It was not clear if an Israeli attack near Beirut had killed its target, the presumed successor to Hezbollah’s slain leader. In Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened further attacks against Israel.
Mourners reeled over lost loved ones after an Israeli strike on an apartment building killed at least 45 people.
Sonya Liakh was diagnosed with eye cancer at age 2. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted her treatment, her family faced a desperate struggle.
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s top team contains more lawmakers from poor backgrounds, and fewer from elite schools, than any in recent memory. Voters haven’t noticed.
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After Successes, Israel’s Military Is in a ‘Long Game’ With No Clear Outcome
A year after perhaps the worst military and intelligence debacle in the country’s history, its armed forces have regained the momentum. Some ask: to what end?
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At Least 70 People Dead in Gang Attack in Haiti
The assault took place in a key agricultural region, which has seen a surge in gang violence.
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FIFA Limits on Player Transfers Are Illegal, Europe’s Top Court Rules
A decision could force soccer’s governing body to rewrite the regulations that govern the sport’s multibillion-dollar transfer market.
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At Least 14 Die as Floods Sweep Through Bosnia and Other Balkan States
A severe overnight rainstorm left several towns and villages flooded. Record summer temperatures caused a drought that hampered the absorption of floodwaters.
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Gender Identity Changes Must Be Recognized Across E.U. Borders, Court Rules
A man who changed his name and gender identity in Britain successfully challenged to have them legally recognized by Romania.
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Israel Bombs Beirut Site, Targeting Presumed Successor to Slain Hezbollah Leader
The airstrikes were aimed at a meeting of senior Hezbollah leaders in an underground bunker early Friday, and targeted a cousin of Hassan Nasrallah.
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After Missile Attack, Israel May Be Ready to Risk All-Out War With Iran
Israel seems ready to respond in a much more forceful and public way with Iran after Tehran launched its second massive missile attack on Israel this year, analysts and officials say.
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In Beirut’s Once-Bustling Suburbs, Smoking Rubble and Eerie Quiet
Airstrikes targeting members of Hezbollah have brought the Dahiya neighborhoods south of Beirut to a standstill, its residents fleeing and businesses shuttering.
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In a Cat-and-Mouse Game, Russian Oil Tankers Are Flying New Flags
A shadowy network of ships has registered in Gabon, highlighting how Vladimir V. Putin is building an economy beyond the reach of Western sanctions.
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How Russians Serve the State: In Battle, and in Childbirth
President Vladimir Putin is throwing ever more resources at two interlocked priorities: recruiting more soldiers and encouraging bigger families.
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Inside the Lebanese Valley Where Israel Is Bombarding Hezbollah
The Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah bastion in eastern Lebanon, had mostly been spared over 11 months of war. But The New York Times saw widespread devastation there after intense Israeli airstrikes this week.
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Forced From Home by War, They Found Solace in Soccer
For dozens of women who fled Myanmar and settled in Thailand, soccer has become a refuge from both the troubles of daily life and conservative cultural norms.
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A French Fair as Workers’ Paradise, Feting Cuisine, Music and Communism
The Fête de l’Humanité, a blend of Burning Man, Woodstock and a political convention, attracts the masses with bands, lectures and food, but here K.F.C. is C.F.K.: Communist Fried Kitchen.
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Hurling in Ireland: Is the ‘Clash of the Ash’ Becoming a ‘Battle of Bamboo’?
For centuries, the sport’s wooden sticks have been made from Ireland’s ash trees. But with a disease destroying forests, the ancient game is turning to different materials.
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In Quebec’s Casse-Croûtes, Fast Food for a Short but Sweet Summer
By now, the most famous product of Quebec’s casse-croûtes, the poutine, has gone international. But can the guédille or the pinso ever become just as popular?
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Using Dance to Provoke, Delight and Tell South Africa’s Stories
Growing up in a Black township, Vusi Mdoyi found a sprinkle of joy under apartheid in a street-dancing style known as pantsula. As a choreographer, he has elevated it into high art, injected with ideas.
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The Wily Spy Who Risked His Life to Meet North Korea’s Secretive Leader
Park Chae-so was so successful in infiltrating the North that Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic ruler, once gifted him blueberry wine. So why was the celebrated undercover agent later jailed by South Korea?
