Africans See Trump’s New Travel Ban as ‘A Big Slap in the Face’
In Khartoum, the war-torn capital of Sudan, in March.
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on June 2025
Russia Pummels Kyiv in Apparent Retaliation for Ukrainian Drone Assault
People taking shelter from Russian drone and missile strikes early Friday in an underground parking garage in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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on June 2025
An Engineering Marvel, Decades in the Making: A Rail Line to Kashmir
A passenger train on the outskirts of Jammu, Kashmir, in May, part of a new line that has connected Kashmir by rail to the rest of India.
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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
D-Day Anniversary Brings Remembrance and Unease Among Old Allies
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a ceremony on the 81st anniversary of D-Day in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, on Friday.
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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
Xi to Trump: Rein in the Hawks Trying to Derail the Tariff Truce
A meeting with Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, in Japan in 2019, during President Trump’s first term. The leaders spoke by phone on Thursday after weeks of worsening tensions between Washington and Beijing.
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on June 2025
South Koreans Have a New President, and Mixed Emotions
Lee Jae-myung, South Korea’s new president, appearing at a post-election rally with his wife, Kim Hye-kyeong, in Seoul on Wednesday.
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on June 2025
U.K. Faces ‘Extraordinary’ Threat From Russian and Iranian Plots, Official Warns
“Terrorism is something that gets public attention,” Jonathan Hall said, while state threats are “much harder to conceptualize.”
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on June 2025
Interpol Arrests 20 Over Network That Distributed Child Sex Abuse Material
The headquarters of Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization, in Lyon, France.
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on June 2025
Canada’s Wildfires in Manitoba and Saskatchewan: What to Know About Smoke and Air Quality
A photo released by the government of the Canadian province of Manitoba shows wildfires burning last week in Flin Flon, Manitoba.
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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
Trump Approves Expansion of Scandal-Hit Coal Mine
The entrance to Bull Mountain mine near Billings, Mont., in 2022.
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on June 2025
Trump’s Ambition Collides With Law on Sending Migrants to Dangerous Countries
A government vehicle that was damaged in clashes with armed militias in Tripoli, Libya, last month.
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on June 2025
David Beckham to Be Knighted by King Charles III
The king and the future knight.
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on June 2025
Merz Cracks the Trump Code With Friendly White House Meeting
President Trump and Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany in the Oval Office on Thursday. They seemed chummy from the start.
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on June 2025
Friday Briefing
President Trump in the Oval Office yesterday.
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on June 2025
Marc Garneau, First Canadian in Space, Dies at 76
Marc Garneau in 2000, the year he took his third trip to space.
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on June 2025
Philippe Labro Dies at 88; Restless Chronicler of the French Condition
Philippe Labro, 2004. “He wrote our popular, French, and universal history,” President Emmanuel Macron said in a tribute posted on X.
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on June 2025
Israel Bombs Beirut Outskirts, Citing Hezbollah Drone Workshops
Smoke and fire erupting from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Thursday.
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on June 2025
State Dept. Imposes Sanctions on International Criminal Court Judges
The United States and Israel are not members of the International Criminal Court and have long chafed at its efforts to prosecute officials in their governments and militaries.
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on June 2025
Friday Briefing: Trump and Musk Trade Insults
President Trump in the Oval Office yesterday.
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on June 2025
Zambia’s Former President Edgar Lungu Dies at 68
President Edgar Lungu of Zambia in 2019.
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on June 2025
Israel Armed Palestinian Militia to Fight Hamas, Officials Say
Smoke rising behind Israeli tanks in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, in May.
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on June 2025
Reform U.K.’s Chairman, Zia Yusuf, Quits Amid Infighting
Zia Yusuf, right, with Nigel Farage in London this year. On Thursday, Mr. Farage expressed regret at Mr. Yusuf’s departure as Reform U.K.’s chairman.
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on June 2025
Used in Covid Shots, mRNA May Help Rid the Body of H.I.V.
Colored scanning electron micrograph of a whole T-lymphocyte white blood cell infected with the H.I.V. virus, in red.
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on June 2025
Goal to Spend 5 Percent on Militaries Splits NATO Allies
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday.
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on June 2025
There’s an Effective Way to Deter Rhino Poachers, a New Study Finds
A newly dehorned rhinoceros near Kruger National Park in South Africa. The horns eventually grow back, like trimmed fingernails.
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on June 2025
Trump Compares Russia and Ukraine to Children Fighting
President Trump met with the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, in the Oval Office on Thursday.
