Turnout Is High as France’s Snap Election Enters Its Final Hours
The vote will determine the composition of France’s National Assembly, and the future of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term.
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The vote will determine the composition of France’s National Assembly, and the future of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term.
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Months after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “victory is within reach,” the Israeli military escorted journalists into parts of a devastated Gazan city.
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A day of nationwide anti-government protests comes amid signs of progress toward a truce and hostage deal with Hamas, as well as continued fighting.
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With President Biden’s future unclear, Donald J. Trump’s support uncertain and a major NATO meeting looming, Ukrainian leaders are straining to keep their balance.
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Pakistan Withers Under Deadly Heat and Fears the Coming Rains
Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, endured days of temperatures above 100 Fahrenheit, made worse by power cuts and high humidity.
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4 Takeaways From Iran’s Presidential Runoff
The victory of the reformist candidate, Masoud Pezeshkian, is expected to bring change, but to what extent is still an open question.
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Is This Vibrant Democracy in Japan, or Has the Circus Come to Town?
A ridiculous number of candidates contended to be governor of Tokyo and its surrounding prefecture. Many were not even trying to win.
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Vatican Excommunicates Its Former Ambassador to the U.S.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who was informed of his excommunication on Friday, has long been a vocal critic of Pope Francis.
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The Windmills Are Back Up on the Moulin Rouge
The Paris landmark has completed its restoration after the blades fell off this spring — and just in time for the Summer Olympic Games to begin.
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On Small Islands Off Canada’s Coast, a Big Shift in Power
British Columbia recognized the Haida’s aboriginal title to their islands decades after the Indigenous group launched a battle on the ground and in the courts.
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Palestinian Fighters in West Bank Seek to Emulate Hamas in Gaza
In the towns of Tulkarm and Jenin, armed militants are flocking to more hard-line factions, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, while the Israeli military tries to rein them in.
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Seafaring Nomads Settle Down Without Quite Embracing Life on Land
Indonesia’s Bajo people, who once spent most of their lives in boats or offshore huts, are adopting more sedentary habits, but without forsaking their deep connection to the sea.
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For the First French Town Liberated on D-Day, History Is Personal
Some aging residents of Ste.-Mère-Église in Normandy can still recall the American paratroopers who dropped into their backyard. It’s been a love affair ever since.
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In the West Bank, Guns and a Locked Gate Signal a Town’s New Residents
Since the war in Gaza began, armed Israeli settlers, often accompanied by the army, have stepped up seizures of land long used by Palestinians.
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The World’s Next Big Drag Queen Is Brazilian
Pabllo Vittar has become an A-list pop star and L.G.B.T.Q. activist in Brazil. Can she conquer the world?
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His Photos Exposed a Bloody Crackdown, but His Identity Was a Secret
Na Kyung Taek’s photos bore witness — and helped bring international attention — to the military junta’s brutal suppression of a pro-democracy uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1980.
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A Hungarian Rapper’s Bandwagon Gets an Unlikely New Rider
Azahriah, who has rapped about the joy of cannabis, has shot to fame in Hungary. That may explain why he has been applauded by the country’s conservative leader, Viktor Orban.
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Ukrainian Activist Traces Roots of War in ‘Centuries of Russian Colonization’
One Ukrainian researcher and podcaster is a leading voice in efforts to rethink Ukrainian-Russian relations through the prism of colonialism.
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From the I.R.A. to the Principal’s Office, a Life’s Evolution Echoes Belfast’s
Jim McCann was an I.R.A. member who, convicted of attempted murder, spent 18 years in jail. Now, he’s an educator, and his turn away from violence mirrors Northern Ireland’s embrace of peace.
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A Battlefield Break to Cheer Ukraine’s Soccer Team in Euro 2024
Soldiers huddled in a bunker with soft drinks and chips to watch Ukraine face Romania, only to suffer heartbreak.
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The success of Barcelona’s team has made Catalonia a laboratory for finding out what happens when the women’s game has prominence similar to the men’s.
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The Premier League’s Asterisk Season
As it concludes an epic title race, soccer’s richest competition is a picture of health on the field. Away from it, the league faces lawsuits, infighting and the threat of government regulation.
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Soccer’s Governing Body Delays Vote on Palestinian Call to Bar Israel
FIFA said it would solicit legal advice before taking up a motion from the Palestinian Football Association to suspend Israel over its actions in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Scandal Brought Reforms to Soccer. Its Leaders Are Rolling Them Back.
FIFA tried to put a corruption crisis behind by changing its rules and claiming its governance overhaul had the endorsement of the Justice Department. U.S. officials say that was never the case.
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Jair Bolsonaro podría enfrentar cargos en Brasil por venta de joyas saudíes
El expresidente de Brasil podría ser acusado por la apropiación de regalos que recibió de mandatarios extranjeros.
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Keir Starmer es el nuevo primer ministro del Reino Unido
El exabogado de derechos humanos, de 61 años, carece del carisma de sus antecesores, pero lideró un cambio de rumbo para el Partido Laborista
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Ucrania ve nacer la era de los robots asesinos impulsados por IA
La guerra con Rusia ha impulsado la creación de empresas de automatización de armamento en Ucrania. Algunos de estos robots ya se están usando en el campo de batalla.
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Las tensiones entre Israel y Hezbolá aumentan. Esto es lo que hay que saber
Una guerra entre Hezbolá e Israel podría convertirse en un conflicto regional de mayor envergadura que eclipsaría los combates actuales y atraería a Irán y Estados Unidos.
¿Cuánto depende EE. UU. de los aguacates de México?
