Trump’s Brazil Tariff Threats Rekindle Support for President Lula
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil has seen a surge in popularity after confronting President Trump over tariffs.
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on July 2025
Why Israel Attacked Syria
An Israeli airstrike damaged the entrance to Syria’s defense ministry headquarters on Wednesday.
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Thomas
on July 2025
The UK Plans to Lower the Voting Age to 16. Here’s What to Know.
A polling station in Brighton and Hove in England last year. Britain has set the minimum voting age for general elections at 18 since 1969.
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Thomas
on July 2025
China’s Aircraft Carriers Push Into Waters Long Dominated by U.S.
Fighter jets could be seen on the flight deck of China’s first domestically built aircraft carrier, the Shandong, as it was anchored in Hong Kong this month.
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on July 2025
Iraq Shopping Mall Fire Kills at Least 61
The shopping center in Kut, Iraq, on Thursday after the blaze.
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on July 2025
Prominent Human Rights Group Flees El Salvador
Ruth López, the anti-corruption director of Cristosal, leaving a courthouse in June, following her May arrest.
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on July 2025
Syria’s President Condemns Israeli Strikes on Damascus
Debris in Damascus, the Syrian capital, on Wednesday, after an Israeli strike.
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on July 2025
Smell of Death Lingers in Syrian City After Spasm of Violence
Buildings that were burned and looted near Sweida, Syria, on Tuesday.
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on July 2025
Israeli Strike on a Gaza Church Kills Three
Transporting a person who was injured in the strike on the Holy Family Catholic Church to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Thursday.
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on July 2025
K-Beauty Fans Stock up on Cosmetics After Trump’s Tariff Threat
Shoppers at an Olive Young store in Seoul in April.
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on July 2025
Germany’s Merz and UK’s Starmer Sign Mutual Defense Pact as U.S. Steps Back
The Anglo-German accord, signed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain and Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, covers energy, economic cooperation and migration, in addition to defense.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s Decade of Legal Woes Ends
Lee Jae-yong, the chairman of Samsung Electronics, arriving for a court appearance in Seoul in February.
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on July 2025
Prince Harry Follows Diana’s Footsteps in Angola as Specter of Land Mines Returns
Prince Harry, left, walking through a minefield in Cuito Cuanavale, Angola, on Wednesday, in a photo released by The Halo Trust. He repeated the journey that his mother, Diana, took in 1997.
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Thomas
on July 2025
‘Bonjour’ Sets Off a Linguistic Dispute on a Belgian Train
Commuters at a train station in Leuven, Belgium, in 2022. Language rules in the Flanders region can get complicated.
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on July 2025
Rescuers Seek American Hiker Missing for Days in the Pyrenees
Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, in the Pyrenees mountains of Spain.
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on July 2025
They Grew Up on Mexican Coke. Trump’s Cane Sugar Plan Makes Them Uneasy.
A Coca-Cola truck driving through Izamal, Mexico, last year.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Lauren Southern, Former Right-Wing Commentator, Says Andrew Tate Assaulted Her
Lauren Southern in 2018 during a right-wing rally in Sydney in support of white South African farmers.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Thursday Briefing: Israel Strikes Damascus
Debris in Damascus yesterday, after an Israeli missile strike.
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on July 2025
Trump Has Promised More Tariffs on Mexico. What Happens Next?
Vehicles lining up on the Tijuana side of the U.S.-Mexico border to cross into Southern California last year.
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on July 2025
Eswatini Says It Will Repatriate Migrants Deported by the Trump Administration
Mswati III, King of Eswatini, addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 2023.
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on July 2025
Thursday Briefing: Israel Strikes Damascus
After the Israeli airstrikes on Damascus yesterday.
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Thomas
on July 2025
London’s Kew Gardens Will Renovate Iconic Glasshouses
The Palm House at Kew Gardens will close for major restorations in 2027.
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on July 2025
Carney Moves to Reduce Canada’s Chinese Steel Imports in Response to Trump’s Tariffs
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced steps on Wednesday intended to reduce steel imports from China at a steel plant in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Norwegian Olympic Skier, Audun Groenvold, Dies After Lightning Strike
Audun Groenvold of Norway won a bronze medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
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on July 2025
Mosaic of Lovers, Taken by Nazi Officer, Is Returned to Pompeii
Archaeologists believe the mosaic may have once decorated the bedroom floor of a villa or another private residence belonging to one of Pompeii’s wealthier families.
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Thomas
on July 2025
The Air India Plane Crash Took His ‘Everything’
Anil Ambalal Patel kissing a photo of his son, Harshit, and his daughter-in-law, Pooja, on the morning of their funeral.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Israel Strikes Syria’s Capital, Sending Warning to Government
Smoke rising from the Syrian Defense Ministry in the capital, Damascus, on Wednesday.
