A U.S. Attack on Iran Would Show the Limits of China’s Power
Smoke rose over Tehran after Israel attacked the Iranian state broadcaster on Monday.
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on June 2025
What Happens if Trump Decides to Strike Iran or Assassinate Its Leader?
People marching in Tehran on Saturday following Israel’s attacks.
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on June 2025
Forced to Wait for Trump, Israel Faces Strategic Dilemma in Iran
Israel’s air defense system intercepting missiles from Iran over Tel Aviv on Wednesday. The longer Israel waits for President Trump’s decision on an American attack on Iran, the greater the strain on Israel’s defenses.
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on June 2025
Chinese Companies Set Their Sights on Brazil
Meituan, a Chinese delivery giant, said it would spend $1 billion to set up operations in Brazil.
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on June 2025
Air India Plane Crash Highlights Dangers of Crowded Airport Zones
A plane waiting to take off at the Ahmedabad airport which is surrounded by the cityscape of Ahmedabad, India, in June.
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on June 2025
Pro-Palestinian Activists Break Into the UK’s Largest Air Base
R.A.F. Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, southern England, houses about 5,800 service personnel.
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on June 2025
Ex-Malaysia Premier Najib Has Money Laundering Charges Dropped
Najib Razak’s prison sentence was halved and his fine slashed in 2024.
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on June 2025
6 Months After the Pelicot Trial, a Staging Brings Insight and Despair
Actresses Safira Robens. left, and Mavie Hörbiger, center, during a performance of “The Pelicot Trial,” at the Church of St. Elisabeth in Vienna on Wednesday.
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on June 2025
Chilling Photos Capture Police Shooting Man, Fueling Anger in Kenya
Protests in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday were set off by word of the death of Albert Ojwang, a blogger who died in police custody on June 8.
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on June 2025
Trying to Satisfy Trump, NATO Is Running Into Difficulties
A Norwegian naval commando hoisted himself onto the deck of a ship during a NATO exercise in March.
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on June 2025
Russia Wants Thaw With U.S. Before Talking Peace, but U.S. Doesn’t, Kremlin Says
Walking through debris at the site of a Russian strike in Odesa, Ukraine, on Friday.
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on June 2025
Are Israel’s Airstrikes on Iran Within Legal Bounds?
Smoke rising from Israel’s attack on an oil refinery in Tehran on Saturday.
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on June 2025
Iran’s Foreign Minister to Meet With European Counterparts Amid War Fears
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, in Beirut, Lebanon, earlier this month.
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Friday Briefing
Tel Aviv this week.
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on June 2025
Bank Transfer Signals Syria Is Making Strides in Ending Economic Isolation
People lined up to use an A.T.M. on Tuesday in Damascus, Syria. This week, the country completed its first electronic transfer in 14 years with a Western bank.
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on June 2025
Suchinda Kraprayoon, Thai Leader Who Set Off Bloody Protests, Dies at 91
Gen. Kraprayoon Suchinda at a military parade in Bangkok in 1991. He assumed the prime ministership after saying he would not, inciting four days of violent protest in the capital.
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on June 2025
Iranian Missile Hits Israeli Hospital as Trump Appears to Put Off U.S. Action
Emergency workers and hospital staff at the Soroka Medical Center in southern Israel after a strike on Thursday.
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on June 2025
Netanyahu says Israel doesn’t need help to reach its goals in Iran.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel speaking to reporters outside of a hospital that was hit by an Iranian missile.
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on June 2025
Why Israelis View the Prospect of a Nuclear-Armed Iran as a Threat
An Israeli strike on Sunday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken against a nuclear Iran for decades.
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on June 2025
As talk grows of regime change in Iran, here’s a look at the 1953 coup that helped reshape the Middle East.
Demonstrators in Tehran in 1953. The events of that year have caused deep-seated suspicion in Iran.
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on June 2025
French Lawmaker Says He Was Denied Entry Into the United States
Pouria Amirshahi, a member of the Green party, in the National Assembly in Paris in February.
