No Passports, No Study Abroad: China Limits Public Employees’ Travel
Candidates lining up for a civil service exam in Nanjing, China, last year.
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With Festivities and Papal Prayer, the Vatican Aims to Attract the Young
Pope Leo XIV arriving at the festival in a Roman suburb on Saturday evening, the culmination of the Vatican’s six-day celebration of youth in the church.
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on August 2025
India Will Buy Russian Oil Despite Trump’s Threats, Officials Say
An oil refinery in Guwahati, India, in 2023. Russia is the source of more than one third of India’s oil imports.
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on August 2025
Mike Huckabee, Israel’s Passionate Defender as Gaza War Drives Allies Away
Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, on Tuesday at his official residence in Jerusalem.
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on August 2025
Protesters in Thailand Denounce Prime Minister After Clashes With Cambodia
A rally in Bangkok on Saturday calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra of Thailand.
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on August 2025
Photos From a Gaza Airdrop
A devastated Gaza, as seen from a Jordanian Air Force Hercules during a coordinated aid drop by Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, delivering 18 tons of food and basic necessities.
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on August 2025
U.S. Victims of Hamas and Hezbollah Attacks Sue UNRWA
American citizens living in Israel and the United States filed a lawsuit accusing UNRWA of providing support to Hamas and Hezbollah.
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on August 2025
A Bid to Undo a Colonial-Era Wrong Touches a People’s Old Wounds
Members of a Naga delegation visited the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, England, in June.
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on August 2025
El Salvador Ends Term Limits, Letting Bukele Seek Re-Election Indefinitely
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador at the White House in April.
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on August 2025
A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia
Firefighters in British Columbia say they believe a brush fire started after an osprey dropped a fish onto a set of power lines on Wednesday.
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on August 2025
What Do Trump’s Tariff Hikes Mean for Canada’s Trade-Dependent Economy?
Tiff Macklem, the governor of the Bank of Canada, said that tariffs on cars, steel and aluminum were “having a very direct, severe effect” on some industries.
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on August 2025
SpaceX, NASA Launch Astronauts to Space Station as Clouds Stay Just Far Enough Away
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching on Friday. It was carrying NASA’s Crew-11 astronauts to the International Space Station.
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on August 2025
Trump Turns to Untested Tariffs to Reorder Global Trade
Economists remain skeptical that President Trump’s approach to tariffs will work as he intends.
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on August 2025
Putin Blames Frustration Over Ukraine Talks on ‘Inflated Expectations’
Ukrainian firefighters in the courtyard of a tuberculosis hospital after a Russian bomb struck its roof in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in July.
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on August 2025
Derk Sauer, Champion of Free Press in a New Russia, Dies at 72
Derk Sauer in the Netherlands last year. After Russia invaded Ukraine, he became a champion of Russian journalists who had fled to escape repression.
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on August 2025
Corruption Scandal Puts Mexico’s President on Defense Against Trump
Adán Augusto López Hernández when he was Mexico’s interior minister. He is at the center of a scandal around men he appointed to security positions in Tabasco State when he was governor.
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on August 2025
In Delhi and New York, Hindu Right Wing Lines Up Against Mamdani
Some Hindu American groups accuse Zohran Mamdani, seen here addressing a group of Muslim men in March, of promoting an anti-Hindu agenda.
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on August 2025
At Least 1 Dead and 5 Missing After Mine Collapse in Chile
At least one person was killed and five are missing at Codelco’s El Teniente copper mine in Chile.
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on August 2025
Trump Gives Mexico a Reprieve but Slams Canada With Higher Tariffs
In June, when Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada hosted a Group of 7 meeting, he announced that he had an agreement to reach a trade deal with Mr. Trump by July 21. It didn’t materialize.
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on August 2025
Friday Briefing: Trump’s Tariff Day
A port in Tampa, Fla.
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E.U. Did Not Retain Texts Sought by Journalists on Covid Vaccine Deal
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, in London, in March.
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on August 2025
A French Beach Town’s Plea to Tourists: Keep Your Clothes On
La Grande Plage, the beach in Les Sables d’Olonne, France, in 2021. The town fines tourists who venture beyond the sand in their swimsuits.
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on August 2025
Cécile Dionne, Who Found Fame and Despair as a Quintuplet, Dies at 91
Cécile, left, and Annette Dionne in 2017, when they were the last two surviving Dionne quintuplets.
