Global Dispatch

Mourners after Israeli troops opened fire on people trying to get aid north of Gaza City on Sunday.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

Firefighters and soldiers next to the wreckage of a military aircraft after it crashed into a school campus in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Monday.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

U.S. dollar bills and Venezuelan bolívars. Though the bolívar is Venezuela’s official currency, the country operates on a dual-currency system, and many people paid in bolívars spend in dollars.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

An employee at Ukrainian Armor working on a vehicle in its factory this month in central Ukraine.

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A family outside a pediatric hospital in Beijing, China, in July.

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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan meeting with leaders of the Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Monday, a day after their defeat in parliamentary elections.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

The European Union Headquarters in Brussels. President Trump’s pressure on military spending and trade have led some member states to work more closely together.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

A damaged metro station on Monday after a strike in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Bedouin tribe members, evacuating in the back of a truck, stopped at a security checkpoint in Taarah, in Syria’s southern Sweida Province, on Monday.

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The site of the Jeju Air plane crash at Muan International Airport, South Korea, in 2024.

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A shipping terminal in the city of Chongqing, which connects China with countries in Europe and elsewhere.

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In a screen grab taken from a handout video provided by the United Nations, Jonathan Whittall is standing near a destroyed hospital in Gaza in 2024.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

Walking by a mural of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, right, and Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of the Islamic revolution, in Tehran.

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The damage left after torrential rain in Gapyeong, South Korea, on Monday.

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Fires at Tatkin Lake in British Columbia, Canada, in July 2023.

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The Commerce Department employee is one of a handful of Americans barred by China from leaving the country, in a shadowy practice called an “exit ban” that the Chinese government has used for years.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

A ship chartered by The Metals Company in 2021 to explore the potential of seabed mining.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

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Workers in training at the new Great Wall Motors factory in Iracemápolis, Brazil.

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Palestinian mourners in Gaza City yesterday.

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Palestinian mourners in Gaza City yesterday.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine’s proposal to revive peace talks came after President Trump agreed to facilitate the transfer of air defense weapons to Ukraine and threatened to impose sanctions on Russia’s trading partners.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

Jean-Pierre Azéma in 2011. A French historian and writer, he helped destroy the postwar myths that the collaborationist wartime Vichy regime had done what it could to resist the occupying Germans.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan, center left, vowed to stay in office despite the poor showing by his Liberal Democratic Party, which has led Japan for all but five of the last 70 years.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

In this photo made from a video released by Indonesia’s rescue agency, a rescue ship approaches the KM Barcelona 5 after it caught fire on Sunday.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

A Wells Fargo branch in New York City. Wells Fargo is one of six global banks that dominate the processing of dollar-denominated payments for China’s exports and imports.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

Palestinians mourning at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, left, and Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, second from right, meeting with Chinese officials in Geneva in May.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

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Fallen trees on top of a car in Hong Kong on Sunday.

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The members of Big Ocean (from left), Kim Ji-seok, Park Hyun-jin and Lee Chan-yeon, in Seoul in 2024.

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Venezuelan migrants who were jailed in El Salvador arrived at Simon Bolivar International Airport, outside Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, on Friday.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

A tourist boat capsized on Saturday in Ha Long Bay, in Vietnam’s Quang Ninh Province, northeast of Hanoi.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

Firefighters and investigators at the scene of the deadly Jeju Air crash in Muan, South Korea, in December.

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An aerial view of Sweida, Syria, on Saturday.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

Mourners at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Saturday with the bodies of two people killed near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

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Ava Potten is in charge of bottle-feeding Cedar.

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Army recruitment advertisements in Moscow last month. To bolster recruitment, Russia is offering outsize sign-up bonuses and salaries.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

Family members looking for any signs of missing relatives in the Sednaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, in December.

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Coastal walls built to protect homes from the sea in San Clemente, Calif.

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Supporters putting up election campaign posters this month on a bulletin board in Tokyo.

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Chen Tianming’s house, which evokes a Dr. Seuss drawing, has drawn gawkers to his rural corner of Guizhou Province, in southwestern China.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

Sohei Kamiya, the leader of an upstart right-wing political party called Sanseito, delivering a campaign speech this month at Takasaki Station in Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a department cable that public comments on foreign elections “should be brief, focused on congratulating the winning candidate and, when appropriate, noting shared foreign policy interests.”

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

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The Cuban minister of labor and social security, Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, in 2023.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

En 2003, Baumgartner aterrizó en Calais, Francia, tras cruzar volando el canal de la Mancha con un ala de fibra de carbono.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, outside the Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration on Friday. Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered him to stay away from foreign embassies because it fears he could flee justice.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

A flooded village in northern Pakistan on Thursday.

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From left: President Emmanuel Macron of France, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain and Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany at a summit in Tirana, Albania, in May.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

Clerics praying during a funeral for people killed during clashes between Druse fighters and Bedouin tribes in Sweida, Syria, on Monday.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025

Ali Akbar, 72, has been hawking newspapers in the streets of Paris for more than a half-century.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025