Austria Moves to Tighten Gun Laws After Deadly School Shooting
A vigil for the victims of the school shooting in Graz, Austria.
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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, Alberta, on Monday. President Trump left the talks ahead of schedule, citing the Iran-Israel conflict.
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on June 2025
Israel Further Alienates Would-Be Arab Allies in Attacking Iran
Smoke billowing after an Israeli airstrike in Tehran on Tuesday.
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on June 2025
U.K. Police Mishandled Crash That Killed Teenager Harry Dunn, Review Finds
Relatives of Harry Dunn at a London court in 2022, including his father, Tim Dunn, left, and mother, Charlotte Charles, second from right.
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Thomas
on June 2025
Spain Blames Planning Missteps and Technical Problems for Huge Power Outage
Barcelona, Spain, on April 28, when much of the city was without electricity after a power outage.
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on June 2025
Iran War Reflects a Changed Middle East and a New Israeli Military Doctrine
Smokes after Israeli airstrikes in Tehran on Tuesday. In Iran, Israel is carrying out the kind of broad and brazen attack that it long threatened but never dared to enact before.
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Thomas
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
India and Canada Move to Mend Ties Damaged by Sikh Activists’s Killing
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada at the Group of 7 summit in Kananaskis, Canada, on Tuesday.
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on June 2025
Kate Middleton Unexpectedly Pulls Out of Royal Ascot
Catherine, Princess of Wales, attending an event at Windsor Castle, near London, on Monday.
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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
Hurricane Erick Nears Mexico as a Category 4 Storm
A woman filming waves breaking on the beach in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, on Wednesday.
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on June 2025
Thursday Briefing
Tehran after an Israeli strike yesterday.
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on June 2025
Quietly, Pakistan Wages a Deadly Drone Campaign Inside Its Own Borders
A drone on display at a military exhibition in Karachi in November.
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on June 2025
A hacking group steals at least $90 million from Iranian crypto exchange in cyberattack.
Smoke from an explosion in Tehran caused by Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday.
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on June 2025
U.S. to Review Social Media Posts of Student and Scholar Visa Applicants
All applications for F, M and J nonimmigrant visas will be reviewed, officials said.
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on June 2025
If the U.S. joins Israeli attacks, Iran will retaliate ‘wherever we find the targets,’ an official says.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, in 2021. “Although we have always promoted diplomacy, we cannot negotiate under threats,” he told CNN on Wednesday.
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on June 2025
Iranian Civilians Are Killed in Israeli Strikes, Including a Poet and an Equestrian
A copy of an Iranian newspaper showing people killed in recent Israeli strikes.
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on June 2025
U.S. Strike on Iran Would Bring Risks at Every Turn
The American B-2 stealth bomber is the only plane capable of carrying the bombs needed to strike Iran’s deepest nuclear facilities, but the decision to use them is not without risk.
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on June 2025
Iran Rejects Trump’s Call for ‘Surrender’ in War With Israel
Tehran, the Iranian capital, after an Israeli strike on Wednesday.
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on June 2025
Thursday Briefing: Trump’s Indecision on Iran
Tehran after an Israeli strike yesterday.
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on June 2025
Focusing on Iran, Israel sends more troops to its borders and withdraws some from Gaza.
Israeli military vehicles along the border with the Gaza Strip last week.
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on June 2025
Trump says ‘nobody knows what I’m going to do’ on Iran.
President Trump’s consideration of joining Israel’s attacks on Iran has split his party and his supporters.
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on June 2025
Two Iranian centrifuge production facilities are hit, the U.N. nuclear watchdog says.
Smoke rising in Tehran on Tuesday. The Israel military said it had attacked with more than 50 planes overnight, targeting weapons production facilities.
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on June 2025
In a defiant address, Iran’s supreme leader rejects Trump’s call to surrender.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, last year. On Wednesday, he vowed to “stand firm” in the face of what he called Israeli aggression.
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on June 2025
Iran Urges Users to Delete WhatsApp
A woman looking at news on a smartphone in Tehran on Saturday. Iran’s state broadcaster has urged people to remove WhatsApp from their phones.
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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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on June 2025
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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Thomas
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
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
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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Thomas
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
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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Thomas
on June 2025
Iran is open to talks with the U.S., a senior diplomat says, even as the supreme leader rejects the idea.
Trump Administration Says It Is Working to Help Americans Leave Israel Amid Iran Conflict
Before Iran’s internet was throttled, one resident described a ‘deserted’ Tehran.
U.S. lawmakers say Gulf Arab leaders want Iran’s nuclear program to end, but preferably not by force.
Despite danger from Iran’s deadly missile fire, Israeli morale appears high.
A Man Drove a Car Down Rome’s Spanish Steps. It Did Not Go Great.
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
Live Updates: Israel Says Iranian Missile Strikes Major Hospital
If Trump Joins Israel-Iran Conflict, U.S. Troops in Mideast Could Be Vulnerable
Tehran is about as densely populated as New York City.
Hurricane Erick Nears Mexico’s Coast as Category 3 Storm
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Humanitarian Aid Trickles Into Northern Gaza
Here’s a look at the first four days of attacks between Israel and Iran.