Video Forces Pakistan to Confront ‘Honor Killings’ and Gender Violence
A protest last month in Quetta, Pakistan, against the killings of Bano Bibi and Ehsanullah Samalani, who had been accused of having an affair. A tribal leader ordered their execution, according to a police report.
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on August 2025
For Some Wounded in Ukraine War, Surgery Helps Rebuild a Sense of Self
After more than three years of war, thousands of Ukrainians struggle with the physical and emotional trauma of severe facial injuries.
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on August 2025
Despite Opposition, Netanyahu’s Security Cabinet to Discuss Gaza Military Push
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering expanding Israel’s military operation in Gaza to the entire territory.
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After Weeks of Sectarian Clashes in Syria, an Uneasy Truce Takes Hold
A wedding procession passed through the town of Busra al-Sham, Syria, during a cease-fire on Thursday. The latest conflict had renewed fears of attacks against religious minorities.
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India Digs In After Trump Doubles Tariffs
A factory in Tamil Nadu, India, last year.
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Sudan’s Civil War Shifts Toward Kordofan
Sudanese Army soldiers arriving last March at a market in Al Kalalah district, an area south of the country’s capital, Khartoum, that had been recaptured a short while earlier from Rapid Support Forces.
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How the Nuclear Attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Changed Japan
A visual simulation of the dropping of the atomic bomb, displayed at Hiroshima’s peace museum.
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Statue of French General Accused of Torture Divides His Hometown
A demonstration last October in front of the city hall in Toul against the installation of the statue of Marcel Bigeard.
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on August 2025
Italy Approves Project to Link Sicily to the Mainland by Bridge
The Strait of Messina, the planned site for a suspension bridge connecting Sicily to mainland Italy.
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Prince Harry Cleared of Bullying Accusations at Charity He Co-founded
Prince Harry with a group of children at a Sentebale event in Botswana in 2019. He co-founded the charity to help young people with H.I.V. and AIDS.
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Charleston’s Climate Lawsuit Against Oil Giants Is Dismissed
Judge Roger M. Young wrote that his court lacked jurisdiction and that the issue fell under federal law, not state law.
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on August 2025
Thursday Briefing: Trump Threatens to Double India’s Tariffs
Russia supplies about 45 percent of India’s oil imports.
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New Zealand Air Force Mounts Dangerous Rescue Mission in Antarctica
The evacuation plane, shown in a handout photo from the New Zealand Defence Force, landed at McMurdo Station on Tuesday, loaded up the evacuees and returned to Christchurch on Wednesday morning, making the round trip in just under 20 hours.
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Trump Tells European Leaders He Intends to Meet With Putin and Zelensky
President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at the G20 Summit in Japan in 2019.
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California Wildfire Season Starting Earlier Because of Climate Change, Study Finds
A new study examined fire trends while taking into account the different characteristics of the state’s 13 ecological regions.
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on August 2025
Man Who Lit Cigarette From Eternal Flame in Paris Is Arrested
The flame on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during a wreath laying event in Paris.
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on August 2025
Wildfire In Wet Washington State Is Changing Under Climate Change
Wildfire smoke obscured the Interstate 90 bridge in Seattle in 2022.
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on August 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Netanyahu’s Next Steps in Gaza
Outside a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Saturday.
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After Trump’s Tariffs, Carney Seeks to Reduce Canada’s Economic Ties to U.S.
Prime Minister Mark Carney visiting a lumber mill on Tuesday in British Columbia to announce efforts to help the lumber industry.
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on August 2025
Bolsonaro House Arrest Casts Shadow Over Brazil-U.S. Trade Talks
Former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil is awaiting trial under house arrest after he was accused of overseeing a coup plot.
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on August 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Netanyahu’s Next Steps in Gaza
Outside a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Saturday.
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on August 2025
British Opera Company Cancels ‘Tosca’ Collaboration in Israel After Criticism
Tensions at the London company had been escalating as the humanitarian situation in Gaza worsened.
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on August 2025
Big Tech’s Net-Zero Goals Are Looking Shaky
A Meta data center in Newton County, Ga., that was completed this year.
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on August 2025
Ion Iliescu, Who Steered Romania After Revolution, Dies at 95
President Ion Iliescu of Romania at the Presidential Palace in 1993. He oversaw the country’s transition to democracy after the overthrow of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989.
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China Wages War on Chikungunya Virus With Drones and ‘Elephant Mosquitoes’
Fogging with insecticide at a hospital in the Chinese city of Foshan, where officials are battling an outbreak of chikungunya, a painful mosquito-borne viral disease.
