Trump’s Top Gaza Official Says Israel Is Jeopardizing the Cease-Fire
An Israeli airstrike targeted a car in Gaza City earlier this month.
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Gold, Flights, Cryptocurrency: U.S. Vows to Go After More Than Iran’s Oil
A gas station in Tehran on Tuesday. The United States imposed a monthslong blockade on Iran’s shipments of oil, the nation’s economic engine.
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Ukraine’s Most Potent Weapon: The Software Orchestrating Its Drone Army
Officers from Ukraine’s First Separate Assault Regiment looking at live battlefield footage from drones, displayed through the Delta system, at a command bunker in eastern Ukraine in 2025.
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14 Newborns Die in Hospital Fire in Pakistan’s Capital
Outside the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad on Wednesday after a fire tore through a nursery there.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Arrive in Britain, BBC Reports
Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, in Sydney, Australia, in April.
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Canadians Stand Their Ground Amid New Trump Tariffs and Expanding U.S.-Canada Trade War
Of Canadian politicians’ responses to the trade war, perhaps the most colorful came from Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, on Monday.
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Oil Prices Dip on News of Progress in Hormuz Talks
Vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, seen from Musandam, Oman, on Monday. Before the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, about a fifth of the world’s oil and gas was shipped through the waterway.
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Kurdish-Led Militia in Syria Disbands in Boost for U.S.-Backed Government
Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led militia that was long seen as a key American ally in Syria in the fight against the Islamic State.
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Confronting South Korea’s Violent Past and Its Echoes Today
Yoo Dong-woo was among hundreds of pro-democracy activists who were tortured at the Namyeong-dong Anti-Communist Interrogation Office in Seoul. He has returned often to what is now the National Museum of Korean Democracy.
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Canada Fires Back in Trade War Against Trump With Up to 50% Tariffs
The U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Plant in Clairton, Pa. Canada has announced it will impose retaliatory tariffs of up to 50 percent on hundreds of American products including steel.
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Iran May Have Little to Lose as U.S. Tries to Squeeze Its Economy
Drivers waiting at a taxi station in Tehran last month.
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A Movement to Restrict Social Media for Children Has Taken Hold Globally
A 15-year-old using social media apps in Australia in July, more than half a year after the country had implemented a ban on children under 16 using many platforms.
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on August 2026
How The New York Times Covers Harry, Meghan and the Royal Family
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are returning to Britain after spending six years in California.
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What to Know About Deadly Flash Floods in Nepal and Tibet
After a flash flood at Trishuli in Nuwakot district, Nepal, on Wednesday.
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Over 100 Indian Pilgrims Are Among the Missing in Nepal Floods
Damage from the flooding in the Nuwakot District, Nepal, on Wednesday.
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Deadly Nepal Flood May Have Been Caused by ‘Ice Avalanche,’ Scientists Say
A glacial lake in the Everest region of Nepal, in 2018.
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Worker Dies After Accident With Plane at Montreal Airport
The authority that operates Montréal-Trudeau International Airport said a worker employed by Samsic, a company that provides support services, was killed in an accident on Monday.
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on August 2026
USA vs. Canada
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Airstrikes and Illegal Mining Add to Myanmar’s Troubles
Destroyed buildings after military airstrikes in May in Kyauktaw, a town in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State.
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Dozens Massacred in Haiti, Officials Say, Heightening Fears of Gangs
Dozens of people were killed by armed gangs in Kenscoff, a neighborhood near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sunday into Monday, officials said.
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on August 2026
India’s Summer of Youth Protests Is Boiling Over
The police used water cannons to disperse protesters in Patna, India, on Tuesday.
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on August 2026
Israeli Lawmaker Smashes Palestinian Monument in West Bank
The damaged Palestinian monument in the West Bank village of Madama on Tuesday.
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‘I’m Fine With My Body’: Danish Leader Responds to Unsolicited Beauty Advice
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Copenhagen last year. Elected at 41, she is the youngest person in Danish history to be prime minister.
