What to Know About Israel’s Strikes and Iran’s Retaliation
Rescue workers carrying a wounded person from a building damaged during an Iranian attack in Ramat Gan, Israel, on Friday.
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Grieving Relatives of India Air Crash Victims Wait for Bodies to Be Identified
Relatives of Akash Patni, a tea-stall worker who died in the plane crash in Ahmedabad, mourned near the hospital center where health workers are trying to identify the bodies.
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Trump Leaves European Leaders Praying for a Boring G7 Summit
President Trump at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Tuesday. European leaders hope to avoid topics that might set off an angry response from him.
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Israel’s Netanyahu Looks to His Legacy in Striking Iran
A building damaged by an Israeli strike in Tehran, on Friday.
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At a Weak Moment, Iran Weighs Difficult Options to Respond to Israel
Destruction in Tehran on Friday after strikes by the Israeli military.
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How the Passenger in Seat 11A Became the Only Survivor of the Air India Plane Crash
A still image taken from a video released by the official YouTube Channel of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi shows Mr. Modi at the bedside of Viswash Kumar Ramesh, who survived Air India flight 171.
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Shock and Grief in U.K. After Air India Plane Crash: ‘I Didn’t Really Believe It’
Relatives of Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, who survived the Air India crash, in Leicester, England, on Friday, before some flew to India to see him.
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Russian Forces Expand Fighting to a New Region of Eastern Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers in the Dnipropetrovsk region in March. It lies west of Donetsk, the region now at the heart of the ground war.
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Pope Leo to Make Carlo Acutis First Millennial Saint in September
An image of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis was unveiled during his beatification ceremony in Assisi, Italy, in 2020.
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on June 2025
The Ah Ma Flippa Ball Team Is a Sign of Singapore’s Aging Population
Playing flippa ball, a modified version of water polo, in Singapore, in February.
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on June 2025
Anti-Migrant Rioters in Northern Ireland Set Homes, and Then a Refuge Site, Ablaze
Police officers aiming water cannons toward protesters in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, on Wednesday.
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Iranians Describe Israel’s Attacks in Voice Memos and Calls
Outside a damaged building in Tehran on Friday following attacks by Israel.
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Republicans Are Divided Over Iran. Will Trump Pick a Side?
President Trump had several times this year dissuaded Israel from launching an attack, but afterward he called the strikes “excellent.”
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Israel destroyed part of Iran’s premier weapons facility, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said.
Members of the U.N. Security Council listening to a briefing by Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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World Leaders Urge Restraint Between Israel and Iran
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain had separate calls Friday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and President Trump.
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Iran Retaliates and Israel Vows More Strikes After Devastating Attack
The remains of a building in Tehran on Friday after Israeli strikes.
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Mpox Surges in Sierra Leone
Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.
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Mexico’s President Calls Image of Flag in Protests a ‘Provocation’
A protester waving the Mexican flag near a self-driving Waymo taxi set on fire at a protest in Los Angeles on Sunday.
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U.S. Urges Americans to Steer Clear of Nicaragua
Surfers at Remanso Beach in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, last year.
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What Are Israel’s Defenses Against Iran?
Israel’s Iron Dome defense system over Ashkelon, Israel, in October, following a launch of missiles from Iran.
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How is Israel protecting its critical sites from Iranian retaliation?
A partial view of the Dimona nuclear reactor in Israel’s southern Negev desert, in 2014.
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Israel’s Strikes on Iran Divide Congress, Drawing Praise and Concern
The US Capitol on Friday morning. Many members of Congress were quick to cheer Israel’s actions and framed them as a justified response to Tehran’s refusal to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
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on June 2025
Israel’s Next Target is Fordo, Iran’s Second-Largest Nuclear Site Hidden in a Mountain
A satellite photo from February showing the Fordo uranium enrichment facility, south of Tehran.
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Trump Talks Big on Global Diplomacy, but His Goals Are in Tatters
Spectators look at a building damaged in an Israeli strike in Tehran on Thursday. A day after Israel began the massive attack on Iran, Mr. Trump’s peace projects are in tatters.
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The U.S. helped protect Israel from Iranian strikes.
The U.S.S. Thomas Hudner, a destroyer, sailing through the Bosphorus in Turkey in 2021. The Pentagon directed the ship, along with a second destroyer, to move to the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Friday to help defend Israel.
