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Shunsaku Tamiya, Who Brought Perfection to Plastic Replica Models, Dies at 90

Par :Martin Fackler and Kiuko Notoya
He turned his family’s lumber business into a manufacturer of model kits that won global popularity for their quality and historical accuracy.

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Shunsaku Tamiya, who turned his family’s plastic model business into a global brand, held a scale replica of a German World War II Tiger tank at the hobby show in Shizuoka, Japan, in 2003.
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Spat Between Thai and Cambodian Leaders Fuels Deadly Border War

Par :Sui-Lee Wee
A personal feud between two of Southeast Asia’s political titans is inflaming the worst violence on the border in more than a decade.

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A Thai military mobile unit fired toward Cambodia’s side after the two sides exchanged heavy artillery in Surin, Thailand, on Friday.
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Boeing Emerges as a Winner in Trump’s Trade Wars

Par :Niraj Chokshi
Countries striking agreements with the United States have pledged to buy more Boeing planes, but it’s not clear whether those orders were the result of President Trump’s tactics.

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Boeing’s assembly plant in North Charleston, S.C. The company employs tens of thousands of Americans and is one of the country’s top exporters.
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War Amputees Find New Purpose on the Golf Course

Par :Andrew E. Kramer and Brendan Hoffman
The sport helps Ukrainian soldiers who have lost limbs in the war against Russia to heal and to master their prosthetics, rehabilitation experts say.

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Anatoly Melnychenko, left, and Oleksandr Batalov playing a round of golf at the Kozyn golf club, this month.
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Australia Says Gaza Situation Beyond ‘Worst Fears’ as Pressure Mounts on Israel

Par :Qasim Nauman
Some of Israel’s closest allies have stepped up criticism of its restrictions on aid to Gaza, where doctors and aid organizations say people are dying of starvation.

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Displaced Palestinians waiting in front of a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Wednesday.
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Thousands Flee Deadly Fighting Between Cambodia and Thailand

Par :Sun Narin · Francesca Regalado and Phuriphat Dejsuphong
More than 100,000 people have been displaced in the deadliest conflict between the two nations in 14 years.

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Cambodians following behind a military vehicle as they evacuate from Oddar Meanchey province on Friday.
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Iran Starts New Talks Today Over Its Nuclear Program. Here’s What to Know.

Par :Steven Erlanger
Three European powers began meeting with an Iranian minister to try to reopen negotiations over the limits of its nuclear activities.

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Tehran in May during the fourth round of U.S.-Iran talks. Iran had halted fledgling talks with the United States after Israel launched a 12-day war last month.
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For One Man, It Didn’t Take Much to Make an Embassy in India

Par :Pragati K.B.
For almost eight years, an Indian man hid a range of criminal activities behind fake diplomatic missions before finally being caught this week.

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This building may bear all the hallmarks of an embassy, but don’t be fooled. It’s a fake.
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Thailand and Cambodia Clash in Deadly Border Dispute

Par :Sui-Lee Wee
At least a dozen people were killed after the two countries exchanged fire after simmering tensions over a border dispute boiled over on Thursday.

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People took shelter in Surin Province, Thailand, after clashes broke out along the disputed border between Thailand and Cambodia on Thursday.
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France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Macron Says

Par :Roger Cohen
The announcement sets France apart from the United States and most of its close allies, and could cause friction with President Trump.

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President Emmanuel Macron of France delivering remarks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City last year. Mr. Macron said that he would formally announce France’s recognition of Palestinian statehood at the Assembly in September in New York.
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Photo Shows Murderer Returning to U.S. in Trump Prisoner Swap With Venezuela

Par :Eric Nagourney
President Trump has vowed to expel criminals, but a photo of a convicted killer being brought to the U.S. in a prisoner swap sends another message.

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A photo released by the State Department of newly freed prisoners en route to the U.S. Dahud Hanid Ortiz is shown circled. The man flashing his three fingers is a Peruvian man with U.S. resident status. The symbol was used by detainees to show they were hostages, according to two former prisoners.
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Ancient Temples Have Long Been a Flashpoint Between Cambodia and Thailand

Par :Pranav Baskar
Both countries lay claim to centuries-old worship sites perched on the mountains that divide the two nations, sometimes stoking nationalistic fervor.

