Beyond Borders

A Soviet-era antiaircraft cannon operated by Ukraine’s 59th Assault Brigade in Dnipropetrovsk region in June. Only U.S.-made Patriot missiles can see off the most advanced Russian attacks.

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Damage from Israeli strikes in central Gaza City on Friday.

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Tibetan Buddhist monks gathered in Dharamsala, a Himalayan hill town in India, to discuss the future of the Dalai Lama’s spiritual office, as China tries to control who will succeed him.

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A screenshot from the British Parliament showed Rachel Reeves, Britain’s chancellor of the Exchequer, seated next to Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain in the House of Commons on Wednesday.

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President Javier Milei of Argentina and his allies have ratcheted up their aggressive denunciation of journalists, particularly women.

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U.S. imports from Vietnam have risen since President Trump’s first term, when he imposed hefty tariffs on China and manufacturers started searching for new locations for their overseas factories.

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Azerbaijan’s embassy in Moscow on Wednesday. Tensions continued to grow this week between Russia and Azerbaijan, which was once considered one of Moscow’s closest partners among former Soviet states.

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A still image taken from a video showing North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, covering a coffin with his nation’s flag is displayed on a screen during a performance in Pyongyang, North Korea, last week.

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The Dalai Lama has hinted that he might buck established succession practices as part of an apparent strategy to throw off the Chinese and avoid a vacuum that Beijing can exploit as it seeks to control Tibetan Buddhism.

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Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra of Thailand after a cabinet meeting in Bangkok on Tuesday.

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Muscat, the capital of Oman, in 2023. Officials said a new tax there would affect only a small portion of the population but would help reduce the country’s dependence on oil and gas.

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Iranian officials criticized Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, for saying that there was no evidence of a systematic effort to build nuclear bombs only after Israel began its military attacks.

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The fire at an electrical substation in March brought Heathrow to a standstill. More than 1,000 flights were disrupted during the shutdown.

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Damage from Israeli strikes in central Gaza City on Friday.

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Students in Cimahi, Indonesia, having lunches that were provided by the government. President Prabowo Subianto calls the program an investment in Indonesia’s future.

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Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen strongman, is one of the closest allies of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Growing speculation about his health has raised the question of who will take the reins when he leaves.

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Binoculars covered in lovebugs at an observatory in Incheon, South Korea, on Monday.

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Family members waiting for updates on the search for people who went missing after a ferry sank near Bali, Indonesia.

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An outdoor swimming pool at the Széchenyi baths in Budapest.

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The Grand People’s Study House in Pyongyang, North Korea, in 2019.

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Sean Combs in 2020.

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Akusekijima in 2021. Residents of the island said they have lost sleep since the tremors began.

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Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, oversaw the passage of President Trump’s signature domestic policy bill.

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Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani in 2018. He told Iranian state media on Saturday that he had sustained serious injuries in the Israeli strike in June.

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The State Department spokesman Richard A. Boucher talked about a standoff between the United States and China at a press briefing in Washington in 2001.

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In the past, women were allowed to volunteer to serve in the military, but they were not entered into a lottery system for compulsory service like their male peers. Women volunteers made up roughly a quarter of 2024’s cohort.

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The two leaders seemed to reach some common ground on Iran, but they were still at odds over the war in Ukraine.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s retreat on the planned welfare cuts did not satisfy many lawmakers within his increasingly fractious Labour party.

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Syrians celebrating President Trump’s plan to ease sanctions, in Homs, Syria, in May.

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Wind farm tower pieces destined for the South Fork Wind Farm off the Rhode Island coast in 2023.

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Rescue workers inspected the damage at Sigachi Industries near Hyderabad, India, on Tuesday, a day after an explosion leveled the factory.

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The Cheshire police, which investigated baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital, said they had arrested three senior managers who worked at the hospital between 2015 and 2016.

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Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip arriving in Bristol, England, in 1999.

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A Malaysian inspector examined a shipment of plastic waste in 2019.

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The family of Murshid Hamayel at his wake on Friday. Palestinian officials said that Mr. Hamayel was killed in clashes with the Israeli military in Kafr Malik.

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Boualem Sansal in Paris in 2015.

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Timur Ivanov inside the defendant’s box before a hearing at the Moscow City Court, in March.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and President Trump in the Oval Office, in April.

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Spectators try to keep cool during the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London on Monday.

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An artillery unit of the 28th Mechanized Separate Brigade preparing to fire an M109 howitzer on Russian positions, on the outskirts of Kostiantynivka, eastern Ukraine.

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Ryland Headley, 92, in an undated handout photo from Avon and Somerset Police.

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The Beijing Capital International Airport in April. China’s ban prohibits passengers from taking some portable batteries on board planes after millions of the devices were recalled.

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Farmers getting an early start.

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President Trump with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada at the White House in May.

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King Charles III and Queen Camilla meeting with well-wishers during a walk in Banbridge, part of a three-day trip to Northern Ireland in March.

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President Trump’s executive order is set to lift many sanctions against Syria, some that have been in place for decades.

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An iceberg calved from the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula in 2017.

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President Trump met with the top Republicans to press for passage of his domestic policy bill.

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A woman pushing a stroller through desolate streets outside Damascus, the capital of Syria. Gulf Arab states are leading the effort to help the country recover from the civil war.

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