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Ukraine Estimates Sharply Higher Russian Casualty Toll in Crimea Blasts
A Ukrainian serviceman on the frontline in Mykolaiv region on Thursday.
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John
on August 2022
The Tumultuous Summer That Changed the World
Taliban fighters in Kabul, Afghanistan, on the day the government collapsed.
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John
on August 2022
In Wealthy City, a Marxist Mayor Wins Over Voters
The iconic bell tower in the wealthy city of Graz, Austria, which is led by a Communist mayor, Elke Kahr.
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John
on August 2022
Greece’s Mitsotakis Fends Off Accusations His Government Spied on Rivals
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece in May. His government has been accused of spying on its political rivals.
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John
on August 2022
Erdogan and Putin: Complicated Relations With Mutual Benefits
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in Sochi, Russia, last week.
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John
on August 2022
How Sri Lankans Rose Up to Dethrone a Dynasty
Protesters celebrating last month in Colombo, Sri Lanka, after the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
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John
on August 2022
Palestinian Prisoners in Israel Use Hunger Strikes to Seek Freedom
Kayed al-Fasfos at his home in the West Bank in April. He was released from an Israeli prison after a 131-day hunger strike. “Even if I had died,” he said, “I would consider it a victory because in the end I left the prison.”
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John
on August 2022
U.S. Urges Rwanda and Congo to End Support for Warring Militias
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda on Thursday. Backing militias, he said, was “likely to perpetuate conflict and violence.”
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John
on August 2022
Serbia’s Leader Rejects Putin Label Amid Fears of Russian Meddling
President Aleksandar Vucic in the library of the presidential palace in Belgrade, the Serbian capital, this month. “We are not interested in expanding our borders and getting into any fights with our neighbors,” he said.
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John
on August 2022
Rishi Sunak Has a Sterling Résumé. It’s Not Helping Him Replace Boris Johnson.
Rishi Sunak, center, spoke to people in Ropley, England, last month as part of his campaign to become leader of the Conservative Party and the next prime minister.
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John
on August 2022
Fires Rip Through France Amid New Heat Wave
Farmers near Belin-Beliet, France, tried to help put out a fire overnight Thursday.
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John
on August 2022
‘My School Had No Chairs, No Blackboards, No Books’
Mursal Rahim in the bedroom she shares with her two sisters in their home in Houston.
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John
on August 2022
‘Day by Day, I Realized I Have the Freedom Here’
Mursal and Marwa Rahim in their new home in Houston, talking over FaceTime with their cousin, Zerghona, who is in Turkey.
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John
on August 2022
‘Regimes Like the Taliban That Impose Themselves on Nations Will Not Last Long’
Omar Ahmadi, 26, whose father was the longtime chef of The New York Times Kabul Bureau, outside the apartment building where he and his family live in Alexandria, Va.
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John
on August 2022
Shelling of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Raises Fears and Outrage
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant this month.
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John
on August 2022
Russian Attack in Kramatorsk Kills 2 civilians, Regional Military Leader Says
A Russian attack on Kramatorsk on Friday left two civilians dead and more than a dozen others injured.
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John
on August 2022
Kenya on Edge as Media’s Election Tally Suddenly Stops
Motorcycle taxi drivers watching live news on television for updates on the presidential election, in Kisumu, Kenya, on Friday.
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John
on August 2022
Climate Bill Heads to Biden’s Desk. There Is More to Be Done.
Young climate activists say they worry the new tax and climate law will lead to a complacent electorate that believes climate change is solved, when in fact the government has only taken the first necessary steps.
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John
on August 2022
8 Americans Reflect on U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan
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John
on August 2022
Montenegro Gunman Kills 10 Before Being Shot and Killed
A crime scene investigator carrying a rifle believed to have been used in a mass shooting on Friday in Cetinje, Montenegro.
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John
on August 2022
Protests Turn Deadly in Sierra Leone Over Rising Cost of Living
Police officers patrolled the streets of Freetown, Sierra Leone, during an anti-government protest on Wednesday.
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John
on August 2022
Ukrainian Children Bring a Play From a Bomb Shelter to Brooklyn
Hanna Oneshchak, 12, playing the accordion, with other Ukrainian students during rehearsals for their play.
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John
on August 2022
How the Taliban Has Rolled Back the Clock Since Seizing Power
A year since the Taliban seized power, two decades of U.S.-financed reforms have been reversed by mounting restrictions on daily life.
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John
on August 2022
‘We Are the Flour Between Two Millstones’
Fahim Abed in Houston last year.
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John
on August 2022
‘I Plan to Encourage and Inspire Women With My Success’
Marwa Rahim at a mall in Houston.
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John
on August 2022
‘In the United States, I Feel Optimistic’
Samira Rustami, 20, with her 1-month-old daughter, Durrin, at their home in Houston.
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John
on August 2022
What Happens If Shelling Continues at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant?
Russian forces seized the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, in March.
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John
on August 2022
Estonia never needed to import gas by ship, until now.
A floating facility in Estonia will take in shipments of natural gas and pipe it to a network that serves the Baltics and Finland.
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John
on August 2022
Russia’s Economy Contracts Sharply as War and Sanctions Take Hold
Shoppers in Moscow. The Russian economy has proved more resilient to sanctions than some economists initially expected, but experts now predict a downturn.
