Austria Mourns After a Deadly School Shooting
A makeshift memorial on Wednesday outside the site of the school shooting in Graz, Austria.
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on June 2025
Trump Is Pushing Allies Away and Closer to Each Other
President Emmanuel Macron of France, left, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain during a meeting last month in Tirana, Albania.
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on June 2025
Netanyahu Survives a Vote to Dissolve Parliament but Emerges Weakened
Although the move would not immediately bring down Israel’s government, it could hurt Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu politically.
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on June 2025
Anti-Immigrant Riots Set Northern Irish Town on Edge
A vehicle is set alight during an anti-immigration demonstration in Ballymena on Tuesday night.
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on June 2025
Amid Russian Strikes, a Remote Corner of Ukraine Beckons
A pedestrian bridge over the Uzh River, in Uzhhorod, Ukraine last month.
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on June 2025
Austria Has Lots of Guns, Little Gun Violence, and New Questions
Police officers at the scene of the school shooting in Graz, Austria, on Tuesday.
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on June 2025
A Syrian Committee for Civil Peace Angers Those Demanding Justice
A torn picture of Bashar al-Assad, the ousted president of Syria, at the Palace of Justice in Damascus in December. In early June, the committee released dozens of former regime soldiers.
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on June 2025
Russian Drone Barrage Kills 3 in Kharkiv
The scene early Wednesday in Kharkiv, Ukraine, after a drone strike.
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on June 2025
This French Senator Has Become Trump’s European Nemesis
Senator Claude Malhuret, a right-leaning centrist, was once the mayor of Vichy, France, a town that is central to the country’s World War II history.
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on June 2025
Hong Kong Bans Taiwanese Video Game for Promoting ‘Armed Revolution’
The Hong Kong police effectively banned the Taiwanese video game “Reversed Front: Bonfire,” advising people not to download the game or face serious legal charges.
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on June 2025
Mike Huckabee, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Questions Palestinian State Policy
Ambassador Mike Huckabee speaking with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv in May.
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on June 2025
Tusk Government Wins Confidence Vote in Poland
Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaking in Parliament in Warsaw on Wednesday.
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on June 2025
South Korea Turns Off Speakers Blasting K-Pop Into North Korea
Loudspeakers near the border with North Korea. The rival Korean governments have switched loudspeakers on and off as political tensions rose and fell for decades.
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on June 2025
Picture Begins to Emerge of Gunman Who Killed 10 at Austrian School
Candles at a memorial in Vienna on Wednesday for the victims of the shooting in Graz.
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on June 2025
Northern Ireland Struck by Anti-Immigrant Violence for Third Night
Police officers aiming water cannons toward protesters in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, on Wednesday.
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on June 2025
U.N. Watchdog Rules That Iran Is Not Complying With Nuclear Obligations
The nuclear agency said that Iran had failed to provide information about nuclear material and activities.
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on June 2025
Climate Change Could Complicate Anti-Submarine Warfare
The American attack submarine Hampton in the Beaufort Sea in March 2024. Ocean changes affecting submarine detection appear to be more pronounced at northern latitudes.
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on June 2025
The Dalai Lama at 90: His Nation Faces a Moment of Truth
The Dalai Lama at the main Tibetan temple in Dharamsala, India, in 2024.
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on June 2025
Thursday Briefing
The U.S. and China held two days of talks in London.
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on June 2025
Gaza Aid Group Says Hamas Attacked Its Palestinian Workers
Palestinians carry relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in central Gaza on Sunday.
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on June 2025
U.S. Reviewing Aukus Submarine Deal With Australia, Britain
Sailors waited for then-President Joseph R. Biden to make remarks about the Aukus agreement in San Diego in 2023. Under the deal, Australia would receive secondhand nuclear submarines from the United States.
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on June 2025
New China Trade ‘Deal’ Takes U.S. Back to Where It Started
The negotiations this week raised questions about what exactly had been gained by President Trump’s aggressive trade tactics against China over the past few months.
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on June 2025
Israel Says It Recovered the Remains of Two Hostages in Gaza
An undated photo of Yair Yaakov, whose remains were recovered, the Israeli prime minister said on Wednesday.
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on June 2025
Thursday Briefing: A Look at the U.S.-China Trade Deal
The U.S. and China held two days of talks in London.
