France’s Snap Election: Here Is What’s at Stake
The fate of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term is at stake in a snap election that is now underway in France.
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on July 2024
The Center Collapses in France, Leaving Macron Marooned
President Emmanuel Macron of France at a polling station in Le Touquet, northern France, on Sunday.
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on July 2024
Ukraine Says It Foiled Russian Plot Echoing String of Coup Bids
Maidan Square in Kyiv, Ukraine. Security officials described a plan that would have begun with a protest before shifting to an attempt to seize the Parliament building.
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on July 2024
France’s Far Right Scores Big in First Round of Elections, Polling Suggests
Marine Le Pen, a leader of the National Rally, giving a speech Sunday evening in Hénin-Beaumont, France.
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on July 2024
Nine Killed in Central Seoul After Car Plows Into Pedestrians
Police and rescuers near a car involved in a crash that killed nine people on Monday night in Seoul.
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on July 2024
For South Africa’s Cabinet, Bigger May Not Mean Better
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, shown being sworn in as a parliamentarian last month, announced a broad new coalition cabinet on Sunday.
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on July 2024
Five Takeaways From France’s Snap Election
French voters are choosing representatives in the 577-seat National Assembly, the country’s lower and more prominent house of Parliament.
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on July 2024
Palestinian Fighters in West Bank Seek to Emulate Hamas in Gaza
Palestinian militants last month in Tulkarm, in the West Bank. Refugee camps in the West Bank have been hotbeds of militancy for years, well before the war in Gaza.
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on July 2024
Ismail Kadare Dies at 88; Novels Brought Albania’s Plight to the World
The author Ismail Kadare in the 1970s. He received the inaugural Man Booker International Prize (now the International Booker Prize) in 2005.
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on July 2024
Myanmar Shop Owners Are Being Jailed for Increasing Wages
A vegetable vendor at a market in Lashio, Myanmar, in June.
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on July 2024
India Wins T20 Cricket World Cup, Stamping Its Domination of the Sport
India’s team celebrating after winning the men’s T20 Cricket World Cup in Bridgetown, Barbados, on Saturday.
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on July 2024
Russia Maintains Punishing Pace of Deadly Strikes on Ukrainian Cities
Damage after a Russian missile strike in the town of Vilniansk, in southeastern Ukraine, on Saturday.
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on July 2024
Ismail Kadare’s Best Books: A Guide
Ismail Kadare died on July 1, at 88, in the Albanian capital, Tirana.
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on July 2024
Trump Organization Signs Contract for New Saudi Tower
Before Donald J. Trump was elected president in 2016, his organization had planned to build a tower in the Middle East, but the deal was shelved.
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on July 2024
Release of Gazan Hospital Director Draws Outcry in Israel
Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the director of Al-Shifa Hospital, behind the lectern, speaks to reporters in southern Gaza after his release from Israeli custody on Monday.
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on July 2024
France Reacts to Big Far-Right Wins in First Round of Snap Election
Demonstrators at a rally after the announcement of the results of the first round of French parliamentary elections at the Place de la République in Paris on Sunday.
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on July 2024
The Rubik Cube Turns 50
“My method was understanding,” Erno Rubik said of the iconic twisty puzzle that he invented in 1974.
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on July 2024
Monday Briefing
Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally, as results came in yesterday.
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on July 2024
Monday Briefing: The French Far Right Appeared to Triumph
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte leaving voting booths on Sunday.
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on July 2024
Iranians Say Elections Bring Little Change, So Why Vote?
Iranians passing a huge ballot box in Tehran on Saturday.
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on July 2024
Taliban Talks With U.N. Go On Despite Alarm Over Exclusion of Women
Zabihullah Mujahid, the chief spokesman for the Taliban, during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday.
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on July 2024
Robots Get a Fleshy Face (and a Smile) in New Research
Japanese researchers have used living skin cells to make to make a flexible 3D facial mold for a robot.
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on July 2024
At Least 18 People Killed in Multiple Suicide Bombings in Nigeria
At least 30 victims of the suicide bombings in Gwoza were taken to a hospital in Maiduguri, Nigeria, for treatment.
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on July 2024
Brazil’s Pabllo Vittar is the World’s Next Big Drag Queen
Pabllo Vittar during a concert in São Luis, Maranhão, her hometown.
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on July 2024
Iran Elections: What to Know
Voters in Tehran on Friday. Iranian elections once drew enthusiastic crowds, but more people have stayed home in recent years in protest against the ruling establishment.
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on July 2024
How Science Went to the Dogs (and Cats)
Max, a 2-year-old German shepherd, Belgian Malinois and husky mix, was photographed in Greenlake Park in Seattle this month. A stray who was rescued in an emaciated condition, Max is a participant in Darwin’s Ark, a community science initiative that investigates animal genetics and behavior.
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on July 2024
In the Basque Country, Muted Cheers for Spain’s Soccer Team
Spain has won its three matches at Euro 2024. But back home, support for the national team is not universal.