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on June 2025
Israel’s Allies Voice Less Support and More Concern After Latest Attack on Iran
A damaged, burning building after a strike in Tehran on Friday.
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Middle East Is Tense as Israel-Iran Conflict Sinks Hopes for De-Escalation
The Abqaiq oil processing plant in Saudi Arabia, after it was damaged in an attack from Iran in 2019.
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A Sprawling Israeli Intelligence Effort Underpinned the Iran Strikes
The aftermath of an attack by Israel using walkie-talkies, in Sidon, Lebanon, last year.
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Trump Says Iran ‘Must Make a Deal, Before There Is Nothing Left’
President Trump’s social media post attempted to put pressure on Iran to continue negotiating.
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Israel’s Strike on Iran Comes at a Moment of Weakness for Iran’s Proxies
Hezbollah supporters paid tribute Hassan Nasrallah, a top leader of the group, at his funeral in Lebanon in February, months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
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With Iranian drones on the way, Jerusalem residents rush out to shop.
People stocking up on food Friday morning in Jerusalem.
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Traveling the Cosmos With Carter Emmart, One Last Time
Carter Emmart, director of astro-visualization at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium.
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Residents of Tehran Awake to Devastation
Israeli airstrikes hitting a building in Saadat Abad street in Tehran, Iran on Friday.
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Israel Attacks Iran
Tehran, the capital of Iran, early Friday after multiple explosions in the city.
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Friday Briefing
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Israel’s Ambition: Destroy the Heart of Iran’s Nuclear Program
A satellite photo showing the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran.
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China Labor Bulletin, a Rights Group in Hong Kong, Shuts Down
Han Dongfang, the founder of China Labor Bulletin, in his Hong Kong office in 2024. The group, which tracked worker unrest in China, announced on Thursday that it was ceasing operation.
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on June 2025
Israeli Strikes Kill IRGC Leader and Major Nuclear Scientists
Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri was assassinated in an Israel strike in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Friday.
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U.S. Was Not Involved in Israeli Strikes on Iran, Rubio Says
Iranians gathered on top of a hill watching the billowing smoke in Tehran after sounds of explosions on Friday.
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Netanyahu Says Israel Will Fight Iran for ‘as Many Days as It Takes’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel announced the launch of strikes against Iran in a video statement on Friday.
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After striking Iran, Israel braces for retaliation.
Israelis gathering in a shelter after sirens went off in Tel Aviv on Friday.
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on June 2025
Owner of Dominican Club Whose Roof Collapsed Is Charged With Involuntary Homicide
Rescue workers clearing debris from the Jet Set nightclub after the roof collapsed in April.
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on June 2025
Air India Crash Survivor: ‘I Don’t Know How I Am Alive’
Outside Viswash Kumar Ramesh’s family home in Leicester, England, on Thursday.
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on June 2025
Friday Briefing: Air India Crash Killed More Than 260 People
Verified footage of the Air India plane, moments before it crashed.
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on June 2025
Hundreds Dead in Air India Plane Crash
The tail of an Air India plane after it crashed into a medical school shortly after takeoff near the airport in Ahmedabad, India, on Thursday.
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A whistle-blower’s lawyers call on the F.A.A. to release a report on the 787 Dreamliner.
The departures terminal used by Air India at Gatwick Airport near London on Thursday.
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How the Air India Crash Compares With Other Deadly Plane Disasters
The site of a Jeju Air plane crash at Muan International Airport in South Korea, in December 2024.
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on June 2025
A G.O.P. Plan to Sell Public Land Is Back. This Time, It’s Millions of Acres.
The proposal would require the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service to identify and sell between 2.2 million and 3.3 million acres.
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on June 2025
Why Israel May Be Considering an Attack on Iran
Murals in Tehran in April. Many experts say Israel would struggle to destroy Iran’s main nuclear facilities without American military support.
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on June 2025
Much of Iran’s Nuclear Program Remains After Israel’s Strikes. At Least for Now.
For recovery and investigation of Air India crash, authorities contend with the risk of struck sites collapsing.
Live Updates: Explosions and Buzzing Drones Heard as Israel and Iran Exchange New Wave of Attacks
Lives Lost in India Crash: Expectant Grandparents, a Boy Selling Tea
In L.A.’s Little Tokyo, Protests Draw Sympathy and Frustration
Israeli Strikes Targeted Some of Iran’s Most Important Nuclear Facilities
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