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Israel Says It Has Paused Some Military Activity in Gaza as Anger Grows Over Hunger

Operations in three parts of the enclave were temporarily halted on Sunday to allow more aid to enter the territory, the Israeli military said. It was unclear if the decision would relieve the hunger crisis in Gaza.

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Palestinians waiting for food at a charity kitchen in Gaza last week. Aid agencies and many countries say Israel is responsible for a hunger crisis in the territory.
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No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals

After Israeli restrictions on aid, hunger has risen across Gaza. Doctors and nurses, struggling to find food themselves, lack the resources to stem the surge.

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Hanin Barghouth with her 3-month-old daughter, Salam, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza this week. At birth, her doctor said, Salam weighed roughly 6.6 pounds, and three months later, she weighs only 8.8 pounds — at least three pounds underweight.
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The Far Right in Germany Wants to Soften Its Image, Not Its Policies

The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has adopted a code of conduct for its members, without changing its positions on immigration and other issues.

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Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, co-leaders of the Alternative for Germany party, in the Bundestag in Berlin this month.
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Germany’s Far-Right Party May Be Banned. Its Voters Fear Being Left Voiceless.

Supporters of the Alternative for Germany say they might quit voting if the party is outlawed. Some opponents are against such a move, too.

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Supporters of the Alternative for Germany party setting up for a campaign event in Pirna, Germany, in 2023.
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Kartik Kumra Was Ready for Indian’s Fashion Moment

As the “big guys” dabble in Indian looks, Kartik Kumra is in it for the long haul. And stars like Kendrick Lamar and Stephen Curry are wearing his designs.

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Kartik Kumra started his fashion label, Kartik Research, in his dorm room at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Israel Intercepts Gaza-Bound Ship of Activists and Aid

It was at least the third vessel blocked this year while challenging Israel’s naval blockade and seeking to deliver supplies by sea to a population facing rising starvation.

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The Freedom Flotilla Coalition ship leaving a southern Italian port for Gaza earlier this month.
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Dance Poles and Leopard-Print Walls: Love Motels Ready Rooms for Climate Summit

The Brazilian city of Belém, host to the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference, is short on hotel rooms. Love motels are offering a solution.

A heart-shaped Jacuzzi in one of the luxury suites in the Secreto, a love motel in Belém, Brazil. The motels typically charge by the hour for people who want to use the rooms for romantic assignations.
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U.S. Urges Thailand and Cambodia to Reach a Cease-Fire

Following up on calls by President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with his counterparts in both countries. But on Sunday morning, skirmishes erupted once more.

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Residents waiting to receive supplies in Oddar Meanchey Province in Cambodia on Sunday.
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Amid Growing Fury Over Gaza, Israel Says It Is Easing Aid Restrictions

As starvation rises in Gaza, prompting global outrage, Israel’s military said it would restart airborne aid delivery there and make land deliveries less dangerous.

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Palestinians outside Gaza City after aid trucks loaded with food entered for the first time in June following a lengthy closure of the border.
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E.U. Cuts Aid to Ukraine Over Corruption Concerns

The $1.7 billion reduction capped a tough week for President Volodymyr Zelensky as he deals with Ukraine’s governance issues.

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Protests erupted Wednesday in Kyiv after the Ukrainian Parliament stripped the independence of two agencies at the center of the government’s anticorruption efforts.
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A Golfing Trump Is Greeted by Protesters in Scotland

The president was criticized by demonstrators on a range of issues, from his stance on immigration and Gaza to his ties to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the U.S. Consulate in Edinburgh on Saturday during President Trump’s visit to Scotland.
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No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say

Israel has long restricted aid to Gaza on the argument that Hamas steals it to use as a weapon of control over the population. On Saturday, the Israeli military announced new airdrops of aid.

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Palestinians with food handouts northwest of Gaza City last month.
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Dry Taps, Empty Lakes, Shuttered Cities: A Water Crisis Batters Iran

After a five-year drought and decades of mismanagement, Tehran is at risk of running out of water in several weeks, the government warned.

