U.S. Teacher Seized by Russia Is Located in Prison
A photo provided by the Moscow City Court showed Stephen James Hubbard inside the defendant’s cage last October.
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Gang Violence Grips Peru as Extortions and Killings Rise
The funeral procession for one of the 13 gold miners killed in what the authorities called a gang-orchestrated massacre, in Trujillo, Peru, in May.
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Young Israeli Hostage Says Finding Faith Helped Him Survive Hamas Captivity
Omer Shem Tov, now back at home, says that turning to Jewish rituals and prayer helped him survive after he was seized during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel.
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At Least 10 Dead After Austria School Shooting, Police Say
Police officers near the school in Graz, Austria, on Tuesday.
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With Sirens Screeching and Explosions in the Sky, Kyiv Struggles to Sleep
Ukrainian security forces tried to shoot down incoming Russian drones over Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
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on June 2025
Israel Says Gaza Aid Boat Passengers, Including Greta Thunberg, Are Being Deported
Greta Thunberg, third from left, and members of the crew of the Madleen last week in Catania, Italy, before the ship’s departure for Gaza. Israel intercepted it on Monday.
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U.N. Agency Suspects North Korea Is Building New Uranium-Enrichment Site
Rafael Grossi, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the center was “monitoring” the progress of a new building in North Korea that has similar features to a current uranium-enrichment plant.
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US and China Talk Trade as Fight Over Rare Earths Escalates
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, left, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, at the White House in March, are among the U.S. officials meeting this week with their Chinese counterparts.
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What to Know About China’s Halt of Rare Earth Exports
A truck hauling material out of a mining valley for heavy rare earth metals in April on the outskirts of Longnan, China.
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on June 2025
Who Is Yasser Abu Shabab, the Leader of the Israeli-Backed Militia in Gaza?
Palestinians carry aid packages in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Friday.
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on June 2025
Crimea, Once a Crossroad of Civilizations, Finds Itself Isolated and Under Attack
Yalta, Crimea, last month. Roughly six million Ukrainians and Russians visited annually before Russia annexed the peninsula, but the numbers plummeted afterward and then nose-dived again with the invasion of Ukraine.
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Group Accuses Hamas of Threatening Aid Workers in Gaza
Gazans carrying relief supplies distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday.
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on June 2025
‘Dog Walking Is a Clear Crime’: Iran’s Latest Morality Push
Iranians with their dogs at a park in Tehran on Sunday.
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on June 2025
A Killer Within Easy Reach
Spreading fertilizer on soil cleared of weeds using paraquat in Paramaribo.
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on June 2025
Tuesday Briefing
Protesters in front of the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles, which is being surrounded by the California National Guard, on Monday.
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on June 2025
Canada Commits Billions in Defense Spending to Meet NATO Target, Mark Carney Says
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada spoke at the Fort York Armory in Toronto on Monday. He did not say where the money for increased military spending would come from.
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on June 2025
Tuesday Briefing: California’s Lawsuit Against Trump
A protest in downtown Los Angeles, today.
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on June 2025
BlackRock Is Accused of a Plot Against Coal. The Firm Says That’s ‘Absurd.’
Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas, who brought the case against the investment firms in 2022.
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on June 2025
Valmik Thapar, Tenacious Tiger Conservationist in India, Is Dead
Valmik Thapar in 1994. He believed that tigers deserved nothing less than “inviolate protected areas” in which to live without human encroachment.
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on June 2025
NATO Chief Urges Members to Spend Far More on Military
Mark Rutte, the secretary-general of NATO, speaking in London on Monday.
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on June 2025
A Trump Family Project Spurs Resignations and a Criminal Charge in Serbia
The site of the Trump hotel project is a bombed-out building that serves as an icon to Serbians’ suffering during a 1999 conflict.
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on June 2025
Israel Intercepts Gaza Aid Ship Carrying Greta Thunberg: What to Know
Greta Thunberg in Catania, Sicily, shortly before sailing aboard the Madleen for Gaza earlier this month.
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on June 2025
Italian Referendum to Loosen Citizenship Rules Fails
A polling station in Rome on Sunday.
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on June 2025
Ukraine Says Russia Launched 499 Missiles and Drones in Biggest Air Assault of War
Sheltering in a metro station in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, on Friday. Amid intensified bombardment, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has urged civilians to pay attention to air-raid warnings.
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on June 2025
Monday Briefing
National Guard troops in Los Angeles yesterday.
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on June 2025
U.S. and China Meet at Precarious Moment in Trade War
The U.S. Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, at Lancaster House in London on Monday as trade talks resumed between the United States and China.
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on June 2025
Attack on Colombia Senator, Miguel Uribe Turbay, Caught on Video
A video shows people carrying Miguel Uribe Turbay after he was shot in Bogotá, Colombia, on Saturday.
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on June 2025
Touring a Tunnel in Gaza That Leads Underneath a Hospital
A tunnel near a major hospital in southern Gaza that leads to a tiny room where the Israeli military says a top Hamas militant commander was killed.
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on June 2025
Monday Briefing: Tensions Flare in Los Angeles
National Guard troops in Los Angeles yesterday.