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Prasat Ta Muen Thom, a temple where violence first broke out after months of tensions between Thailand and Cambodia.
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A Series of Mysterious Explosions Unnerves Syrians

Par :Raja Abdulrahim and Muhammad Haj Kadour
Many of the blasts, some of them deadly, have been at weapons storage sites, raising questions about whether ordnance from Syria’s civil war has been properly secured.

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Smoke rose after an explosion on a military base in the Syrian town of Maraat Misrin, in the northwestern province of Idlib, on Thursday.
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As Starvation Rises, Israeli Minister Says Israel Is ‘Driving Out’ Gazans

Par :Patrick Kingsley and Johnatan Reiss
Amichay Eliyahu’s comments came amid growing hunger in the territory, where Israel controls the delivery of food.

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Amichay Eliyahu, Israel’s heritage minister, in Jerusalem in 2023. Opposition politicians quickly condemned his latest comments.
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Saudi Arabia Pledges to Invest More Than $6 Billion in Syria

Par :Christina Goldbaum and Ismaeel Naar
The deals highlight the countries’ deepening relationship under the new Syrian government, and a wave of investment in a country squeezed by war and sanctions.

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Damascus, Syria, last month. New investment deals involving more than 100 companies would be an economic boon for the country’s government.
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Children Burned by Plane Crash in Bangladesh Die Days Later

Par :Saif Hasnat · Maruf Hasan and Alex Travelli
Many have died in the days since a plane crashed into a school in Bangladesh. For the survivors, there is a critical window for lifesaving treatment.

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The National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Tuesday. After a fighter jet crashed into a school in Dhaka on Monday, many survivors were treated at the facility.
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What to Know About the U.S. Move to Withdraw From UNESCO

Par :Aurelien Breeden and Parin Behrooz
The Trump administration plans to pull out of the U.N. cultural agency, putting UNESCO back at the center of geopolitical rivalry.

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UNESCO’s director general, Audrey Azoulay, at the agency’s headquarters in Paris, in 2023.
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Why Anticorruption Watchdogs Are at the Heart of Ukraine’s Unrest

Par :Andrew E. Kramer
President Volodymyr Zelensky reversed course, but it is unclear if that will quell the anger that erupted when he stripped anticorruption agencies of independence.

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Thousands gathered in Lviv, western Ukraine, on Wednesday to protest President Volodymyr Zelensky’s move to overhaul anticorruption institutions.
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For 1st Time, Fires Are Biggest Threat to Forests’ Climate-Fighting Superpower

Par :Sachi Kitajima Mulkey and Harry Stevens
Forests play a major role pulling planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. As the world heats up, some forests are becoming emitters in their own right.

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A wildfire in an area of National Forest Brasília in Brazil last September.
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Gazans Are Dying of Starvation

Par :Rawan Sheikh Ahmad · Isabel Kershner · Abu Bakr Bashir and Saher Alghorra
After 21 months of devastating conflict with Israel, Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians — the young, the old and the sick — are facing what aid groups say is impending famine.

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Yousef, 6, who suffers from cerebral palsy and has severe malnutrition is held by his mother Samah Matar north of Gaza City on Thursday. He weighed 13kg before the war and now weighs 9kg.
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How a Chinese Border Town Keeps Russia’s Economy Afloat

Par :Keith Bradsher and Andrea Verdelli
The flow of goods in Manzhouli, China’s main border crossing with Russia, underscores increasingly close ties between the two countries, complicating China’s relationship with Europe.

Matryoshka Square, a theme park in the border town of Manzhouli, in China’s Inner Mongolia.
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South Korea Jockeys for a Deal With Trump at Least as Good as Japan’s

Par :Lydia DePillis and Ashley Ahn
The agreement that Japan secured has added pressure on South Korea to defuse the threat of high tariffs on its exports to the United States.

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Containers at a port in Busan, South Korea, in July.
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What to Know About the Thailand-Cambodia Clash

Par :Amelia Nierenberg
The countries continued to trade fire on Friday, and at least 16 people are reported to have been killed.

