The Price of Bread

24 août 2026 à 01:53

War, climate shocks and trade disputes are pounding the world’s breadbaskets and pushing the global food system into dangerous territory.

A combine harvester in Seeluebbe, Germany, this month.

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What to Know About the Ebola Outbreak Centered in Congo

Par : Matthew Mpoke Bigg

23 août 2026 à 14:04

The outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo was declared 100 days ago and is spreading faster than any on record, officials said.

Health workers disinfected a morgue and prepared to bury a probable Ebola victim in Rwampara, Democratic Republic of Congo, earlier this month.

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Zelensky Says His Ex-Defense Minister Was Wrong to Call for Elections

Par : Carlotta Gall

23 août 2026 à 10:09

The Ukrainian president repeated his long-held position that elections in the middle of war would tear his country apart.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine this month in Belgrade, Serbia.

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Iran Warns Gulf States Not to Join Trump’s Economic War

Par : Erika Solomon

23 août 2026 à 13:00

Iran’s new hard-line national security adviser, Mohsen Rezaei, vowed to prevent “a single drop of oil” from leaving the region.

Mohsen Rezaei, Iran’s new security chief, last month in Tehran. Though hostilities have largely ceased, the United States and Iran are locked in an economic standoff.

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A Murder Trial in Massachusetts

Par : Shaila Dewan

23 août 2026 à 07:31

How the trial of Lindsay Clancy has become a proxy for how people view society’s ills.

A close-up of Lindsay Clancy in court on Friday.

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U.S.-Canada Trade War: What to Know About Tariffs and the Negotiations

Par : The New York Times

25 août 2026 à 14:49

Canada suspended trade negotiations, triggering President Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on a range of Canadian goods. Mark Carney retaliated “dollar for dollar.”

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses the trade dispute with the United States in Levis, Quebec, on Aug. 24.

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What Canadian Goods Will Take Trump’s 50% Tariffs? Some Pretty Strange Items.

Par : Ian Austen

23 août 2026 à 05:44

Buoys, dog muzzles, capes, national flags and “base metal statuettes” from Canada are now more expensive for U.S. shoppers.

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Echoing Trump, Latin America’s Leaders Boost Allies Across Borders

Par : Emma Bubola · Annie Correal and Ana Ionova

23 août 2026 à 05:01

With cheers, endorsements and insults for rivals and “wokismo,” a new crop of right-wing leaders are openly stepping into one another’s elections.

President Javier Milei of Argentina, left, with Flávio Bolsonaro, who hopes to be Brazil’s next president, last month. Mr. Milei’s strident support of Mr. Bolsonaro’s candidacy led to a rift with the current Brazilian president.

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The World’s Breadbaskets Are Getting Pounded by War, Weather and Trade Spats

Par : Somini Sengupta

23 août 2026 à 14:02

Bad harvests and attacks on trade passages threaten to drive food prices higher.

A combine harvester threshing wheat in a field in Seeluebbe, Germany, this month. Yields in the country are down for several crops, including wheat, because of drought and heat.

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Someone Was Impersonating Collien Fernandes Online. She Says It Was Her Husband.

Par : Susan Dominus

24 août 2026 à 09:34

The German actress Collien Fernandes set out to discover who was pretending to be her and sending men sexually explicit material. Her answer ignited a feminist movement.

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Mexican Governor Accused by U.S. of Aiding Cartel Leaves Office, Again

Par : James Wagner and Lars Dolder

23 août 2026 à 10:32

Rubén Rocha Moya of Sinaloa reversed course a day after returning to office, amid widespread criticism, including from members of his own party.

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Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has.

Par : Andrew Higgins

23 août 2026 à 05:16

The mysterious collapse of a European cryptocurrency exchange helps to explain why the industry hasn’t shaken off its reputation as a magnet for criminals.

Nicole Suszek last month with a phone showing a missing-person poster for her older brother, Sylwester Suszek.

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Trump’s Top Trade Representative Details Offer That Canada Rejected

Par : Ana Swanson

23 août 2026 à 10:43

In an interview, Jamieson Greer, President Trump’s trade representative, laid out details of what the United States offered to Canada before talks crumbled.

Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said Canada would have been given the most preferential treatment of any trading partner.