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on June 2025
Israel Intercepts Gaza-Bound Aid Ship With Greta Thunberg Aboard
Greta Thunberg and members of the crew of the Madleen in Catania, Italy, ahead of their departure.
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on June 2025
Ukraine Says It Has Stepped Up Its Drone Game, Again
The Magura V7 unmanned marine vehicle being presented at an undisclosed location last month in Ukraine.
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on June 2025
Soccer Fans Fear Being Targets of U.S. Immigration Raids
Mehdi Taremi, an Iranian soccer player, posing with fans after Iran defeated Qatar in a World Cup qualifier on Thursday. Iran, the first team from Asia to qualify for the World Cup, is on a list of 12 countries that President Trump banned from travel to the United States.
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on June 2025
Russian Drone Swarms Test a Volunteer Air-Defense Unit Near Kyiv
A Russian airstrike on Friday in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russia has launched hundreds of drones and decoys across Ukraine since the end of May.
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on June 2025
They Went to Syria to Fight With Rebels. Now Some Are Joining the New Army.
A man from Turkestan, who fought with the Syrian rebels who ousted the Assad regime, at his shop in Binnish, Syria. He is one of many foreign fighters whose future is in limbo.
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Hits a Roadblock in Its March Across South America
A Starlink satellite internet antenna in rural Brazil in 2024.
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on June 2025
Italians Prepare to Vote in Citizenship Referendum
A banner promoting the referendum on citizenship in Milan on Wednesday. Turnout must exceed 50 percent for the referendum to count; a majority is required for passage.
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on June 2025
Japan Flexes Its Military Muscle at China, and Trump
Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers of the Seventh Regiment going through physical tests at Camp Katsuren in Okinawa, Japan, last month.
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on June 2025
Hero or Traitor? Ernest Wilimowski, a Long-Dead Soccer Star, Is Revived, and Reviled.
People walking by a mural of Ernest Wilimowski in May in Chorzow, Poland.
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on June 2025
A Colombian Senator, Miguel Uribe, Is Shot at a Campaign Event
Mr. Uribe, 39, has said that he intends to run for president.
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Macron Will Visit Greenland This Month, Defying Trump
In Ilulisaat, Greenland, early this year. President Emmanuel Macron of France will visit the Arctic island this month with the aim of “contributing to the reinforcement of European sovereignty.”
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Israel Recovers Body of Thai Farmworker in Gaza
The aftermath of an Israeli attack in Gaza City that killed and injured Palestinians, on Saturday, in Gaza.
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Russia Pummels Kharkiv With Drones and Bombs, Ukraine Says
A firefighter extinguishing a blaze at a civilian plant after Russian attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Saturday.
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on June 2025
Will Hudson’s Bay’s 355-Year-Old Charter Go to the Highest Bidder?
Some of the dozens of mannequins on sale at the Hudson’s Bay Company store in downtown Ottawa.
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on June 2025
Trump’s International Student Ban Sparks Fear Among Harvard Attendees
Alfred Williamson, who is from Wales, was accepted to Harvard, making him the first person from his school to get into an Ivy League college and the first in his family to study in the United States.
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on June 2025
How Russian Spies Are Analyzing Data From China’s WeChat App
The Kremlin looming in the distance in February in Moscow.
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on June 2025
Parents in Gaza Are Running Out of Ways to Feed Their Children
A food distribution line in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, in April. The territory is facing a hunger crisis.
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on June 2025
How The Times Obtained Secret Russian Intelligence Documents
The headquarters of the Federal Security Service, or F.S.B., in Moscow.
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on June 2025
Chinese Students Reconsider the U.S. as Republicans Threaten Their Visas
There are about 1,400 Chinese students at the University of Texas’ Austin campus.
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on June 2025
Russian Spies Are Suspicious of China, Even as Putin and Xi Grow Close
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last month in Moscow for Victory Day celebrations.
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on June 2025
Even Before Trump’s Visa Clampdown, U.S. Was Losing African Students
Ghanaian student Helen Dekyem, photographed near the China Pharmaceutical University, where she is enrolled, in Nanjing, China, in 2023.
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on June 2025
Hong Kong Looks for Ways to Win Back Big-Spending Tourists
People heading into the new Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong. The city is seeking to rebrand itself as the region’s events capital, emphasizing concerts and trade shows.
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on June 2025
Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner
He Tianying outside the White House on May 23. Mr. He is a member of an advisory body that seeks to broaden the Communist Party’s influence and solicit support from influential people in Chinese society.
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on June 2025
UK Court Warns Lawyers Can Be Prosecuted Over A.I. Tools That ‘Hallucinate’ Fake Material
The Royal Courts of Justice, England’s High Court, in central London, detailed two recent cases in which fake material generated by artificial intelligence was used in written legal arguments.
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on June 2025
How Long Does It Take to Draw a Picture of Every Pub in London?
Extremely Lifelike Dolls Cause a Frenzy in Brazil
Ocean Temperatures Are Increasing Around the World. See Where.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Returned to U.S. From El Salvador to Face Criminal Charges