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on June 2025
U.N. Report Says We’re Missing the Real Fertility Crisis
Students at a school in Abuja, Nigeria. A U.N. survey found that many people end up having fewer children than they wanted.
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on June 2025
Israel Appears Ready to Attack Iran
The U.S. Embassy complex in Baghdad in 2020. U.S. military family members have been authorized to leave the Middle East.
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on June 2025
School Bus Swept Away as Floods in South Africa Kill at Least 49
Homes in Mthatha, South Africa, were submerged in floodwater on Tuesday after a slow-moving storm raged over the largely rural Eastern Cape Province.
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on June 2025
World Bank Ends Its Ban on Funding Nuclear Power Projects
Construction of Bangladesh’s first nuclear plant in 2023.
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on June 2025
Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference
The board members are concerned that political appointees at the State Department, which manages the program, are acting illegally by canceling the awarding of Fulbright scholarships.
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on June 2025
Why Rooftop Solar Could Crash Under the Republican Tax-Cut Bill
Installing solar panels on a home in Sebastopol, Calif., last year.
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on June 2025
Wednesday Briefing
President Trump has mobilized thousands of National Guard troops in California.
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on June 2025
U.S. Court Agrees to Keep Trump Tariffs Intact as Appeal Gets Underway
At the heart of the legal wrangling was a 1970s law that President Trump had made the foundation of his campaign to reorient the global economic order.
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on June 2025
The Tough Choice Facing Trump in the Iran Nuclear Talks
A mural on the former United States Embassy in Tehran.
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on June 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Why U.S. Troops Are in Los Angeles
On a highway in downtown Los Angeles yesterday.
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on June 2025
Appeals Court Pauses Order to Give Deported Venezuelans Due Process
Scores of Venezuelan immigrants were deported without hearings to El Salvador in March under a rarely invoked wartime law and are being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT.
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on June 2025
Argentina’s Supreme Court Upholds Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s Prison Sentence
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, when she was president of Argentina.
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on June 2025
3 Lessons From International Protests Amid the L.A. Unrest
Police officers surrounded a protester on Monday in Los Angeles.
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on June 2025
French Student Is Arrested After Teaching Assistant Is Stabbed to Death
Police officers and emergency workers on Tuesday near a school in Nogent, France, where a stabbing took place.
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on June 2025
China Sends Two Aircraft Carriers Into the Pacific for the First Time
In a photo released by the Taiwan Defense Ministry in April, the Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong sailed in waters off Taiwan.
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on June 2025
Khaby Lame, World’s Most Popular TikToker, Is Forced to Leave U.S.
The TikTok star Khaby Lame poses for a photograph after being named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in Dakar, Senegal, in January.
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on June 2025
Why the MAGA Right Became Obsessed With the Romanian Election
A protest held in Bucharest, Romania, in support of the European Union on May 9, a little more than a week before the country held a hotly contested presidential election.
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on June 2025
Palestinian Authority President Says Hamas Must Exit Gaza
Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Ramallah in April.
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on June 2025
Graz, Austria, School Shooting: What to Know
Emergency workers at the site of a school shooting in Graz, Austria, on Tuesday.
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on June 2025
15 Police Officers Injured in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, After Riot Over Alleged Sexual Assault
Protests broke out in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, on Monday in response to the court hearing of two 14-year-old-boys who had been charged with sexual assault.
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on June 2025
U.K., Canada and Others Impose Sanctions on Far-Right Israeli Ministers
The sanctions targeted the Israeli security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, left, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who are among the most hard-line members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet.
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on June 2025
U.N. Agency Suspects North Korea Is Building New Uranium-Enrichment Site
Rafael Grossi, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the center was “monitoring” the progress of a new building in North Korea that has similar features to a current uranium-enrichment plant.
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on June 2025
10 Are Killed in Austria School Shooting, Police Say
Police officers near the school in Graz, Austria, on Tuesday.
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on June 2025
With Sirens Screeching and Explosions in the Sky, Kyiv Struggles to Sleep
Ukrainian security forces tried to shoot down incoming Russian drones over Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
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on June 2025
European Union Unveils Fresh Sanctions on Russia, Including a Nord Stream Ban
Early Humans Settled in Cities. Bedbugs Followed Them.
How Long Does It Take to Draw a Picture of Every Pub in London?