La suspensión temporal de las inspecciones del Departamento de Agricultura de EE. UU. en México por motivos de seguridad muestra la dependencia estadounidense para abastecerse de la popular fruta.
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Plus, a reformist will be Iran’s next president.
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The outcome left no party with an absolute majority and France bracing for potential political paralysis.
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Experts said the country could be headed for months of political instability, with the National Assembly divided into three major blocs that appear unable to work with the others.
By Aurelien Breeden
The vote has turned into a race between the two main opponents of President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party: the far-right National Rally and the New Popular Front, a left-wing coalition.
By Catherine Porter
Treasury officials want to impose penalties on tankers that help Russian oil evade sanctions. White House aides worry that risks making gasoline more expensive.
By Jim Tankersley and Alan Rappeport
In the shadow of Labour’s landslide victory over the upended Conservatives, Nigel Farage’s small insurgent right-wing party, Reform U.K., is on a roll.
By Stephen Castle
Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, endured days of temperatures above 100 Fahrenheit, made worse by power cuts and high humidity.
By Zia ur-Rehman
The victory of the reformist candidate, Masoud Pezeshkian, is expected to bring change, but to what extent is still an open question.
By Lynsey Chutel
Hamas wants assurances that Israel won’t restart the war after some hostages come home. Israel says it needs the option.
By Ronen Bergman, Aaron Boxerman and Julian E. Barnes
A former State Department official, he resigned in protest in 1982 over Cuba policy, then spent decades trying to rebuild relations with the island nation.
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Legend says the Durandal sword had been stuck in a French hillside for nearly 1,300 years. When it went missing in June, an investigation to find France’s Excalibur began.
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer will travel to a NATO summit this coming week, where he will represent a rare point of centrist stability among unsettled allies.
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Oil sands companies pushing a carbon capture project shut down their website after a law banning misleading environmental claims was passed.
By Ian Austen
The meals that we love are informed as much by the experience of eating them as by the flavor of the food itself.
By Melissa Kirsch
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In northern Burgundy, services have collapsed and the far-right National Rally has risen.
By Roger Cohen
Both have gotten caught up in fights over plastic packaging. When Costco recently tried to trim its plastic use by selling rotisserie chickens in bags, some shoppers disapproved.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
Dozens of activists say they were snatched from their homes or off the streets by hooded, armed men. Some are still missing, and the disappearances have unnerved a nation long seen as a pillar of stability.
By Abdi Latif Dahir and Brian Otieno
The danger to migrants while crossing the Mediterranean is well documented, but an earlier phase of their trek, across the Sahel and the Sahara, is deadlier, researchers say in a new report.
By Eve Sampson
As more foreigners, especially Americans, visit or move to Mexico City, some taco shops have lowered the heat in their sauces. Not everyone is happy.
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A German medic said he was so troubled that he confronted his commander. Others boasted about killings in a group chat.
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff
Masoud Pezeshkian, a cardiac surgeon and relative moderate in the ruling establishment, defeated an ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator in a runoff.
By Farnaz Fassihi
The court in Bucharest ruled that Mr. Tate and his brother, who are facing human trafficking and rape charges, must remain in the European Union as they await trial, his lawyer said.
By Emily Schmall
Parties on the left were so fractious, they broke up their alliance months ago, but the possibility of a government controlled by the far right drew them back together.
By Catherine Porter
Keir Starmer’s party won a huge majority in parliament. But the new prime minister faces a fractious and volatile public.
By Mark Landler
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The insurgent anti-immigration party led by Nigel Farage secured around 14 percent of the vote in Britain’s general election, though it has won only five parliamentary seats.
By Stephen Castle
The Category 2 storm brought strong wind gusts and heavy downpours to the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.
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As has long been the tradition in Britain, the elections included various joke candidates who often run against prominent politicians.
By Claire Moses
While politics in Britain have traditionally been dominated by the country’s elites, Ms. Rayner has taken a less traditional route to the top.
By Megan Specia
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who was informed of his excommunication on Friday, has long been a vocal critic of Pope Francis.
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Mr. Lammy has deep ties to the United States and campaigned for former President Barack Obama.
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Aidos Sadykov, an opposition activist whose YouTube channel often criticizes Kazakhstan’s government, was shot in Ukraine, where he was living in exile.
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Keir Starmer had made rooting out antisemitism from the Labour Party’s ranks a goal of his leadership.
By Jenny Gross
As the newly named chancellor of the Exchequer, she is taking on the tough job of boosting Britain’s productivity growth and of reviving struggling public services.
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Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, may soon face criminal charges for stealing gifts he received from foreign leaders.
By Jack Nicas
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Keir Starmer is Britain’s next prime minister after the center-left Labour Party won a landslide election victory, sweeping the Conservatives out of power after 14 years. Mark Landler, the London bureau chief for The New York Times, explains the significance of the historic result and why Labour will need to act fast to satisfy a volatile electorate.
By Nikolay Nikolov and Mark Landler
The Labour Party won a resounding victory over the Conservatives, but smaller parties, including the populist Reform, did better than expected.
By Stephen Castle
The U.S. collapsed under the weight of expectations at the Copa América. Its next move could determine if there is a repeat, or a revival, at the 2026 World Cup.
By Rory Smith
The left-leaning Green Party, which is particularly popular with people under 30, took seven percent of the vote and will now have four lawmakers in Parliament.
By Eshe Nelson
Support for the Conservatives plummeted, propelling the Labour Party into power. Maps and charts show how it happened.
By Josh Holder and Lauren Leatherby
The Labour leader promised in a speech in Downing Street to restore Britain’s faith in politics and public service.
By Stephen Castle
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