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 June 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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France’s Bold Election Gamble: Here Is What’s at Stake
The party of President Emmanuel Macron of France suffered a stinging defeat in European Parliament elections in early June.
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Why Britain’s Murky Election Betting Scandal Is Causing Outrage
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announcing the next U.K. general election at 10 Downing Street in London last month.
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U.S. Allies in Asia and Europe Watch the Debate With a Question: What Now?
President Biden’s weak debate performance had analysts and officials in Europe, Asia and beyond fretting about a return to office of Donald J. Trump.
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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 June 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 June 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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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 June 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 June 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 June 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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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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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 June 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 June 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 June 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 June 2024
For An Aquatic Veterinarian, It’s Never ‘Just A Fish’
Dr. Jessie Sanders analyzing the movement of a Fisher’s wood catfish at a home in Martinez, Calif., in January.
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on June 2024
What the Impressionist Painter Camille Pissarro Saw in London
The Crystal Palace railway station is named for the large glass structure that was moved to Southeast London after the 1851 Great Exhibition. The structure later burned down.
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on June 2024
No Appendix, No Problem. Australia’s Remote Doctors Tell All.
A training area replicating an aircraft that transports doctors who provide health care services for people living in remote areas of Australia.
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on June 2024
Friday Briefing
Former President Donald Trump and President Biden during their debate.
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on June 2024
Iran Holds Vote to Pick a President
Supporters of Saeed Jalili, the ultraconservative Iranian presidential candidate, gathered in Tehran on Monday.
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on June 2024
Iran’s Presidential Candidates: Who Are They?
Posters of Gen. Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, current speaker of Parliament and a presidential candidate, in the streets of Tehran on Tuesday.
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on June 2024
Roof Collapses at Delhi Airport Terminal Amid Storms and Heavy Rain
A crew inspecting the damage to a part of a canopy at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport that collapsed on Friday.
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on June 2024
President Luis Arce of Bolivia Confronts a Coup Attempt, and Evo Morales
Soldiers in La Paz, the administrative capital of Bolivia, on Wednesday, during a failed coup attempt.
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on June 2024
These Are the Officials Selected for the Top E.U. Jobs
Ursula von der Leyen, who has come into her own as an unexpected wartime leader for the European Union, was put forward for a second term as president of the European Commission.
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on June 2024
Friday Briefing: What to Watch in the French Election
President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron in Paris on Monday.
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on June 2024
Taiwanese Are Told to Avoid China After It Threatens Independence Backers
Watching coverage of China’s military drills around Taiwan last month in Beijing.
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on June 2024
Critically Ill Children Allowed to Leave Gaza for First Time Since May
A Palestinian girl in a vehicle taking children out of Gaza for medical treatment abroad on Thursday.
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on June 2024
Study Finds Small Streams, Recently Stripped of Protections, Are a Big Deal
A riparian area in Wells, Nev., in the northeastern part of the state. In the West, ephemeral streams flow only for four to 46 days per year, on average, but contribute up to 79 percent of the downstream river flow, new research has found.
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on June 2024
As Iran Picks a President, a Nuclear Shift: Open Talk About Building the Bomb
A billboard depicting some of Iran’s ballistic weaponry in Tehran in April. Iran’s nuclear expansion comes at the most delicate of moments.
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on June 2024
At Least 750,000 on Brink of Starvation and Death in Sudan, Experts Warn
A 20-month-old, Bara’a Ahmed, being treated in the malnutrition unit at a hospital in Port Sudan in April. Conditions have worsened sharply since last year, a global body says.
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Kenya Protesters Call for President to Resign Despite His Withdrawal of the Tax Bill
A protester enveloped in a cloud of tear gas taunts a Kenyan anti-riot police officer in downtown Nairobi, on Thursday.
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on June 2024
Russian Casualties in Ukraine Mount, in a Brutal Style of Fighting
A destroyed Russian tank in southern Ukraine earlier this spring. Russia lost an average of 1,000 soldiers per day during the war in Ukraine in May.
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on June 2024
How to Escape From the Russian Army
Desperate for a job, Krishna Bahadur Shahi joined the Russian military, believing — wrongly — that he would not be sent into battle.
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on June 2024
China Levels Graft Charges Against Former Defense Ministers
Gen. Li Shangfu, center, at a welcome ceremony in Singapore in 2023. He was China’s defense minister for much of last year.
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on June 2024
Will Extreme Heat Hold Back Saudi Arabia and Other Gulf States?
Pilgrims in Mecca carried umbrellas to protect themselves from the intense heat during the hajj this month.
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on June 2024
Israel Orders More Evacuations in Gaza as Military Fights Hamas in Shajaiye
Palestinians travel in a donkey-drawn cart as they flee their homes following an Israeli military operation in Shejaiya
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on June 2024
Israeli Soldier Is Killed During Raid in West Bank, IDF Says
A crater left by a roadside bomb that targeted an Israeli military jeep in the city of Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday.
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on June 2024
How a Tiny Circle of Advisers Helped Prod Macron to Call France’s Snap Election
President Emmanuel Macron has defended his decision to call a snap election as an effort to attain political “clarification” for France.
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on June 2024
Shahjahan Bhuiya, Executioner Turned TikTok Star, Dies in Bangladesh
Shahjahan Bhuiya holding a copy of his book in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in February.
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on June 2024
Iranians Say, ‘We Have Been Going Backward’
Tajrish Square in Tehran on Wednesday, the last day of campaigning for the presidential election to be held Friday.
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on June 2024
Julian Assange’s Polarizing Legacy: From Hacker to Hunted Figure
Julian Assange arriving at Canberra Airport in Canberra, Australia, on Wednesday.
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on June 2024
Trump Eyes Bigger Trade War in Second Term
Former President Donald J. Trump is envisioning an increase of trade tariffs that some economists say could drive up already high prices and plunge the United States into a recession.
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on June 2024
Thursday Briefing
Evan Gershkovich before his court hearing yesterday.
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on June 2024
Is King Charles III About to Get a Prime Minister He Likes?
King Charles and the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, at Buckingham Palace in 2022. “There’s a meeting of minds in terms of the social issues at stake,” one historian said about the two men.
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on June 2024
At Euro 2024, a Very England Fight Misses the Point
Motorcycles and Mayhem in Ukraine’s East
7.2-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Peru, Injures 3
The Etiquette of Remembering Your Friend’s Pet’s Name