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Ukrainian Poet and Rock Star Fights Near Front and Performs Behind It
Serhiy Zhadan, 50, is a beloved Ukrainian poet as well as a novelist, lyricist and rock star. Furious over the invasion, he enlisted to fight even as his band still plays and his readings fill halls.
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Street Artist Documents War in Ukraine, One Stark Mural at a Time
Using ruins as his canvas, Gamlet Zinkivskyi has captured life in wartime Ukraine in dozens of grim, gripping and harshly beautiful paintings. “Broken, but invincible,” read one captioned work.
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How to Be Truly Free: Lessons From a Philosopher President
Pepe Mujica, Uruguay’s spartan former president and plain-spoken philosopher, offers wisdom from a rich life as he battles cancer.
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Eagles Players Feared Crime in Brazil. Have They Considered Philadelphia?
Some N.F.L. players called Brazil dangerous ahead of the league’s first game in South America on Friday. Statistics show their home city is deadlier.
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Against This Mighty Paralympic Team, a Close Loss Can Feel Like a Win
Other teams give themselves an A for effort after playing the Dutch women’s wheelchair basketball team, the favorite for the gold medal at the Paris Games.
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Every Four Years, He Gives Ireland a Reason to Watch Basketball
While the Irish have no team in the Olympic tournament, Timmy McCarthy’s eccentric, enthusiastic commentary has earned him his own fervent fan base.
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Why Kenya Stopped Running From Its Doping Past
A nation synonymous with distance running was given a multimillion-dollar choice: Get serious about antidoping efforts, or get banned from world sports.
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How Norway Became a Powerhouse for All Seasons
With money from an oil boom, Norway, a force at the Winter Olympics for generations, is now churning out elite performers in track, soccer and other sports, too.
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La guerra en Medio Oriente está alcanzando la escala que se temía
Las principales interrogantes ahora son cuánto se intensificará el conflicto y si Estados Unidos se involucrará más directamente en la defensa de Israel.
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En el próximo sínodo de la Iglesia católica el papel de la mujer sigue sin estar claro
La ordenación de mujeres diáconos ya no figura en el orden del día de una asamblea mundial en el Vaticano, pero se debatirá por separado.
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Claudia Sheinbaum asume el cargo como primera presidenta de México
El martes, la científica del clima y ex jefa de gobierno de la capital mexicana tomó posesión y se convierte en la primera mujer en ocupar la presidencia del país.
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Lo que hay que saber sobre el Eje de la Resistencia, la red de milicias respaldada por Irán
La alianza está en el punto de mira tras los recientes ataques israelíes en Líbano.
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Tras una investigación, el Vaticano castiga a miembros de un grupo católico en Perú
El papa Francisco expulsó a Luis Fernando Figari, fundador del grupo, y a otros 10 miembros que, según la investigación, cometieron abuso físico, psicológico y sexual en contra de otros integrantes.
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Each side must predict how the other will react to avoid mutual destruction.
By Amanda Taub
Israeli strikes have aimed to kill the leaders of the Lebanese militia, most recently Hashem Safieddine. It was not immediately clear whether he had been killed in an overnight strike near Beirut.
By Aaron Boxerman and Lauren Leatherby
This year more than ever is showing that the competition means different things to different clubs. And that’s a good thing.
By Rory Smith
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led Friday Prayer for the first time in years, delivering a sermon during a memorial service in Tehran for Hezbollah’s leader.
By Farnaz Fassihi and Leily Nikounazar
Israeli soldiers were also waging a ground invasion in southern Lebanon targeting what military officials said were Hezbollah sites in the rugged border area.
By Liam Stack
The annual prizes will be announced beginning Monday.
By Derrick Bryson Taylor
Sonya, a young Ukrainian girl, was being treated for eye cancer. Then Russia invaded Ukraine. Lynsey Addario, a photographer on assignment for The New York Times who has covered every major war and humanitarian crisis of her generation, tells Sonya’s story.
By Lynsey Addario, Rebecca Suner, Nikolay Nikolov and James Surdam
Plus, a billion-dollar plan to protect trees.
By Justin Porter
After more than 350 editions, we are putting this newsletter on pause, with the editor who opened the Australia bureau departing and his successor set to arrive.
By Damien Cave
Israeli officials said the attack was targeting a meeting in a bunker that included Hashem Safieddine, the presumed successor of Hezbollah’s recently assassinated leader.
By Meg Felling
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