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A billboard in Tehran encouraging water conservation.
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In Russia, Corruption Cases Follow Battlefield Failures

Officials in three of the five Russian regions bordering Ukraine have been accused of embezzling funds for border defenses.

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A region administration building in Kursk, Russia, in March. Officials in several regions bordering Ukraine have been arrested and accused by prosecutors of embezzling funds meant for border fortifications.
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Removal of Castro and Guevara Statues Ignites Outcry in Mexico

The Cuban Revolution leaders joined forces in Mexico in 1955. A local mayor removed a memorial to them, drawing protests and condemnation from Mexico’s highest office.

The bench in Jardin Tabacalera after the statues of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were removed.
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Trump Says He Expects Quick Cease-Fire Between Thailand and Cambodia

President Trump said he had intervened to help stop the deadly strife, now in its third day, after it extended to provinces about 200 miles south of where clashes began.

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President Trump, who was in Scotland over the weekend, said he had contacted Thai and Cambodian officials to defuse the tensions between their countries.
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Trump’s Trip to Scotland Echoes an Earlier Visit, When He Applauded Brexit

Before his 2016 election, President Trump correctly predicted that the forces animating Brexit would go beyond the United Kingdom. But now most Britons say Brexit was a mistake.

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President Trump speaking with reporters after arriving in Glasgow on Friday.
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Taiwan Recall Campaign Fizzles, in a Setback to Its President

An unprecedented vote to remove lawmakers from office could have handed President Lai Ching-te more power by ousting opponents. It didn’t.

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Lawmakers celebrating results during the recall voting in Taipei, Taiwan, on Saturday.
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Why Zelensky Backtracked on His Controversial Law

Facing growing pressure amid nationwide protests, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine backtracked on controversial legislation that would have weakened the country’s independent anticorruption institutions. Katrin Bennhold, a senior writer, and Marc Santora, an international news editor for The New York Times, explain the events that led to the reversal.
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Patrick Ryan, ‘Terror Priest’ Who Aided the I.R.A., Is Dead at 94

He funneled cash and weapons to the Irish Republican Army from Libya, and was involved in bombings that targeted Margaret Thatcher and others, killing scores of people.

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Patrick Ryan in an undated photo. He was “one of the I.R.A’.s most significant intermediaries for money,” Jennifer O’Leary, his biographer, said.
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Trump Flies to Scotland, Leaving Chaos Swirling in Washington

The five-day visit will be a mix of personal business and golf, with some diplomacy thrown in.

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President Trump departed Friday morning for Scotland.
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Israel to Allow Aid Airdrops Over Gaza During Starvation Crisis

Jordan and the United Arab Emirates were expected to begin airdrops in the coming days, but experts warned that the bulk of necessary aid could come only by land.

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Last year, the Jordanian Air Force dropped aid over northern Gaza. Israel said on Friday that it would soon allow countries to drop aid into the area, which is in a humanitarian crisis.
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Macron Recognizes a Palestinian State. But to What End?

The French president, expressing a moral obligation to address suffering in Gaza, made clear he had lost patience with the United States and Israel. The question is what effect he will have.

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President Emmanuel Macron departs the White House earlier this year. His recognition of Palestinian statehood reflects the swelling global outrage at the death and destruction in Gaza.
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Russia Again Cuts Interest Rates as Its Economy Slows

Falling inflation has persuaded the central bank in Moscow to continue relaxing the country’s record borrowing costs.

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An upsurge in wartime spending since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sharply increased the country’s inflation rate.
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Shunsaku Tamiya, Who Brought Perfection to Plastic Replica Models, Dies at 90

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

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

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

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

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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Thailand Warns of War With Cambodia as Deadly Clashes Enter 2nd Day

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 evacuated from Oddar Meanchey Province on Friday.
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Iran Started New Talks Over Its Nuclear Program. Here’s What to Know.

Three European powers met 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 in June.
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For One Man, It Didn’t Take Much to Make an Embassy in India

For almost eight years, the police said, an Indian man hid a range of criminal activities behind fake diplomatic missions before finally being caught this week.

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A photograph released by the police in Uttar Pradesh, India, of a building on the outskirts of New Delhi. It 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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