They Were Told They Were in a Safe Area. Then Came the Missiles.
Gaza health officials said that more than 90 people were killed in the strike on Saturday and more than 300 injured.
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Kenyan Police Arrest Suspected Serial Killer of 42 Women
Rescuers carry sacks with human remains after being removed from a quarry in Mukuru Kwa Njenga area in Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday.
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on July 2024
The Book Bag That Binds Japanese Society
Nearly every elementary school student in Japan carries a book bag known as a randoseru, a staple of Japanese childhood for close to 150 years.
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on July 2024
Ukraine Battles to Contain Russian Advances Across the Front
A soldier from an artillery unit of Ukraine’s 95th Separate Air Assault Brigade preparing to fire at Russian troops trying to capture the city of Toretsk, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, on Saturday.
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on July 2024
Gambia Votes to Keep Ban on Female Genital Cutting, in Dramatic Reversal
Gambian National Assembly members voted to continue the ban on female genital mutilation on Monday.
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on July 2024
With Rivals Restricted, Kagame Looks Set for Another Term in Rwanda
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda greeting supporters at a campaign rally in the capital, Kigali, on Friday. Mr. Kagame, 66, is widely expected to win a fourth term.
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Pakistan Says It Will Ban Party of Jailed Former Leader Imran Khan
Supporters of Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, celebrating after a court verdict overturned his illegal marriage conviction, in the capital, Islamabad, on Saturday.
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on July 2024
Nepal’s New Prime Minister Is Named After Government Collapses
The veteran politician K.P. Sharma Oli, center, at Parliament in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Friday.
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on July 2024
Israel’s Attempted Assassination of Hamas Leader Followed Surveillance of Deputy
The strike, which the Israeli military says targeted a Hamas leader, took place in an area designated as a humanitarian zone.
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on July 2024
Who Is the Hamas Military Leader, Muhammad Deif?
An undated handout photo said to be Muhammad Deif, the Hamas military leader.
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on July 2024
From Exile in London, a Crime Novelist Works to Transform Russia
Boris Akunin left Russia in 2014 to protest his country’s illegal annexation of Crimea. He has lived in Britain ever since.
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on July 2024
J.D. Vance Is an Oil Booster and Doubter of Human-Caused Climate Change
Mr. Vance has accused the Biden administration of “wanton harassment of fossil fuel companies.”
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on July 2024
Spanish Police Find Body Where British Teenager Jay Slater Disappeared
The Masca ravine on Tenerife, where Jay Slater went missing in June.
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on July 2024
China Will Host Senior Officials of Hamas and Fatah, Longtime Adversaries
Fatah’s delegation will include Mahmoud al-Aloul, left, the deputy chairman of the party. Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, will lead Hamas’s delegation.
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on July 2024
Bodies in Suitcases Prompt 2-Day Manhunt and Murder Arrest in U.K.
Investigators at a home in London, where two murder victims had lived.
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on July 2024
The R.N.C. Begins
Law enforcement outside the arena that will host the Republican National Convention.
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on July 2024
Each Year Flying Ants Emerge Across the U.K. And Yes, They’re Annoying.
Flying ants erupting from the ground to start their nuptial flight, in Kettlestone, England, on Aug. 23, 2016.
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on July 2024
Monday Briefing
After shots rang out, Donald Trump was swarmed by Secret Service agents.
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on July 2024
Euro 2024 Final: Spain Beats England to Claim Fourth Title
Spain’s European Championship was its fourth, a record for the competition.
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on July 2024
Monday Briefing: An Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump
After shots rang out, Donald Trump was swarmed by Secret Service agents.
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on July 2024
Olympic Torch Reaches Paris in Elegant Style
Thierry Henry, left, a soccer legend in France, next to the Olympic torch that he would soon carry through the streets of Paris on Sunday. At right are Tony Estanguet, a top Olympics official, and Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris.
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Kate, Princess of Wales, Plans to Attend Wimbledon Final
Catherine, Princess of Wales, presented the winning trophy to Carlos Alcaraz of Spain, who won the men’s singles final on Sunday at the Wimbledon tennis championship.
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on July 2024
Are Games Like the Euro 2024 Final the Riskiest Gig in Music?
Lenny Kravitz performed shortened versions of three songs in a six-minute set before the Champions League final in June.
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on July 2024
In England, a Changed Nation Hopes for a Change in Soccer Fortunes
England flags in London. As the country prepares to play Spain in the European final in Berlin on Sunday, there’s a sense of a nation turning the page, on the field and off.
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on July 2024
Israel Launches Major Attack Against a Senior Hamas Commander
A Palestinian man carrying the body of his son, who was killed in an Israeli strike in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, on Saturday.
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on July 2024
Acquittal for Pakistan’s Khan and Wife in Illegal Marriage Case
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, in court last year.
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on July 2024
Can Canada Trim Its Reliance on Foreign Labor?
Agriculture in Canada has long relied on temporary foreign workers.
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on July 2024
Ukraine Is Targeting Crimea, a Critical Base for Russia’s Invasion
A woman paying tribute to those who died when debris from an intercepted Ukrainian missile fell on a beach last month near the Crimean city of Sevastopol.
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on July 2024
How Janet Yellen Became an Unlikely Culinary Diplomat
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen prizes mixing in cultural experiences with the grind of government travel.
