Russia Makes Battlefield Advances in Ukraine, Seeking an Edge in Trump Talks
A Ukrainian soldier firing a howitzer toward Russians in the Donetsk region of Ukraine last week.
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on August 2025
A Glow-Up Gone Awry
The statue of the Virgin Mary, also known simply as the Macarena, in her basilica in Seville, Spain, this month.
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on August 2025
As Heat Wave Hits Southern Europe, Wildfires Kill 2
Battling a wildfire in Congosta, Spain, on Monday.
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on August 2025
Why Surrendering a Key Eastern Region Would Be Hard for Ukraine
A Ukrainian soldier scanning the sky for Russian drones in the destroyed and mostly abandoned town of Kostiantynivka, in June.
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on August 2025
Foreign Recruits in Ukraine Military Are Killed in Russian Missile Strike
Thousands of flags and portraits of fallen Ukrainian soldiers and volunteer fighters from foreign countries at a makeshift memorial in Kyiv, Ukraine, in March.
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on August 2025
Are Samosas Unhealthy? Some Indians Find Official Advice Hard to Swallow.
Eating a snack from a shop selling Samosas and Kachoris in New Delhi, India, in July.
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on August 2025
Israeli Hostage Families Call for Nationwide Walkout
Relatives of hostages marched with tens of thousands of other Israelis to call for a deal to free their loved ones in Tel Aviv on Saturday.
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on August 2025
Philippines Condemns China After South China Sea Collision Captured on Video
A Chinese Navy vessel, left, accidentally collided with a Chinese Coast Guard ship, right, while chasing a Philippine fisheries boat, foreground, near Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea on Monday.
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on August 2025
South Korea’s Ex-First Lady Kim Keon Hee Is Arrested on Corruption Charges
Kim Keon Hee, wife of the impeached former President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea, arriving on Tuesday for a court hearing in Seoul.
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on August 2025
Mexico and Brazil Rebut Trump’s Claims About Violence in Their Cities
Mayor Clara Brugada of Mexico City, center, with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, right, during an event in January in Mexico City focused on a gun-buyback program.
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on August 2025
New Delhi Is Ordered to Round Up Hundreds of Thousands of Stray Dogs
Stray dogs in New Delhi on Tuesday. There has been a rash of incidents in recent years in which children have been mauled and in some cases killed by street dogs.
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on August 2025
When Trump Meets Putin, Anything Could Happen
President Trump sided with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on whether the Kremlin had meddled in the 2016 U.S. election during their meeting in Helsinki in 2018.
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on August 2025
Rescuers Find Body of American Hiker Who Was Missing in Pyrenees
The Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park in Spain, where American hiker Cole Henderson went missing.
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on August 2025
Tuesday Briefing: Trump’s Washington Crackdown
President Trump at the White House yesterday.
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on August 2025
Trump Says He’s Going to Alaska to See What Putin ‘Has in Mind’
President Trump’s description of his goals for the negotiation, the most high-stakes international meeting yet in his second term, were telling — as much for what he omitted as for what he included.
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on August 2025
Tuesday Briefing: Trump’s Washington Crackdown
President Trump at the White House yesterday.
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on August 2025
Brazil Clamped Down on Big Tech. Trump’s Tariffs Could Change That.
A demonstration last year to protest the Brazilian Supreme Court’s move to ban Elon Musk’s X.
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on August 2025
What to Know About Al Jazeera, the Broadcaster Israel Accuses of Supporting Hamas
The funeral of five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel on Monday in Gaza City.
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on August 2025
Who Were the Al Jazeera Journalists Killed in an Israeli Strike in Gaza?
Al Jazeera staff members gathering at the network’s studios in Doha, Qatar, on Monday, to remember their colleagues killed in Gaza.
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on August 2025
Trump Wields Tariffs as a Force in Diplomacy, to Questionable Effect
Workers transporting coffee beans in Alfenas, Brazil. President Trump raised tariffs on Brazilian goods to 50 percent last month.
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on August 2025
Israel-Qatar Tensions Escalate After Israel Kills Al Jazeera Journalists
The bodies of the journalists killed in the bombing of an Al Jazeera Channel in Gaza City tent are carried down a street, while Palestinians and other journalists look on.
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on August 2025
Finland Charges Ship’s Crew Members in Slashing of Undersea Cables
The Eagle S oil tanker next to a Finnish Coast Guard ship in the Gulf of Finland in December.
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on August 2025
Hundreds of Indian Lawmakers Detained at a Protest Claiming Vote Rigging
Akhilesh Yadav, the president of the Samajwadi party, clambers over a barricade during a march led by India’s opposition parties in New Delhi on Monday.
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on August 2025
Trump Extends China Tariff Truce by Three Months
A wholesale garment market in Guangzhou, China.
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on August 2025
Firefighters Tackle Blaze at Arthur’s Seat, an Edinburgh Landmark
Flames at Arthur’s Seat, overlooking Edinburgh, on Sunday. The Scottish fire service said that crews were still working “to dampen down hot spots” on Monday.