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on June 2025
Europe to Hold Talks With Iran on Friday
Kaja Kallas, the European Union foreign policy chief. Foreign ministers from several European countries are expected to meet on Friday with Iranian representatives over the escalating war between Israel and Iran.
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on June 2025
Doctor at Soroka Hospital in Israel Recounts Iranian Strike
Emergency workers at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, Israel, on Thursday.
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on June 2025
European and Iranian officials will hold talks on Friday in Geneva.
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said talks between Iranian and Western officials were scheduled for Friday in Geneva.
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on June 2025
Cave Explorer Videos Show Decade of Trash in ‘Avatar’ Park in China
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie, China, in 2024.
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on June 2025
Student Who Filmed Himself Raping at Least 10 Women Is Given Life Sentence
A photo made available by the London police of an apartment used by Zou Zhenhao, who attacked women in Britain and China. He would lure victims back to his homes and then drug and rape them.
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on June 2025
Tehran residents describe the turmoil of living in a city under attack.
Long lines have formed at gas stations in Tehran this week, as residents look to stock up after Israel launched a massive military assault on Iran.
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on June 2025
This Oregon Native Went to Kyiv as a Volunteer. He Died in a Russian Attack.
Fred Grandy in California in an undated photo. He went to Ukraine to volunteer with a charity after the United States’ support for the country changed under President Trump.
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on June 2025
No Rock Stars, No Mercedes: A Russian Expo Shows the Cost of Divorce With the West
At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia on Wednesday. Major American investors once again shunned the conference.
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on June 2025
Iran Has Its Back Against the Wall
Watching Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s message to the people of Iran, in Tehran, on Wednesday.
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on June 2025
Thailand’s Prime Minister Faces Calls to Resign After Leak
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra of Thailand has apologized for her comments, which she cast as a “negotiation technique.”
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on June 2025
Will Israel’s Interceptors Outlast Iran’s Missiles? The Answer May Shape the War.
Tel Aviv this week. Since Iran started retaliating against Israel’s fire, Israel’s defense system has intercepted most incoming Iranian ballistic missiles.
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on June 2025
Air India Cuts International Flights After Crash Causes Chaos
Air India operates around 1,000 flights daily, including to dozens of overseas destinations.
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on June 2025
The Crane That Ruined Florence’s Skyline Is Gone
A crane in front of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy, in 2022.
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on June 2025
Can A.I. Quicken the Pace of Math Discoveries?
Patrick Shafto, who oversees DARPA’s information innovation office. A.I., he said, shows “huge potential benefit to the community of mathematicians and to society at large.”
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on June 2025
A Sardinian Road Trip: Coastal Cliffs and Picturesque Villages
Sea cliffs at the Regional Natural Park of Porto Conte, along Sardinia’s northwestern coast.
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on June 2025
China Is Hacking Russia to Steal War Secrets
Russian soldiers marching in the country’s annual Victory Day parade in May. Hacking groups appear to have become more interested in Russian targets after the country’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
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on June 2025
Belgian Nonprofit Papy Boom Is Helping Retirement-Home Residents Hit the Clubs
Nicole Dekoster, 71, dancing at the Mirano nightclub in Brussels, in an outing organized by a Belgian nonprofit.
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on June 2025
Iran Missile Strikes Hospital in Southern Israel
The Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, Israel, on Thursday, after an Iranian missile strike.
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on June 2025
Thursday Briefing
Tehran after an Israeli strike yesterday.
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on June 2025
Pakistan Waging 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
Under Pressure, Officials in Western India Move Against Abuse in Sugar Fields
Former Interpol Official Detained for Role in ‘Big Carousel’ of Corruption
Friday Briefing: Trump Appeared to Put Off U.S. Action on Iran
Live Updates: Iran Casts Doubt on Talks While Israel’s Attacks Continue
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Funeral Held for Loved One Lost in Air India Crash
Hurricane Erick Makes Landfall in Mexico as a Major Storm
Tehran is about as densely populated as New York City.