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Evacuees in a gymnasium on the grounds of Surindra Rajabhat University in the Thai province of Surin on Friday. More than 100,000 people have fled the area, on the Thai-Cambodia border, since Thursday.
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The Latest Casualty of Social Media Hype Is Your Matcha Supply

Par :Yan Zhuang
The powdered Japanese green tea is increasingly hard to find. Experts say its popularity on the internet is straining Japan’s tea industry.

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Matcha from Japan has exploded into a global craze, driven in part by buzz on social media, experts say.
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Hints of Life on Exoplanet K2-18b Recede Even Further

Par :Carl Zimmer
New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions about what it will take to detect biology light-years away.

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An artist’s impression of the exoplanet K2-18b. A new study confirms that it is a water-rich world but raises doubts about earlier suggestions that it harbors life.
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Spain Is Reluctant to Spend More on Security Despite NATO Pressure

Par :Lara Jakes and José Bautista
Spain was the only NATO ally not to commit to a large increase in military expenditures. It’s far from Russia, and its embrace of a social safety net is another key reason.

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An artillery system vehicle on display in Madrid. Europe’s tug of war between spending more for domestic priorities or for defense has vexed the Spanish government.
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A Timeline of the Latest Conflict Between Cambodia and Thailand

Par :John Yoon
The two nations have been locked in a decades-long conflict over their contested border. Tensions in disputed territories soured earlier this year.

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A Thai soldier and a Cambodian soldier standing guard at an ancient Khmer temple along the disputed Cambodian-Thai border in Oddar Meanchey Province in March.
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A Timeline of the Latest Conflict Between Cambodia and Thailand

Par :John Yoon
The two nations have been locked in a decades-long conflict over their contested border. Tensions in disputed territories soured earlier this year.

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A Thai soldier and a Cambodian soldier standing guard at an ancient Khmer temple along the disputed Cambodian-Thai border in Oddar Meanchey Province in March.
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Why One of the Causes of Falling Birthrates May Be Prosperity

Par :Amanda Taub
Economic growth has the unintended side effects of making parenthood more difficult and expensive.

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Women at a protest in Lima, Peru, in 2022, wearing costumes inspired by characters in the novel and TV series “The Handsmaid’s Tale.”
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China and E.U. Reach Narrow Agreements on Climate and Rare Earths

Par :Keith Bradsher
Leaders at a summit in Beijing split over Ukraine and many trade issues. They came together with small steps on climate change and critical minerals.

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Beijing is urging the European Union to drop tariffs on electric cars from China and ease access for other exports.
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Iran Says It Could Exit Nuclear Treaty if Europe Reimposes Sanctions

Par :Farnaz Fassihi
The warning from Iran’s deputy foreign minister came days before he is set to travel to Istanbul for nuclear talks with European counterparts.

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An anti-American mural in Tehran in April.
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After Carney Meeting, Canada’s Premiers Agree on Trump and Tariffs, Differ on Next Steps

Par :Ian Austen
A three-day meeting in response to President Trump’s looming tariff threat underscored differences between the leaders of Canada’s provinces and territories.

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Organizers removing the flags of Canada’s provinces and territories at the conclusion of a three-day meeting of the premiers on Wednesday in Huntsville, Ontario.
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Guard at U.S. Embassy in Norway Charged With Spying for Russia and Iran

Par :Pranav Baskar and Henrik Pryser Libell
A Norwegian man has been accused of leaking sensitive information about U.S. embassy staff members and threatening Norway’s national interests, according to prosecutors.

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The American embassy in Oslo.
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Investment Fund Seals Trade Deal for Japan and Expands Trump’s Influence

Par :Ana Swanson
President Trump will get to decide where to invest Japanese money and the United States will keep 90 percent of the profits, the White House said.

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President Trump will decide how to use the $550 billion that the Japanese government agreed to invest as part of its trade deal with the United States.
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Macrons Sue Candace Owens, Accusing Her of Defamation

Par :Ephrat Livni
The suit seeks damages after the podcaster claimed Brigitte Macron is a man. The French president and his wife said the statement caused “pain to us and our families.”

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President Emmanuel Macron of France and his wife, Brigitte Macron, have sued Candace Owens, a right-wing podcaster.
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