Kim Jong-un to be Among U.S. Rivals Convening in Beijing
North Korea’s state news agency released a photo on Thursday that it said showed Kim Jong-un visiting a military base at an undisclosed location.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Jimmy Lai’s Freedom May Now Hinge on Beijing and Trump
Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong in December 2020, when he was ordered back to jail, just days after he had been granted bail.
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on August 2025
U.N. Votes to Withdraw Peacekeepers From Lebanon Over Next Two Years
A U.N. peacekeeper, center, talking with a soldier at a Lebanese army checkpoint in March.
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Thomas
on August 2025
What to Know About Jimmy Lai’s Trial in Hong Kong
Mr. Lai was one of the first targets of the national security law.
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Thomas
on August 2025
European Nations Move to Restart Iran Sanctions Over Nuclear Program
The headquarters in Vienna of the International Atomic Energy Agency, whose inspectors have long monitored Iran’s nuclear activities.
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on August 2025
Israel’s Exhausted Soldiers Complicate Plans for Gaza Assault
Israeli military reservists and veterans, demanding an immediate end to the war in Gaza and the return of hostages, demonstrated in Tel Aviv earlier this month.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Austria’s Hills Are Still Alive, 60 Years Later
Actors from the Salzburg State Theater performing scenes from “The Sound of Music” during a tour of Schloss Leopoldskron in Austria.
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on August 2025
Targeted by the Emirates, an Arab Dissident Vanished Across Borders
Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi addressed a crowd at a demonstration in Istanbul in 2018, following the disappearance of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Denmark Summons U.S. Envoy Over Greenland Espionage Allegations
In a statement on Wednesday, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Denmark’s foreign minister, said, “We are aware that foreign actors continue to show an interest in Greenland.”
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Thomas
on August 2025
Students Call for More Protests in Indonesia After Fatal Clash With Police
Protesters in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, on Friday. Demonstrators have been calling for an end to housing allowances for lawmakers.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Russia’s Deadly Attack on Kyiv
Kyiv after Russia’s assault yesterday.
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on August 2025
When Mailing a Letter to the U.S. Becomes a Global Headache
A distribution center in Yangzhou, China, in June. President Trump’s rule change has reverberated far beyond China for people who want to mail any kind of document, letters or package to the United States.
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Thomas
on August 2025
August in Paris: When the City Empties Out, Locals Left Behind Rejoice
The Île St.-Louis, on the River Seine in Paris, is usually crowded and frenetic. But in August, it’s nearly deserted.
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on August 2025
China Is Trying to Expand Its Social Safety Net. Yet Many Chinese Are Worried.
Outside a maternity hospital in Beijing last year. As of Sept. 1, all employers in China must contribute to benefits for their employees, to support their pensions, medical care, maternity leave and more.
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Thomas
on August 2025
What’s Behind the Political Instability in Thailand
Thaksin Shinawatra with his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra in August 2024. Both have served as prime minister, and each has been reprimanded by Thailand’s powerful Constitutional Court.
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on August 2025
Thai Court to Rule on Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s Future in Office
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the scion of a powerful political dynasty, in Bangkok on Friday.
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on August 2025
A Major Russian Attack on Kyiv
Kyiv after Russia’s assault yesterday.
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on August 2025
Buried by Princess Diana, Time Capsule Brings Back the ’90s Far Too Soon
A time capsule that Princess Diana sealed at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London in March 1991 was to have stayed entombed for hundreds of years. Instead, it was opened this year.
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Thomas
on August 2025
‘We Are All Shocked’: Warming Waters Bring a Stinging Sea Slug to Spain’s Coasts
A photograph of blue dragon was posted on the Facebook page of the Guardamar del Segura police department.
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on August 2025
Relics From an Ancient Egyptian ‘Party Town’ Are Pulled Out of the Sea
A sea-worn portion of an ancient statue being pulled from the water off Alexandria, Egypt, last week.
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on August 2025
Russian Drones Are Flying Over U.S. Weapons Routes in Germany, Officials Say
American-made artillery shells prepared in a factory in Scranton, Pa., before being sent to Ukraine.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Trump Tries to Derail Climate Progress
Wind accounts for about 20 percent of the electricity mix in Europe.
