A Special ‘Climate’ Visa? People in Tuvalu Are Applying Fast.
Tuvalu is at risk of largely disappearing because of climate change. Floodwaters in the capital in 2019.
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on June 2025
Chinese Police Detain Dozens of Writers Over Gay Erotic Online Novels
A Beijing store selling merchandise based on Boys’ Love graphic novels. Boys’ Love fiction, about romance between men, has had a fervent niche following in China since the 1990s.
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on June 2025
Cocaine Is the Fastest-Growing Illegal Drug Worldwide. Here’s Why.
A laborer carrying bags of coca leaves in La Paz, Colombia, in 2021.
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on June 2025
Budapest Pride Parade Will Go On Despite Orban’s Ban. How Will He Respond?
A demonstration in April against the banning of Budapest’s annual Pride march.
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on June 2025
Fate of Iran’s Enriched Uranium Is a Mystery
Some of the uranium was believed to be held at the Natanz enrichment facility, seen here in 2007.
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on June 2025
Russia Seizes Key Lithium Field in Challenge for U.S.-Ukraine Minerals Deal
Ukrainian troops on the front line in the Donetsk region in April. As Russian forces continue to push forward, they are getting closer to more mineral deposits.
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on June 2025
El Salvador Police Say Quotas and Rumors Fueled Bukele’s Mass Arrests
Relatives watched as recently arrested men were transferred to prison in April 2022, early in an anti-gang campaign that has imprisoned about 80,000 people.
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on June 2025
Chess Lover Introduces Game to Malawi’s Prisons, Schools and Street Kids
Susan Namangale playing chess with four members of one of the 150 chess clubs she has set up in Malawi.
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on June 2025
Israel Suggests It Could Strike Iran Again to Counter New Threats
A woman in Tehran crying near her home, which was hit by an Israeli airstrike this week.
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on June 2025
Israel-Backed Aid Sites In Gaza Pose Lethal Risk for Palestinians Amid Deadly Fighting
Relatives mourned a family member who was killed on Tuesday near an aid distribution point set up by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
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on June 2025
Teenager Is Charged With Aiding Plot to Attack Taylor Swift Concert in Vienna
Taylor Swift fans in Vienna in August 2024, after three of the pop star’s concerts were canceled because of a security threat.
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on June 2025
China Confirms Trade Framework With U.S. to Lift Export Controls
A rare-earth mine in Bayan Obo, in Inner Mongolia, China. China controls the global supply of the elements, which are a vital component of many modern technologies.
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on June 2025
Pro-Palestinian Activists Arrested Under Terrorism Law in U.K. Air Base Break-In
A demonstration in London on Monday in support of Palestine Action. The group posted footage online on June 20 showing two activists moving around an R.A.F. base on scooters before using red paint to damage two planes.
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on June 2025
Japanese Serial Killer Is Executed
Takahiro Shiraishi in 2017, being brought to the prosecutor’s office in Tokyo.
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on June 2025
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Tie the Knot
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez in Venice, Italy, on Thursday.
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on June 2025
London Man Who Killed a Boy With a Samurai Sword Receives Life Sentence
A police officer cordoning off a crime scene in Hainault, northeast London, in April 2024, after a 14-year-old boy was killed.
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on June 2025
Son of Norway’s Crown Princess Is Charged With Rape and Sexual Assault
The police in Oslo have questioned Marius Borg Hoiby, 28, several times since August, when he was first arrested.
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on June 2025
Starmer Backtracks on Planned Social Cuts After Pushback From His Own Party
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain in London in May. Several recent policy reversals have led some to question his political judgment.
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on June 2025
She Ripped German Conservatives on Social Media. They Didn’t Forget.
Heidi Reichinnek of the far-left Die Linke party in Chemnitz, Germany, last month. Her social media posts have angered the conservative Christian Democrats of Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
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on June 2025
Authorities Rescue Girl Whose Mother Livestreamed Her Sexual Abuse
Child safety advocates demonstrated at the Apple Store last year in New York’s Grand Central Terminal.
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on June 2025
A Runestone That May Be North America’s Oldest Turns Up in a Canada Forest
The runestone was found in 2015 on private property near the town of Wawa, in northern Ontario, after the collapse of two trees exposed it to the elements.
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Thomas
on June 2025
Friday Briefing
Carrying aid packages through Jabaliya in Gaza on Sunday.
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on June 2025
U.S. Approves $30 Million for Contentious New Gaza Aid Group
Palestinians carried aid packages distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Thursday.
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on June 2025
Iran’s Foreign Minister Says Nuclear Facilities ‘Seriously Damaged’
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, speaking to the media after an Iran-European Union nuclear meeting in Geneva last week.
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on June 2025
Friday Briefing: The Deadly Search for Food in Gaza
Carrying aid through Jabaliya in Gaza on Sunday.
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on June 2025
As Celebrities Arrive in Venice for the Jeff Bezos-Lauren Sánchez Wedding, Details Are Scant
Kim Kardashian was one of the many celebrities arriving in Venice this week for the wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez.
