Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring
Cambridge University in May. Jason Arday was hired in 2023, becoming the university’s youngest Black professor.
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Syrian Convicted in Austria of Civil War Abuses Is Detained in Syria
Musab Abu Rukbah, right, and Roman Valach, one of Mr. Abu Rukbah’s lawyers, leaving a Vienna courtroom after a hearing in June.
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Canadian Petition to Expel U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra Takes Off
Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, at the embassy’s July 4 party at his official residence in Ottawa.
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$10 Million in Gold Found Buried Under Former Brewery in Belgium
Gold bars found at the site where a 19th-century brewery had stood in Dendermonde, Belgium. The police do not know who put the gold there, or what its fate might be.
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on August 2026
Wary of Trump, Europe Seeks Role in Eventual Russia-Ukraine Talks
Rescue workers at the site of a Russian strike on a residential building in Odesa, Ukraine, this week.
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on August 2026
Iran Says Qatar Captured Its Pilots Months Ago, a Claim Qatar Rejects
Smoke rising from an Iranian missile attack in Doha, Qatar, in March.
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Israeli Strikes in Lebanon Kill 11, Health Officials Say
The aftermath of an Israeli strike in Deir al-Zahrani, a town in southern Lebanon, on Saturday.
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on August 2026
At Least 47 Dead as 7.7-Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Indonesia
Damaged houses after a strong earthquake hit Indonesia early on Saturday.
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on August 2026
Entrenched, Embattled and Defiant, the Taliban Celebrate 5 Years in Power
Afghans celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul, Afghanistan, early on Saturday.
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on August 2026
Heat Deaths in a ‘Cold’ Country Are a Warning to the Rest of Europe
Treating a 77-year-old woman for heat-related illness last month at MontLégia hospital in the Belgian city of Liège.
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on August 2026
Russia Campaigned to Derail Moldova’s Pro-Western Government
Police officers in Chisinau, the Moldovan capital, watching protesters gather outside the electoral commission after the polls closed for parliamentary elections in 2025.
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on August 2026
Bou Meng, Rare Survivor of Khmer Rouge Torture House, Dies at 85
Bou Meng, who was imprisoned at the notorious Khmer Rouge interrogation and torture facility Tuol Sleng, in 2009 at the prison, which became a genocide museum.
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on August 2026
Quit Lit
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How Cyclospora Evaded the U.S. Food Safety System to Sicken Thousands
Last year the Food and Drug Administration cut a program that tracked cyclospora outbreaks and delayed a rule that would have required companies to swiftly provide supply chain records in investigations of foodborne disease outbreaks.
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on August 2026
As China Pushes to Expand in Asia, Trump Focuses on Iran
The Sierra Madre, a Philippine naval ship, in the South China Sea in 2023. Last month, a Chinese Coast Guard vessel began circling the ship and confronted Philippine service members.
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on August 2026
Where Future Champions Race Against the Tide
The jockeys at Omey are young, the sponsors modest, the grand prize less than $1,000.
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on August 2026
As Army Fails to Protect Palestinians, Israeli Leaders Sympathize With Settlers
Israeli soldiers patrolling a street Thursday during an operation in the village of Qusra, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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on August 2026
When a Rare Wolf Got Too Close, Denmark Faced a Conservation Dilemma
A wild wolf in West Jutland, Denmark, last year. The return of the animals to a country with few predators has recently come under scrutiny after a wolf was spotted near a small town, apparently unafraid of people.
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on August 2026
A Prominent Mexican Politician Says U.S. Revoked His Visa
Andrés Manuel López Beltrán is the son of Mexico’s former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who is still a key leader of Morena, Mexico’s dominant political party.
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on August 2026
Britain’s Farage Takes a Page From Trump’s Playbook Amid Investigations
Nigel Farage arriving to vote in Walton-on-the-Naze, England, on Thursday.
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on August 2026
The Taliban Kicked the U.S. Out of Afghanistan. Now They Want It Back.
Afghanistan’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, during an interview with The New York Times in Kabul this week.
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on August 2026
France’s Top Court Strikes Down Ban on Social Media for Children
France’s Constitutional Council said that the ban was too wide-ranging, and did not take into account the age, maturity or family situation of children.
