Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Won’t Send Peacekeeping Troops to Ukraine
President Trump walking with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, on Monday.
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on August 2025
Netanyahu Faces Pressure From Far Right Over New Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire Proposal
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, center, relies on the support of far right ministers to maintain the stability of his government.
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on August 2025
Air Canada and Striking Flight Attendants’ Union Reach Tentative Deal
Air Canada says the strike has disrupted about half a million travelers’ plans.
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on August 2025
The Rainforests Being Cleared to Build Your R.V.
In recent years, tens of thousands of acres of forest have been razed in Indonesian Borneo, including this logging operation in November.
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on August 2025
Sabotage Shows How Russia’s Hostility Toward Europe Goes Beyond Ukraine
Crews conduct reconnaissance near Karlskrona, Sweden, this year as part of a NATO mission aimed at securing critical underwater infrastructure.
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on August 2025
Securing Postwar Ukraine, Even With Trump’s Pledge to Help, Is Complex
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Trump in the Oval Office in Washington, on Monday.
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on August 2025
Europe’s Leaders Headed Off Giveaway to Putin, but Emerged Without a Clear Path
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and other European leaders met with President Trump at the White House on Monday.
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on August 2025
What to Know About the Protests Outside U.K. Hotels Housing Asylum Seekers
A protest this month outside a London hotel housing asylum seekers. The British government has a legal obligation to provide accommodation for asylum seekers who would otherwise be homeless.
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on August 2025
Vietnamese Are Helping Cuba With 38-Cent Donations. A Lot of Them.
Cuban soldiers during a visit last year by Vietnam’s top leader, To Lam.
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on August 2025
Protests Highlight Growing Discontent With Netanyahu and the Gaza War
Protesters attending a mass rally in Tel Aviv on Sunday.
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on August 2025
As Heat Waves Intensify, Paris Plans for Record Temperatures
Trying to cool off this month. France has recently been experiencing its second heat wave of the summer.
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on August 2025
Trump Is Pushing India Back Toward China
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and President Trump met at the White House in February, when relations between the two were friendlier.
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on August 2025
He Left a Belarus Prison 132 Pounds Lighter, but Just as Outspoken
Sergei Tikhanovsky, a Belarusian opposition activist, this month during a “Freedom March for Belarus” in Warsaw.
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on August 2025
Spain Calls in More Soldiers to Fight Wildfires
Flames in the village of Larouco in the Galicia region of Spain on Sunday. The Iberian Peninsula is facing some of the most devastating wildfires in southern Europe.
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on August 2025
Mexico’s President Denies New D.E.A. Partnership Against Cartels
Mexican Marines guarded the scene of a murder in June on the outskirts of Culiacán, the stronghold of the Sinaloa cartel.
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on August 2025
Russia Keeps Rejecting Idea of Western Peacekeepers in Ukraine
NATO forces participating in “Exercise Steadfast Dart 2025” in southeastern Romania in February.
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on August 2025
From Unstable Ground, an Old Church Rolls to a New Home
On a specially designed trolley with 224 wheels, Kiruna Church being moved for relocation in Kiruna, Sweden, on Tuesday.
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on August 2025
Macron Calls Putin an ‘Ogre at Our Doorstep’
President Emmanuel Macron of France arriving at the White House to support President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine during talks with President Trump on Monday in Washington.
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on August 2025
What to Know About Deforested Wood and the R.V. Industry
A logging operation in West Kalimantan Province, in Indonesian Borneo last year.
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on August 2025
Relief in Ukraine as Zelensky Avoids Disaster in Washington
President Trump with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at the White House on Monday.
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on August 2025
Young People of Color Flocked to This Show. It Made Them Feel Seen.
Visitors to the exhibition added messages to a wall display labeled “Dream suburbs” in which they expressed desires for things like less racism and less violence.
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on August 2025
Tuesday Briefing: Crucial Talks on Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump in the Oval Office.
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on August 2025
Cases of Mosquito-Borne Chikungunya Virus Are Surging Globally: What to Know
A worker sprayed insecticide following reports of chikungunya cases in Hong Kong earlier this month.
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on August 2025
European Leaders’ Rush to Trump-Zelensky Meeting Appears to Have Paid Off
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was greeted by President Trump at the White House on Monday.
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on August 2025
5 Takeaways From Trump’s Meeting With Zelensky and European Leaders
President Trump, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain and other European Leaders met at the White House on Monday.
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on August 2025
At White House Summit, a Master Class of Diplomacy. In Courting Trump.
President Trump met with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and other European leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House on Monday.
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on August 2025
Can Zelensky Trust Trump? Ukraine’s Fate May Depend on the Answer.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arriving at the White House on Monday for talks with President Trump.
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on August 2025
What ‘Security Guarantees’ in Troop Form Could Look Like in Ukraine
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, left, and President Emmanuel Macron of France during the White House meeting with President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Monday.
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on August 2025
Tuesday Briefing: Crucial Talks on Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump in the Oval Office.
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on August 2025
Israel Is in Talks to Send Gazans to South Sudan, Officials Say
At a displacement camp in Gaza City this month.
