South African Police’s Frequent Use of Torture Echoes Apartheid’s Brutality
A police raid in Pretoria, South Africa in 2017. South Africa has among the world’s highest murder rates and tackling runaway crime has become an intractable challenge.
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on July 2025
What’s at Stake as Netanyahu and Trump Meet in Washington
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s Parliament last month. Mr. Netanyahu will meet with President Trump this week in Washington.
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on July 2025
Erin Patterson Is Found Guilty of Murder in Australia Mushroom Poisoning Case
The courthouse in Morwell, Australia, where Erin Patterson’s murder trial was being held.
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on July 2025
Ukraine Turns to Fishing Nets to Catch Russian Drones
Nets, erected over the road to protect against armed Russian drones, standing along a highway on the outskirts of the mostly abandoned city of Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, in June.
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on July 2025
Canada Shipping Natural Gas to Asia as It Looks Beyond the US for Trade
The Gaslog Glasgow tanker in Kitimat, British Columbia, last month. It set off for South Korea this week with Canada’s first major shipment of liquefied natural gas to Asia.
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on July 2025
‘Hallmarks of Institutional Racism’ Found in Police Killing of Kumanjayi Walker
The coroner read her findings before residents in a dusty courtyard lined with gum trees, just a few streets away from the red-walled house belonging to the victim’s grandmother, where he was killed.
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on July 2025
How Europe Got Stuck Between Xi’s China and Trump’s America
Shipping containers on flatbed railway cars, at the port of Hamburg, Germany, in April. European exports to China remain substantial, especially from Germany.
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on July 2025
The Little Mountain Democracy That Sustains Tibet’s Refugee Nation
Lhakar Gorshey, a Tibetan circle dance performed on Wednesdays, which are considered a special day of cultural significance, near Tsuglagkhang, also known as Dalai Lama’s Temple complex, this past week in Dharamsala, India.
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Caught Between Tariffs and China, Mexico Adapts to an Unpredictable U.S.
Assembling refrigeration and air-conditioning units at a factory for the Danish company Danfoss, in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
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on July 2025
Can Australia Pull Off Barring Children From Social Media?
Australia hopes, by December, to remove more than a million young teens from social media.
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on July 2025
Indonesia Volcano Eruption Sends Ash Soaring 11 Miles High
A handout photo from the Indonesian government showing Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupting on Monday.
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on July 2025
Trump Keeps Foreign Countries on Edge as Tariff Deadline Nears
President Trump plans to impose tariffs on some of America’s largest trading partners on Aug. 1.
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on July 2025
2 Dead and 500 Injured After Typhoon Danas Strikes Taiwan
The collapsed archway of the Nankunshen Daitian Temple in Tainan on Monday.
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on July 2025
Monday Briefing: Floods in Texas Killed at Least 80
A man worked to free a truck stuck in debris in Kerrville, Texas, yesterday.
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on July 2025
Why Are Police Officers in South Africa Torturing People?
Police officers during a door-to-door search for drugs and illegal firearms in Tshepisong, near Johannesburg, in 2022.
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on July 2025
Monday Briefing: Floods in Texas Killed nearly 80
Search and rescue teams in Texas yesterday.
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on July 2025
China and Russia Keep Their Distance From Iran During Crisis
An ambulance burned in an Israeli attack in Tehran last month. Despite the appearance of unity, Russia, China and North Korea did not rush to Iran’s aid during its war with Israel or when U.S. forces bombed Iranian nuclear sites.
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on July 2025
Europe’s Dilemma: Build a Military Industry or Keep Relying on the U.S.
A large-scale NATO military exercise involving nine allied nations, earlier this year.
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on July 2025
Netanyahu Heads to Washington as Trump Pushes for Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel visited the site of an Iranian strike in Rehovot, Israel, last month during the 12-day Israel-Iran war.
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on July 2025
Albert Ojwang Was Killed in Police Custody. Kenyans Are Not About to Let It Go.
Young men carried Albert Ojwang’s coffin at his funeral in Kakoth village, Kenya, on Friday.
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on July 2025
Khamenei Appears in Public for First Time Since Israel War Began
A photograph released by Iran’s state media on Saturday showing Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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on July 2025
As a Tourist Influx Makes Prices Soar, Hundreds Protest in Mexico City
Demonstrators damaged a dining area at an anti-gentrification protest that turned violent in Mexico City, on Friday.
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on July 2025
As the World Warms, Extreme Rain Is Becoming Even More Extreme
A person overlooks flooding at the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, on Saturday.
