South African Police’s Frequent Use of Torture Echoes Apartheid’s Brutality
A police raid in Pretoria, South Africa in 2017. South Africa has among the world’s highest murder rates and tackling runaway crime has become an intractable challenge.
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What’s at Stake as Netanyahu and Trump Meet in Washington
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s Parliament last month. Mr. Netanyahu will meet with President Trump this week in Washington.
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on July 2025
Erin Patterson Is Found Guilty of Murder in Australia Mushroom Poisoning Case
The courthouse in Morwell, Australia, where Erin Patterson’s murder trial was being held.
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on July 2025
Russia Confirms Death of Minister Hours After Kremlin Dismissed Him
Roman Starovoyt, the Russian transport minister, arriving for a meeting at the Kremlin in May.
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Ukraine Turns to Fishing Nets to Catch Russian Drones
Nets, erected over the road to protect against armed Russian drones, standing along a highway on the outskirts of the mostly abandoned city of Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, in June.
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on July 2025
Canada Shipping Natural Gas to Asia as It Looks Beyond the US for Trade
The Gaslog Glasgow tanker in Kitimat, British Columbia, last month. It set off for South Korea this week with Canada’s first major shipment of liquefied natural gas to Asia.
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Iran Carries Out Mass Expulsion of Afghan Refugees
Returnees cross the border from Iran into Islam Qala, Afghanistan on Thursday.
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‘Hallmarks of Institutional Racism’ Found in Police Killing of Kumanjayi Walker
The coroner read her findings before residents in a dusty courtyard lined with gum trees, just a few streets away from the red-walled house belonging to the victim’s grandmother, where he was killed.
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Von der Leyen Faces No-Confidence Vote in Far-Right Challenge
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission’s president, speaking before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Monday.
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The Little Mountain Democracy That Sustains Tibet’s Refugee Nation
Lhakar Gorshey, a Tibetan circle dance performed on Wednesdays, which are considered a special day of cultural significance, near Tsuglagkhang, also known as Dalai Lama’s Temple complex, this past week in Dharamsala, India.
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Caught Between Tariffs and China, Mexico Adapts to an Unpredictable U.S.
Assembling refrigeration and air-conditioning units at a factory for the Danish company Danfoss, in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
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on July 2025
Trump Wants to Close the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
The site of a nitrogen leak in Georgia that killed six workers in 2021. The federal investigative team that determined the cause could face Trump administration cuts.
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on July 2025
Land Mines, a Cold War Horror, Could Return to Fortify Europe’s Borders
A demining team clearing a field in 2023 in Makariv, Ukraine, an area near Kyiv that was occupied by Russian forces during the early months of the war.
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on July 2025
Deadly Flash Floods Sweep Away Nepal-China Bridge
Damage caused by flooding on the Bhotekoshi River, north of Kathmandu, Nepal, on Tuesday.
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on July 2025
The Businessman Grateful for Trump’s Tariffs
Jorge H. Martínez, the owner of Micro Partes, at his factory in Monterrey, Mexico.
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on July 2025
Europe Needs Rare Earth Metals. Can a Factory in Seaside France Supply Them?
A rare earth factory in La Rochelle, France, owned by the Belgium-based company Solvay. The plant produces crucial materials needed to produce modern cars, wind turbines and military equipment.
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on July 2025
5 Israeli Soldiers Killed in Gaza, Military Says
Israeli military vehicles in the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
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on July 2025
Macron’s U.K. State Visit: Migrants and the War in Ukraine Are on the Agenda
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain and President Emmanuel Macron of France at the G7 summit in Canada last month.
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on July 2025
What to Know About P.O.W.s in Myanmar’s Brutal Civil War
New recruits of the Bamar People’s Liberation Army during their first day of training in 2024.
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on July 2025
Haiti’s Landmark Oloffson Hotel is Destroyed in an Apparent Arson Fire
The Oloffson Hotel, an example of gingerbread house architecture, was constructed in the late 19th century as a private home and played a key role in Graham Greene’s novel “The Comedians.”
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As Renewed U.S. Tariffs Loom, Emerging Economies Turn to One Another
The BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro on Monday. The group issued a thinly-veiled rebuke of President Trump’s tariff battle.
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on July 2025
Why Are Protesters in Mexico City Angry at Remote Workers?
A protester lighting an aerosol can during a march against gentrification in Mexico City on Friday.
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on July 2025
Trump and Netanyahu Meet Amid Gaza Cease-Fire Negotiations
President Trump meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for dinner at the White House on Monday.
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on July 2025
Trump Revives Trade War, Threatening Steep Aug. 1 Tariffs on Allies
President Trump is continuing to impose or threaten tariffs on Japan’s and South Korea’s major exports, including cars, steel and electronics.
