:34
The group, Cristosal, has investigated prison deaths and torture under President Nayib Bukele. Its employees were threatened and surveilled, its director said.

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Ruth López, the anti-corruption director of Cristosal, leaving a courthouse in June, following her May arrest.

Rescuers Seek American Hiker Missing for Days in the Pyrenees

17 juillet 2025 à 07:57
Cole Henderson, 27, was last heard from on July 9, when he told friends he was putting his phone into airplane mode ahead of a mountain hike in Spain.

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Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, in the Pyrenees mountains of Spain.

Prince Harry Follows Diana’s Footsteps in Angola as Specter of Land Mines Returns

17 juillet 2025 à 07:23
Harry walked through a minefield in Angola, retracing a journey by his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997. Several countries plan to revive use of the weapons.

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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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  • Why Israel Attacked Syria
    For weeks, Israel has engaged in back-channel talks over a diplomatic agreement with the Syrian government. Its strikes on Damascus this week highlight a lack of strategic clarity.
     

Why Israel Attacked Syria

17 juillet 2025 à 07:18
For weeks, Israel has engaged in back-channel talks over a diplomatic agreement with the Syrian government. Its strikes on Damascus this week highlight a lack of strategic clarity.

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An Israeli airstrike damaged the entrance to Syria’s defense ministry headquarters on Wednesday.

They Grew Up on Mexican Coke. Trump’s Cane Sugar Plan Makes Them Uneasy.

17 juillet 2025 à 06:37
After President Trump announced that Coke will be made with cane sugar in the U.S., as it is in Mexico, foodies of Mexican heritage said in interviews that they weren’t excited.

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A Coca-Cola truck driving through Izamal, Mexico, last year.

Israel, Mixing Force With Diplomacy, Takes ‘Discordant’ Approach to Syria

17 juillet 2025 à 06:04
For weeks, Israel has engaged in back-channel talks over a diplomatic agreement with the Syrian government. Its strikes on Damascus this week highlight a lack of strategic clarity.

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An Israeli airstrike damaged the entrance to Syria’s defense ministry headquarters on Wednesday.

Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s Decade of Legal Woes Ends

17 juillet 2025 à 06:24
​The South Korean Supreme Court’s ruling dispels uncertainty​ over Lee Jae-yong’s leadership as the tech giant faces challenges from tariffs and chip making rivals.

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Lee Jae-yong, the chairman of Samsung Electronics, arriving for a court appearance in Seoul in February.

Syria’s President Condemns Israeli Strikes on Damascus

17 juillet 2025 à 10:35
President Ahmed al-Shara said the airstrike on Damascus threatened to escalate sectarian violence, in his sharpest criticism of Israel since he came to power.

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Debris in Damascus, the Syrian capital, on Wednesday, after an Israeli strike.

Trump’s Brazil Tariff Threats Rekindle Support for President Lula

17 juillet 2025 à 05:01
Once called the planet’s most popular politician, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil faced long odds in next year’s election. President Trump’s tariffs are changing that.

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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil has seen a surge in popularity after confronting President Trump over tariffs.

Tomorrowland Music Festival Is Still On After Blaze Wrecks Main Stage

17 juillet 2025 à 07:57
Organizers of the major electronic festival in Belgium said it would continue as planned despite the destruction of its focal point.

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Lauren Southern, Former Right-Wing Commentator, Says Andrew Tate Assaulted Her

17 juillet 2025 à 01:00
Ms. Southern’s account of a 2018 encounter, made in a self-published memoir, adds to the allegations against Mr. Tate, the online influencer. “She is lying through her teeth,” Mr. Tate’s lawyer said.

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Lauren Southern during a rally in 2017.

China’s Aircraft Carriers Push Into Waters Long Dominated by U.S.

17 juillet 2025 à 00:01
Recent drills near Japan reflect China’s ambitions to extend its navy’s reach and exert greater influence, in the Pacific and beyond.

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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.

Germany’s Merz and UK’s Starmer Sign Mutual Defense Pact as U.S. Steps Back

17 juillet 2025 à 08:49
The new treaty includes a pledge by both countries to regard a threat against one as a threat against the other, in the latest sign of European nations uniting amid growing instability.

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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.

K-Beauty Fans Stock up on Cosmetics After Trump’s Tariff Threat

17 juillet 2025 à 00:00
American consumers of Korean cosmetics and skin-care products are bulk buying, as President Trump threatens 25 percent tariffs on imports.

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Shoppers at an Olive Young store in Seoul in April.
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Trump Has Promised More Tariffs on Mexico. What Happens Next?

