Russian Drone and Missile Strikes on Kyiv Kill at Least 10
Ukrainian rescue workers at the site of a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
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on June 2025
‘I’ll Never Try Again’: For Some Gazans, Seeking Aid Is Just Too Risky
Palestinians carrying aid from a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site in Rafah, southern Gaza, last week.
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on June 2025
North Korea’s Pandemic ‘Miracle’ Was a Deadly Lie, Report Says
A photograph released by North Korean state media showed a worker disinfecting a vehicle while a civilian had his temperature checked as a precaution against the coronavirus in Pyongyang, North Korea, in 2020.
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on June 2025
Lawmakers Vote to Decriminalize Abortions for Women in England and Wales
An amendment, proposed by Tonia Antoniazzi, a lawmaker for the governing Labour Party, aims to partly decriminalize abortion in England and Wales.
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on June 2025
U.S. Revokes Visa of Former Panamanian President Who Criticized Trump Deal
The former Panamanian president Martin Torrijos in Panama City last year.
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on June 2025
North Korea Will Send 5,000 Workers to Russia, Kremlin Says
North Korean construction workers in Pyongyang in 2011.
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on June 2025
What to Know About Israel’s Secretive Nuclear Weapons Program
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at United Nations General Assembly last year. Experts believe that Israel has been expanding its secretive nuclear program.
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on June 2025
Russia Stands Aside as Israel Attacks Iran
Smoke from an Israeli attack on an oil refinery rose over Tehran on Sunday.
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on June 2025
Haiti is Using Drones to Fight Gangs. Here’s Why That’s Likely Illegal.
Canada has provided commercially available drones, like this one made by DJI, to the Haitian government.
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on June 2025
South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It.
In Johannesburg, the hallways of a once-bustling center of medical research have fallen silent.
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on June 2025
China Is Unleashing a New Export Shock on the World
A shipping terminal in Chongqing, China, is a hub of trade routes connecting China with countries in Southeast Asia.
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on June 2025
U.K. to Collect Ethnicity Data on All Suspects in Child Sexual Abuse Cases
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, shown in a photo released by the British Parliament, said on Monday that the government would carry out the recommendations of a review of a scandal involving the sexual exploitation of young girls by groups of men.
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on June 2025
Trump Skips Zelensky Meeting as G7 Talks End With Little for Ukraine
World leaders at the Group of 7 summit in Kananaskis, Canada, on Monday. President Trump left the talks ahead of schedule, citing the Iran-Israel conflict.
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on June 2025
Wednesday Briefing
The U.S.S. Carl Vinson aircraft carrier in 2024. The carrier is currently steaming in the Arabian Sea. Iranian allies or proxies are expected to resume attacks on U.S. ships in the region if the United States joins Israel’s campaign.
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Great-Grandson of Islamic Republic’s Founder Was in Streets as Israel Fired on Tehran
Seyyed Ahmad Khomeini, the great-grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on Tuesday night in Tehran at a time when sounds of explosions could be heard in the background.
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on June 2025
Elon Musk’s A.I. Company Faces Lawsuit Over Gas-Burning Turbines
Construction on Elon Musk’s supercomputer project in Memphis in April.
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on June 2025
Iran Is Preparing Missiles for Possible Retaliatory Strikes on U.S. Bases, Officials Say
The U.S.S. Carl Vinson aircraft carrier in 2024. The carrier is currently steaming in the Arabian Sea. Iranian allies or proxies are expected to resume attacks on U.S. ships in the region if the United States joins Israel’s campaign.
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on June 2025
War Powers Debate Revived in Congress as Trump Threatens Iran
The House introduced a resolution on Tuesday that would require congressional approval before U.S. troops could engage in offensive attacks against Iran.
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on June 2025
Who Is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader?
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran last year. He was born in 1939 into a religious family of modest means and rose quickly in the regime that took power after the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
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on June 2025
Iran has reduced missile fire at Israel, which may be part strategy, part necessity.
Families taking shelter in an underground parking lot of a mall in Tel Aviv, on Tuesday.
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on June 2025
The internet across Iran is being disrupted, experts and Iranians say.
People on the rooftops in Tehran after an Israeli attack on Sunday.
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on June 2025
As Israel attacks, Iranians flee capital in search of safety.
Cars lined up at a gas station Monday in Tehran.
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on June 2025
Mount Lewotobi Volcano Erupts in Indonesia, Spewing Ash Miles High
The eruption of Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki in Indonesia sent a plume of of volcanic ash to the sky.
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on June 2025
Lebanon, Eager to Stay Out of Israel-Iran War, Warns Hezbollah Not to Join the Fight
Hezbollah fighters at a training in 2023. The group has been warned against becoming involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran.
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on June 2025
‘Regime Change’? Questions About Israel’s Iran Goal Pressure Trump.
