Israel Pauses Daytime Offensive in Part of Gaza, Raising Hopes for More Aid
An Israeli tank moving along the border with the Gaza Strip on Monday.
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on June 2024
‘A Hellscape’: Dire Conditions in Gaza Leave a Multitude of Amputees
An amputee at Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip in November.
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on June 2024
In Ukraine, Narrowing Press Freedoms Cause Growing Concern
Preparing a broadcast of Telemarathon in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, in December. Since Russia’s invasion, the broadcast has replaced the country’s raucous and competitive prewar television news landscape.
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on June 2024
Kenyans Protest Proposed Tax Hikes
President William Ruto of Kenya at the state house in Nairobi in May.
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on June 2024
Thaksin, Thai Ex-Premier, Indicted in Royal Defamation Case
Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra waving as he walked out from a beauty salon in Bangkok, in June.
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on June 2024
North Korea Has Lost ‘Many’ Troops to Mines in DMZ, South Says
South Korea’s Defense Ministry says this image, which it released on Tuesday, shows North Korean soldiers working near the countries’ border.
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on June 2024
Heavy Rains Lash Southern China, Killing at Least 9
Flood waters inundating low-lying areas in Quanzhou county, Guilin city, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, on Tuesday.
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on June 2024
A Russian City Adapts to War: Blast Shelters and Drone Jamming
Alina, front right, waiting at a bus stop in Belgorod, Russia, that has been fortified to protect from shelling.
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on June 2024
Ukraine’s Soldiers Cheer National Soccer Team in Euro 2024
Ukrainian soldiers gathered in a bunker to watch their country’s team play Romania on Monday. Romania won, 3-0.
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on June 2024
More Doctors Walk Off the Job in South Korea
Doctors at Seoul National University Hospital on Monday. The signs read, “Expanding medical schools without any basis will ruin medical education.”
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on June 2024
Turning Against Orban, Peter Magyar Soars in Hungary
Peter Magyar greeting supporters in Felcsut, Hungary, in May. Felcsut is Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s home village.
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on June 2024
China and Philippines Trade Blame After Ships Collide in South China Sea
The collision occurred near a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea. The nearby Second Thomas Shoal is home to a crumbling Philippine warship, the Sierra Madre.
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on June 2024
French Court Strikes Down Ban of Israeli Companies at Arms Show
Protesters outside the Eurosatory exhibition, an event for the defense and security industry, in Villepinte, France, on Monday.
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on June 2024
Thailand’s Legislature Approves Same-Sex Marriage Measure
Supporters of Thailand’s same-sex marriage bill standing outside Thailand’s Parliament building in Bangkok on Tuesday.
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on June 2024
Tuesday Briefing
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed the war cabinet in October.
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on June 2024
U.S.D.A. Suspends Avocado Inspections in Mexico, Citing Security Concerns
An avocado packing plant in Uruapan, a city in the Mexican state of Michoacán, in 2023.
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on June 2024
Record Number of NATO Allies Hit Military Spending Targets
The reassurances from President Biden and the NATO secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, came as questions have arisen anew about the alliance and the commitment to Ukraine.
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on June 2024
U.S. Treasury Imposes New Sanctions to Cut Off Weapons to Houthis in Yemen
Houthi supporters chanting slogans while holding up weapons during a protest against the United States and Israel in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, on Friday.
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on June 2024
Israeli Protesters Mass in Jerusalem to Call for Elections
Protesters gathered in front of the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, on Monday, calling for elections and the immediate return of hostages captured in the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7.
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on June 2024
Dozens of Groups Push FEMA to Recognize Extreme Heat as a ‘Major Disaster’
Construction in Phoenix last July. Labor groups and workers’ rights organizations hope to build up protections for the tens of millions of people working outside or without air-conditioning during heat waves.
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on June 2024
Tuesday Briefing: Netanyahu Disbands His War Cabinet
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed the war cabinet in October after the Hamas-led assault on Israel.
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on June 2024
Gaza Is World’s Deadliest Place for Aid Workers, UN Says
Palestinians inspecting a vehicle carrying World Central Kitchen workers who were killed during a strike in Deir al Balah, in central Gaza, in April.
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on June 2024
Traveling During a Heat Wave: Tips and Precautions
A woman cools off at Domino Park, in Brooklyn, during a previous heat wave. New York is among the many places preparing for high temperatures this week.
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on June 2024
What Weapons Is North Korea Accused of Supplying to Russia?
In a photo provided by Russian state media, President Vladimir V. Putin, center left, and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, center right, at a space launching site in eastern Russia last year.
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on June 2024
Sailors Recount Houthi Attack and U.S. Navy Rescue
Christian Domrique, center, the captain of a ship attacked by Houthi fighters in the Red Sea, on Monday. All surviving crew members were from the Philippines.
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on June 2024
Train Crash in India Leaves at Least 8 Dead and Dozens Injured
The aftermath of a collision of two trains in West Bengal, India, on Monday.
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on June 2024
Netanyahu Dissolves War Cabinet After 2 Key Members Quit
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has disbanded the small war cabinet that made key decisions about the war in Gaza.