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Carney Slams U.S.-Canada Trade Proposal and Vows Retaliation

Par : Ian Austen

22 août 2026 à 16:35

Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a powerful speech to Canadians on Saturday morning, hours after ordering negotiators to suspend U.S. trade talks despite President Trump’s punishing tariffs.

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said that he had pulled negotiators out of trade talks with the United States because the Trump administration had “asked too much and offered too little.”

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Waking Up to an Escalating Canada-U.S. Trade War

Par : Ian Austen

22 août 2026 à 06:22

The two countries are locked in a potentially devastating tariff war after last-minute demands ended talks in Washington late Friday night.

Dominic LeBlanc and Janice Charette at the Canadian Embassy in Washington in June.

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What Does Harry and Meghan’s Return to England Mean for Their Children?

Par : Stephen Castle and Sarah Mervosh

22 août 2026 à 08:49

One effect of moving back is that Archie and Lilibet now have the opportunity to be schooled as Britons. Here’s what that might look like.

A view of Eton College, the boarding school that both Harry and his brother, William, attended.

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Carney Stands Up to Trump in U.S.-Canada Trade War

Par : Matina Stevis-Gridneff

23 août 2026 à 03:15

Canada’s prime minister walked away from what he thought was a bad trade deal with the United States. Many Canadians are behind him, but it will be costly.

Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, said on Saturday that “Canada is becoming stronger and less dependent on America.”

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Lebanon’s Efforts to Tame Hezbollah Stall Amid Israel War

Par : Christina Goldbaum

22 août 2026 à 05:02

President Joseph Aoun took office with a popular mandate to reassert control after the militant group dragged the country back into war with Israel.

A demonstration showing support for Hezbollah and opposition to the decision of Lebanese authorities to engage in direct negotiations with Israel, in Beirut in April.

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Yvette Roudy, France’s First Minister for Women’s Rights, Dies at 97

Par : Adam Nossiter

22 août 2026 à 05:02

Maintaining that access to abortion was as much a matter of economic equality as women’s rights, she successfully championed state reimbursement for abortions.

Yvette Roudy in 2006. After her death, President Emmanuel Macron of France saluted her for “a life spent making equality between men and women a real right” and for her “untiring capacity for indignation.”

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How Two British Historians Made a Smash Hit Podcast

Par : Esther Bintliff

22 août 2026 à 17:03

They took on topics as diverse as fall of the Aztecs, the French Revolution, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and history’s greatest monkeys. The rest is history.

Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland last month at Hampton Court Palace in southwest London. The podcast they began during the pandemic now gets about 30 million downloads and streams a month.

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How Apartheid Continues to Divide Cape Town

Par : John Eligon · Sutton Raphael · Christina Thornell and Joey Sendaydiego

22 août 2026 à 05:00

Our reporter John Eligon takes a six-mile walk between two townships in Cape Town to show how the barriers left by apartheid still exist 30 years later.

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How a Trump Envoy Uses Vodka and Dirty Jokes to Conduct U.S. Diplomacy

Par : Valerie Hopkins

22 août 2026 à 10:38

The diplomat, John Coale, says his personalized approach gets results and matches the president’s style. Critics contend he is giving up too much to an authoritarian leader.

John Coale, the U.S. special envoy to Belarus, was on hand last year in Lithuania for the arrival of released prisoners from Belarus.

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Missing From a Mass Wedding in India: Brides

Par : Suhasini Raj and Francesca Regalado

22 août 2026 à 05:00

A fraud case, in which dozens of grooms showed up for a wedding that never materialized, is an extreme example of scamming in a marriage industry long prone to it.

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Sun Screen

Par : Melissa Kirsch

22 août 2026 à 04:48

What makes a movie a summer movie? Is it the time of its release, or the way that it depicts the season itself? Or something else entirely?

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Cities Compete in Dizzying ‘Gold Rush’ to Be Japan’s Backup Capital

Par : Javier C. Hernández and Hisako Ueno

22 août 2026 à 09:14

Osaka? Fukuoka? Sapporo? The race is on to be second to Tokyo — and to claim the prestige and money that could come with it.

Looking out across the city of Sapporo, in Hokkaido, Japan.

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Close and Loving, or Oppressive? A Novelist Takes Aim at Italian Families.

Par : Motoko Rich

22 août 2026 à 11:22

Many Italians see themselves in Andrea Bajani’s latest novel, a portrayal of the family as a “little totalitarian system” shaped by psychological and physical violence.