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U.S. Removes Syria From Its List of Terrorism Sponsors
A small market in Homs, Syria, in 2025, with the scars of the civil war evident.
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on August 2026
Tornado Rips Through Towns in Southern France
Cleaning up after the tornado in Pomas, southwestern France, on Tuesday.
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on August 2026
Trump Administration to Return Diplomats to Middle East Embassies
The U.S. Embassy in Beirut will be the first to see staff return, according to State Department documents.
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on August 2026
Christian Convert Who Fled Iran and Was Deported By Trump Finds New Home
Artemis Ghasemzadeh at her new home on Denman Island near Vancouver.
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on August 2026
What Happened to the Coveted Western Tanks Sent to Ukraine?
Soldiers replacing the engine of a Leopard tank at a repair and storage facility in the Kharkiv region last month.
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on August 2026
Australia Bans Generative A.I. From Official Music Charts
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), which oversees the charts of the country’s most popular music, said the changes will apply from Friday.
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on August 2026
Chinese Artist Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Mao Sculptures
Gao Zhen, left, and Gao Qiang, with their artwork, “Mao’s Guilt,” in Beijing in 2009.
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How U.S.-Canada Tariff Negotiations Turned Into an All-Out Trade War
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada speaking about the trade dispute with the United States on Monday at the Davie Shipyard in Levis, Quebec.
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on August 2026
What We Know About Australia’s Bird Flu, Which Has Crossed Over to Mammals
A penguin getting vaccinated on Philip Island, Australia, on Sunday.
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U.S. Tariffs Could Price Canadian Firms Out of U.S. and Threaten Thousands of Jobs
Harvested logs in British Columbia in 2023. Canada’s forestry industry may be hit particularly hard by the latest American tariffs.
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Man Who Told of a Childhood With Wolves Dies at 80
Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, right, in Madrid in 2010 at the premiere of “Among Wolves,” a film based on his life, with Juan José Ballesta, left, and Manuel Camacho, the actors who played him as an adult and child.
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on August 2026
Iran Pledges to Defy Trump’s Economic Sanctions
Motorists drive past an anti-American billboard in Tehran on Monday. President Trump has threatened Iran with “economic warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale.”
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Syria and Israel Hold U.S.-Mediated Talks to Try to Ease Tensions
The Abu al-Duhur air base in northwestern Syria last week after Israeli strikes.
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U.S. Marines Cancel Drill With South Korea, Citing Iran War Demands
South Korean marines participate in the Ssangyong, or “Twin Dragons,” exercise in Pohang, South Korea, in 2024.
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UK Prime Minister Burnham Arrives in Ukraine as Russia Amps Up Warnings
Prime Minister Andy Burnham of Britain on Monday at the tomb of the unknown soldier at Ukraine’s national military memorial cemetery in Hatne, southwest of Kyiv.
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on August 2026
Some of Russia’s A.I. Drones Are Powered by Nvidia Microcomputers, Ukrainian Officials Say
A Nvidia Jetson Orin minicomputer that Ukrainian officials say was found in an autonomous drone that Russia recently tested in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
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on August 2026
Iceland’s Murder Rate Is Off the Charts (in Its Books, at Least)
Crime novels on display in a bookstore in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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on August 2026
As El Niño Dries Indonesia, Wildfires Intensify
A firefighter battles a wildfire in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra, Indonesia, earlier this month. This fire season, the country has had an unusually high number of hot spots, according to one estimate.
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on August 2026
What to Know About Bank Melli, Singled Out in U.S. Call for Economic War
Iran Cracks Down on One Luxury Left to Its Youth: Coffee Shops
Live Updates: Hundreds Missing as Wall of Water Sweeps Away Villages in Nepal and Tibet
Why China Loves A.I.
‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It’: Early Harvest Rattles France’s Wine Industry
A New Effort to Punish Iran
A Chinese Robot Beat Usain Bolt’s 100-Meter Record. Should We Be Impressed?
A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.