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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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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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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Deadly Toll in Greece as Heat Waves Sweep the Country
A sun-scorched archaeological site on Delos island in Greece.
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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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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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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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The Greens Are Dead. Long Live the Greens!
The European Green Party Extended Congress in February in Lyon, France.
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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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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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‘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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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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A Hungarian Rapper’s Bandwagon Gets an Unlikely New Rider
Attila Bauko, a Hungarian rapper better known as Azarhriah, in Ujpalota, a Communist-era district of Budapest where he grew up.
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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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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 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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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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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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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
Rough Seas Set Back U.S.-Made Gaza Pier Yet Again
A ship moored near the floating pier off the coast Gaza last month.
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Israeli Defense Chief Rebuffs French Effort to End Israel-Hezbollah Fighting
Members of Israeli forces securing the road after a rocket attack from Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, near Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, on Friday.
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War Veterans and Family Testify at Al Qaeda Commander’s War Crimes Tribunal
Bill Eggers and his daughter, Maris Lebid. Their son and brother, Capt. Daniel W. Eggers, was killed when his Humvee hit a land mine in Afghanistan in 2004.
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on June 2024
Another Summer to Remember? For Germany: So Far, So Great.
Germany’s fans were thrilled with their opener at the European soccer championship.
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on June 2024
U.S. Designates Largest Neo-Nazi Group in Sweden as Terrorist Organization
Supporters of the Nordic Resistance Movement in Stockholm in 2018. The goal of the group, which has branches in Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland, is to replace the Nordic democracies with a “united ethnic Nordic nation.”
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A Tense Debate Erupts at the G7, This Time Over Abortion Rights
President Biden meeting with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at the Group of 7 summit on Friday. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, left, accompanied the president.
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At the G7, Biden Can’t Escape the Shadow of the Gaza War
President Biden and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, where the president was miffed at confronting questions about his cease-fire plan for Gaza.
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on June 2024
Chinese Swimmers Had Previous Positive Tests for Banned Drug
China’s Wang Shun, center, competing in the world swimming championships in Budapest in 2022. Chinese officials said he was among three top swimmers who tested positive on multiple occasions.
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F.B.I. Director Makes Rare Visit to Africa as Terrorism Threat Grows
Christopher A. Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, at the Capitol in April.
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on June 2024
What to Know About the $50 Billion Ukraine Loan Backed by Russian Assets
President Biden and other Group of 7 leaders gathered to watch a skydiving demonstration during the meeting in Italy on Thursday.
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on June 2024
A France in Turmoil Mourns Françoise Hardy, Its Voice of Melancholy Cool
Images of Françoise Hardy have dominated French newspaper front pages after her death, even in the midst of political upheaval.
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Putin Makes Cease-Fire Offer With Sweeping Demands on Ukraine’s Territory
The conditions cited by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, center, on Friday were his most concrete set of territorial conditions to stop the war to date.
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Ukraine Welcomes Pledges of More Military Aid With Cautious Optimism
President Biden signed a 10-year security agreement with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at the Group of 7 summit in Italy on Thursday.
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Stephen Colbert and Whoopi Goldberg Met the Pope in the Vatican. No Joke.
Stephen Colbert, Chris Rock and Jimmy Fallon stirred up laughs during an event that Pope Francis hosted for comics from 15 countries at the Vatican on Friday morning.
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on June 2024
Urban Tandoor Lures Customers With Campy TikTok Videos
Tushar Kangane is both Urban Tandoor’s operations manager and a star of some of the restaurant’s popular TikTok parodies.
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on June 2024
Parisians on TikTok Plead: ‘Don’t Come’ to Paris for the Olympics
While many people are excited for the Paris Olympics this summer, Parisians on TikTok have painted a far more grim picture of how things might go.
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on June 2024
Carnage and Contradiction: Examining a Deadly Strike in Rafah
Palestinians at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp for displaced people in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
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Hamas Spokesman Says ‘No One Has Any Idea’ How Many Hostages Remain Alive
Demonstrators holding pictures of hostages held in Gaza during a protest in Tel Aviv last Saturday.
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on June 2024
South Africa Re-elects Ramaphosa, but Coalition Is Fragile
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa during a break in the session of Parliament in Cape Town on Friday.
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on June 2024
Chinese Activists Who Gave #MeToo Victims a Voice Are Found Guilty
Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court, where the #MeToo activist Huang Xueqin and the labor activist Wang Jianbing were convicted, in Guangzhou, China, on Friday.
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on June 2024
Capturing a ‘Mosaic of Shifting Battle Fronts’ in Sudan
Samawal Ahmed, a Khartoum resident who said he “lost everything” to Sudan’s war, walked through the battle-ravaged Souk Omdurman district in the west of the capital.
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Geneviève de Galard, French ‘Angel’ of Dien Bien Phu, Dies at 99
Geneviève de Galard in 1958 with an injured French soldier at the Invalides National Institution in Paris.
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on June 2024
Snow or No Snow, Australia’s Winter Resorts Are Open
Skiing conditions were less than ideal at Falls Creek in Victoria last week.
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on June 2024
G7 Leaders, Expanding the Circle, Shift Focus to Migration and the South
President Biden, seated second from right, and other leaders on Friday during a working session of the Group of 7 meeting in Italy.
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on June 2024
Friday Briefing
Part of the loan will be used to rebuild damaged infrastructure in Ukraine.
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Why Even U.K. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt Fears He Could Lose This Election
Jeremy Hunt meeting with constituents in the village hall in Chiddingfold, England, this month.
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on June 2024
Julian Nagelsmann Is the Most Important Man in Germany This Month
Julian Nagelsmann took up the job as Germany’s coach in September, less than a year before the country was to host the European Championship.
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on June 2024
Will Biden’s Help for Ukraine Come Fast Enough and Last Long Enough?
President Biden and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine announced they had signed a 10-year security pact at the Group of 7 Summit in Italy on Thursday.
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on June 2024
Israel and Hezbollah Trade Strikes as Fighting Intensifies
Israeli soldiers patrolling along the border with the Gaza Strip, at an undisclosed location in southern Israel, on Thursday.
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on June 2024
Friday Briefing: A $50 Billion G7 Loan to Ukraine
The loan for Ukraine comes at a critical moment as destruction is accelerating.
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on June 2024
Snap Election in France Sets Off a Wild Week of Politics
President Emmanuel Macron of France speaking at the Pavillon Cambon Capucines in Paris on Wednesday. Mr. Macron has called snap elections to “clarify” France’s political landscape after his party was battered in European parliamentary elections.
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on June 2024
Why a Gaza Cease-Fire Is So Elusive
Destruction in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday. Efforts for a cease-fire have been stymied by maximalist demands by Israel and Hamas.
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on June 2024
Wreckage of Shackleton’s Last Ship Is Found Off Coast of Canada
The Quest sinking off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, on May 5, 1962 — 40 years after the explorer Ernest Shackleton died aboard the boat on a voyage to Antarctica.
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on June 2024
What to Know About Chemical Hair Relaxers and Health
At-home relaxer kits, some marketed to children, are available at drugstores and other beauty retailers across the United States.
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on June 2024
Japan Commits $4.5 Billion for Ukraine, Zelensky Says
The security of Ukraine was a focus of the Group of 7 summit on Thursday.
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on June 2024
U.S. Strikes Targets in Yemen as Houthis Step Up Attacks on Red Sea Ships