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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, in Berlin last week, is to meet with President Trump in Washington on Monday.

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Protesters attending a mass rally in Tel Aviv on Sunday.

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Air Canada flight attendants striking on Saturday at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, British Columbia.

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Trying to cool off this month. France has recently been experiencing its second heat wave of the summer.

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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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Sergei Tikhanovsky, a Belarusian opposition activist, last week during a “Freedom March for Belarus” in Warsaw.

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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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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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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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Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, on Sunday in Brussels.

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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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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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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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Oil executives and cabinet members, including energy secretary Chris Wright, second from left, a gas facility this year. Mr. Wright has criticized the International Energy Agency.

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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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Protesters blocked the main highway connecting Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Sunday.

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President Vladimir Putin during a news conference at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday.

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Fadi Alzant, 6, arrived with his mother from Gaza for emergency medical treatment in New York in May.

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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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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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“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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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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President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at their news conference in Alaska on Friday.

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Striking flight attendants outside Toronto Pearson International Airport on Saturday.

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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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President Vladimir V. Putin and President Trump at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage on Friday.

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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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President Trump speaking with reporters on Air Force One on his way to Alaska on Friday.

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Family members of hostages held in Gaza protesting in Tel Aviv last week.

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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Trump at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage on Friday.

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The Morrin Cultural Centre is home to Quebec City’s only English-language library.

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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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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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Roger Manderscheid of Orange County, Calif., tried to solve the Brother’s Key puzzle.

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President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska on Friday.

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The International Criminal Court has accused President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia of war crimes.

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Awnings span the gaps between buildings, cooling busy streets beneath.

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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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President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin during a joint news conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.

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President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia during a joint address in Anchorage on Friday.

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President Vladimir V. Putin and President Trump on Friday. They exchanged pleasantries, but revealed few details about their talks.

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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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Sean Hannity of Fox News is set to interview President Trump in Anchorage on Friday.

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A screen in Manhattan showing President Trump with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Alaska on Friday.

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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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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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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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Passengers waiting at an Air Canada check-in counter at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada on Friday.

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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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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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Kaltum Mohammad with her daughter, Fatima, in the Gubio internally displaced persons camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria, in November.

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President Trump meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018.

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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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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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