Fiona Hill on Trump, Putin and Why Great Powers Fall
“Inability to act is the real challenge for all democratic systems,” Fiona Hill said. “Populism offers quick fixes for extraordinarily difficult problems.”
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on July 2025
TV Show Helps Identify Mother and Child Found Dead in Rome Park, and a Suspect
Forensic police working last month at the site where the bodies of a mother and child were discovered in a park in Rome.
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on July 2025
Austria Prepares to Give Up ‘Dream’ of Disarmament
Chancellor Christian Stocker of Austria in Vienna this month. The principle of neutrality, he said, “obligates us to national defense, comprehensive national defense in particular.”
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on July 2025
Iran’s Leaders Turn to a New Brand of Nationalism After Israeli and U.S. Attacks
A march during a Tasua mourning ceremony in Tehran, Iran, this month.
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on July 2025
Shootings, Devastation, Hunger: Israel Fails to Address Gaza’s Power Vacuum
Mourners after Israeli troops opened fire on people trying to get aid north of Gaza City on Sunday.
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on July 2025
Israel Refuses to Renew Visa of Top UN Humanitarian Official for Gaza
In a screen grab taken from a handout video provided by the United Nations, Jonathan Whittall is shown standing near a destroyed hospital in Gaza in 2024.
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on July 2025
Bangladesh Air Force Jet Crashes Into School, Killing at Least 20
Firefighters and soldiers next to the wreckage of a military aircraft after it crashed into a school campus in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Monday.
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on July 2025
Venezuela Targets Economists as Inflation Surges Under Trump’s Sanctions
U.S. dollar bills and Venezuelan bolívars. Though the bolívar is Venezuela’s official currency, the country operates on a dual-currency system, and many people paid in bolívars spend in dollars.
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on July 2025
Ukraine Ups Its Arms Production, Asking Allies to Pay for It
An employee at Ukrainian Armor working on a vehicle in its factory this month in central Ukraine.
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on July 2025
Chinese Officials Helped Cover Up Lead Poisoning of Children, Report Says
A family outside a pediatric hospital in Beijing, China, in July.
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on July 2025
In Japan, Anti-Establishment Parties Resonate With Young Voters
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan and other leaders of the Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Monday, a day after the party’s defeat in parliamentary elections.
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on July 2025
How Trump’s Tariffs and Foreign Policies Have Bolstered Support for the E.U.
The European Union Headquarters in Brussels. President Trump’s pressure on military spending and trade have led some member states to work more closely together.
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on July 2025
Did Jeju Air Pilots Shut Down Wrong Engine Before Deadly Crash?
The site of the Jeju Air plane crash at Muan International Airport, South Korea, in 2024.
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on July 2025
Landslides and Floods Kill 18 in South Korea
The damage left after torrential rain in Gapyeong, South Korea, on Monday.
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on July 2025
Tuesday Briefing: A Deadly Jet Crash in Bangladesh
A search and rescue operation yesterday at the crash site in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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on July 2025
Sharing a Bed With Your Kid? It’s Totally Normal in Asia.
Erin Lim, second from right, and Tommy Kim in their bedroom with their sons in Seoul this month.
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on July 2025
Tuesday Briefing: A Deadly Jet Crash in Bangladesh
A search and rescue operation yesterday at the crash site in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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on July 2025
Climate Change Is Making Fire Weather Worse for World’s Forests
Fires at Tatkin Lake in British Columbia, Canada, in July 2023.
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on July 2025
Chinese Officers Questioned U.S. Government Employee About His Army Service
The Commerce Department employee is one of a handful of Americans barred by China from leaving the country, in a shadowy practice called an “exit ban” that the Chinese government has used for years.
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on July 2025
Seabed-Mining Firm Faces Legal Questions Over Trump Policy
A ship chartered by The Metals Company in 2021 to explore the potential of seabed mining.
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on July 2025
Syrian Government Evacuates Bedouin Families After Deadly Clashes
Bedouin tribe members, evacuating in the back of a truck, stopped at a security checkpoint in Taarah, in Syria’s southern Sweida Province, on Monday.
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on July 2025
Iran to Hold Nuclear Talks With France, Germany and U.K. After Sanctions Threat
Walking by a mural of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, right, and Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of the Islamic revolution, in Tehran.
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on July 2025
Chinese Car Giants Rush Into Brazil With Dreams of Dominating a Continent
Workers in training at the new Great Wall Motors factory in Iracemápolis, Brazil.
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on July 2025
Russia Launches Heavy Strikes Despite Trump Arms Pledge to Ukraine
A damaged metro station on Monday after a strike in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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on July 2025
Monday Briefing: Dozens Killed in Gaza
Palestinian mourners in Gaza City yesterday.
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on July 2025
China’s Hardball Tactics Set Tone for Difficult Summit with Europe
A shipping terminal in the city of Chongqing, which connects China with countries in Europe and elsewhere.
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on July 2025
Monday Briefing: Dozens Killed in Gaza
Palestinian mourners in Gaza City yesterday.
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on July 2025
Ukraine’s Zelensky Proposes Renewed Peace Talks With Russia
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine’s proposal to revive peace talks came after President Trump agreed to facilitate the transfer of air defense weapons to Ukraine and threatened to impose sanctions on Russia’s trading partners.
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on July 2025
Jean-Pierre Azéma, 87, Dies; Chronicled French Collaboration With Nazis
Jean-Pierre Azéma in 2011. A French historian and writer, he helped destroy the postwar myths that the collaborationist wartime Vichy regime had done what it could to resist the occupying Germans.
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on July 2025
Japan’s Long-Dominant Party Suffers Election Defeat as Voters Swing Right
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan, center left, vowed to stay in office despite the poor showing by his Liberal Democratic Party, which has led Japan for all but five of the last 70 years.
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on July 2025
Passenger Ship Fire Kills at Least 3 People in Indonesia
In this photo made from a video released by Indonesia’s rescue agency, a rescue ship approaches the KM Barcelona 5 after it caught fire on Sunday.
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on July 2025
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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on July 2025
Dozens Are Killed at Aid Site Near Border, Gaza Health Officials Say
Palestinians mourning at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday.
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on July 2025
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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on July 2025
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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on July 2025
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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on July 2025
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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on July 2025
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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on July 2025
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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on July 2025
Syria Declares Cease-Fire After a Week of Upheaval
An aerial view of Sweida, Syria, on Saturday.
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on July 2025
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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on July 2025
Open Season
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on July 2025
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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on July 2025
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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on July 2025
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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on July 2025
Japan Election 2025: What to Know
The Liberal Democratic Party, led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, seen standing, is now a minority party in both houses of Japan’s Parliament.
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on July 2025
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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on July 2025
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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on July 2025
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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on July 2025
A Rescue Center for Small Wild Animals Looks to Place a Blind Moose Calf
SkyWest Plane Aborts Landing to Avoid Midair Collision With B-52 Bomber
Even as Air-Raid Sirens Blare, Ukrainians Wait for the Light to Change