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Argentina Is Ramping Up Its Claim to the Falklands. Here’s What to Know.

President Javier Milei has dialed up Argentina’s claim over the British territory, while President Trump has raised questions about longstanding U.S. neutrality on the dispute.

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Argentine visitors looking at ammunition cases from the 1982 war scattered on the slopes of Mount Tumbledown in the Falkland Islands in March.
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Israel Says It Cleared Tunnels to Strategic Hezbollah Fortress in Lebanon

The operation, which began in June and is ongoing, came as fighting between the U.S. and Iran flared anew.

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Israeli strikes on the hilltops of the Ali al-Taher ridge last month in southern Lebanon.
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JD Vance Says He Wouldn’t Call Iran Conflict a War

In the first White House press briefing since Karoline Leavitt left as press secretary, the vice president suggested that when the conflict would end was up to Tehran.

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Vice President JD Vance took questions from reporters in the White House press briefing room on Thursday, the first briefing held by any administration official there in several weeks.
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Dutch Central Bank Cuts Gold Reserves in U.S., Citing ‘Geopolitical Unrest’

The Netherlands moved some 90 tons of gold out of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, the second European nation this year to announce it had decreased or eliminated U.S. gold holdings.

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Olaf Sleijpen, president of the central bank of the Netherlands, in Amsterdam in March. “We have improved the tradeability of our gold reserves,” he said.
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Norway Seizes Russian Ship, Testing Moscow in the High Arctic

Empowered by an international court order, Norway captured the vessel as part of a global effort to seize Russian assets. The Russians called it “piracy.”

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A monument to Lenin in Barentsburg, Svalbard, in 2025.
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Israel Is Expected to Release Lebanese Prisoners, in Rare Sign of Progress

The move would come amid struggling talks between Israel and Lebanon aimed at disarming Hezbollah and ending Israel’s invasion.

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Smoke rises above the town of Al-Mansouri in southern Lebanon on Wednesday. The release of Lebanese prisoners would come amid talks to disarm Hezbollah and end Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon.
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Rival Ukrainian Intelligence Units Open Fire Against Each Other in Kyiv

President Volodymyr Zelensky described the shootout on the streets of the Ukrainian capital as an “absolutely shameful event” and ordered an investigation.

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A shootout occurred early on Wednesday between two of Ukraine’s rival intelligence services, exposing simmering tensions between the agencies.
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Rival Ukrainian Intelligence Units Open Fire Against Each Other in Kyiv

President Volodymyr Zelensky described the shootout on the streets of the Ukrainian capital as an “absolutely shameful event” and ordered an investigation.

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A shootout occurred early on Wednesday between two of Ukraine’s rival intelligence services, exposing simmering tensions between the agencies.
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China Boycotts a Top Art Festival Over Taiwan Exhibition

China said the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea was misrepresenting Taiwan as an independent nation. Beijing claims it as its own.

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The Gwangju Biennale exhibition hall in South Korea in 2021. The festival’s 16th edition starts Saturday.
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For Russia and Ukraine, an Escalating Spiral With No End in Sight

Each side is using missiles and drones to try to pound the other into giving up, breeding ceaseless human suffering. But there is no sign that either country’s determination will weaken.

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After an attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, late last month.
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Lake Ontario Is One of Many Bodies of Water Caught in a Naming Fight

President Trump’s bid to call it ‘Lake America’ stands out in a world full of contested place names, which often represent deeper political or territorial disputes.

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A ship sails the waters near the Canadian province of Ontario, including Lake Ontario, following efforts by President Trump to rename the body of water Lake America.
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