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on July 2025
Trump Administration Ends Deportation Protections for Hondurans and Nicaraguans
Immigration advocates attending a vigil outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Miami in June 2023.
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on July 2025
Indonesia Volcano Eruption Sends Ash Soaring 11 Miles High
A handout photo from the Indonesian government showing Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupting on Monday.
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on July 2025
Trump Keeps Foreign Countries on Edge as Tariff Deadline Nears
President Trump plans to impose tariffs on some of America’s largest trading partners on Aug. 1.
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on July 2025
2 Dead and 500 Injured After Typhoon Danas Strikes Taiwan
The collapsed archway of the Nankunshen Daitian Temple in Tainan on Monday.
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on July 2025
Monday Briefing: Floods in Texas Killed at Least 80
A man worked to free a truck stuck in debris in Kerrville, Texas, yesterday.
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on July 2025
Why Are Police Officers in South Africa Torturing People?
Police officers during a door-to-door search for drugs and illegal firearms in Tshepisong, near Johannesburg, in 2022.
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on July 2025
Monday Briefing: Floods in Texas Killed nearly 80
Search and rescue teams in Texas yesterday.
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on July 2025
How Europe Got Stuck Between Xi’s China and Trump’s America
Shipping containers on flatbed railway cars, at the port of Hamburg, Germany, in April. European exports to China remain substantial, especially from Germany.
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on July 2025
China and Russia Keep Their Distance From Iran During Crisis
An ambulance burned in an Israeli attack in Tehran last month. Despite the appearance of unity, Russia, China and North Korea did not rush to Iran’s aid during its war with Israel or when U.S. forces bombed Iranian nuclear sites.
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on July 2025
Europe’s Dilemma: Build a Military Industry or Keep Relying on the U.S.
A large-scale NATO military exercise involving nine allied nations, earlier this year.
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on July 2025
Netanyahu Heads to Washington as Trump Pushes for Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel visited the site of an Iranian strike in Rehovot, Israel, last month during the 12-day Israel-Iran war.
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Albert Ojwang Was Killed in Police Custody. Kenyans Are Not About to Let It Go.
Young men carried Albert Ojwang’s coffin at his funeral in Kakoth village, Kenya, on Friday.
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on July 2025
Can Australia Pull Off Barring Children From Social Media?
Australia hopes, by December, to remove more than a million young teens from social media.
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on July 2025
Khamenei Appears in Public for First Time Since Israel War Began
A photograph released by Iran’s state media on Saturday showing Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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on July 2025
As a Tourist Influx Makes Prices Soar, Hundreds Protest in Mexico City
Demonstrators damaged a dining area at an anti-gentrification protest that turned violent in Mexico City, on Friday.
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on July 2025
As the World Warms, Extreme Rain Is Becoming Even More Extreme
A person overlooks flooding at the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, on Saturday.
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on July 2025
Israel to Send Delegation to Qatar for Talks on Gaza Truce
A man inspecting damage after an Israeli strike in central Gaza on Friday. The war has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and reduced much of the territory to rubble.
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on July 2025
Celebrating the U.S. in Canada During Turmoil in the Two Countries’ Relations
The crowd was smaller than usual for the Fourth of July party hosted by the U.S. ambassador to Canada.
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on July 2025
Iran Looks to BRICS for Allies, Testing a New World Order
Valiasr Square in Tehran last month. Analysts expect Iran to use the BRICS summit as an opportunity to shore up more explicit support from the group.
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on July 2025
Antarctica Faces Tense Future as U.S. Science Budget Shrinks
The National Science Foundation’s McMurdo Station in Antarctica.
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on July 2025
The Cost of Victory: Israel Overpowered Its Foes, but Deepened Its Isolation
Demonstrators outside the headquarters of the governing Likud party in June in Tel Aviv demanding the return of hostages held in Gaza.
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on July 2025
Violence at Synagogue and Restaurant Unnerves Jews in Melbourne
Rabbi Dovid Gutnick walking past fire damage to the exterior of the East Melbourne Synagogue on Saturday.
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on July 2025
Pro-Palestinian Activists Lose Appeal Against U.K. Government Ban
A Palestine Action activist, Lisa Luxx, outside the High Court in London on Friday.
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on July 2025
Israel’s Deadly Assault on Iran Prison Incites Fury, Even Among Dissidents
Tuesday Briefing: Trump’s New Tariff Threats
Tuesday Briefing: Trump’s New Tariff Threats
Here Are Trump’s New Tariff Threats
The Interview: Mark Rutte, the Head of NATO, Thinks President Trump ‘Deserves All the Praise’
A Lifetime After Fleeing the Nazis, They Tell Their Stories
A Napoleon From Long Island Meets His Waterloo