Government supporters holding a poster of Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, in Tehran on Saturday.
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on June 2025
How Trump Shifted on Iran Under Pressure From Israel
Smoke from explosions after Israel’s attacks on Tehran on Sunday.
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on June 2025
Visitors Break Crystal Chair in Sit-and-Run at Italian Museum
A handout video still taken from CCTV footage released by Palazzo Maffei museum on Monday, showing two tourists after breaking a crystal-covered chair in Verona, Italy.
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on June 2025
Israeli Airline Will Bring Back Stranded Israeli Travelers
An El Al plane at Larnaca International Airport in Cyprus. The airline said on Tuesday that it would begin taking home Israelis stranded abroad from Larnaca, Athens, Rome, Milan and Paris.
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on June 2025
Is Fake Grass Safe? A Manufacturer Sues to Stop a Discussion.
Artificial turf is used as a low-maintenance alternative to grass and is now installed on thousands of fields around the country.
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on June 2025
Trump Offers Mixed Messages on Israel-Iran War
President Trump’s contradictory messages during the biggest conflict between Israel and Iran in history have confused Israelis, Iranians, and the broader Middle East.
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on June 2025
Trump Says Macron ‘Always Gets It Wrong’ as They Clash Over Mideast
President Emmanuel Macron of France has disagreed with President Trump over Israel, Gaza, Ukraine and now, it seems, Iran.
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on June 2025
Who Is Ali Shadmani, the Iranian Military Leader Israel Said It Killed?
A handout photo made available by the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader, showing Maj. Gen. Ali Shadmani.
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on June 2025
Which Countries Have Issued Travel Advisories for Israel and Iran?
The empty Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv in Israel on Friday. Both Israel and Iran have closed their airspaces to civilian traffic.
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on June 2025
Syria Is Notably Silent as Other Arab States Condemn Israeli Attacks on Iran
President Ahmed al-Shara of Syria, center, has made it clear that Iran’s proxies are no longer welcome in Syria.
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on June 2025
At G7, Trump Renews Embrace of Putin Amid Rift With Allies
“Putin speaks to me; he doesn’t speak to anybody else,” President Trump said, “because he was very insulted when he got thrown out at the G8, as I would be, as you would be, as anybody would be.”
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on June 2025
Flattery or Discipline? The Difficult Task of Managing Trump.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s handling of President Trump on Monday was an evolution of his meeting with him in the Oval Office in May, when he chose to both stroke Mr. Trump’s ego, but also firmly push back on the president’s threats to annex Canada.
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on June 2025
Israel Strikes Iran State Broadcaster, Widening Attacks
Smoke rising after an Israeli strike on Tehran, the capital of Iran.
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on June 2025
Tuesday Briefing: Israel Attacked Iranian State TV
Tehran, after an Israeli airstrike yesterday.
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on June 2025
Trump to Leave G7 Summit Early to Deal With Israel-Iran Conflict
From left, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain on Monday at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta.
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on June 2025
As Iran Fires at Israel, Palestinians Get Caught in the Crossfire
Missiles in the sky above the West Bank on Monday. Since the confrontation between Israel and Iran began, debris from them has fallen in Palestinian communities.
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on June 2025
Democrat Seeks to Limit Trump’s War Powers Amid Middle East Escalation
Senator Tim Kaine introduced a resolution that would require explicit congressional authorization or a formal declaration of war before U.S. forces could engage in hostilities against Iran.
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on June 2025
Ukraine Takes First Step Toward Carrying Out Minerals Deal With U.S.
In a handout image from Ukraine’s government, Scott Bessent, the U.S. Treasury secretary, and Yulia Svyrydenko, the Ukrainian economy minister, signed the minerals deal in Washington in April.
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on June 2025
Iranians Weigh Escaping Tehran as Israeli Strikes Continue
Iranians waiting in traffic as they sought to leave Tehran on Sunday.
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on June 2025
Israel Says It Killed a Top Iranian Military Leader as Trump Calls for Iran’s Surrender
Wednesday Briefing: Trump Calls for Iran’s ‘Unconditional Surrender’
Trump Calls for Iran’s ‘Unconditional Surrender’ and Threatens Its Supreme Leader
Underground Halls at Iran’s Natanz Nuclear Site Suffered ‘Direct Impacts’ From Israel Strikes, U.N. Atomic Watchdog Says
Trump’s Choice on Israel-Iran: Help Destroy Nuclear Facility or Continue to Negotiate
Live Updates: Israel Conducts New Strikes on Tehran and Trump Calls for Iran’s ‘Unconditional Surrender’
Humanitarian Aid Trickles Into Northern Gaza
Here’s a look at the first four days of attacks between Israel and Iran.
At G7 Summit With Trump, Starmer Picks Up Papers and Political Wins for U.K.
Here’s the latest.
Iran’s Best-Protected Nuclear Site Is Deep Underground