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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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Thomas
on August 2025
North Korea’s Leader, Kim Jong-un, to Attend Military Parade 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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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
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
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
The Deadly Risks of Reporting In Gaza
Mourners with the bodies of Palestinian journalists killed during an Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza on Monday. At least 20 people were killed during the attack.
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Thomas
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
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.”
Posted by
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.
Posted by
Thomas
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
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.
Posted by
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, 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.”
Posted by
Thomas
on August 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Trump’s India Muddle
At the White House in February.
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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
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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Thomas
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.
Posted by
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.
Posted by
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
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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Thomas
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.
Posted by
Thomas
on August 2025
Trump’s India Muddle
At the White House in February.
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Thomas
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.
Posted by
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
Israel Links Deadly Hospital Attack in Gaza to Hamas Surveillance Camera
People and rescuers working to recover the body of a Palestinian cameraman, Hussam al-Masri, who worked for Reuters and was killed in an Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Monday.
Posted by
Thomas
on August 2025
Russia and Ukraine Target Energy Sites, Seeking Leverage Away From the Front
A photograph released by the Mayor of Sochi, Russia, showing firefighters working at a fuel depot outside the city, after a Ukrainian drone attack, this month.
Posted by
Thomas
on August 2025
Russian Troops Gain a Toehold in Another Ukrainian Region
Ukrainian soldiers firing at Russian drones, in the Dnipropetrovsk region earlier this month.
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Thomas
on August 2025
State Department Agents Join Trump’s Deployment in D.C.
A Diplomatic Security Service agent patrolling the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington along with F.B.I. agents this month.
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Thomas
on August 2025
South Korea’s Leader and Trump Find Common Ground: Kim Jong-un
The talks between President Trump and President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea did not produce any breakthroughs.
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Thomas
on August 2025
European Officials Press Iran on Nuclear Talks. Here’s What to Know.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said recently that the dispute between Tehran and Washington “is not a matter that can be resolved.”
Posted by
Thomas
on August 2025
With Little Explanation, Trump Throws Wind Industry Into Chaos
Components for the ongoing construction of the Revolution Wind offshore wind farm in New London, Conn., in November.
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Thomas
on August 2025
A Peace Deal for Ukraine Could Test German Reluctance to Deploy Troops
German soldiers participate in a military exercise with Lithuania north of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, last year.
Posted by
Thomas
on August 2025
2 Police Officers Killed in Shooting in Rural Australia
Police officers standing not far from where two officers were killed in Victoria, Australia, on Tuesday. Parts of a rural town, including a primary school, have been placed into lockdown.
Posted by
Thomas
on August 2025
Tuesday Briefing: Israeli Strikes Killed Five Journalists
The Israeli strikes hit Nasser Hospital yesterday.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Australia Says Iran Was Behind Antisemitic Arson Attacks on Its Soil
Mike Burgess, left, Australia’s intelligence chief, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra, the capital, on Tuesday. Mr. Burgess accused Iran of using a “web of proxies” to hide its involvement in arson attacks in Australia.
Posted by
Thomas
on August 2025
Too Old, Too Uneducated: Aging Workers in Beijing Struggle for Work
Workers looking for day labor jobs near Majuqiao, in Beijing, around 4 a.m. one day in July. People from around the country gather here every morning for a chance to earn money.
Posted by
Thomas
on August 2025
Tuesday Briefing: Israeli Strikes Killed Five Journalists
The Israeli strikes hit Nasser Hospital yesterday.
Posted by
Thomas
on August 2025
French Prime Minister Calls Special Parliamentary Session to Address Ballooning Debt
“There’s no way out if we don’t realize the gravity of this risk,” Prime Minister François Bayrou of France said of the country’s deficit during a news conference in Paris on Monday.
Posted by
Thomas
on August 2025
Lawmakers Visit Syria to Push for Repealing Sanctions Law
A damaged billboard of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus in January, a month after he was overthrown.
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Thomas
on August 2025
What to Know About the Journalists Killed in Gaza
A photo made available by the family of Mariam Dagga, a freelancer photographer for The Associated Press and other news outlets, of her father leading her funeral prayer after she was killed.
Posted by
Thomas
on August 2025
Abrego Garcia Detained Again After Government Signaled It Would Re-Deport Him
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the immigrant who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March, speaking in Baltimore on Monday.
Posted by
Thomas
on August 2025
London Asks Commuters, ‘Please Put Your Headphones In, Thank You’
Wednesday Briefing: The U.K. May Recognize a Palestinian State
China Finds Buyers for Surplus Solar: Africa’s Energy-Hungry Countries
Israeli Security Cabinet Meets Amid Growing Protests Over Gaza War