Andrea Bajani in Rome last year. An English translation of his best-selling novel, “The Anniversary,” will be published on Tuesday.

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Canada-U.S. Tariff Talks Continue as Trump’s Midnight Deadline Looms

Par : Matina Stevis-Gridneff

21 août 2026 à 20:06

Canadian negotiators were in Washington to finalize a deal that would stave off new tariffs and improve the terms of existing ones, but Mark Carney faces a tough sell back home.

The ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario. President Trump hit the Canadian steel industry with tariffs of up to 50 percent last year.

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Canada-U.S. Trade War Escalates as Talks Collapse

Par : Matina Stevis-Gridneff · Ian Austen and Ana Swanson

22 août 2026 à 11:59

Intense negotiations to stave off new levies by the Trump administration ended in an impasse as Mark Carney suspended talks. U.S. tariffs on Canada, and retaliatory tariffs on the U.S., will come into effect.

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said he suspended the trade talks because the American side introduced last-minute terms that ”called into question the reliability of any deal.”

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Mexican Governor, Accused by U.S. of Helping Cartel, Returns to His Job

Par : James Wagner

22 août 2026 à 02:42

After U.S. prosecutors accused Gov. Rubén Rocha Moya of protecting the Sinaloa cartel, he said he would step down to focus on his defense. On Friday, he declared he was back and faced much criticism.

Rubén Rocha Moya, the governor of Sinaloa state, during an annual earthquake drill in Culiacán, Mexico, in 2024.

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Turkey Requests Netanyahu’s Arrest, Saying Israel Abused Flotilla Activists

Par : Zane Irwin

21 août 2026 à 16:35

Turkey’s request for an Interpol ‘red notice’ came at a time of escalating tensions between the two countries.

A flotilla of about 50 boats carrying humanitarian aid departed Marmaris, Turkey, in May, intending to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Israeli forces boarded the boats and detained 400 people.

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5 Deportees Are Flown by US to Equatorial Guinea After they Resist Deplaning in Liberia

Par : Pranav Baskar · Hamed Aleaziz and Genevieve Glatsky

21 août 2026 à 19:36

At least five of the people flown to Liberia under the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program resisted leaving the plane. They were then flown to Equatorial Guinea.

The Bamy Hotel, where migrants are held, in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

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Zambia’s Democratic Facade Fractures in Post-Election Crackdown

Par : John Eligon and Rabecca Lungu

21 août 2026 à 15:47

While the government says it is preventing an insurrection, activists and international observers have raised fears about arbitrary arrests and electoral fraud.

Zambian police officers watched as supporters of President-elect Hakainde Hichilema celebrated his victory in the street in the capital, Lusaka, on Tuesday.

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Swiss Tourist Sentenced to Prison After Violating ‘Day of Silence’ in Bali

Par : Ryley Ober

21 août 2026 à 15:21

The 26-year-old received a yearlong sentence from a court on the Indonesian resort island after he flouted a sacred Hindu ritual and insulted it on Instagram.

Luzian Andrin Zgraggen in court in Denpasar, Indonesia, on Thursday.

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Mark Zuckerberg Buys an Irish Castle

Par : Alan Yuhas

22 août 2026 à 09:28

The prominent landowner has added a nearly 200-year-old estate to his holdings. Archival information says it can take “a brisk walk of 4½ minutes to reach the dining room from the kitchen.”

Strancally Castle in Waterford, Ireland, was built around 1830 and renovated in the early 2000s. It now belongs to Mark Zuckerberg.

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Germany Identifies a Plot After Finding a Weapons Cache, but Names No Culprit

Par : Christopher F. Schuetze

21 août 2026 à 13:28

Officials were careful not to point a finger, after revealing what they said was a plan for a political attack, at a time when a series of destabilizing actions have been blamed on Russia.

“This case shows that we are working on the assumption that the risk level is high,” Alexander Dobrindt, the German interior minister, said at a news conference on Friday.

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Canada-U.S. Tariff Talks Continue as Trump’s Midnight Deadline Looms

Par : Matina Stevis-Gridneff

21 août 2026 à 12:22

Canadian negotiators were in Washington to finalize a deal that would stave off new tariffs and improve the terms of existing ones, but Mark Carney faces a tough sell back home.