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Tommy Robinson, Far-Right UK Activist, Is Arrested Over Train Station Assault
Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, in London in June.
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on August 2025
Rwanda Agrees to Accept 250 Migrants as Part of Trump Deportation Plan
President Trump with Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe of Rwanda in the Oval Office in June.
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Flash Floods in Indian Himalayas Kill 4, and Dozens Are Missing
A picture from the Indian Army shows houses partially buried by a mudslide in Dharali in the state of Uttarakhand, India, on Tuesday, after flash floods.
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Stella Rimington, First Woman to Lead U.K.’s MI5, Dies at 90
Ms. Rimington in 2004. After retirement, she wrote spy novels.
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Torrential Rain Batters Hong Kong, Flooding the Waterlogged City
Water spilling onto a street in the Quarry Bay area of Hong Kong on Tuesday. Parts of Hong Kong were brought to a standstill by flooding caused by days of heavy rains.
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UN Security Council Meets to Discuss Israel-Gaza War and Hostages
Seeking food at a charity kitchen in Gaza on Monday. More than one in three people in the enclave are not eating for days in a row, according to the U.N. World Food Program.
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on August 2025
On Gaza, Germany’s Government Faces Pressure From All Sides
Activists set up pictures of children in Gaza in front of the Parliament in Berlin during a protest last month.
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on August 2025
Bite Club: The Fraternity That Awaits You After a Shark Attack
Anika Craney, whose foot was bitten by a shark in the Great Barrier Reef, resolved not to let the attack change her lifelong love of the ocean.
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on August 2025
Photos: What Atomic Bombs Did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945.
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on August 2025
Takeaways From the Times Investigation Into the Jeju Air Crash
The crash of Jeju Air Flight 2216 was the deadliest on Korean soil, killing 179. The disaster may have been worsened by construction choices at the airport.
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on August 2025
Chemours, DuPont and Corteva Settle $875 Million New Jersey PFAS Claims
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced the deal on Monday, calling it the largest environmental settlement ever achieved by a single state.
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on August 2025
Bolsonaro Placed Under House Arrest by Brazil’s Supreme Court
Former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil had been required to wear an ankle monitor. Now the Supreme Court had ordered him placed under house arrest.
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on August 2025
Eight People, Including 3-Year-Old, Are Kidnapped From Haiti Orphanage
A police patrol near Kenscoff, Haiti, on Monday. Eight people were kidnapped from an orphanage in Kenscoff on Sunday.
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on August 2025
Russia Says It Will Stop Abiding By INF Treaty
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said intermediate-range ballistic missiles would be deployed to Belarus, which shares a border with three NATO countries.
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on August 2025
U.S. to Require Some Foreign Visitors to Pay Bonds of Up to $15,000 for Entry
The move is the Trump administration’s latest in a multifront effort to crack down on illegal immigration.
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on August 2025
Russian Nuclear Submarine Base Was Damaged in Earthquake, Satellite Images Show
Submarines from Russia’s Pacific Fleet off the port city of Vladivostok during Navy Day celebrations in 2023.
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on August 2025
Trump’s Demand to Trading Partners: Pledge Money or Get Higher Tariffs
President Trump has added an extra wrinkle into trade deals by suggesting countries invest in the United States or face higher tariffs.
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on August 2025
More than 140 African Migrants Feared Dead In Boat Disaster Near Yemen
Africans who are looking for work travel through Yemen, which has a porous land border with Saudi Arabia.
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on August 2025
El Salvador’s Leader Is Autocrat to Some, Godsend to Others
President Nayib Bukele’s success in restoring safety in El Salvador has made him enormously popular, even as his tactics have raised alarms.
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on August 2025
Netanyahu Squanders His Moment to Halt the War in Gaza
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at a Jerusalem event, on July 27.
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on August 2025
A Weakened Hezbollah Resists Pressure to Give Up Its Weapons
Hezbollah supporters in late June in the group’s stronghold of Dahiya on the southern outskirts of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.
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on August 2025
New Zealand Woman Arrested After Toddler Discovered in Suitcase
An Intercity bus preparing to depart from Timaru, New Zealand.
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on August 2025
With Sanctions Looming, Trump’s Envoy to Russia Meets With Putin
Even Hiroshima’s Pacifist Cause Is Losing Believers
Rains and Broken Roads Complicate Flood Rescue in Indian Himalayas
U.S. Imports Slid in June on Higher Tariffs
Tuesday Briefing: Trump’s Tariff Leverage
Jeju Air Plane Crash Highlights Decades of Blunders and Deadly Runway Wall
Tuesday Briefing: Trump’s Tariff Leverage