Targeted by the Emirates, an Arab Dissident Vanished Across Borders
Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi addressed a crowd at a demonstration in Istanbul in 2018, following the disappearance of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Thomas
on August 2025
The Deadly Risks of Reporting In Gaza
Mourners with the bodies of Palestinian journalists killed during an Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza on Monday. At least 20 people were killed during the attack.
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on August 2025
Denmark Summons U.S. Envoy Over Espionage Allegations
In a statement on Wednesday, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Denmark’s foreign minister, said, “We are aware that foreign actors continue to show an interest in Greenland.”
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Thomas
on August 2025
Germany Proposes Plan to Boost Recruitment or Resort to Draft
Soldiers training at a base in Germersheim, Germany, in July.
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on August 2025
Late-Night Killing of a Teenage Girl on a Bicycle Unnerves Amsterdam
Some women said the crime made them rethink biking home alone at night.
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on August 2025
Court Records Detail Antisemitic Attack That Australia Says Is Linked to Iran
Lewis’ Continental Kitchen, a kosher restaurant in Sydney, on Tuesday. It was the site of an arson attack last year that Australia says was orchestrated by Iran.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Even 2025’s Chaos Couldn’t Keep Brussels From the European August Holiday
The European Commission’s becalmed headquarters, the Berlaymont building, in Brussels on Tuesday.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Trump Is Set to Host a Meeting on Gaza. How Close Is an Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire?
Palestinian families fleeing their homes north of Gaza City on Monday, after Israeli military officials announced plans for a full-scale assault on the city.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Floods and Landslides Kill Dozens on Pilgrimage Route in Kashmir
Flooding on Wednesday in the Indian-controlled part of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Paris Will Keep Seine River Open to Swimmers for 2 More Weeks
Swimming at the Grenelle site on the River Seine in July.
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on August 2025
Russia and Ukraine Target Energy Sites, Seeking Leverage Away From the Front
A photograph released by the Mayor of Sochi, Russia, showing firefighters working at a fuel depot outside the city, after a Ukrainian drone attack, this month.
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Thomas
on August 2025
South Korea Outlaws Use of Smartphones During Class
A parent and child arriving at an elementary school in Seoul last year. A new law in South Korea gives principals and teachers the power to stop students from carrying or using phones at school.
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Thomas
on August 2025
UK Summers, and Houses, Are Getting Hotter
Caz Facey this month under the awning that she installed to cool her London home.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Too Old, Too Uneducated: Aging Workers in Beijing Struggle for Work
Workers looking for day labor jobs near Majuqiao, in Beijing, around 4 a.m. one day in July. People from around the country gather here every morning for a chance to earn money.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Following the Sounds of Arabic to Rediscover Paris
Inside the Andalusian garden at the Grand Mosque of Paris.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Lafufus, Fake Labubus, Spawn Safety Warning and Raids
Labubu dolls at Pop Mart’s flagship store in Shanghai.
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Thomas
on August 2025
U.S. Envoy Talks Peace in Lebanon, but Stirs Anger With ‘Act Civilized’ Remark
Thomas Barrack and another U.S. envoy, Morgan Ortagus, after meeting with President Joseph Aoun of Lebanon on Tuesday.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Trump’s India Muddle
At the White House in February.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Mumbai’s Pigeon-Feeding Rules Aren’t Going Over Well
The closure of dozens of feeding spots for pigeons, known as kabutarkhanas, in Mumbai has upset some leaders of the city’s Jain community, a small but influential religious group.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Macron Defends Call for Palestinian Statehood in Letter to Netanyahu
President Emmanuel Macron announced last month that France would recognize Palestinian statehood at the U.N. General Assembly in September, angering the Israeli leader.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Nigel Farage Promises Mass Deportations if Elected UK Prime Minister
Nigel Farage, the leader of the British party Reform U.K., in front of a mock departures board during a news conference at Oxford Airport in Kidlington, England, on Tuesday.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Israel Links Deadly Hospital Attack in Gaza to Hamas Surveillance Camera
People and rescuers working to recover the body of a Palestinian cameraman, Hussam al-Masri, who worked for Reuters and was killed in an Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Monday.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Russian Troops Gain a Toehold in Another Ukrainian Region
Ukrainian soldiers firing at Russian drones, in the Dnipropetrovsk region earlier this month.
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Thomas
on August 2025
State Department Agents Join Trump’s Deployment in D.C.
A Diplomatic Security Service agent patrolling the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington along with F.B.I. agents this month.
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Thomas
on August 2025
South Korea’s Leader and Trump Find Common Ground: Kim Jong-un
The talks between President Trump and President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea did not produce any breakthroughs.
