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Even as Air-Raid Sirens Blare, Ukrainians Wait for the Light to Change

20 juillet 2025 à 05:00
Anyone new to Ukraine may quickly notice the disconnect between the front line and much of daily life farther away, including the patient behavior of pedestrians waiting to cross the street.

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As Trump Courts a More Assertive Beijing, China Hawks Are Losing Out

20 juillet 2025 à 05:00
The Trump administration has dialed back aggressive measures against China and reversed its position on technology controls as the president angles for a Chinese trip later this year.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, left, and Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, second from right, meeting with Chinese officials in Geneva in May.

Typhoon Wipha Pounds Hong Kong and Macau With Rain and Wind

20 juillet 2025 à 02:12
The tropical cyclone was expected to make landfall in mainland China later on Sunday with winds equivalent to those of a Category 2 Atlantic hurricane.

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Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong as Typhoon Wipha approached the city on Sunday.

The K-Pop Band Big Ocean Is Making Waves With Sign Language

20 juillet 2025 à 00:01
Big Ocean, a boy band whose members are deaf or hard of hearing, has found success with a mix of singing and signing.

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The members of Big Ocean (from left), Kim Ji-seok, Park Hyun-jin and Lee Chan-yeon, in Seoul in 2024.
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Pet Owner Flooded With Puzzling Calls About a Lost Cat While Hers Is Safely at Home

19 juillet 2025 à 18:18
Natasha Lavoie’s phone number appeared on a T-shirt sold online that advertised a fictitious missing cat. She can’t stop the calls from coming.

A Kite Surfer, Navy SEAL and Makeup Artist: Freed in a U.S.-Venezuela Swap

19 juillet 2025 à 16:47
Over 260 people were released from prisons in El Salvador and Venezuela. Now they face the challenge of coming home.

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Venezuelan migrants who were jailed in El Salvador arrived at Simon Bolivar International Airport, outside Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, on Friday.

The Pelicot Trial Returns, This Time to the Stage

19 juillet 2025 à 14:46
Many of those who attended the trial returned to see a new play based on the case of Gisèle Pelicot, who confronted her ex-husband and dozens of men accused of raping her.

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“The Pelicot Trial,” at the Avignon Festival in southern France, on Friday night.

At Least 28 Dead After Tourist Boat Capsizes in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay

19 juillet 2025 à 12:56
The boat, carrying 48 passengers and five crew members, was on a sightseeing tour of Ha Long Bay when a sudden storm caused it to overturn, state media said. At least 10 people were rescued.

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A tourist boat capsized on Saturday in Ha Long Bay, in Vietnam’s Quang Ninh Province, northeast of Hanoi.

South Korea Pulls Report Into Jeju Air Crash After Victims’ Families Protest

19 juillet 2025 à 08:53
Relatives of the Jeju Air disaster victims objected to the report in a stormy scene at a news conference, complaining that it blamed the pilots prematurely.

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Firefighters and investigators at the scene of the deadly Jeju Air crash in Muan, South Korea, in December.

Syria Declares Cease-Fire After a Week of Upheaval

19 juillet 2025 à 11:06
Sectarian-tinged clashes left hundreds dead and attracted Israeli military intervention. A U.S. envoy said Israel and Syria had agreed to a truce.

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An aerial view of Sweida, Syria, on Saturday.

Gaza Health Ministry Says Israeli Military Killed 32 Near Aid Site

19 juillet 2025 à 10:27
The latest deaths add to U.N. figures showing that more than 670 Palestinians have been killed since May near sites built under a new Israel-backed aid system.

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Mourners at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Saturday with the bodies of two people killed near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site.
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  • Open Season
    The popular notions of summer fun and the things we actually feel like doing can sometimes be at odds with each other.
     

A Rescue Center for Small Wild Animals Looks to Place a Blind Moose Calf

19 juillet 2025 à 06:00
There is an ambitious long-term plan for Cedar, who cannot be released back into the wild even after his leg injury mends.

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Ava Potten is in charge of bottle-feeding Cedar.

Russia Makes Gains in Ukraine in Summer Offensive

19 juillet 2025 à 05:00
The most important factors may be far from the battlefield.

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Army recruitment advertisements in Moscow last month. To bolster recruitment, Russia is offering outsize sign-up bonuses and salaries.

They Vanished in Syria’s Long Occupation of Lebanon. Now Their Families Want Answers.

19 juillet 2025 à 05:00
Thousands went missing during Syria’s decades-long intervention in Lebanon. Months after the fall of the Syrian regime, families are still clinging to hope.

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Family members looking for any signs of missing relatives in the Sednaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, in December.

Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building.

19 juillet 2025 à 00:01
Defying demolition orders, a Chinese man turned his home into a rickety 11-story tower. Now tourists are coming.

Chen Tianming’s house, which evokes a Dr. Seuss drawing, has drawn gawkers to his rural corner of Guizhou Province, in southwestern China.

Sohei Kamiya Brings Trump-Style Populism to Japan’s Election

19 juillet 2025 à 00:01
With his calls to limit foreign workers, fight globalism and put “Japanese First,” Sohei Kamiya has brought a fiery right-wing populism to Japan’s election on Sunday.

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Sohei Kamiya, the leader of an upstart right-wing political party called Sanseito, delivering a campaign speech this month at Takasaki Station in Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo.

Japan Election 2025: What to Know

19 juillet 2025 à 00:01
Shigeru Ishiba of the long-governing Liberal Democratic Party could face calls to resign if his party fares poorly in Sunday’s Upper House elections.

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Supporters putting up election campaign posters this month on a bulletin board in Tokyo.
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Rubio Restricts U.S. Criticism of Tainted Foreign Elections

18 juillet 2025 à 18:32
A State Department cable telling officials to avoid comments on the “fairness or integrity” of most elections continues a U.S. turn away from promoting democratic values abroad.

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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.”

Prisoner Swap Frees Americans in Venezuela for Migrants in El Salvador

18 juillet 2025 à 22:13
Ten Americans and permanent U.S. residents detained in Venezuela were traded for more than 250 Venezuelans expelled from the U.S. and imprisoned in El Salvador.

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 15:19
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 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.

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 13:25
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

19 juillet 2025 à 04:34
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.

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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    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.
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