Live Updates: Zelensky Heads Back to White House, Facing Hard Choice From Trump
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in Berlin, earlier this month.
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on August 2025
Putin’s Proposal for Land Deal, Made to Trump, Shifts Pressure to Zelensky
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, in Berlin last week, is to meet with President Trump in Washington on Monday.
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on August 2025
Protests Highlight Growing Discontent With Netanyahu and the Gaza War
Protesters attending a mass rally in Tel Aviv on Sunday.
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on August 2025
As Heat Waves Intensify, Paris Plans for Record Temperatures
Trying to cool off this month. France has recently been experiencing its second heat wave of the summer.
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on August 2025
Trump Is Pushing India Back Toward China
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and President Trump met at the White House in February, when relations between the two were friendlier.
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on August 2025
Trump’s Tariffs Will Crush India’s Exporters, Threatening Livelihoods
A jewelry store in Chennai, India, this month. The potential damage to India’s gems and jewelry industry of tariffs that may go as high as 50 percent is not yet clear. But insiders are raising alarms.
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on August 2025
He Left a Belarus Prison 132 Pounds Lighter, but Just as Outspoken
Sergei Tikhanovsky, a Belarusian opposition activist, last week during a “Freedom March for Belarus” in Warsaw.
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on August 2025
Ukrainians Fleeing Russia’s Attacks Say the Alaska Summit Was an Insult
Ukrainian civilians, evacuated from villages in eastern Donetsk under attack by advancing Russians, arrive by bus at a hub for humanitarian assistance in the city of Pavlohrad in Ukraine’s Dnipro region on Friday.
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on August 2025
Air Canada Flight Attendants Say They Will Defy Back-to-Work Order
Air Canada flight attendants striking on Saturday at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, British Columbia.
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on August 2025
Israel Says Iranian Agents Recruited Dozens of Its Citizens
Vladislav Victorson, second from left, and Anya Bernstein, second from right, at a hearing in Tel Aviv last month. They have been accused of crimes including maintaining contact with a foreign agent.
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on August 2025
What to Know About Russia-U.S.-Ukraine Peace Talks
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, on Sunday in Brussels.
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on August 2025
Putin’s Ukraine Proposal Backed by Trump Centers on Donbas. Here’s Why.
A Ukrainian soldier at a frontline position outside Toretsk, in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The area is at the center of territorial disputes between Ukraine and Russia.
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on August 2025
A Centrist Surges in Bolivia as Voters Turn Away From Socialism
Senator Rodrigo Paz, right, at a campaign rally last week with his running mate, Edman Lara. Mr. Paz will face Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga in the second round of Bolivia’s presidential election in October.
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on August 2025
Zelensky Brings Backup to the White House as Trump Aligns More Closely With Putin
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arrives in Belgium to take part in a video conference with European leaders in Brussels on Sunday.
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on August 2025
Ukraine Weighs Trump’s Offer of Security Guarantees With Caution
Members of the 17th Tank Brigade of Ukraine took part in live-fire training exercises near the front line in the Donetsk region in January.
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on August 2025
Israelis Join Nationwide Rallies to Call for Release of Hostages
Protesters blocked the main highway connecting Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Sunday.
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on August 2025
Putin Sees Ukraine Through a Lens of Grievance Over Lost Glory
President Vladimir Putin during a news conference at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday.
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on August 2025
U.S. Pauses Visitor Visas for Gazans After Laura Loomer Posts
Fadi Alzant, 6, arrived with his mother from Gaza for emergency medical treatment in New York in May.
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on August 2025
Trump Backs Off Cease-Fire Demand in Ukraine War, Aligning With Putin
President Trump, center right, with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, center left, at a news conference on Friday during their summit at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.
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on August 2025
Putin keeps talking about the ‘root causes’ of the war. What does he mean?
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Moscow in 2024. Mr. Putin has repeatedly used the phrase ”root causes” to articulate Russian demands for ending the war in Ukraine.
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on August 2025
Trump Bows to Putin’s Approach on Ukraine: No Cease-Fire, Deadlines or Sanctions
“I’m in this to stop the killing,” President Trump had said on the way to Alaska. He left Anchorage with pictures of him and President Vladimir V. Putin joshing on a red carpet and in the presidential limousine known as the Beast.
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on August 2025
Europe moves to back Ukraine after Trump drops cease-fire demand.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom, left, and President Emmanuel Macron of France were among the European leaders who released statements in support of Ukraine after President Trump’s meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Friday.
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on August 2025
With Putin by his side, Trump repeats his claims of a ‘Russia Hoax.’
President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at their news conference in Alaska on Friday.
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on August 2025
Government Shuts Down Air Canada Strike That Grounded Hundreds of Flights
Striking flight attendants outside Toronto Pearson International Airport on Saturday.
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on August 2025
Zelensky and E.U. Leaders Try to Understand Why Trump Abandoned Idea of a Cease-Fire
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Rome last month. After the meeting in Anchorage on Friday, Mr. Zelensky spoke with President Trump on the phone, and made plans to travel to Washington this week.
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on August 2025
The Power of the Trump-Putin Presidential Photo Op
President Vladimir V. Putin and President Trump at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage on Friday.
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on August 2025
After Meeting Putin, Trump Reverts to Land Swaps for Peace in Ukraine
President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Friday at a news conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.
