The Russian Technocrat Who Helps Enable Putin and Manage the Ukraine War
Sergei V. Kiriyenko in Moscow in 2023. His modest title, first deputy chief of staff, belies a sprawling portfolio of responsibilities.
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on August 2025
How Starmer, Macron and Merz Tried to Halt the War in Gaza
Both Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, left, and President Emmanuel Macron of France announced plans to recognize the state of Palestine last month.
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on August 2025
Trump’s Cartel Order Revives ‘Bitter’ Memories in Latin America
The news of President Trump’s order has already intensified a wariness against intervention from abroad.
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on August 2025
With Ukraine in the Balance, Trump and Putin Head Into Summit With Mismatched Goals
Ukrainian firefighters and rescue workers lower the covered body of a person killed in a Russian strike on an apartment building in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, in June.
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on August 2025
Ukraine and Europe Project United Front Ahead of Trump-Putin Summit
A town in the Donetsk region of Ukraine in June. The Trump administration has been pushing for an end to the war that began with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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on August 2025
Xi Looks to Tighten Grip After Scandals Shake China’s Military Elite
A portrait of China’s leader, Xi Jinping, at the Military Museum in Beijing. Mr. Xi has set a 2027 target for modernizing the People’s Liberation Army.
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on August 2025
Takeaways From The Times’s Reporting on Putin’s Powerful Aide
Sergei V. Kiriyenko, in glasses, at President Vladimir V. Putin’s annual state of the nation address in Moscow in 2024, in a photograph distributed by Russian state media.
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on August 2025
Dmitri Kozak Was a Key Putin Aide. He Lost Power When He Balked at the Ukraine War.
Dmitri N. Kozak in Beijing in 2019. Mr. Kozak told associates this year that he had presented President Vladimir V. Putin with a proposal to stop the fighting in Ukraine, Kremlin insiders said.
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on August 2025
In India, Immigration Raids Detain Thousands and Create a Climate of Fear
Demonstrators protesting the harassment of Bengali speakers in states led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P., in Kolkata, India, this month.
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on August 2025
Book Blacklist in Kashmir Aims to Muzzle Criticism of India
A display at a bookstore in Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, where 25 books have been declared “forfeit.”
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on August 2025
A Sidelined Europe Seeks a Voice as Trump and Putin Prepare to Meet
David Lammy, Britain’s foreign secretary, and Vice President JD Vance, on Friday in Chevening, England. Mr. Vance is attending a meeting of European and Ukrainian leaders on Saturday.
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on August 2025
There’s Barely Any Food in Gaza, and Barely Any Cash to Buy It
Repairing a damaged bank note. A cottage industry making such fixes has sprung up in Gaza because of the shortage of cash.
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on August 2025
What Putin Hopes to Gain From a Summit With Trump
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Trump at a bilateral meeting at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019.
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on August 2025
Far-Right Israeli Minister Calls for Quicker Military Moves in Gaza
Palestinians waiting for aid in Gaza City last month. The Israeli military is preparing to take control of the city.
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on August 2025
In a Trump-Putin Summit, Ukraine Fears Losing Say Over Its Future
Ukrainian civilians rushed from the scene of a drone attack on a Kharkiv in June.
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on August 2025
After Six Years of Reporting, Sharing a Story of Resilience
A group of Mayan women brought a complaint to the Guatemalan Public Ministry in 2019.
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on August 2025
These Are Drug Cartels Designated as Terrorists by the U.S.
Police officers surrounding a man they accused of being a MS-13 gang member, in Ilopango, El Salvador, in 2018.
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on August 2025
Netanyahu Says Israel Wants ‘Arab Forces’ to Run Gaza. What Does That Mean?
Gathering aid airdropped on Gaza City on Thursday. The Israeli government announced on Friday that its military would prepare to seize control of the city.
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Thomas
on August 2025
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on August 2025
A Pay Raise for Canada’s Military to Boost Recruitment and Retention
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced substantial raises for the military in Trenton, Ontario.
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on August 2025
Russia Goes After Ukraine With Distant Strikes and New Tactics
A woman running from her apartment block carrying her pets after Russian aerial bombs exploded nearby in Kharkiv, Ukraine, last month.
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on August 2025
Trump Cracks Down on Bird Deaths, but Only From Wind Turbines
In contradiction, Trump has sought to weaken laws that have been credited with bringing the bald eagle back from the brink of extinction.
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on August 2025
Car Companies Are Paying Tariffs So You Don’t Have To
Cars on a container ship in Miami. Tariffs of as much as 27.5 percent on cars and car parts will force sticker prices to rise significantly, analysts say.
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Thomas
on August 2025
A Small European Nation Has a Big Explosions Problem
An apartment building damaged by an explosion in Duivendrecht, the Netherlands.
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Thomas
on August 2025
How a Top Mexican Cartel Smuggles Fentanyl to the U.S.
A liquid, made up of chemicals that help disguise the potent smell of fentanyl, is sprayed on a package.
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on August 2025
Zelensky Rejects Ceding Territory to Russia After Trump Suggests a Land Swap
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last month in Rome.
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on August 2025
What Lobsters and Chickens Reveal About Europe’s Trade Strategy
Freshly caught lobsters last year in Stonington, Maine.
