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In Syria, a City Shattered by War Asks for Its Sacrifice to Be Repaid

Par :Neil MacFarquhar and Sergey Ponomarev
Millions of Syrians from destroyed places like Daraya feel they did everything possible to overthrow the Assad government, but they still await reconstruction aid.
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Russian Strikes on Western Assets in Ukraine Send an Ominous Message

Par :Kim Barker and Oleksandra Mykolyshyn
Hitting an American-run factory and European diplomatic offices, the Kremlin appeared to signal that it would resist Western efforts to make peace and protect Ukraine, analysts and officials said.

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A Russian strike this month hit a factory in Mukachevo, Ukraine, owned by Flex Ltd., an American multinational company that makes a range of products.
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Indonesia’s Leader Says He Will Bow to Some Protester Demands After Riots

Par :Muktita Suhartono and Sui-Lee Wee
President Prabowo Subianto of Indonesia acknowledged the concerns of the protesters and said his government would make concessions.

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A government building in Makassar, Indonesia, that protesters set on fire.
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Over 15 Killed in Gaza City, One Day After Israel Ends Daily Pauses for Aid

Par :Aaron Boxerman and Ronen Bergman
One attack was an effort to assassinate Abu Obeida, one of Hamas’s best-known spokesmen, Israeli officials said. It was not immediately clear if that succeeded.

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Palestinians looking for survivors at the site of an Israeli strike in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on Saturday.
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Xi Uses Summit, Parade and History to Flaunt China’s Global Pull

Par :David Pierson · Mujib Mashal and Nataliya Vasilyeva
With the leaders of Russia and India visiting, China’s president will show how he can use statecraft, military might and history to push for global influence.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, left, and President Xi Jinping of China on Sunday on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin, China, in a photo released by Mr. Modi’s office.
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Houthis Say Prime Minister Was Killed in Israeli Attack

Par :Aaron Boxerman and Ismaeel Naar
Ahmed al-Rahawi had led the Houthi cabinet in Yemen since 2024. His killing is unlikely to halt the Iranian-backed group’s missile attacks on Israel.

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Ahmed al-Rahawi was the prime minister of the Houthi-controlled government in Yemen. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Thursday in the capital, Sana.
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The ‘Economic Storm’ of Crises That Is Battering Afghanistan

Par :Elian Peltier · Yaqoob Akbary and Safiullah Padshah
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.

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In Kabul, Afghanistan, last month.
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Behind Thai Premier’s Dismissal, Unraveling of an Uneasy Alliance

Par :Sui-Lee Wee
Thaksin Shinawatra had struck a grand bargain with Thailand’s establishment, analysts say, that allowed his daughter to ascend to the prime minister’s job.

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Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the third member of her family to be removed from the Thai prime minister’s office, on Friday.
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Large Russian Air Attack Hits Ukraine, Amid Stalled Bid for Peace Talks

Par :Constant Méheut
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

Par :Ian Austen
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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Russia Distracts Its Citizens From Ukraine War With Nonstop Festivals

Par :Ivan Nechepurenko and Nanna Heitmann
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

Par :Jack Nicas
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

Par :Ivan Nechepurenko · Katrin Bennhold · Christina Thornell · Melanie Bencosme and Stephanie Swart
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

Par :Farnaz Fassihi · Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti
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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Trump Officials Move to Fire Most Voice of America Journalists

Par :Minho Kim
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

Par :Hasya Nindita · Muktita Suhartono and Francesca Regalado
In spreading protests against the president, three government workers died after jumping from a building that protesters set afire. A fourth person was attacked by a crowd and later died of his injuries.

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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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The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled

Par :Mujib Mashal · Tyler Pager and Anupreeta Das
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 Rekindles Wartime Fury, Stirring Fears of Anti-Japan Hate

Par :Lily Kuo
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

Par :Elian Peltier · Yaqoob Akbary and Safiullah Padshah
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.

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In Kabul, Afghanistan, last month.
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Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs Invalidated by Appeals Court

Par :Tony Romm and Ana Swanson
The decision is a big blow to President Trump’s trade policies, but the judges left the duties in place for now to allow time for a likely appeal to the Supreme Court.

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President Trump’s punishing slate of tariffs immediately drew legal challenges from small businesses and state governments.
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Transportation Dept. Cancels $679 Million for Offshore Wind Projects

Par :Brad Plumer
The Trump administration’s campaign against wind power continued as it targeted funding for marine terminals and ports to support development of the industry.

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Friday’s move is the latest in a series of escalating attacks by the Trump administration against the wind industry.
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Trump Administration Bars Palestinian Officials From U.N. Meeting in New York

Par :Edward Wong and Adam Rasgon
The United States generally allows foreign officials to attend the United Nations General Assembly. The administration’s move comes amid a new push for Palestinian statehood.

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The move by Secretary of State Marco Rubio could be aimed at weakening discussion of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations meeting.
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London Man Admits to Wave of Sexual Assaults Over 3 Years

Par :Lizzie Dearden
Xu Chao, 33, could face a “lengthy” prison sentence, the judge said. Most of his victims have not been identified.

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Xu Chao admitted to dozens of sexual offenses against at least 12 women.
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Israel Resumes Daytime Operations in Gaza City, Signaling Buildup to Assault

Par :Adam Rasgon
The Israeli military ended a policy of pausing operations during the day that was intended to allow more aid in, calling Gaza City a “dangerous combat zone.”