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Thomas
on June 2025
Republicans Propose a New Way to Scrap Fuel Economy Rules: No Fines
Carmakers that have a history of producing efficient vehicles, like Toyota and Honda, would face competitive pressure from rivals that no longer want to spend on fuel-saving technologies.
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on June 2025
Centrifuges at Iran’s Fordo ‘No Longer Operational’ After U.S. Strikes, Nuclear Watchdog Says
A satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies on Tuesday shows damage at Fordo enrichment facility in Iran after U.S. military strikes on the site.
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on June 2025
Death Toll From Kenya Protests Climbs, Rights Group Says
Damaged buildings and debris in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, on Thursday.
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on June 2025
Housekeeper Arrested Over Wildfire That Scorched Greek Island
Fires collectively consumed more than 11,000 acres of Chios island.
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on June 2025
Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei Makes First Public Comments in Almost a Week
A screen grab of a video of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, that was broadcast on Iranian state media on Thursday.
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Thomas
on June 2025
New Zealand Approved Psychedelic Therapy. He’s the Only Doctor Who Can Do It.
There is a growing global movement to explore the use of psychedelics to treat depression, PTSD and addiction.
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on June 2025
Why Ukraine Fell Down the Agenda at the NATO Summit
The official declaration signed by the heads of state and government at the NATO summit did not mention Ukraine joining the alliance and President Volodymyr Zelensky was not feted as in previous years.
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on June 2025
Germany Wants Recruits. But ‘No One Wants Their Children in the Army.’
Trying out a virtual reality headset at a German Army recruitment booth during a tech trade show in Berlin in May. Germany has committed to significantly expand its military.
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Thomas
on June 2025
Ecuador Captures Gang Leader ‘Fito’ Whose Prison Escape Set Off Violence
José Adolfo Macías, center, arriving at the air base in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Wednesday.
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on June 2025
They Escaped War in Ukraine. It Found Them in Israel.
Rescue workers searching for trapped residents after an Iranian missile barrage hit buildings in Bat Yam, Israel, this month.
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on June 2025
He Searched for His Past in Children’s Books. He Found His Wife’s.
Steve Mills at home in Hockley, England. In a recent book haul from a charity shop, he found a book that had traveled from a town 170 miles away.
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on June 2025
How Sandwiches in Canada’s Lloydminster Became a Test for Domestic Trade
Sally McNaughton removing stock in preparation for a fresh sandwich shipment at Ironwells Co-Op Gas Bar in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. The company has secured an exception to permit sandwiches from their kitchen to be sold on both sides of the provincial border within Lloydminster city limits.
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on June 2025
A Photo Gone Wrong in the Uffizi Fuels Selfie Worries in Europe’s Museums
A blank space on the wall at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, where a painting of Ferdinando de’ Medici hung until a tourist damaged it on Saturday.
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Thomas
on June 2025
Thursday Briefing
Cleaning up a home in Tehran that was hit in an Israeli airstrike.
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on June 2025
An Investor Took on Hong Kong Tycoons Faces a Tougher Foe
David Webb at his home in Hong Kong, which overlooks the financial district. One former regulator calls him the conscience of the city’s financial markets.
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Thomas
on June 2025
How Trump’s Strike on Iran Might Affect China’s Calculus on Taiwan
A military exercise for repelling an amphibious landing, in Taiwan in 2023.
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on June 2025
Where Is Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?
Officials have said Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been sheltering at a bunker and refraining from electronic communication to prevent assassination attempts against him.
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on June 2025
U.S. Accuses Three Mexican Financial Firms of Aiding Fentanyl Trade
White powder, purportedly finished fentanyl, sitting on a table in a kitchen in Culiacán, Mexico, where members of the Sinaloa cartel cook the drug.
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on June 2025
Grand Jury Indicts Russian Scientist on Smuggling Charges
Kseniia Petrova, a scientist at Harvard, greeted reporters with her lawyers outside federal court in Boston upon her release from detention this month.
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on June 2025
What to Know About the Antigovernment Protests in Kenya
A protester ducked a tear-gas canister in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday. Kenyan police fired live rounds, tear gas and rubber bullets at people who were marching a year after large-scale demonstrations against a contentious tax plan turned deadly.
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Thomas
on June 2025
Iranians and Israelis Begin Tense Return to Normal Life
Life in Israel began to return to normal on the second day of the cease-fire with Iran.
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on June 2025
In a Win for Trump, NATO Agrees to a Big Increase in Military Spending
President Trump, together with Pete Hegseth, secretary of defense, and Marco Rubio, secretary of state, during a new conference during the NATO summit in The Hague, on Wednesday.
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on June 2025
British Man Is Charged Over Attempted Mock Wedding With Girl, 9, at Disneyland Paris
Disneyland Paris. The episode has raised questions about how a registered sex offender was able to book a private event involving a minor at one of the world’s most prominent theme parks.
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Thomas
on June 2025
Amid Attacks, Iran’s Exiled Opposition Remained Divided. Who Are They?
Thursday Briefing: Trump Says He’ll Meet With Iran
Trump says the U.S. will meet with Iran but downplays the need for a nuclear agreement.
What We Know About the Fate of Iran’s Nuclear Program