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on August 2025
Netanyahu’s Plan for Gaza City Has Skeptics in Israeli Military
Al-Sabra neighborhood in central Gaza City last month. In a statement on Friday morning, Benjamin Netanyahu’s office stopped short of saying Israel would conquer the entire territory.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan Sign Peace Pledge at White House
President Trump and the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan met at the White House on Friday.
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on August 2025
War of Words Erupts Between Colombia and Peru Over Island in Amazon
The island of Santa Rosa de Yavarí, foreground, sits at a border shared by Colombia, Peru and Brazil in the Amazon rainforest.
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on August 2025
Vance and Lammy Mix Fishing and Foreign Policy at UK Estate
Britain’s foreign secretary, David Lammy, left, and Vice President JD Vance on Friday at Chevening House. Mr. Lammy and Mr. Vance have cultivated a personal relationship that predated their current jobs.
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Thomas
on August 2025
What to Know About the Israeli Hostages Still Held in Gaza
Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip attend a rally in Jerusalem on Thursday demanding their release and calling for an end to the war in Gaza.
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on August 2025
Putin Briefs Leaders of China and India on Talks With U.S. on Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin of Russia meeting with Ajit Doval, India’s national security adviser, in Moscow on Friday, in a photo released by Russian state media.
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on August 2025
Mexico’s President Says U.S. Forces Are Unwelcome in Her Country
President Trump directed the Pentagon to target drug cartels on Friday. If the Pentagon plans to deploy troops to Mexico, it could strain ties to their worst point in decades.
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on August 2025
Canada’s Girl Guides Suspend U.S. Trips Amid Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
The Peace Arch monument at the U.S.-Canada border in Surrey, British Columbia.
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on August 2025
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in the Florida Everglades Is Testing Environmental Law
A planned airport in the Everglades would have been the world’s biggest, but only one runway was built and it was rarely used.
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on August 2025
India’s Modi Left Soul-Searching After Failed Courtships of Xi and Trump
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeing relations with President Trump break down over issues including trade with Russia.
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on August 2025
New Tariff on ‘Transshipped’ Goods Mystifies Importers
In addition to an extra 40 percent tariff on goods that pass through more than one country, the White House is designing rules to apply higher charges on components that go through a similar transshipment before assembly.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels
President Trump ordered the State Department to label drug cartels as terrorist organizations after taking office in January.
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on August 2025
Germany Says It Will Suspend Military Exports to Israel for Use in Gaza
Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany last month. He said the country would stop exporting weapons to Israel that could be used in the Gaza Strip.
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on August 2025
Netanyahu Broadly Criticized at Home and Abroad After New Gaza Plan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Jerusalem last month. His office said the Israeli military “will prepare for taking control of Gaza City” while distributing aid to civilians “outside the combat zones.”
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on August 2025
Trump to Host Leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan for ‘Peace Signing’
A border crossing in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in 2023. It has been at the center of decades of conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Russian Strikes Kill 3 in Ukraine, Which May Be Left Out of Peace Talks
An explosion from a Russian drone strike lit up the sky over Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday.
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on August 2025
As Gaza Hunger Crisis Worsens, Israel Lets in Little Aid
Gazans waited to receive meals at a charity kitchen this month. Nearly one in three people in the territory is not eating for days at a time, the United Nations said.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Israel Says It’s Preparing to Take Control of Gaza City. What Does That Mean?
An Israeli armored fighting vehicle near the border with Gaza on Tuesday.
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on August 2025
Can Russia’s Economy Withstand Trump’s Threats to Impose Sanctions?
An open-air museum in Red Square commemorating the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. Amid budgetary strains, the Kremlin has protected military spending as the war in Ukraine goes on.
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Thomas
on August 2025
The U.S. Says Britain Is Chilling Free Speech. Many Britons Point the Finger Back.
Police officers at a protest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in London last week. Immigration has become a lightning rod in the debate over free speech in the U.K.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Congo’s Teens Brave Bombs, Rebels and Abduction to Play Hoops
Hundreds of teens still venture out in the Congolese city of Goma, recently taken over by rebels, to train at a youth basketball academy.
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Thomas
on August 2025
With Gaza City Plan, Netanyahu Risks Ending Up in Familiar Deadlock
A camp on the Gaza coast for displaced Palestinians. Many civilians in the enclave have been trapped in a dystopian nightmare by the Israeli military campaign.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Trump Wasn’t the First to Deport These Men, and He Won’t Be the Last
Bhutanese people, members of the harassed Lhotshampas ethnic minority, have lived in refugee camps in Nepal since the 1990s.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Should Soccer Star Son Heung-min Have Held an Umbrella for a Female Reporter?
Son Heung-min, center, before an exhibition match between Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United in Seoul on Sunday.
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Thomas
on August 2025
Big-Game Hunter Is Killed by Buffalo During Safari
Asher Watkins was pursuing a Cape buffalo in South Africa when it attacked and killed him.
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Thomas
on August 2025
An Unusual Soccer Finale in Italy Reveals Libya’s Frailties
A Starfish Has Captivated Argentina. It Didn’t Ask to Be Political.
Friday Briefing: Israel Approves Full Military Takeover of Gaza