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Displaced Palestinians leaving Gaza City toward the southern areas of the Gaza Strip on Thursday. The Israeli military has not yet issued a blanket evacuation order for the city.
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Britain Bars Israeli Government From a Leading Arms Trade Fair

Par :Mark Landler
The British government said it was acting in response to Israel’s escalating military operation in Gaza. Israel condemned the decision.

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The Defense and Security Equipment International fair in London in 2023.
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U.K. Court Overturns Ruling on Hotel at Center of Asylum Seeker Debate

Par :Lizzie Dearden
The decision was a temporary reprieve for the government but will intensify a political battle over how Britain should house tens of thousands of asylum seekers.

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Outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, southeastern England, this month. The hotel became the center of protests after an asylum seeker who was being housed there was charged with sexual assault.
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Weapons to Start Flowing Into Ukraine Under European Deal With Trump

Par :Lara Jakes
A package of U.S. cruise missiles is among the first shipments of purchases by NATO allies to be sent to the embattled country.

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Russia has continued to pound Kyiv and other areas of Ukraine with airstrikes, including a barrage on Thursday that killed at least 23 people in the capital.
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Tran Trong Duyet, John McCain’s Captor at the ‘Hanoi Hilton,’ Dies at 92

Par :Damien Cave
He endorsed Mr. McCain’s presidential bid in 2008 after insisting, despite accounts to the contrary, that no Americans were tortured under his watch in the Vietnam War.

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Tran Trong Duyet pointing at himself in a photograph speaking to captured U.S. pilots before their release in 1973.
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Ukraine’s Donetsk Faces Water Crisis Under Russian Occupation

Par :Nataliya Vasilyeva
The Russian authorities have seized on the crisis in Donetsk to argue that taking over the rest of the region from Ukraine would allow Moscow to restore the water supply.

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Residents waiting last month to collect drinking water in Donetsk, a Russian-controlled city in Ukraine.
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This Summer, a Hostile Reception for Many Israelis Abroad

Par :Isabel Kershner and Niki Kitsantonis
Against the backdrop of the devastating war and hunger crisis in Gaza, Israeli travelers have been harassed and accosted in Europe, sometimes just for speaking Hebrew.

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Greek riot police officers stood guard as pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested against the arrival of a cruise liner carrying Israeli tourists, in Agios Nikolaos on the island of Crete, in July.
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As Bolsonaro Heads to Trial, Brazil Faces a Dilemma: How to Prosecute a President?

Par :Jack Nicas and Ana Ionova
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, is heading to trial. But his path there has stirred concern that the judiciary has overstepped its bounds.

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Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, during an interview with The New York Times at his party’s headquarters in January.
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Protests Spread Across Indonesia After a Deadly Clash With Police

Par :Francesca Regalado and Hasya Nindita
Rising unemployment and inflation have driven days of demonstrations. A 21-year-old man was killed when police responded with force to a protest on Thursday.

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Protesters in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, on Friday. Demonstrators have been calling for an end to housing allowances for lawmakers.
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When Mailing a Letter to the U.S. Becomes a Global Headache

Par :Francesca Regalado and Jenny Gross
A driver’s license renewal, a box of specialty candy, even early Christmas presents — all are caught up in the confusion caused by a new Trump administration customs rule.

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A distribution center in Yangzhou, China, in June. President Trump’s rule change has reverberated far beyond China for people who want to mail any kind of document, letters or package to the United States.
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China Is Trying to Expand Its Social Safety Net. Yet Many Chinese Are Worried.

Par :Vivian Wang
A move to force employers to pay into benefits for their employees has left people worrying that small businesses will close and jobs will be lost.

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Outside a maternity hospital in Beijing last year. As of Sept. 1, all employers in China must contribute to benefits for their employees, to support their pensions, medical care, maternity leave and more.
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What’s Behind the Political Instability in Thailand

Par :Sui-Lee Wee
While the country is a constitutional monarchy that holds regular elections, analysts say it is beholden to an unelected old guard.

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Thaksin Shinawatra with his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra in August 2024. Both have served as prime minister, and each has been reprimanded by Thailand’s powerful Constitutional Court.
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Thai Court Dismisses Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra From Office

Par :Sui-Lee Wee
Paetongtarn Shinawatra became the third member of her family to be removed from the job, as the nation plunged into fresh political instability.

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Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the scion of a powerful political dynasty, at a news conference in Bangkok on Friday, after her dismissal by the Constitutional Court.
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Buried by Princess Diana, Time Capsule Brings Back the ’90s Far Too Soon

Par :Victor Mather
The capsule was opened early because of a construction project. It revealed a Kylie Minogue CD, a pocket television and other ephemera from its time.

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A time capsule that Princess Diana sealed at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London in March 1991 was to have stayed entombed for hundreds of years. Instead, it was opened this year.
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U.N. Votes to Withdraw Peacekeepers From Lebanon Over Next Two Years

Par :Pranav Baskar
With the decades-old peacekeeping mission set to expire, the U.N. Security Council chose to extend it through 2026, then gradually withdraw the forces the following year.

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A U.N. peacekeeper, center, talking with a soldier at a Lebanese army checkpoint in March.
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‘We Are All Shocked’: Warming Waters Bring a Stinging Sea Slug to Spain’s Coasts

Par :Jonathan Wolfe
The blue dragons, which pack a ferocious sting, have led to several beach closures. Experts say it’s a worrying sign of the warming of the Mediterranean.

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A photograph of blue dragon was posted on the Facebook page of the Guardamar del Segura police department.
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