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on June 2025
Trump’s Travel Ban Could Shake Up International Sporting Events
Haiti played Mexico in a CONCACAF Gold Cup game in Arizona in 2023. U.S. officials will decide which sports events are exempt from President Trump’s new travel ban.
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on June 2025
Syrians Rejoice at Being Exempted From Trump Travel Ban
Damascus last month. Syria was exempted from President Trump’s latest travel ban, a sign of a seismic shift in U.S. foreign policy following the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad in December.
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on June 2025
Trump and Xi Hold Call, China Says
Xi Jinping, China’s leader, in Beijing last month. He and President Trump spoke by phone amid fraying relations between the United States and China after trade talks in May.
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on June 2025
What to Know About Trump’s New Travel Ban
Applicants for the Special Immigrant Visa in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2021. Immigrants under that program are exempted from President Trump’s latest travel ban.
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on June 2025
Euthanasia Advocate Who Assisted in Woman’s Suicide Dies in Germany
Florian Willet was arrested by the Swiss authorities last year after being present when an American woman ended her life.
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on June 2025
New Zealand’s Parliament Suspends Maori Lawmakers Over Haka Protest
Rawiri Waititi, right, and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, the co-leaders of the Te Pāti Māori party, at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, in January.
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on June 2025
Why a Harvard Speaker Drew a Social Media Backlash in China
Jiang Yurong, a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School, was subjected to anger and suspicion on Chinese social media after her commencement speech was posted online.
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on June 2025
Another ‘Gomorrah’ TV Series About the Mob? Some in Naples Say, ‘Basta.’
Tourists visiting Vele di Scampia, a cluster of public housing towers, now undergoing demolition, in Naples, where much of the early seasons of “Gomorrah” were filmed.
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on June 2025
Israeli Military Recovers Bodies of Two Hostages Taken in Oct. 7 Attack
Judi Weinstein-Haggai and Gadi Haggai in an undated photograph.
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on June 2025
Europe Wants to Banish Russian Gas. The U.S. May Have Other Plans.
The Bovanenkovo gas field on the Yamal peninsula of Russia, operated by Gazprom, is a main source of gas for exports to Europe.
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on June 2025
In War-Torn Nations, Trump’s Travel Ban Brings a New Hardship
Destroyed buildings after airstrikes in Kyauktaw, Myanmar, last month.
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on June 2025
Thursday Briefing
President Trump’s proclamation barred travel from a number of countries, mostly in Africa and the Middle East.
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on June 2025
Who Is Johnnie Moore? Here’s What to Know About a Gaza Aid Group’s Chairman.
Johnnie Moore, shown in 2018, was picked to help lead the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
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on June 2025
Friedrich Merz, Germany’s Chancellor, Meets With Trump at White House
Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany speaking on Tuesday in Berlin.
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on June 2025
Trump Pushes to Restrict Harvard’s International Students From Entering U.S.
President Trump also urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to consider revoking current visas for Harvard students.
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on June 2025
Trump Travel Order Bans People From 12 Countries From Entering U.S.
President Trump’s proclamation barred travel from a variety of countries, primarily in Africa and the Middle East.
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on June 2025
U.S. Vetoes U.N. Resolution Demanding Immediate Gaza Cease-Fire
Israeli shelling hit an area in northern Gaza on Tuesday.
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on June 2025
How Higher Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum Will Affect Companies
A steel plant in Zelzate, Belgium. The European Steel Association has warned that the tariff increase could cause a flood of cheap foreign steel to be dumped into the E.U. market.
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on June 2025
Israel Says It Made Record Weapons Sales Abroad While Fighting War
A LORA quasi-ballistic missile by Israel Aerospace Industries was exhibited at the DEFEA Defense Exhibition in Athens in May.
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on June 2025
Putin Intends to Respond to Ukraine Strikes on Russian Bombers, Trump Says
In a photo distributed by Russian state media, President Vladimir V. Putin holds a video meeting with government officials on Wednesday at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow.
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on June 2025
It’s Not Just Poor Rains Causing Drought. The Atmosphere Is ‘Thirstier.’
Desperate and Hungry Palestinians Recall Deadly Shooting Near Gaza Aid Site
Videos Show Chaos Around Israeli-Backed Gaza Food Sites
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Returned to U.S. From El Salvador to Face Criminal Charges
Thursday Briefing: Trump’s Call With Putin