The K-Pop Band Big Ocean Is Making Waves With Sign Language
The members of Big Ocean (from left), Kim Ji-seok, Park Hyun-jin and Lee Chan-yeon, in Seoul in 2024.
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Typhoon Wipha Pounds Hong Kong and Macau With Rain and Wind
Fallen trees on top of a car in Hong Kong on Sunday.
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China Exit Ban on Wells Fargo Executive Stokes Foreign Business Anxiety
A Wells Fargo branch in New York City. Wells Fargo is one of six global banks that dominate the processing of dollar-denominated payments for China’s exports and imports.
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Syria Declares Cease-Fire After a Week of Upheaval
An aerial view of Sweida, Syria, on Saturday.
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Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building.
Chen Tianming’s house, which evokes a Dr. Seuss drawing, has drawn gawkers to his rural corner of Guizhou Province, in southwestern China.
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At Least 28 Dead After Tourist Boat Capsizes in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay
A tourist boat capsized on Saturday in Ha Long Bay, in Vietnam’s Quang Ninh Province, northeast of Hanoi.
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Japan Election 2025: What to Know
Supporters putting up election campaign posters this month on a bulletin board in Tokyo.
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South Korea Pulls Report Into Jeju Air Crash After Victims’ Families Protest
Firefighters and investigators at the scene of the deadly Jeju Air crash in Muan, South Korea, in December.
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They Vanished in Syria’s Long Occupation of Lebanon. Now Their Families Want Answers.
Family members looking for any signs of missing relatives in the Sednaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, in December.
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Gaza Health Ministry Says Israeli Military Killed 32 Near Aid Site
Mourners at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Saturday with the bodies of two people killed near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site.
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The Pelicot Trial Returns, This Time to the Stage
“The Pelicot Trial,” at the Avignon Festival in southern France, on Friday night.
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Russia Makes Gains in Ukraine in Summer Offensive
Army recruitment advertisements in Moscow last month. To bolster recruitment, Russia is offering outsize sign-up bonuses and salaries.
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Israel Issues Evacuation Order for New Area in Gaza
Palestinians moving through wreckage after an Israeli airstrike this month in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza. So far, however, Israeli ground forces have largely refrained from operating there.
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As Trump Courts a More Assertive Beijing, China Hawks Are Losing Out
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, left, and Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, second from right, meeting with Chinese officials in Geneva in May.
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A Kite Surfer, Navy SEAL and Makeup Artist: Freed in a U.S.-Venezuela Swap
Venezuelan migrants who were jailed in El Salvador arrived at Simon Bolivar International Airport, outside Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, on Friday.
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Open Season
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An Ancient Law Could Shape the Modern Future of America’s Beaches. Here’s How.
Coastal walls built to protect homes from the sea in San Clemente, Calif.
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Sohei Kamiya Brings Trump-Style Populism to Japan’s Election
Sohei Kamiya, the leader of an upstart right-wing political party called Sanseito, delivering a campaign speech this month at Takasaki Station in Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo.
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Rubio Restricts U.S. Criticism of Tainted Foreign Elections
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a department cable that public comments on foreign elections “should be brief, focused on congratulating the winning candidate and, when appropriate, noting shared foreign policy interests.”
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Cuban Minister Resigns After Accusing Beggars of Faking Poverty
Cuban Minister of Labour and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, in 2023.
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Felix Baumgartner, Skydiver Who Jumped From the Edge of Space, Dies Paragliding at 56
En 2003, Baumgartner aterrizó en Calais, Francia, tras cruzar volando el canal de la Mancha con un ala de fibra de carbono.
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Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Former President, Ordered to Wear Ankle Monitor Before Trial
Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, outside the Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration on Friday. Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered him to stay away from foreign embassies because it fears he could flee justice.
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Floods and Heavy Rain Kill Dozens in Pakistan
A flooded village in northern Pakistan on Thursday.
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UK, France and Germany Plan for a Post-U.S. Future
From left: President Emmanuel Macron of France, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain and Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany at a summit in Tirana, Albania, in May.
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Who Are the Druse? The Religious Minority at the Center of Israel and Syria’s Tensions
Clerics praying during a funeral for people killed during clashes between Druse fighters and Bedouin tribes in Sweida, Syria, on Monday.
