Venezuelans Mourn Loved Ones Killed in Protests, and Last Shreds of Democracy
The nation is in anguish as it buries its dead and enters a new era of authoritarianism.
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CreditThe New York Times A City of Blaring Sirens Fills With Russians Who Fled Ukraine’s Advance
In the regional capital, those who left their homes as Ukrainian forces tore into western Russia are uncertain whether they can ever return to their old lives.
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CreditNanna Heitmann for The New York Times Has Power Moderated Italy’s Leader? Not to Same-Sex Parents.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has mostly shown a pragmatic streak abroad. But at home, her government is plunging many gay families into panic.
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CreditAlessandro Penso for The New York Times ‘Bad Blood’ Stalks a Lithium Mine in Serbia
A Rio Tinto mine that Europe sees as a critical source for electric vehicle batteries has been the target of enormous protests. “I don’t need green cars. I need green apples and green grass,” said one opponent.
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A Family Flees and a Mother Mourns After Israeli Settlers Attack a Palestinian Village
Residents of the village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank say one Palestinian man was killed by rampaging settlers. Israel’s military confirmed the village was attacked.
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CreditSergey Ponomarev for The New York Times Blinken Travels to Israel Amid Push for Gaza Cease-Fire
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cautioned that the negotiations were “very complex,” as the secretary of state flew to Israel to try to clinch a deal.
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CreditPool photo by Kevin Mohatt Elon Musk Closes X Operations in Brazil Over Fight With Judge
The billionaire said he would shutter his social network’s Brazil operations instead of complying with a Brazilian judge’s orders to suspend accounts.
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CreditGonzalo Fuentes/Reuters What to Know About Ukraine’s Cross-Border Assault Into Russia
The incursion caught Russia by surprise and signified a shift in tactics for Kyiv after more than two years of war with Russia.
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CreditDavid Guttenfelder for The New York Times Black Caviar, Champion Racehorse and Australian Icon, Dies
She won every race she ran, and her fame went beyond the insular world of horseracing.
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During Ukraine’s Incursion, Russian Conscripts Recount Surrendering in Droves
More than 300 have been processed in a prison in Ukraine, providing the country with a much-needed “exchange fund” for future swaps of prisoners of war.
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CreditDavid Guttenfelder for The New York Times With Purple Gold and Bouncy Metal, a Canadian Chemist Shines on YouTube
Disillusioned with grad school, Nigel Braun dropped out to film chemistry videos in his parents’ garage in Montreal. Then millions began viewing his whimsical and occasionally dangerous experiments.
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CreditNasuna Stuart-Ulin for The New York Times The Global Profile‘There Is No Childhood in Gaza’
A 9-year-old Palestinian boy lost his mother, father and two siblings in an Israeli airstrike early in the Gaza war. Within months, he, too, was killed.
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CreditSamar Abu Elouf for The New York Times Doubting America’s ‘Nuclear Umbrella,’ Some South Koreans Want Their Own
Washington says it would defend the South against North Korea with nuclear arms, if need be. But more and more people in the South think it should rely on itself.
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CreditSouth Korea Defense Ministry, via Associated Press Mpox Case in Sweden Sets Off Concerns of Wider Spread in Europe
Experts expect more cases to surface in European countries because of frequent travel to and from Africa, with the threat of contracting the disease raised from “very low” to “low.”
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Kenya has strict rules about displaying the flag. But some people have been wearing and waving them, and draping them on coffins, as a symbol of resistance.
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CreditBrian Otieno for The New York Times Waiting for a Wider War, Lebanese Civilians Feel Helpless
Hezbollah’s conflict with Israel has already damaged south Lebanon. Now it could escalate, regardless of what anyone else in Lebanon thinks.
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CreditDiego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times Trying to Save a Concrete ‘Monument to Corruption’
An icon of socialist modernist architecture in the capital of the former Soviet republic that is now Moldova has been at the center of a tussle between corrupt developers and preservationists.
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CreditAndreea Campeanu for The New York Times The Olympics Is Transforming Their Neighborhood. And Kicking Them Out.
The Games brought billions to redevelop this Paris suburb. What will the thousands of homeless people who live there do?
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CreditDmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times How Swizz Beatz Climbed to the Top of Saudi Arabia’s Camel Racing Scene
“I’m just bringing the cool factor to it,” said the American hip-hop producer, who has spent millions of dollars on 48 camels for a team he calls “Saudi Bronx.”
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The life of Varî Vãti Marubo shows how much life has changed for the rainforest’s Indigenous tribes — and how much has stayed the same.
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CreditVictor Moriyama for The New York Times The Poet Who Commands a Rebel Army
“Revolution is the job of poets and artists,” says Ko Maung Saungkha, leader of a rebel militia fighting the Myanmar dictatorship. He is not the only poet commander in a country with a strong tradition of political verse.