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Thomas
on August 2025
European Officials Press Iran on Nuclear Talks. Here’s What to Know.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said recently that the dispute between Tehran and Washington “is not a matter that can be resolved.”
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Thomas
on August 2025
With Little Explanation, Trump Throws Wind Industry Into Chaos
Components for the ongoing construction of the Revolution Wind offshore wind farm in New London, Conn., in November.
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Thomas
on August 2025
A Peace Deal for Ukraine Could Test German Reluctance to Deploy Troops
German soldiers participate in a military exercise with Lithuania north of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, last year.
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Thomas
on August 2025
2 Police Officers Killed in Shooting in Rural Australia
Police officers standing not far from where two officers were killed in Victoria, Australia, on Tuesday. Parts of a rural town, including a primary school, have been placed into lockdown.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Tuesday Briefing: Israeli Strikes Killed Five Journalists
The Israeli strikes hit Nasser Hospital yesterday.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Australia Says Iran Was Behind Antisemitic Arson Attacks on Its Soil
Mike Burgess, left, Australia’s intelligence chief, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra, the capital, on Tuesday. Mr. Burgess accused Iran of using a “web of proxies” to hide its involvement in arson attacks in Australia.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Tuesday Briefing: Israeli Strikes Killed Five Journalists
The Israeli strikes hit Nasser Hospital yesterday.
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Thomas
on August 2025
French Prime Minister Calls Special Parliamentary Session to Address Ballooning Debt
“There’s no way out if we don’t realize the gravity of this risk,” Prime Minister François Bayrou of France said of the country’s deficit during a news conference in Paris on Monday.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Lawmakers Visit Syria to Push for Repealing Sanctions Law
A damaged billboard of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus in January, a month after he was overthrown.
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Thomas
on August 2025
What to Know About the Journalists Killed in Gaza
A photo made available by the family of Mariam Dagga, a freelancer photographer for The Associated Press and other news outlets, of her father leading her funeral prayer after she was killed.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Abrego Garcia Detained Again After Government Signaled It Would Re-Deport Him
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the immigrant who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March, speaking in Baltimore on Monday.
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Thomas
on August 2025
German Prosecutors Charge American With Attempted Spying for China
The Chinese Embassy in Berlin last year. The American had worked as a Defense Department contractor from 2017 to spring 2023, the prosecutors said in a statement.
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Thomas
on August 2025
France Summons U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner Over Antisemitism Comments
Charles Kushner, the U.S. ambassador to France, and his wife, Seryl Kushner, leaving the Élysée Palace in Paris in July.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Israeli Hospital Strike Kills 20 in Gaza, Including 5 Journalists
Palestinian medics helping an injured man at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Monday.
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Thomas
on August 2025
At Least One Dead as Typhoon Kajiki Slams Vietnam
Typhoon Kajiki brought heavy rain to Vinh, a city in Nghe An Province of Vietnam, on Monday.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Expecting on the Front Lines: Motherhood in Ukraine’s Military
Nadia, a military radio operator, getting an ultrasound at the Poltava hospital in central Ukraine in January. She served until she was eight and a half months pregnant.
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Thomas
on August 2025
E1 Settlement in West Bank Tied to Greater Israel Goal
A view of the E1 area near an Israeli settlement, Maale Adumim, on Friday.
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Thomas
on August 2025
What’s Next for Ukraine After All That Diplomacy?
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Trump at the White House last week.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Trump Relies on Personal Diplomacy With Putin. The Result Is a Strategic Muddle.
President Trump waiting to greet President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage this month.
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Thomas
on August 2025
How China Influences Elections in America’s Biggest City
American and Chinese flags outside the Fukien Benevolent Association, a community group in Chinatown, Manhattan.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Monday Briefing: Would Ukraine Give Up the Donbas?
Ukrainian soldiers in the Donetsk region this year.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Monday Briefing: Would Ukraine Give Up the Donbas?
Ukrainian soldiers in the Donetsk region this year.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Revealing Taste
Vice President JD Vance, whose playlists were part of a prankish Spotify leak.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Zelensky Marks Ukraine’s Independence Day With Diplomacy in Kyiv and a Plea for Peace
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada with President Volodymyr Zelensky during Independence Day celebrations on Sunday in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Thomas
on August 2025
London Asks Commuters, ‘Please Put Your Headphones In, Thank You’
Wednesday Briefing: The U.K. May Recognize a Palestinian State
China Finds Buyers for Surplus Solar: Africa’s Energy-Hungry Countries
Israeli Security Cabinet Meets Amid Growing Protests Over Gaza War
Should I Get a Portable Induction Cooktop?