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Extra! Extra! Read All About Last Newspaper Hawker in Paris
Ali Akbar, 72, has been hawking newspapers in the streets of Paris for more than a half-century.
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Musk Clears Final Hurdles for Tesla and Starlink in India
The first Tesla showroom in India, in Mumbai, on Tuesday.
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Iran’s Fordo Nuclear Site Was Badly Damaged by U.S. Strikes, New Assessment Finds
A satellite image of the Iranian nuclear facility at Fordo after the U.S. attacks last month.
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5 Charged in U.C. Berkeley Professor’s Killing in Greece, Including His Ex-Wife
An image from video showing police officers arresting five people over the killing of a University of California, Berkeley, professor in a suburb of Athens.
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Friday Briefing: Bloodshed in a Syrian City
Syrian security forces in Sweida on Wednesday.
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‘Bonjour’ Sets Off a Linguistic Dispute on a Belgian Train
Commuters at a train station in Leuven, Belgium, in 2022. Language rules in the Flanders region can get complicated.
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Blood in the Streets and Death in the Air: Residents Survey Damage in Syrian City
Buildings that were burned and looted near Sweida, Syria, on Tuesday.
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Israeli Strike on a Gaza Church Kills Three
Transporting a person who was injured in the strike on the Holy Family Catholic Church to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Thursday.
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The UK Plans to Lower the Voting Age to 16. Here’s What to Know.
A polling station in Brighton and Hove in England last year. Britain has set the minimum voting age for general elections at 18 since 1969.
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Prominent Human Rights Group Flees El Salvador
Ruth López, the anti-corruption director of Cristosal, leaving a courthouse in June, following her May arrest.
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Rescuers Seek American Hiker Missing for Days in the Pyrenees
Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, in the Pyrenees mountains of Spain.
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Prince Harry Follows Diana’s Footsteps in Angola as Specter of Land Mines Returns
Prince Harry, left, walking through a minefield in Cuito Cuanavale, Angola, on Wednesday, in a photo released by The Halo Trust. He repeated the journey that his mother, Diana, took in 1997.
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They Grew Up on Mexican Coke. Trump’s Cane Sugar Plan Makes Them Uneasy.
A Coca-Cola truck driving through Izamal, Mexico, last year.
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Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s Decade of Legal Woes Ends
Lee Jae-yong, the chairman of Samsung Electronics, arriving for a court appearance in Seoul in February.
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Why Israel Attacked Syria
An Israeli airstrike damaged the entrance to Syria’s defense ministry headquarters on Wednesday.
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Syria’s President Condemns Israeli Strikes on Damascus
Debris in Damascus, the Syrian capital, on Wednesday, after an Israeli strike.
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Trump’s Brazil Tariff Threats Rekindle Support for President Lula
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil has seen a surge in popularity after confronting President Trump over tariffs.
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Iraq Shopping Mall Fire Kills at Least 61
The shopping center in Kut, Iraq, on Thursday after the blaze.
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Lauren Southern, Former Right-Wing Commentator, Says Andrew Tate Assaulted Her
Lauren Southern in 2018 during a right-wing rally in Sydney in support of white South African farmers.
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Thursday Briefing: Israel Strikes Damascus
Debris in Damascus yesterday, after an Israeli missile strike.
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China’s Aircraft Carriers Push Into Waters Long Dominated by U.S.
Fighter jets could be seen on the flight deck of China’s first domestically built aircraft carrier, the Shandong, as it was anchored in Hong Kong this month.
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Germany’s Merz and UK’s Starmer Sign Mutual Defense Pact as U.S. Steps Back
The Anglo-German accord, signed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain and Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, covers energy, economic cooperation and migration, in addition to defense.
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K-Beauty Fans Stock up on Cosmetics After Trump’s Tariff Threat
Shoppers at an Olive Young store in Seoul in April.
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Trump Has Promised More Tariffs on Mexico. What Happens Next?
Vehicles lining up on the Tijuana side of the U.S.-Mexico border to cross into Southern California last year.
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A Rescue Center for Small Wild Animals Looks to Place a Blind Moose Calf
Interior Dept. to Put Wind and Solar Projects Through Stricter Political Review
Even as Air-Raid Sirens Blare, Ukrainians Wait for the Light to Change
Friday Briefing: Trump’s Order on Epstein Records
Tomorrowland Music Festival Is Still On After Blaze Wrecks Main Stage