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on July 2024
How Hamas Is Fighting in Gaza: Tunnels, Traps and Ambushes
Israeli soldiers, photographed during a tour organized by the Israeli military, standing near the entrance to what the military said was a Hamas tunnel, near the Erez border crossing in Gaza, in December.
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on July 2024
Colombia Faces a New Problem: Too Much Cocaine
Roger Guzman, 19 years old, working harvesting coca leaves. December 2023 in, Colombia.
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on July 2024
Big Indian Weddings Highlight Economic Divide
Mehndi artists applying their trade at the Bangalore Club, in Bengaluru, India, in July. Applying the elaborate henna designs is time-consuming, and often it is used as the excuse for a party among the overall wedding festivities.
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on July 2024
This Soccer Player Wanted to Wear Her Hijab on the Field. France Wouldn’t Let Her.
Lina Boussaha practicing in her new home, Khobar, Saudi Arabia, in March.
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on July 2024
Where Germany’s Immigration Debate Hits Home
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany paying tribute in June to Rouven Laur, a police officer who died after a knife attack in Mannheim.
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on July 2024
Gaza City Neighborhood Left in Ruins After Israeli Troops Withdraw
Destroyed buildings in the Shajaiye neighborhood east of Gaza City on Thursday after the Israeli military withdrew following a two-week offensive.
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on July 2024
Hamas Official: ‘We’re Not Obstinate’ in Cease-Fire Talks on Gaza
Husam Badran, a senior Hamas official, in Doha, Qatar, this week. He said Hamas was willing to cede civilian control in Gaza to nail down a postwar deal, but not to disband its military wing.
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on July 2024
How Ukraine’s ‘Irreversible’ Path to NATO May Hinge on U.S. Election
President Biden and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine during the NATO summit in Washington, on Thursday.
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on July 2024
Early Wildfires in Brazil Threaten Pantanal Wetlands and Cerrado Savanna
A fire burning in late June along the banks of the Paraguay River in the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands, where fires this year have burned an area about the size of Phoenix.
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on July 2024
France Is at a Political Impasse Ahead of 2024 Olympics
Statues of the “Marianne,” the French Republic’s iconic national figure, in front of the National Assembly building in Paris, in honor of the upcoming Olympics.
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on July 2024
Nepal’s Prime Minister Dahal Loses Confidence Vote in Parliament
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal of Nepal arriving to speak before Parliament in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Friday.
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on July 2024
Pakistan Court Grants Imran Khan’s Party More Seats in Parliament
Supporters of former prime minister Imran Khan celebrate after a Supreme Court verdict, in Karachi, Pakistan, on Friday.
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on July 2024
Nigerian School Collapses, Killing at Least 10 and Trapping Dozens
Clearing debris at the site of a school that collapsed in Jos, Nigeria, on Friday.
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on July 2024
UK Approves Early Release for Thousands of Prisoners to Ease Overcrowding
Pentonville Prison in London. In England and Wales, the prison population stands at 87,505 — very close to the maximum capacity of 88,956
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on July 2024
How Can Europe Reduce Its Military Dependency on the United States?
Ukraine has not only vividly shown that weapons stockpiles “have been too small, and that the production capacity has been delinquent, but it has also demonstrated serious gaps in our interoperability,” the NATO secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said at the NATO summit this week.
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on July 2024
Finland Passes Law to Turn Away Asylum Seekers at Border
Migrants at a border crossing in northern Finland in 2023.
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on July 2024
Ambani Wedding Shows Off India’s New Gilded Age
Anant Ambani, son of Indian businessman Mukesh Ambani, and his fiancée, Radhika Merchant, during a wedding welcome ceremony in Mumbai earlier this month.
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on July 2024
Rescued Hostage Describes Months of Uncertainty and Terror in Gaza
Andrey Kozlov, 27, a Russian Israeli who was held hostage in Gaza and rescued in an audacious and deadly commando raid last month.
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on July 2024
U.S. Officials See Hopeful Signs in Gaza Cease-Fire Talks
Demonstrators in Tel Aviv on Sunday in recognition of it being nine months since the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel.
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on July 2024
More Than 60 Are Missing in Nepal After Landslide Sweeps Buses Into River
Rescuers searching for survivors in the Trishuli River in Simaltar, Nepal, on Friday.
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on July 2024
In an Outback Town, Praising the Lord and Improvising the Details
A view of Australia’s Northern Territory, where many roads are dirt and towns few and far between.
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on July 2024
Biden Uses NATO Summit to Assail Trump on Foreign Policy
President Joe Biden used his news conference on Thursday to remind voters that former President Donald J. Trump’s first reaction to the invasion of Ukraine was to praise President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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on July 2024
Friday Briefing
President Biden tried to defuse some questions about his age and fitness for office.
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on July 2024
U.K. Government Seeks Migration Miracle Worker, Preferably in Uniform
A dinghy making its way toward England in May. Migrant crossings by small boat typically peak over the summer.
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on July 2024
Many in Gaza City Ignore Israeli Military’s Calls to Evacuate
The Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya on Thursday after the Israeli military withdrew.
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on July 2024
Friday Briefing: A Make-or-Break Moment for President Biden
President Biden at the NATO Summit in Washington yesterday.
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on July 2024
South Korea Bans Everything Bagel Seasoning
Slowing Down Like Scarlett
A Bleak View of Soccer’s Future Misses the Full Picture
Chandra Observatory Captures Two Supernovas in (Slow) Motion