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Prince Harry, Elton John and Others Told to Pay Daily Mail Publisher $13 Million

Par : Stephen Castle

21 août 2026 à 11:24

Harry and six other high-profile figures lost a privacy lawsuit against Associated Newspapers. They may eventually have to pay more than twice the initial sum, a judge said.

Prince Harry leaving the Royal Courts of Justice in London during his trial against Associated Newspapers in January.

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‘They’re Always Going to Be Polarizing’: Britons Split on Harry and Meghan’s Return

Par : Claire Moses and Amelia Nierenberg

21 août 2026 à 11:23

Recent surveys suggest the broader public views both of them negatively, especially in comparison to Harry’s brother, William, and his wife, Kate.

Prince Harry and Meghan during a visit to Australia earlier this year.

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In China’s Biggest Car Recall, Tesla and 8 Others Will Address Door Safety

Par : Keith Bradsher and Jack Ewing

21 août 2026 à 16:23

China’s regulator ordered changes after vehicle occupants sometimes had difficulty exiting electric cars, an issue that has led to lawsuits against Tesla in the United States.

China is requiring nine automakers to take measures to improve the reliability of retractable door handles popular on electric vehicles.

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Palestinian Teenager Killed After Israeli Settlers Enter West Bank Village

Par : Adam Rasgon

21 août 2026 à 09:57

Palestinian and Israeli authorities offered divergent accounts of the incident, which came as settler violence has surged across the Israeli-occupied territory.

Mourners with the body of Kareem Shlaldeh at a hospital in the West Bank city of Hebron, on Friday.

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Why China Thinks It Can Resist Trump’s Economic Threats on Iran

Par : David Pierson and Berry Wang

21 août 2026 à 09:44

Beijing can squeeze U.S. critical mineral supplies and has enough oil to withstand the loss of Iranian crude, Chinese analysts say.

Oil storage tanks and facilities in Shanghai in March. China has large stockpiles of oil that make it less vulnerable to energy supply disruptions.

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Iran Must Plan to Overcome U.S. Sanctions After Trump’s ‘Economic D-Day’ Threats, Tehran Official Says

Par : Aurelien Breeden

21 août 2026 à 07:38

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, lead negotiator in talks with Washington, made the comments after President Trump vowed an “economic D-Day” against Iran.

In Tehran last month. Before the latest round of sanctions was announced, Iranians were already contending with sky-high inflation and other economic hardships.

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Giorgia Meloni Has a Lot to Say: The Takeaways

Par : Roger Cohen

21 août 2026 à 05:04

The Italian prime minister is leading what will soon be the longest-lasting government in the country’s postwar history. She shows herself by turns funny and fierce in a rare interview.

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Muslim Charity in Britain Faces Scrutiny for Possible Links to Hamas

Par : Ephrat Livni

21 août 2026 à 05:04

British regulators are investigating Al-Khair Foundation after U.S. prosecutors accused a man affiliated with the group of funding terrorism.

Marking Eid at an event organized in association with Al-Khair Foundation in London in 2017.

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England’s Ancient Trees Are Dying in the Heat

Par : Claire Moses

21 août 2026 à 08:17

Extreme temperatures and drought are adding to the stress on oak trees that have lived for hundreds of years and play a key role in the national imagination.

The Major Oak at Sherwood Forest Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire, England, in May.

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Giorgia Meloni Cuts the Hard Right a Path to Power

Par : Roger Cohen

21 août 2026 à 05:01

In a rare interview, the onetime political outcast reflects on her route from “the uncomfortable side of history” to the threshold of leading Italy’s most durable postwar government.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at Palazzo Chigi in Rome last month.

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Rare South American Diseases Offer Clues on the Next Pandemic

Par : Zane Irwin · Lucía Cholakian Herrera and Sebastián López Brach

21 août 2026 à 05:00

Ebola virus, hantavirus and the pathogen that causes Covid-19 likely jumped from animals to humans. So do these viruses — and scientists say climate change is speeding their spread.

Preparing a dose of the Candid #1 vaccine against Argentine hemorrhagic fever at Carrasco Hospital in Rosario, Argentina.

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At 77, She Walked 9 Miles Under Drone-Filled Skies to Escape From ‘Hell’

Par : Cassandra Vinograd and Oleksandr Chubko

21 août 2026 à 10:43

Rescue teams no longer enter the city of Lyman, in eastern Ukraine, because it is deemed too dangerous. The only way out is a terrifying journey on foot.