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Credit From Exile in London, a Crime Novelist Works to Transform Russia
Boris Akunin, the creator of a hugely popular detective series, hopes that fomenting a vibrant Russian culture abroad might undermine President Vladimir V. Putin’s government at home.
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CreditAndrew Testa for The New York Times This Soccer Player Wanted to Wear Her Hijab on the Field. France Wouldn’t Let Her.
Lina Boussaha joined a team in Saudi Arabia so she could wear her head scarf while playing the sport she calls “a part of my soul.”
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CreditIman Al-Dabbagh for The New York Times Defeated by A.I., a Legend in the Board Game Go Warns: Get Ready for What’s Next
Lee Saedol was one of the world’s top Go players, and his shocking loss to an A.I. opponent was a harbinger of a new, unsettling era. “It may not be a happy ending,” he says.
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The soccer superstar’s trip to Euro 2024 has been marked by pitch invaders and uninspiring performances. As fans try to get close, his team can’t seem to let go.
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The region has long seen itself as distinct from its country and disinterested in the national team. Can a Euro 2024 squad studded with Basque stars turn heads?
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Hard-core fan groups, embracing a strong nationalistic streak, have provoked pushback from soccer’s authorities at the European Championship.
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CreditOlivier Matthys/EPA, via Shutterstock F.B.I. and Justice Department Open Criminal Investigation in Chinese Doping Case
The move escalates a fight with China and world antidoping officials, and will cast a shadow over the Paris Olympics.
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Chinese state news and social media has been virtually silent about 23 swimmers secretly testing positive in 2021, even as the issue is being debated widely abroad, including in Congress.
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La operación se desarrolló en secreto, ideada para desviar a los soldados rusos de las líneas del frente en Ucrania y apoderarse de territorio para utilizarlo como moneda de cambio.
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Tras una sequía que complicó el transporte de embarcaciones, los responsables del canal de Panamá buscan ampliar el almacenamiento de agua. El cambio climático no les deja otra opción, pero la población aledaña no opina lo mismo.
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El virus está evolucionando, y la versión más reciente se propaga con mayor frecuencia a través de poblaciones heterosexuales. Suecia ya notificó el primer caso fuera de África.
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Una semana después de la mayor incursión extranjera en Rusia desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial, The New York Times visitó uno de los lugares donde las fuerzas ucranianas irrumpieron y sorprendieron a los defensores.
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Una mansión que perteneció a Joseph Goebbels, el ministro de propaganda nazi, es propiedad de Berlín. Se deteriora a un alto costo del erario público, pero nadie sabe muy bien qué hacer con ella.
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Monday Briefing: The Democratic National Convention
Plus, the dark side of Shen Yun
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The On Soccer NewsletterPremier League Preview: Here We Go Again
The European soccer season is back. Here are the top story lines to watch this season.
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The Movies of 1999
Twenty-five years ago was a landmark time for cinema, with films that captured our collective hope and paranoia about the coming millennium.
By Alissa Wilkinson
A New National Park That Rests on Indigenous and Industrial History
The collapse of a steel mill project during the Great Depression preserved natural lands linked to First Nations people in Windsor, Ontario.
By Ian Austen
Ukraine Destroys Key Russian Bridge as It Presses On With Offensive
The bridge’s destruction is a setback for Russian supply lines as Ukraine seeks to consolidate its territorial gains in the Kursk region of western Russia.
By Constant Méheut
Israeli Strike on Lebanon Kills at Least 10
The strike came as tensions between the two countries were running high over the Gaza war. Negotiators are pushing for a truce in Gaza, hoping to avert a wider regional conflagration.
By Maria Abi-Habib, Euan Ward and Aaron Boxerman
Gaza Cease-Fire Talks to Resume in Cairo, as Mediators Race to Head Off Wider War
Top officials from the U.S., Israel, Egypt and Qatar ended two days of talks in Doha aimed at trying to resolve remaining disagreements between Israel and Hamas.
By Ronen Bergman, Julian E. Barnes, Farnaz Fassihi, Aaron Boxerman and Adam Rasgon
The U.N. Calls for a Temporary Truce to Fight Polio in Gaza
Secretary General António Guterres’s public comments came just before Gazan health authorities announced the first case of the disease in the enclave in many years.
By Farnaz Fassihi and Ephrat Livni
New Zealand Diplomat Is Victim of Armed Robbery, Paris Authorities Say
The Paris prosecutor’s office said that the diplomat had been struck in the face with the butt of a pistol. The robbery took place in Paris’s affluent 7th arrondissement.
By Eve Sampson and Ségolène Le Stradic
Indian Kashmir to Hold Legislative Election for First Time in a Decade
Some measure of self-governance will be restored in the region, which was stripped of its semiautonomous status by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
By Sameer Yasir
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