16 juillet 2025 à 19:31
President Trump has threatened to increase Mexico’s tariff rate to 30 percent starting Aug. 1, claiming the country hasn’t sufficiently tackled drug cartels.

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Vehicles lining up on the Tijuana side of the U.S.-Mexico border to cross into Southern California last year.

Eswatini Says It Will Repatriate Migrants Deported by the Trump Administration

16 juillet 2025 à 17:38
The Trump administration sent five deportees to Eswatini, an African kingdom, saying that their own countries would not take them. But Eswatini says it will send them home.

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Mswati III, King of Eswatini, addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 2023.
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  • Why So Many Afghans Have Been Forced Out of Iran
    More than 1.4 million Afghans have been forced out of Iran since January amid a governmental crackdown. Elian Peltier, an international correspondent at The New York Times, reports from the Afghanistan-Iran border. There, he met with Afghans grappling with an uncertain future, as they return to a country with widespread poverty and severe restrictions on women’s and girls’ rights.
     

Why So Many Afghans Have Been Forced Out of Iran

More than 1.4 million Afghans have been forced out of Iran since January amid a governmental crackdown. Elian Peltier, an international correspondent at The New York Times, reports from the Afghanistan-Iran border. There, he met with Afghans grappling with an uncertain future, as they return to a country with widespread poverty and severe restrictions on women’s and girls’ rights.

London’s Kew Gardens Will Renovate Iconic Glasshouses

16 juillet 2025 à 16:10
The Palm House and the Waterlily House, two hulking greenhouses built in the Victorian Era, will close in 2027 for four years of major renovations.

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The Palm House at Kew Gardens will close for major restorations in 2027.

Carney Moves to Reduce Canada’s Chinese Steel Imports in Response to Trump’s Tariffs

16 juillet 2025 à 15:56
Canada’s steel industry fears that Chinese steel facing steep tariffs in the United States will be sent north and overwhelm the Canadian market.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney announced steps on Wednesday intended to reduce steel imports from China at a steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario.

Norwegian Olympic Skier, Audun Groenvold, Dies After Lightning Strike

16 juillet 2025 à 14:29
Audun Groenvold, 49, won a bronze medal at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

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Audun Groenvold of Norway won a bronze medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Mosaic of Lovers, Taken by Nazi Officer, Is Returned to Pompeii

16 juillet 2025 à 13:54
The mosaic, which depicts a couple in an intimate bedroom scene, is among thousands of artifacts stolen from the ancient Roman city.

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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.

The Air India Plane Crash Took His ‘Everything’

16 juillet 2025 à 10:00
His son and daughter-in-law brought love to his home and represented the family’s hope for a better life.

Anil Ambalal Patel kissing a photo of his son, Harshit, and his daughter-in-law, Pooja, on the morning of their funeral.

Israel Strikes Syria’s Capital, Sending Warning to Government

16 juillet 2025 à 18:56
Israel threatened to escalate attacks on Syrian government forces unless they withdrew from Sweida, a southern province dominated by the country’s Druse minority.

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Smoke rising from the Syrian Defense Ministry in the capital, Damascus, on Wednesday.

Russia Appears Unfazed by Trump’s Ukraine War Ultimatum

16 juillet 2025 à 09:39
Russian officials and commentators have shown little indication that Moscow is about to change course under new pressure.

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Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, center, in Malaysia this month. He said Moscow wanted to understand what was behind Mr. Trump’s remarks.

Mike Huckabee Visits Netanyahu’s Trial in Israel

16 juillet 2025 à 12:25
A highly unusual appearance from Mike Huckabee comes as President Trump has called for the long-running legal case to be canceled.

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Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, arrived on Wednesday at the court where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on trial for corruption.

At Least 20 Killed in Stampede Outside a Gaza Aid Site

16 juillet 2025 à 18:33
There were conflicting accounts from Palestinian and aid officials over what happened at the food distribution hub run by the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

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Casualties were brought into Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza on Wednesday after a stampede at a food distribution site.

Trump Administration Initiates Trade Investigation of Brazil

15 juillet 2025 à 21:12
The United States has begun investigating Brazil’s trade practices and “anti-corruption interference,” after the president’s criticisms of Brazil’s treatment of Jair Bolsonaro, a Trump ally.

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Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said he was beginning the investigation “into Brazil’s attacks on American social media companies as well as other unfair trading practices that harm American companies, workers, farmers and technology innovators.”

Trump Announces ‘Great Deal’ on Trade With Indonesia

16 juillet 2025 à 07:56
President Trump said the agreement would partly walk back some of the steep tariffs he threatened on the country last week. Indonesia’s president called Mr. Trump a “tough negotiator.”

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President Trump called a trade agreement with Indonesia a “great deal for everybody.”
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