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on August 2026
Zambia Halts Presidential Election Vote Count Over Violence and Fraud Allegations
A voting station’s presiding officer holds a marked ballot during the counting process at Woodlands Primary School in Lusaka, Zambia, on Thursday.
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on August 2026
With Trump’s Hamas Deal in Peril, Kushner Set to Visit Israel for Gaza Talks
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s senior aide and son-in-law, at the Capitol in Washington in February.
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on August 2026
Heat Is Hammering Europe, Again. Here’s What That Looks Like.
A sweltering day near Tower Bridge in London on Thursday.
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on August 2026
8 Matisse Works, Looted from Library in Brazil, Are Recovered
A handout photo released by the São Paulo police press office showing the recovered Matisse works.
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on August 2026
Kevin Rideout, American Missionary Kidnapped in Niger, Is Released
Niamey, Niger, this year. U.S. officials said it was unclear which group had held the American missionary Kevin Rideout at the end of his captivity.
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on August 2026
Record-Breaking Rainfall Leaves Eight Dead and Thousands Stranded in Japan
Vehicles submerged on a flooded road in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, on Friday.
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on August 2026
After Notre-Dame Fire, France Restored the Cathedral — but Not These Windows
An artisan working at the Atelier Simon-Marq, a centuries-old stained glass studio, in Reims, in northeastern France.
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As Europe Gets Hotter, Its Transportation Systems Struggle to Cope
Commuters at a train station in Bordeaux, France, during a heat wave in July. Much of Europe’s infrastructure was not built to withstand scorching summer heat.
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on August 2026
Farage Wins Special U.K. Election That He Initiated, as Expected
Nigel Farage leaves a polling station after he voted in the Clacton by-election on Thursday.
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on August 2026
Will Sudan’s El Obeid Become the Next El Fasher? What to Know.
Women gathering for a hot meal in al-Rahmaniyah camp for displaced people near the city of El-Obeid in the southern Kordofan region of Sudan last month.
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on August 2026
After 2 Plasma Donor Deaths, Company Pauses Clinics in Canada
Donating plasma for Grifols at a hospital in Barcelona in 2020. The company has suspended collecting plasma in Canada because of scrutiny over two deaths.
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Engine Blade Hit Window on Jet Before Man Was Partly Sucked Outside, Report Says
A Ryanair plane in Thessaloniki, Greece, last May. A full investigation into an incident last month will take at least a year, federal official said.
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on August 2026
Afghan Women Erased From Public Life in Five Years of Taliban Rule
A market in Kabul, Afghanistan, last year. Most women say they have to get a male relative’s permission to leave the house.
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on August 2026
Electric Thrills
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Israeli Settlers Resume West Bank Siege After Eviction
Israeli soldiers patrolling a street Thursday during an operation in the village of Qusra, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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on August 2026
Early-Onset El Niño
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Train Derails Near Town of Lewes in East Sussex, U.K.
Some cars of a passenger train flipped onto their sides on Thursday in southern England near Lewes. The accident’s cause had not yet been determined.
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on August 2026
Topos Azteca, a Mexican Volunteer Rescue Group, Helps With Rescue Efforts After Colombia Earthquake
A member of Topos Azteca working among the rubble on Wednesday in Cali, Colombia.
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on August 2026
A City Mobilizes Against a Stubborn Health Threat: Mosquitoes
A health worker discarding water from a larvicide dissemination unit in Belém, Brazil, last month.
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on August 2026
How a Long-Shot U.S. Oil Drilling Project Is Shaking Up Greenland
Ittoqqortoormiit, a settlement in eastern Greenland. The remote area has been targeted by a U.S.-British joint venture for potential oil exploration.
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on August 2026
Former Catholic Bishop Is Convicted of Sexual Abuse, Australian News Outlets Say
Christopher Alan Saunders, the former bishop of Broome, at the District Court of Western Australia in Perth on Tuesday.
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on August 2026
Hundreds of Flights Canceled in Sicily as Mount Etna Erupts
Volcanic ash and lava during an eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily on Wednesday.
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on August 2026
Where to Eat and Drink at a Barcelona Bar Like a Local
Five Arrested in Connection to Stolen Works by Cézanne, Renoir and Matisse, Prosecutors Say