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on June 2024
Russia Sets Date for Start of Evan Gershkovich Trial
Evan Gershkovich in a courtroom in Moscow in February. The first hearings in his espionage trial are set to start June 26, the Russian authorities said.
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on June 2024
More Women in Africa Are Using Long-Acting Contraception, Changing Lives
Sandra Dadjan, left, administering a three-month contraceptive injection to her client Mary Amoako at Kwapong Health Centre in the Ahafo Region of Ghana.
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on June 2024
Biden Adviser Visits Israel as Military Warns of ‘Wider Escalation’ With Hezbollah
People attending the funeral of Taleb Abdallah, a senior Hezbollah commander, in Beirut, Lebanon, last week.
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on June 2024
Monday Briefing
Humanitarian aid making its way into the Gaza Strip, through a border crossing.
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on June 2024
America’s Voice in Taiwan Has Some Parting Advice About China
Sandra Oudkirk, who for three years as director of the American Institute in Taiwan has been the leading U.S. diplomat based on the island, gave a farewell speech of sorts in Taipei on Friday.
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on June 2024
Monday Briefing: Israel Plans for a Daily Pause in Some Fighting
A view of the Gaza skyline from southern Israel.
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on June 2024
More Than 80 Nations Back Talks to Ease Path to Peace in Ukraine
During a conference in Switzerland on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine reiterated his view that a lasting peace in the war could be achieved only with Russia’s full withdrawal from his country.
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on June 2024
14 Jordanians Die in Intense Heat During Hajj Pilgrimage
Muslim pilgrims on Sunday near Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca, where temperatures reached nearly 110 degrees.
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on June 2024
Russian Forces Quash Prison Mutiny Led by Terrorism Suspects, State Media Reports
Russian police officers standing guard near a pretrial detention center in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Sunday.
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on June 2024
Deadly Toll in Greece as Heat Waves Sweep the Country
A sun-scorched archaeological site on Delos island in Greece.
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on June 2024
Italians Respond to Pope’s Slur by Taking Francis to Pride
People passing the Colosseum during Rome’s Pride parade on Saturday.
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on June 2024
Euro 2024 Shooting: Police in Hamburg Shoot Man With Ax
An ambulance carrying the attacker driving away after the shooting on Sunday in Hamburg, Germany.
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on June 2024
Iran’s Hostage Swapping: A Brief History
A Belgian aid worker, detained in Iran for more than a year, greeted relatives in Belgium after his release last year.
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on June 2024
Inside the Chechen Units Helping to Fight Russia’s War
Russia’s fighters are waging bloody battles in Ukraine’s east to add to its captured territory.
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on June 2024
Belgian Campus Protests Over War in Gaza Take Different Tone
A meeting last month at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, or V.U.B., where student protests related to the war in Gaza have played out more calmly than those on U.S. campuses.
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on June 2024
On Eid al-Adha, Gazans Find Little to Celebrate
Palestinians performing the Eid al-Adha morning prayer on the first day of the Muslim holiday in the courtyard of Gaza City’s Omari Mosque, which was heavily damaged in Israel’s military offensive.
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on June 2024
A Restaurant Challenges Venezuela’s President by Selling Empanadas
Corina, left, and Nazareth Hernandez making empanadas in their restaurant, Pancho Grill, during a power outage this month.
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on June 2024
The Greens Are Dead. Long Live the Greens!
The European Green Party Extended Congress in February in Lyon, France.
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on June 2024
‘We Need to Unite’: Protests Against the Far Right Are Held Across France
Demonstrators denouncing the rise of the National Rally, a far-right party, during a rally in Paris on Saturday.
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on June 2024
Western Anxiety Makes for an Unexpectedly Smooth G7 Summit
President Biden at the G7 in Savelletri, Italy, on Friday. On important issues of geopolitics, there was little that divided the group.
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on June 2024
Sweden and Iran Exchange Prisoners in a Breakthrough Swap
Johan Floderus, reunited with his family at Arlanda Airport, in Stockholm, on Saturday.
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on June 2024
Ukraine Peace Talks Held in Switzerland, Though Russia Isn’t Invited
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, center, arriving in Switzerland for a peace conference, on Friday. If the weekend’s participants can agree on his points, he said, “then we’ll see if Russia wants to end the war.”
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on June 2024
Shattered by Montreal Mind-Control Experiments, but Undeterred in a Suit
The C.I.A. headquarters in Langley, Va. A class-action lawsuit claims the agency funded life-altering psychiatric experiments in Montreal.
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on June 2024
Kate, Princess of Wales, Appears in Public for 1st Time Since Cancer Diagnosis
Catherine, Princess of Wales, with her children attending the Trooping the Color parade to honor King Charles III on Saturday in London.
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on June 2024
It’s Not Just Russia: China Joins the G7’s List of Adversaries
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Biden holding a joint news conference on Thursday at the Group of 7 summit.
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on June 2024
As War Drags On, Gazans More Willing to Speak Out Against Hamas
Palestinians walking past destroyed buildings in central Gaza on Wednesday.
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on June 2024
Middle East Crisis: U.S. Envoy Holds Talks on Israel-Hezbollah Tensions in Bid to Avert Wider War