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on August 2025
Miguel Uribe, Colombian Senator Shot at Campaign Event, Dies at 39
Senator Miguel Uribe, a conservative politician, was a grandson of a former president of Colombia.
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on August 2025
A Sidelined Zelensky Warns That Russia Will Try to Deceive the U.S.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany welcoming President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Berlin in May. Ukraine and its European allies are pressing hard for Mr. Zelensky to be included in talks.
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on August 2025
Israel’s Plan for Gaza City Is Still Unclear
Tens of thousands of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday, calling for a deal to free hostages held in Gaza.
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on August 2025
A Haven for English in the Most French of North American Cities
The Morrin Centre library in Quebec City in July.
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on August 2025
Clashing Visions of Syria’s Future Play Out in Ancient Alleys of Damascus
A police patrol in the old city of Damascus, Syria, in April. Under the new authorities, some of Syrian society’s most religious people have suddenly come to rule over some of its most socially liberal.
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on August 2025
Australia to Recognize Palestinian Statehood
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, right, and Penny Wong, the country’s foreign minister, at a news conference in Canberra on Monday.
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on August 2025
Israeli Strike Kills 5 Al Jazeera Journalists, Network Says
The bodies of the journalists killed in the bombing of an Al Jazeera Channel in Gaza City tent are carried down a street, while Palestinians and other journalists look on.
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on August 2025
Western Turkey Is Hit by Earthquake but Avoids Major Damage
People started removing the rubble of a building in Sindirgi, western Turkey, after an earthquake there on Sunday.
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on August 2025
Netanyahu Doubles Down on Gaza Offensive After Global Backlash
Palestinians waiting for aid in Gaza City last month. The Israeli military is preparing to take control of the city.
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on August 2025
Ukraine and Europe Project United Front Ahead of Trump-Putin Summit
A town in the Donetsk region of Ukraine in June. The Trump administration has been pushing for an end to the war that began with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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on August 2025
Takeaways From The Times’s Reporting on Putin’s Powerful Aide
Sergei V. Kiriyenko, in glasses, at President Vladimir V. Putin’s annual state of the nation address in Moscow in 2024, in a photograph distributed by Russian state media.
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on August 2025
Dmitri Kozak Was a Key Putin Aide. He Lost Power When He Balked at the Ukraine War.
Dmitri N. Kozak in Beijing in 2019. Mr. Kozak told associates this year that he had presented President Vladimir V. Putin with a proposal to stop the fighting in Ukraine, Kremlin insiders said.
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on August 2025
The Russian Technocrat Who Helps Enable Putin and Manage the Ukraine War
Sergei V. Kiriyenko in Moscow in 2023. His modest title, first deputy chief of staff, belies a sprawling portfolio of responsibilities.
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on August 2025
In a Trump-Putin Summit, Ukraine Fears Losing Say Over Its Future
Ukrainian civilians rushed from the scene of a drone attack in Kharkiv in June.
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on August 2025
After Six Years of Reporting, Sharing a Story of Resilience
A group of Mayan women brought a complaint to the Guatemalan Public Ministry in 2019.
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on August 2025
In India, Immigration Raids Detain Thousands and Create a Climate of Fear
Demonstrators protesting the harassment of Bengali speakers in states led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P., in Kolkata, India, this month.
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on August 2025
Book Blacklist in Kashmir Aims to Muzzle Criticism of India
A display at a bookstore in Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, where 25 books have been declared “forfeit.”
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on August 2025
How Starmer, Macron and Merz Tried to Halt the War in Gaza
Both Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, left, and President Emmanuel Macron of France announced plans to recognize the state of Palestine last month.
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on August 2025
With Ukraine in the Balance, Trump and Putin Head Into Summit With Mismatched Goals
Ukrainian firefighters and rescue workers in June, lowering the covered body of a person killed in a Russian strike on an apartment building in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
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on August 2025
Xi Looks to Tighten Grip After Scandals Shake China’s Military Elite
A portrait of China’s leader, Xi Jinping, at the Military Museum in Beijing. Mr. Xi has set a 2027 target for modernizing the People’s Liberation Army.
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on August 2025
These Are Drug Cartels Designated as Terrorists by the U.S.
Police officers surrounding a man they accused of being a MS-13 gang member, in Ilopango, El Salvador, in 2018.
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on August 2025
A Sidelined Europe Seeks a Voice as Trump and Putin Prepare to Meet
David Lammy, Britain’s foreign secretary, and Vice President JD Vance, on Friday in Chevening, England. Mr. Vance is attending a meeting of European and Ukrainian leaders on Saturday.
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on August 2025
Zakaria Zubeidi, Palestinian Militia and Theater Leader, Speaks After Release From Prison
As Europe’s Heat Waves Intensify, France Bickers About Air-Conditioning
Footage Shows Medical Volunteer Execution in Southern Syria Amid Sectarian Violence
Monday Briefing: North Korea’s Heir Apparent
Monday Briefing: North Korea’s Heir Apparent