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on July 2024
France’s High-Stakes Elections Attract Strong Voter Turnout: What to Watch
President Emmanuel Macron greeting supporters after voting on Sunday in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, in northern France.
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on July 2024
With Macron and Biden Vulnerable, So Is Europe
President Biden with President Emmanuel Macron of France at the Élysée Palace in Paris this month.
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on July 2024
A New Home for the Story of the Boats That Shaped Canada
The entrance to the exhibition area of the new Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ontario.
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on July 2024
Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian Reaches Runoff in Iran’s Presidential Election
Saeed Jalili, an ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator, left, and Masoud Pezeshkian, the only reformist candidate, will face each other next week in a runoff election for Iran’s presidency.
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on July 2024
A Wish From All Sides to Move On Gives Freedom to Julian Assange
Julian Assange pleaded guilty and told a court he believed he had been “working as a journalist” when he obtained documents from Chelsea Manning, while adding that he now accepted that it had been “a violation” of U.S. law.
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on July 2024
How Julian Assange Lit the Fuse on the Digital World
Julian Assange in London in 2010. This week he pleaded guilty to conspiring to obtain and publish government secrets in violation of the Espionage Act.
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on July 2024
A String of Supreme Court Decisions Hits Hard at Environmental Rules
A coal-fired power plant in Robertson County, Texas. One court ruling this week said the E.P.A. could not limit smokestack pollution that drifts across state lines.
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on July 2024
Defendants Acquitted in Panama Papers Money-Laundering Trial
Outside the court where the Panama Papers trial is being held in Panama City in April.
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on July 2024
Years Later, Philippines Reckons With Duterte’s Brutal Drug War
Mary Ann Domingo visiting the tombs of her partner and her son in Caloocan, Philippines. They were fatally shot by the police in 2016, among the thousands to die in extrajudicial killings under murky circumstances during the years that Rodrigo Duterte was president.
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on July 2024
Why U.K.’s Young Voters Feel Forgotten by Politicians
Bold Street in Liverpool, England, in June. Polls suggest more than half of voters under 35 plan to vote for Labour on Thursday, compared with 27 percent of voters over 65.
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on July 2024
Israel’s Plan to Legalize 5 West Bank Settlements: What to Know
Illegal Israeli settlements in the Gush Etzion settlement block in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2020.
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on July 2024
Putin Vows to Make New Nuclear Missiles and Weigh Putting Them Near NATO Nations
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia made the announcement just as major elections were about to begin in Britain and France.
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on July 2024
Before LeBron and Bronny, These Fathers and Sons Made Sports History
Bronny James could play on the same team this fall as his father, the basketball great LeBron James.
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on July 2024
Debates in U.K. and U.S. Differ Sharply in Tone and Substance
The Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, left, and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a debate on Wednesday in Nottingham, Britain.
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on July 2024
Racist and Homophobic Comments Unsettle U.K. Election Campaign
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain campaigning in Leeds, England, on Thursday. He told broadcasters that “it hurts and it makes me angry” that his two daughters “have to see and hear Reform people who campaigned for Nigel Farage” using such offensive language directed at their father.
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on July 2024
U.S. Presses to Avert Wider War Between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon
An armored United Nations vehicle driving through the heavily damaged village of Kfar Kila, in southern Lebanon, earlier this month.
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on July 2024
Dutch Olympic Organizers Defend Participation of Athlete Convicted of Rape
Steven van de Velde of the Netherlands, seen competing in Mexico last year, qualified for the Dutch Olympic beach volleyball team this year. In 2016, Mr. van de Velde was convicted of rape.
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on July 2024
Mikhail Baryshnikov on Leaving Everything Behind
“It was the start of a new life,” Mikhail Baryshnikov says of the night in 1974 that he dodged K.G.B. agents in Toronto as he rushed to meet Canadian and American friends in a getaway car.
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on July 2024
What I’m Reading: Tunneling to the Past
A young man selling sweets walking through the destroyed streets of the Old City of Mosul, Iraq, in 2017.
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on July 2024
Princess Anne Returns Home From the Hospital After Suffering Concussion
Princess Anne at Buckingham Palace in London last month.
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on July 2024
Brittany Was Once Barren Ground for France’s Far Right. No More.
So many people from the small town of Gourin, in northwest France, emigrated to the United States over the decades, that Air France gave it a miniature State of Liberty.
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on July 2024
Israeli Minister Reportedly Agrees to Release Funds to the Palestinian Authority
Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s hard-line finance minister, has sought to cripple the Palestinian Authority.
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on July 2024
Tuesday Briefing: Top Court Gives Trump Significant Immunity
At Euro 2024, a Very England Fight Misses the Point
Middle East Crisis: Uproar Over Release of Gazan Hospital Director Reveals Rifts in Israel
A Culture War Erupted Over U.K. Stately Homes. Who Won?
Motorcycles and Mayhem in Ukraine’s East
Hurricane Beryl Lashes the Caribbean as a Category 4 Storm