Ukrainians have worried about a peace accord being struck without them. Mr. Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia are set to meet this week.
Images of starving children spurred Britain, France and Germany to a tougher stance. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was undeterred.
Times reporters documented how fentanyl was concealed by Mexico’s most powerful criminal syndicate, which is adapting amid a crackdown by two governments.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine’s comments risk angering President Trump, who has made a peace deal one of his signature foreign policy goals.
Assaults on Ukraine have intensified even as President Trump has threatened new sanctions. But Russia’s gains aren’t translating into a breakthrough, experts say.
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Time and again, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to defeat Hamas by force. The decision to capture Gaza City repeats a strategy that has failed in the past.
President Trump’s demand for college admissions data enters a debate over how grades and test scores should be weighed against less quantitative measures.
The Russian economy was slowing even before President Trump’s latest threats. But the Kremlin has enough money to keep fighting in Ukraine.
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Images of starving Palestinians have appeared with increasing insistency across the world’s media over the past few weeks. Deciding whose child and which picture best illustrates the territory’s slide into famine is a grim task. Five-year-old Lana Salih Juha, on this week’s cover, weighed just 8kg when this photograph was taken in Gaza City on 28 July.
As Malak A Tantesh reports from Gaza for this week’s big story, Lana’s parents are among many inside the territory forced to watch children waste away as deliberate aid restrictions from Israel mean hunger is becoming a killer. It was, as Malak reports, a week when two milestones were reached: a Palestinian official record of 60,000 deaths and the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a group of UN and aid organisations, stating that the whole population of 2.2 people were now living in a state of famine.
Spotlight | Transatlantic barbs traded over social media safety
The UK’s new law restricting under-18s’ internet access has only just come into force but already US tech giants and rightwing commentators are bolstering Nigel Farage’s efforts to turn restriction into a free speech issue, reports Dan Milmo
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The legendary folk singer’s daughter and granddaughter tell Dave Simpson how they became custodians of his vast archive, including tracks that have now been released
Few major trading partners have been spared the import taxes, which have already disrupted supply chains and are expected to drive up prices for Americans.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia sees direct talks with President Trump as essential to achieving his ultimate aims in Ukraine.
The census, which is mandated by the Constitution, is next due in 2030. President Trump tried a similar move during his first term, but was unsuccessful.
Demanded by President Trump, the public release of data on test scores and race could wind up making wealth even more influential in admissions.
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The vaccines, first used for Covid-19, can be developed quickly and altered as a virus changes. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been critical of the technology.
Surgeons have made significant strides in tending to the war’s wounded, particularly through the use of 3-D printing.
The fighting has stopped in Sweida, three weeks after a deadly eruption of violence. But the area remains tense as clashes continue beyond the city.
President Trump has ratcheted up pressure over India’s purchases of Russian oil. India has said its treatment is “unjustified and unreasonable.”
The university was open to President Trump’s demand of $500 million, but a $50 million settlement with Brown has prompted new debates in Cambridge, Mass.
A decline in the number of children and rise in the number of choices has caused some public schools to try new strategies to recruit students.
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