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on July 2025
Russia Appears Unfazed by Trump’s Ukraine War Ultimatum
Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, center, in Malaysia this month. He said Moscow wanted to understand what was behind Mr. Trump’s remarks.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Mike Huckabee Visits Netanyahu’s Trial in Israel
Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, arrived on Wednesday at the court where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on trial for corruption.
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Thomas
on July 2025
At Least 20 Killed in Stampede Outside a Gaza Aid Site
Casualties were brought into Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza on Wednesday after a stampede at a food distribution site.
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on July 2025
U.K., France and Germany Threaten to Reimpose Tough U.N. Nuclear Sanctions on Iran
A satellite image released by Maxar Technologies last month showed damage at an Iranian nuclear complex after U.S. strikes.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Trump Announces ‘Great Deal’ on Trade With Indonesia
President Trump called a trade agreement with Indonesia a “great deal for everybody.”
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Thomas
on July 2025
The West’s Megadrought Might Not Let Up for Decades, Study Suggests
Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Arizona, where July water levels are only at a third of capacity.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Migration Fears Turn Europe’s Borderless Dreams Into Traffic Nightmares
German border guards stop cars crossing from Poland last week.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Iceland Volcano Erupts Again but Doesn’t Threaten Towns
Lava flowing from the Sundhnukur crater in Iceland on Wednesday, in a handout photo from the Civil Protection of Iceland.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Club Drugs Strain Health System on Ibiza, Spain’s Party Island
The Pacha nightclub in Ibiza, Spain, in 2022. The island is an engine of Spain’s tourism industry, with 3.3 million visitors last year.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Wednesday Briefing: China’s Economy Grows Despite Tariffs
Electric cars at a Chinese container terminal.
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on July 2025
Huckabee Calls Death of Palestinian-American in West Bank ‘Terrorism’
Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, urged Israel to “aggressively investigate” the death of a Palestinian-American in a clash in the West Bank.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Trump Administration Initiates Trade Investigation of Brazil
Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said he was beginning the investigation “into Brazil’s attacks on American social media companies as well as other unfair trading practices that harm American companies, workers, farmers and technology innovators.”
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Thomas
on July 2025
How Much Military Aid Has the U.S. Given to Ukraine? Here’s What to Know.
The 148th separate artillery brigade of Air Assault Forces fire a French 155-millimeter self-propelled howitzer at a Russian target in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine in April.
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on July 2025
What to Know About Israel’s Attack in Syria and the Druse Minority
Members of the Syrian government’s security forces in a truck in the southern Syrian province of Sweida on Tuesday. More than 200 people have been killed in the region since violence erupted on Sunday, according to a war monitoring group.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Wednesday Briefing: China’s Economy Grows Despite Tariffs
Electric cars at a Chinese container terminal.
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on July 2025
Republicans in Congress Shift to Backing Ukraine, Matching Trump’s Reversal
Representative Derrick Van Orden, Republican of Wisconsin, previously opposed aid to Ukraine but has voiced support for the president’s latest plan to send it weapons.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Police Arrest Far-Right Leader After Anti-Immigrant Riots in Spanish Town
Masked men carrying bottles, canes and other blunt objects march down the middle of a street early Tuesday, during anti-migrant unrest in Torre Pacheco, Spain.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Three Aid Workers Were ‘Intentionally Killed’ in Tigray Region of Ethiopia, M.S.F. Says
The wreckage of a car that had carried three aid workers who were killed in the Tigray region of Ethiopia in 2021.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Netanyahu’s Ultra-Orthodox Allies Threaten His Coalition Government
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Parliament on Monday. His government is fracturing because of the debate over whether ultra-Orthodox students must serve in the military.
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Thomas
on July 2025
China Puts New Restrictions on E.V. Battery Manufacturing Technology
CATL, a Chinese company that is the world’s largest producer of electric vehicle batteries, displayed at the Shanghai auto show in April a lithium-ion battery that can be recharged in five minutes.
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Thomas
on July 2025
U.K. Secretly Resettled 4,500 Afghans in Britain After Huge Data Breach
British soldiers in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, in 2020. The acknowledgment of the data exposure comes at a time when immigration is a sensitive issue in British politics.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Trump’s Shift on Ukraine Is Good News for Europe, for Now
Firefighters in Odesa, Ukraine, this month after a Russian strike. President Trump warned Moscow that he would impose new economic punishments if it did not agree to a peace deal within 50 days.
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Thomas
on July 2025
Israel Stages Rare Attack on Syrian Government Forces
Syrian government forces entered the predominantly Druse city of Sweida on Tuesday. Israel intervened after days of deadly sectarian clashes in the southern Sweida region.
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on July 2025
As Iran Deports a Million Afghans, ‘Where Do We Even Go?’
Tomorrowland Music Festival Is Still On After Blaze Wrecks Main Stage
Afghan Women and Girls Deported From Iran Fear Returning to Afghanistan
Men Who Cut Down Beloved Tree in England Get More Than 4 Years in Prison