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Large Russian Air Attack Hits Ukraine, Amid Stalled Bid for Peace Talks

It was the second massive assault in three days, as the Kremlin rebuffed peace talks sought by Ukraine and the United States.

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The site of a Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Saturday.
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Why Three Wealthy Bidders Are Fighting for What’s Left of Hudson’s Bay

Months after the shutdown of the 355-year-old Hudson’s Bay Company, the legal action it created continues apace.

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Most landlords of Hudson’s Bay stores opposed Ruby Liu’s ambitious plan to revive the stores under her name.
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Croquet, Anyone? Making Moscow a Vast Fun Zone to Divert Minds From War.

A festival known as Summer in Moscow showcases the city’s transformation into an ultramodern metropolis. But the feast can’t last forever.

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People relaxing at a theater festival as part of the celebrations.
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Mexico’s President Struggles to Escape Trump’s Growing Demands

After months of negotiation and concessions, President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico has found herself in a cycle of pressure from the White House.

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President Claudia Sheinbaum and her cabinet are said to be frustrated that they have worked hard to meet Washington’s demands, and yet it never seems to be enough.
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How Russia Is Distracting Citizens From the War

Moscow is hosting a big summer festival as Russia continues its war in Ukraine. Katrin Bennhold, a senior international reporter for The New York Times, talks with Ivan Nechepurenko, a Times reporter in Russia, about the spectacle and what it says about Russian public opinion more than three and a half years into the war.
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Targeting Iran’s Leaders, Israel Found a Weak Link: Their Bodyguards

Israel was able to track the movements of key Iranian figures and assassinate them during the 12-day war this spring by following the cellphones carried by members of their security forces.

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A banner in Tehran showing pictures of Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists killed by Israeli strikes. Israel used its technological and intelligence capabilities to track and target key figures in Iran during the 12-day war in June.
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In Secret Diaries, the Church Shooter’s Plans for Mass Murder

Robin W. Westman described how she had obtained guns and how she had visited the church on a test run this summer during a Sunday Mass.

© Liam James Doyle for The New York Times

A shooter killed two children and injured 18 others on Wednesday at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis.
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A Father Took His Daughters to School. Then Came the Gunshots.

Anders Holine was among the first parents to arrive at the scene of a mass shooting at a Minneapolis church on Wednesday. He spoke to The New York Times about what he witnessed as he went searching for his two daughters.

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20 Years After Katrina, New Orleans Is Still Home for Those Who Left

For many displaced by Hurricane Katrina, distance did not diminish their bond with the city they left behind, even as they built new lives.

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Alex Webber left New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, only to have her business in Marshall, N.C., flood last year during Hurricane Helene.
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Targeting Iran’s Leaders, Israel Found a Weak Link: Their Bodyguards

Israel was able to track the movements of key Iranian figures and assassinate them during the 12-day war this spring by following the cellphones carried by members of their security forces.

© Majid Asgaripour/Wana News Agency, via Reuters

A banner in Tehran showing pictures of Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists killed by Israeli strikes. Israel used its technological and intelligence capabilities to track and target key figures in Iran during the 12-day war in June.
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Les États-Unis et nous : 2003, les frites en travers de la gorge

Derrière l’anecdote des "Freedom Fries" se cache un épisode clé de la géopolitique mondiale. Entre tensions internationales, diplomatiques et guerre en Irak, cette histoire révèle comment un simple changement de nom de frites est devenu le symbole d’un profond désaccord entre la France et les États-Unis au début des années 2000.

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Trump Officials Move to Fire Most Voice of America Journalists

The layoffs set up a potential battle with a federal judge who blocked previous efforts by Kari Lake, a fierce Trump ally, to restructure the agency.

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A Voice of America studio in Washington.
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3 Dead in Indonesia After Jumping From Building Protesters Set on Fire, Official Says

The student-led demonstrations in Indonesia are against President Prabowo Subianto’s economic policies and fatal police brutality.

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Demonstrators throwing tear-gas canisters that had been fired at them by police officers on Friday in Surabaya, Indonesia.
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Mussolini's great-grandson makes Serie A debut

Romano Floriani Mussolini, the great-grandson of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, comes off the bench to help Cremonese defeat Sassuolo 3-2 in his Serie A debut on Friday.

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Duke Cunningham, 83, Congressman Convicted in Corruption Scandal, Dies

A war hero turned politician, he was first elected to the House in 1990 but stepped down in 2005 after pleading guilty to tax evasion and conspiracy to commit bribery.

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Representative Duke Cunningham, Republican of California, in 2005, the year he pleaded guilty in a bribery scandal and left Congress after 15 years in office.
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The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled

President Trump’s repeated claims about having “solved” the India-Pakistan war infuriated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. And that was only the beginning.

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China Revisits Its War With Japan, Stirring Pride and Fears of Hatred

A series of World War II dramas about China’s fight against Japan is drawing audiences to their feet, and, in some cases, to tears. Some say it helps deflect public discontent.

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Posters for the films “Dead to Rights,” left, and “Dongji Rescue,” second left, at a cinema in Shanghai this month.
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The ‘Economic Storm’ of Crises That Is Battering Afghanistan

Afghanistan was on a timid recovery path. But four years after the Taliban retook power, it has been badly hit by aid cuts and an inflow of two million Afghans forced out of Iran and Pakistan.

© Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times

In Kabul, Afghanistan, last month.
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The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled

President Trump’s repeated claims about having “solved” the India-Pakistan war infuriated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. And that was only the beginning.

© Eric Lee/The New York Times

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