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on August 2025
Arab States Call for Hamas to Disarm Amid Push for a Palestinian State
The surprise move, in a declaration endorsed on Tuesday by the 22 member nations of the Arab League, also condemned Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, which set off the devastating war in Gaza.
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on August 2025
Here’s What to Know About Trump’s 50% Tariffs on Brazil
Workers stockpiled coffee bean bags in Vila Valerio, northern Espírito Santo, Brazil in July. Brazil is the world’s biggest exporter of coffee beans and a major supplier to the U.S. market.
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on August 2025
Friday Briefing: Trump’s Tariff Day
A port in Tampa, Fla.
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on August 2025
Dozens Killed in Protests Over Gas Prices in Angola
A burned vehicle in Luanda, Angola, during a general strike against rising fuel prices on Tuesday.
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on August 2025
ISIS Militant Sentenced to Life for Role in Burning Pilot Alive in Syria
Stockholm District Court in 2024. Though Osama Krayem denied any wrongdoing, video evidence showed him participating in the gruesome murder of First Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh in 2015.
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on August 2025
A Short History of Awkward Gift Giving Between U.S. and U.K. Leaders
President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain in Aberdeen, Scotland, on Monday. On the visit, Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney, presented Mr. Trump with gifts including a document dating from 1853 that registered the marriage of Mr. Trump’s maternal great-grandparents.
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on August 2025
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Steps Down
Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas speaking at a news conference in February.
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on August 2025
Major Study on Transgender Youth Health Care to Begin in U.K.
King’s College London, one of the leading research institutions in Britain, has received government funding to carry out a long-term study into gender care for young people.
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on August 2025
Trump Taps Climate Skeptics to Attack Science on Global Warming
The Department of Energy in Washington, D.C.
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on August 2025
Ancient Gems Linked to Buddha Are Returned to India
Some of the Piprahwa Gems, seen on display in 2023 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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on August 2025
Trump Tells Russian Official to ‘Watch His Words,’ but He Bites Back Instead
Dmitri Medvedev, Russia’s former president who now serves in a largely symbolic role, frequently wields nuclear threats against the West on social media.
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on August 2025
Modi’s ‘True Friend’ Trump Deals India a Big Blow With Tariff Threats
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India at a joint news conference at the White House in February.
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on August 2025
Witkoff Plans Visit to Gaza to See Hunger Crisis
Steve Witkoff’s visit to Israel on Thursday is the first time he is known to have visited the country in months.
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on August 2025
Anger Over Starvation in Gaza Leaves Israel Increasingly Isolated
Clamoring for aid in the Gaza City area this month. Widespread hunger has prompted increasing malnutrition and starvation.
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on August 2025
Myanmar Lifts State of Emergency, Paving the Way for Disputed Vote
Protesters clashing with security forces in Tharketa township, in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2021. The government lifted a four-year state of emergency in place since the army seized power in a coup in 2021.
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on August 2025
Aftershocks From 8.8-Magnitude Quake Rattle North Pacific
An image released by the Sakhalin Region Government on Wednesday, showing the tsunami-hit Severo-Kurilsk on Paramushir island of Russia’s northern Kuril islands.
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on August 2025
After Backlash, Ukraine Votes to Restore Watchdogs’ Powers
Protesters took to the streets of Kyiv earlier this month in response to a law signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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on August 2025
Russian Missile and Drone Attack Pummels Kyiv, Killing at Least 7
An apartment building on Thursday after a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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on August 2025
Thursday Briefing: Trump’s Steep Tariffs on Brazil
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaking with The New York Times on Tuesday.
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on August 2025
Bad Weather Delays Launch of Astronauts to Space Station
Zena Cardman, commander of the SpaceX/NASA Crew-11 mission, arriving at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday.
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on August 2025
Canada to Recognize Palestinian State at the U.N. General Assembly
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada has intensified his criticism of Israel over the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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on August 2025
Thursday Briefing: Trump’s Steep Tariffs on Brazil
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaking with The New York Times on Tuesday.
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on August 2025
Iran Is Holding at Least 4 US Citizens, Rights Groups and Families Say
New Hostage Videos Sow Fear and Horror in Israel
Fleeing Domestic Violence, and the Russian Advance
Trump Envoy Witkoff Visits Gaza as Aid Crisis Deepens
How the Threat of Trump’s Highest Tariff Derailed an African Nation
A New Border Wall in Arizona Would Block a Key Wildlife Corridor
Amid Scramble for Food, Prices in Gaza Reach Extraordinary Heights
What Countries Recognize a Palestinian State: A Map