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on August 2025
Trump Praises Putin in Fox News Interview After Alaska Summit
President Trump speaking with reporters on Air Force One on his way to Alaska on Friday.
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on August 2025
Israel Gears Up for Nationwide Strike to Support Hostages
Family members of hostages held in Gaza protesting in Tel Aviv last week.
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on August 2025
Europeans Worry Trump Will Pressure Zelensky After Meeting With Putin
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Trump at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage on Friday.
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on August 2025
Life in a City Where English Is the Minority Language
The Morrin Cultural Centre is home to Quebec City’s only English-language library.
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on August 2025
Russia Holds Battlefield Advantage in Ukraine War
A Ukrainian soldier firing at Russian targets in the Donetsk region in June. The area is part of the Donbas, which Moscow seeks to capture.
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on August 2025
Arrests in Turkey Silence Erdogan’s Rivals, Opposition Says
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in Nicosia, Cyprus, last month. In a recent speech, he said that government investigators were exposing “the biggest gang of robbers in the history of the Republic.”
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on August 2025
Here’s the latest.
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on August 2025
A Lifelong Party of ‘Puzzle-Making Tomfoolery’
Roger Manderscheid of Orange County, Calif., tried to solve the Brother’s Key puzzle.
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on August 2025
Trump and Putin had an isolated conversation in Trump’s limo.
President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska on Friday.
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on August 2025
Why Putin Can Visit the U.S. Without Risking Arrest
The International Criminal Court has accused President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia of war crimes.
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on August 2025
Spain’s Old Ways May Show How to Keep Cool
Awnings span the gaps between buildings, cooling busy streets beneath.
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on August 2025
Once Seen as Divisive, South Korea’s New Leader Tries for Charming
President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea taking questions during a news conference at the Blue House in Seoul last month, after his first 30 days in office.
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on August 2025
At Trump’s Summit, No Deal on Ukraine, and No Consequence for Putin
President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin during a joint news conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.
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on August 2025
Putin flatters Trump by echoing his claims about the war in Ukraine.
President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia during a joint address in Anchorage on Friday.
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on August 2025
Trump and Putin Put on a Show in Summit, but No Ukraine Deal Emerges
President Vladimir V. Putin and President Trump on Friday. They exchanged pleasantries, but revealed few details about their talks.
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on August 2025
In Russia, Putin’s Meeting With Trump Is Seen as Triumph
President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. The leaders greeted one another warmly at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.
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on August 2025
Fox News to Interview Trump 3 Times During the Summit With Putin
Sean Hannity of Fox News is set to interview President Trump in Anchorage on Friday.
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on August 2025
False Flags, Fake Flags: Propaganda Muddles the Trump-Putin Meeting
A screen in Manhattan showing President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Alaska on Friday.
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on August 2025
As Trump Meets Putin in Anchorage, Zelensky Condemns Russia’s Continuing Strikes
Ukrainians carrying their belongings out of a heavily damaged building after a Russian strike in the town of Bilozerske in the Donetsk region on Tuesday.
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on August 2025
New I.R.S. Rules for Large Wind and Solar Projects Released
Wind turbine tower pieces under construction for the South Fork Wind Farm at the New London State Pier in Connecticut in 2023.
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on August 2025
Mali’s Junta Accuses Frenchman of Plot to Overthrow the Military Government
The leader of Mali’s ruling junta and “transitional president,” Lt. Col. Assimi Goita, center, in 2022. The junta said it had foiled an attempted coup, organized by French intelligence.
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on August 2025
Air Canada’s Flight Attendants Begin Strike, Crippling the Airline
Passengers waiting at an Air Canada check-in counter at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada on Friday.
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on August 2025
Hours Before Putin Meeting, Trump Calls Belarusian Leader, Kremlin’s Closest Ally
President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus during a news conference in Minsk in 2023. President Trump said he spoke on Friday with Mr. Lukashenko, who has long been shunned by Western leaders.
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on August 2025
In Moscow, Russians see a chance for peace but prepare for more war.
Army recruitment advertisements in Moscow in June. After President Trump’s election, some Russians had high hopes that he would rapidly end the war in Ukraine.
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on August 2025
A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply
Kaltum Mohammad with her daughter, Fatima, in the Gubio internally displaced persons camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria, in November.
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on August 2025
How Trump-Putin Summit Signals Return to Imperial Thinking
President Trump meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018.
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on August 2025
Who’s Attending the Trump-Putin Meeting in Alaska
Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, will lead the entourages of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Trump during their bilateral meeting in Anchorage on Friday.
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on August 2025
The Minsk agreements sought to resolve Russia’s earlier invasion of Ukraine and never did.
President Petro O. Poroshenko of Ukraine, President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, at peace talks in Minsk, Belarus, in 2015.
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on August 2025
Ukrainians are very skeptical about the Trump-Putin meeting.
Kyiv, Ukraine, last month. Many Ukrainians see their country’s absence from a U.S.-Russia meeting as proof that those countries are not working toward a deal acceptable to them.
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on August 2025
They Were Treated Like Orphans. But They Knew the Truth.
At China’s Humanoid Robot Games, Athletes Fell Down a Lot
Monday Briefing: A Trump-Zelensky Meeting
Monday Briefing: A Trump-Zelensky Meeting