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on July 2025
Israel to Send Delegation to Qatar for Talks on Gaza Truce
A man inspecting damage after an Israeli strike in central Gaza on Friday. The war has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and reduced much of the territory to rubble.
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on July 2025
Celebrating the U.S. in Canada During Turmoil in the Two Countries’ Relations
The crowd was smaller than usual for the Fourth of July party hosted by the U.S. ambassador to Canada.
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on July 2025
Iran Looks to BRICS for Allies, Testing a New World Order
Valiasr Square in Tehran last month. Analysts expect Iran to use the BRICS summit as an opportunity to shore up more explicit support from the group.
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on July 2025
Antarctica Faces Tense Future as U.S. Science Budget Shrinks
The National Science Foundation’s McMurdo Station in Antarctica.
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on July 2025
The Cost of Victory: Israel Overpowered Its Foes, but Deepened Its Isolation
Demonstrators outside the headquarters of the governing Likud party in June in Tel Aviv demanding the return of hostages held in Gaza.
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on July 2025
Violence at Synagogue and Restaurant Unnerves Jews in Melbourne
Rabbi Dovid Gutnick walking past fire damage to the exterior of the East Melbourne Synagogue on Saturday.
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on July 2025
Pro-Palestinian Activists Lose Appeal Against U.K. Government Ban
A Palestine Action activist, Lisa Luxx, outside the High Court in London on Friday.
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on July 2025
Hamas Says It’s Ready to ‘Immediately” Return to Truce Negotiations
Palestinians in the wreckage of a building in central Gaza after Israeli aircraft bombed a building in Gaza City.
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on July 2025
Wildfires Sweep Syria’s Coast as Drought Strains Fragile State
Syrian firefighters sprayed burned trees with water in a forest outside the village of Rihaniya in the Latakia province, Syria on Tuesday.
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on July 2025
Man Attempts to Set Fire to a Melbourne Synagogue
Tributes at the Adass Israel Synagogue after it was set on fire in Melbourne, Australia, in December.
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on July 2025
As Fire Videos Compete With Beach Photos, Greeks Who Rely on Tourism Are Worried
Firefighters trying to put out flames on Thursday in Ierapetra on the island of Crete, a popular tourist destination in Greece.
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on July 2025
Nuclear Inspectors Leave Iran After Cooperation Halted With U.N. Watchdog
Reza Najafi, Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks to journalists shortly after an extraordinary I.A.E.A. board of governors meeting at the agency’s headquarters in Vienna last month.
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on July 2025
Heat in Eastern Europe Fuels Fire, Fish Deaths and Tensions Over Protests
A water mist machine, installed to help people cool off on hot days, in Bucharest, Romania, on Thursday.
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on July 2025
Russia Hits Ukraine With Large Air Barrage Hours After Trump-Putin Call
Smoke rising after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday.
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on July 2025
Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Is Stripped of Dutch Citizenship
Andre Geim received the Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm in 2010.
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on July 2025
Vietnam Aches for Its M.I.A.’s. Will America Stop Funding Science to Identify Them?
Filling in the grave of an unidentified soldier after bone samples were collected at Tra Linh Cemetery in northern Vietnam.
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on July 2025
How New DNA Science Could Help More Families of the Missing
Researchers processing bone samples from an unidentified soldier missing in action collected at Tra Linh Cemetery in northern Vietnam, for DNA testing at the Center for DNA Identification at the Institute of Biotechnology of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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on July 2025
Gas Station Explosion Rattles Rome, Injuring Several
A fuel tank exploded in an eastern neighborhood of Rome. Firefighters and police officers had already been called to the gas station after an earlier incident involving a truck.
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on July 2025
Why China Isn’t Lecturing Trump About His Costly Bill
The House passed a sweeping bill to extend tax cuts and slash social safety net programs. The budget office reported the measure would increase U.S. national debt by at least $3.4 trillion over a decade.
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on July 2025
U.K. F-35B Jet Takes Unplanned Vacation in India, Is Embraced by Locals
Manila’s Returning Mayor Has a Mountain to Climb. It’s Made of Garbage.
Israel’s Deadly Assault on Iran Prison Incites Fury, Even Among Dissidents
The Interview: Mark Rutte, the Head of NATO, Thinks President Trump ‘Deserves All the Praise’
A Lifetime After Fleeing the Nazis, They Tell Their Stories
A Napoleon From Long Island Meets His Waterloo
A Space-Out Competition in Seoul Was Harder Than I Expected