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John
on August 2022
A 1,300-Pound Walrus Could Be Killed if She Endangers the Public
Freya, a young female walrus, rested on a boat in Frognerkilen in the Oslo Fjord of Norway in July.
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John
on August 2022
Five State-Run Chinese Giants to Delist From U.S. Stock Exchanges
Three of the world’s biggest energy companies, including Sinopec, said they would apply to delist their American shares.
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John
on August 2022
What I’m Reading
The English novelist Jane Austen as depicted in a family portrait.
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John
on August 2022
Drought Is Declared in Parts of a Hot, Dry Britain
The grass in many of London’s parks has dried out after a summer of record-breaking temperatures and little rain.
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John
on August 2022
How the Climate Bill Will Make Cleaner Energy Cheaper
Solar panels in Grafton, Mass.
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John
on August 2022
You Just Can’t Get the Staff
A restaurant in Sydney earlier this year. Australia’s labor and skills shortage has affected almost every sector, including food service.
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John
on August 2022
Why are Russia and Turkey growing so close? Putin needs allies, and Erdogan needs bolstering.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in Sochi, Russia, last Friday, for their second face-to-face talks in three weeks.
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John
on August 2022
U.N. Ship to Carry Ukrainian Grain Directly to Horn of Africa
Grain silos at the Odesa Port in Odesa, Ukraine, in July.
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John
on August 2022
Your Friday Briefing
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
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John
on August 2022
Shelling Threatens Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant, and U.N. Pleads for Access
A Russian military convoy on the road to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in May.
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John
on August 2022
How the war changed a Kyiv museum’s view of its past.
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John
on August 2022
Heavy Losses Leave Russia Short of Its Goal, U.S. Officials Say
The remains of a tank in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine. U.S. officials estimate that 500 Russian troops are killed or wounded every day in Ukraine.
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John
on August 2022
Your Friday Briefing: U.S. to Unseal Trump Warrant
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland had come under pressure to provide more information about the search at former President Donald J. Trump’s Florida home.
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John
on August 2022
Rhythm of War: A Thunderous Blast, and Then a Coffee Break
A Ukrainian artillery unit firing from a frontline position near the town of Bakhmut on Wednesday.
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John
on August 2022
Don’t Blame Monkeys for Monkeypox, W.H.O. Says After Attacks
A monkey at Lage Park in Rio de Janeiro. At least 10 monkeys were rescued in São Paulo, Brazil, after they appeared to have been attacked or poisoned, the police there said.
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John
on August 2022
All Hooting Aside: Did a Vocal Evolution Give Rise to Language?
A study of more than three dozen primates found that they all possessed an extra set of vocal membranes in the larynx, just above the vocal cords. Only humans lack the structure.
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John
on August 2022
Italy Salutes a War Hero and the Values He Fought For
Mr. Fiorentini when he was in his 20s.
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John
on August 2022
The New ‘Monuments Officers’ Prepare to Protect Art Amid War
The Army’s Monuments Officers in training. They will work in a military capacity to identify and preserve cultural treasures around the world that are threatened by conflict, just like the Monuments Men of World War II.
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John
on August 2022
A Moscow court places a former state television journalist under house arrest over her anti-war protest.
Marina Ovsyannikova, who was detained and fined after protesting the war on television in March, has been sentenced to house arrest over her protest outside the Kremlin in July.
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John
on August 2022
Arctic Warming 4 Times as Fast as the Rest of the Planet, New Analyses Find
An iceberg from the Greenland ice sheet near Pituffik, Greenland, last month.
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John
on August 2022
Rethinking Joe Manchin
Senator Joe Manchin on Capitol Hill last week.
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John
on August 2022
China Vows More Drills, but Taiwan Is Undeterred
A live-fire drill in Pingtung, Taiwan, on Tuesday. The Taiwanese military said it would not escalate after Chinese military drills in the region.
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John
on August 2022
North Korea’s Covid Outbreak Is Over, Kim Jong-un Says
Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, in late July. North Korea claimed to have no Covid-19 cases until May, when it announced its first outbreak.
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John
on August 2022
Zelensky addresses the explosions in Crimea as photos suggest a major loss for Russia.
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John
on August 2022
Your Thursday Briefing
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John
on August 2022
The Jan. 6 attack was a crisis. So why wasn’t it more of a scandal?
Protesters storming the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol after a rally where President Trump spoke on Jan. 6 last year.
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John
on August 2022
Crimean Officials Detail Size of Explosions, Contradicting Kremlin
Beachgoers in Novofedorivka, in Russian-occupied Crimea, were initially startled by an explosion at a nearby Russian military air base on Tuesday.
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John
on August 2022
Families of Israelis Killed at Munich Olympics Plan Anniversary Boycott
Ankie Spitzer, at her home in Israel last month, held a framed photo of her husband, Andrei, who was killed in the 1972 attack.
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John
on August 2022
Your Thursday Briefing: Trump Declines to Answer Questions
Former president Donald J. Trump leaves Trump Tower in New York, on Wednesday.
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John
on August 2022
Russia Detains a Former Journalist Who Protested the War
Marina Ovsyannikova, a former state television employee, during a court hearing in Moscow last month.
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John
on August 2022
Kenyans Await Results as Votes Are Counted in Presidential Race
Police officers and polling workers sorting sealed ballot boxes on Wednesday in Nairobi.
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John
on August 2022