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on August 2025
Hamas Accepts New Gaza Cease-Fire Proposal, Officials Say
Smoke billowed after an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Monday. The new proposal, whose terms were similar to those that Israel had previously accepted, would see the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.
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on August 2025
Russia Reaffirms Opposition to NATO Troops in Ukraine
NATO troops at a military exercise in June.
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on August 2025
Talks Restart as Air Canada Flight Attendants’ Strike Continues
Passengers walked past striking flight attendants at Vancouver International Airport on Sunday.
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on August 2025
Will Oil Demand Peak Soon? Trump Administration Doesn’t Want to Hear It.
Oil executives and cabinet members, including energy secretary Chris Wright, second from left, at a gas facility this year. Mr. Wright has criticized the International Energy Agency.
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on August 2025
Zelensky Says He’s Ready to Meet Putin After Trump Talks
President Trump meets with President Volodymyr Zelensky and a group of European leaders in the White House on Monday.
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on August 2025
Putin’s Proposal for Land Deal, Made to Trump, Shifts Pressure to Zelensky
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, in Berlin last week, is to meet with President Trump in Washington on Monday.
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on August 2025
Zelensky Brings Backup to the White House as Trump Aligns More Closely With Putin
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arrives in Belgium to take part in a video conference with European leaders in Brussels on Sunday.
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on August 2025
Trump and Putin Find Common Ground on One Issue: Biden
President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia during a news conference in Anchorage on Friday.
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on August 2025
What to Know About Russia-U.S.-Ukraine Peace Talks
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arriving at the White House on Monday for talks with President Trump.
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on August 2025
Air Canada Flight Attendants Say They Will Defy Back-to-Work Order
Air Canada flight attendants striking on Saturday at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, British Columbia.
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on August 2025
Putin’s Ukraine Proposal Backed by Trump Centers on Donbas. Here’s Why.
A Ukrainian soldier at a frontline position outside Toretsk, in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The area is at the center of territorial disputes between Ukraine and Russia.
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on August 2025
Ukraine Weighs Trump’s Offer of Security Guarantees With Caution
Members of the 17th Tank Brigade of Ukraine took part in live-fire training exercises near the front line in the Donetsk region in January.
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on August 2025
Israelis Join Nationwide Rallies to Call for Release of Hostages
Protesters blocked the main highway connecting Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Sunday.
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on August 2025
A Centrist Surges in Bolivia as Voters Turn Away From Socialism
Senator Rodrigo Paz, right, at a campaign rally last week with his running mate, Edman Lara. Mr. Paz will face Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga in the second round of Bolivia’s presidential election in October.
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on August 2025
Ukrainians Fleeing Russia’s Attacks Say the Alaska Summit Was an Insult
Ukrainian civilians, evacuated from villages in eastern Donetsk under attack by advancing Russians, arrive by bus at a hub for humanitarian assistance in the city of Pavlohrad in Ukraine’s Dnipro region on Friday.
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on August 2025
Israel Says Iranian Agents Recruited Dozens of Its Citizens
Vladislav Victorson, second from left, and Anya Bernstein, second from right, at a hearing in Tel Aviv last month. They have been accused of crimes including maintaining contact with a foreign agent.
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on August 2025
Putin Sees Ukraine Through a Lens of Grievance Over Lost Glory
President Vladimir Putin during a news conference at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday.
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on August 2025
U.S. Pauses Visitor Visas for Gazans After Laura Loomer Posts
Fadi Alzant, 6, arrived with his mother from Gaza for emergency medical treatment in New York in May.
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on August 2025
Trump Backs Off Cease-Fire Demand in Ukraine War, Aligning With Putin
President Trump, center right, with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, center left, at a news conference on Friday during their summit at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.
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on August 2025
Putin keeps talking about the ‘root causes’ of the war. What does he mean?
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Moscow in 2024. Mr. Putin has repeatedly used the phrase ”root causes” to articulate Russian demands for ending the war in Ukraine.
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on August 2025
Trump Bows to Putin’s Approach on Ukraine: No Cease-Fire, Deadlines or Sanctions
“I’m in this to stop the killing,” President Trump had said on the way to Alaska. He left Anchorage with pictures of him and President Vladimir V. Putin joshing on a red carpet and in the presidential limousine known as the Beast.
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on August 2025
Europe moves to back Ukraine after Trump drops cease-fire demand.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom, left, and President Emmanuel Macron of France were among the European leaders who released statements in support of Ukraine after President Trump’s meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Friday.
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on August 2025
With Putin by his side, Trump repeats his claims of a ‘Russia Hoax.’
President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at their news conference in Alaska on Friday.
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on August 2025
Government Shuts Down Air Canada Strike That Grounded Hundreds of Flights
Striking flight attendants outside Toronto Pearson International Airport on Saturday.
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on August 2025
A Pakistani Village Devastated by Flooding: ‘Like Death Visited Every Home’
They Were Treated Like Orphans. But They Knew the Truth.
At China’s Humanoid Robot Games, Athletes Fell Down a Lot
Monday Briefing: A Trump-Zelensky Meeting
Monday Briefing: A Trump-Zelensky Meeting