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Thomas
on August 2025
A Casualty of Trump’s Tariffs: India’s Nascent Solar Industry
A solar manufacturing plant in Gangaikondan, India.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Trump’s Campaign to Reverse Global Climate Progress
Wind accounts for about 20 percent of the electricity mix in Europe.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Gérard Chaliand, Intrepid Authority on Geopolitics, Dies at 91
Gérard Chaliand in 1992. His lectures on geopolitics routinely drew top-level diplomats and officers.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Trump and Advisers, Including Kushner, Meet on Gaza’s Future
Palestinian families fleeing their homes north of Gaza City on Monday, after Israeli military officials announced plans for a full-scale assault on the city.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Why Ukraine Is Allowing More Young Men to Leave the Country
Ukrainian military recruiters in Kyiv last year check to see if civilian men have updated their contact information with the Ukrainian draft office. Since February 2022, men between the ages of 18 and 60 have been barred from leaving the country.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Denmark Apologizes After Involuntary Birth Control Scandal in Greenland
Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Denmark. “We cannot change what has happened,” she said of the forced contraception. “But we can take responsibility.”
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on August 2025
After Blocking U.N. Nuclear Watchdog, Iran Allows Inspectors to Return
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said on Wednesday that U.N. inspectors were visiting Bushehr, Iran’s only operating nuclear power plant, shown in May.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals
President Trump met with Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, in Scotland last month. He denounced wind power as a “con job.”
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Thomas
on August 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Trump’s India Muddle
At the White House in February.
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on August 2025
El Salvador Enacts Military-Style Rules on Haircuts and More in Schools
Officials inspecting students’ appearances and uniforms during their arrival at the National Industrial Technical Institute in San Salvador this month.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Uncovering the Genes That Let Our Ancestors Walk Upright
A comparison of skeletons from “Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature,” by Thomas Henry Huxley, 1863.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Court Records Detail Antisemitic Attack That Australia Says Is Linked to Iran
Lewis’ Continental Kitchen, a kosher restaurant in Sydney, on Tuesday. It was the site of an arson attack last year that Australia says was orchestrated by Iran.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Paris Will Keep Seine River Open to Swimmers for 2 More Weeks
Swimming at the Grenelle site on the River Seine in July.
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on August 2025
Late-Night Killing of a Teenage Girl on a Bicycle Unnerves Amsterdam
Some women said the crime made them rethink biking home alone at night.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Even 2025’s Chaos Couldn’t Keep Brussels From the European August Holiday
The European Commission’s becalmed headquarters, the Berlaymont building, in Brussels on Tuesday.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Trump Hosts a Meeting on Gaza. How Close Is an Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire?
Palestinian families fleeing their homes north of Gaza City on Monday, after Israeli military officials announced plans for a full-scale assault on the city.
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Thomas
on August 2025
South Korea Outlaws Use of Smartphones During Class
A parent and child arriving at an elementary school in Seoul last year. A new law in South Korea gives principals and teachers the power to stop students from carrying or using phones at school.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Floods and Landslides Kill Dozens on Pilgrimage Route in Kashmir
Flooding on Wednesday in the Indian-controlled part of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Germany Proposes Plan to Boost Recruitment or Resort to Draft
Soldiers training at a base in Germersheim, Germany, in July.
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Thomas
on August 2025
UK Summers, and Houses, Are Getting Hotter
Caz Facey this month under the awning that she installed to cool her London home.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Following the Sounds of Arabic to Rediscover Paris
Inside the Andalusian garden at the Grand Mosque of Paris.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Lafufus, Fake Labubus, Spawn Safety Warning and Raids
Labubu dolls at Pop Mart’s flagship store in Shanghai.
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on August 2025
U.S. Envoy Talks Peace in Lebanon, but Stirs Anger With ‘Act Civilized’ Remark
Thomas Barrack and another U.S. envoy, Morgan Ortagus, after meeting with President Joseph Aoun of Lebanon on Tuesday.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Trump’s India Muddle
At the White House in February.
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on August 2025
Pigeons Are Widely Loathed. Mumbai’s Have Vocal Defenders.
The closure of dozens of feeding spots for pigeons, known as kabutarkhanas, in Mumbai has upset some leaders of the city’s Jain community, a small but influential religious group.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Macron Defends Call for Palestinian Statehood in Letter to Netanyahu
President Emmanuel Macron announced last month that France would recognize Palestinian statehood at the U.N. General Assembly in September, angering the Israeli leader.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Nigel Farage Promises Mass Deportations if Elected UK Prime Minister
Nigel Farage, the leader of the British party Reform U.K., in front of a mock departures board during a news conference at Oxford Airport in Kidlington, England, on Tuesday.
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Thomas
on August 2025
A Gaza City Neighborhood Is Now a Wasteland, Satellite Images Show
London Asks Commuters, ‘Please Put Your Headphones In, Thank You’
2 Weeks After Trump Talks, Russia Bombards Kyiv, Killing at Least 23
Wednesday Briefing: The U.K. May Recognize a Palestinian State