With No Clear Off-Ramp, Israel’s War With Iran May Last Weeks, Not Days
Damage from an Iranian missile attack in Rehovot, Israel, on Sunday morning.
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U.S. Investigators Arrive at Scene of Plane Crash in India
The crash site in Ahmedabad, India, on Friday. The recorders could hold information about what happened leading up to the disaster.
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France’s Macron Faces Dilemma With Intention to Recognize Palestinian State
In recent months, President Emmanuel Macron of France has spoken of “a moral duty and political requirement” to recognize a Palestinian state.
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Ukraine Takes First Step Toward Carrying Out Minerals Deal With U.S.
In a handout image from Ukraine’s government, Scott Bessent, the U.S. Treasury secretary, and Yulia Svyrydenko, the Ukrainian economy minister, signed the minerals deal in Washington in April.
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Turning a Page, Germans Try Celebrating Their Recent Veterans
Taking a selfie at Germany’s first Veterans Day celebration in Berlin on Sunday.
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UK Spy Agency MI6 Appoints First Female Chief in 116-Year History
Blaise Metreweli, named the next chief of MI6, in a photograph supplied by the British Foreign Office. She will lead the organization where she has worked for more than 25 years.
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What to Know About the G7 Summit in Canada
Then-Chancellor Angela Merkel during a meeting with President Trump and other leaders at the 2018 G7 meeting in Canada, in a photograph released by the German government.
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In Mexico, Thousands Ran for Office, Few Voted and One Party Dominated It All
Mexico’s Supreme Court building in Mexico City. Mexico’s shift away from an appointment-based system to the election of judges has, at least for now, amounted to a crucial step in Morena’s consolidation of power.
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Heat of Air India Crash Hinders DNA Identification, Agonizing Relatives
Family members mourned at the funeral on Sunday for Shubham Modi and Shagun Modi, who were killed in the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday.
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Can Canada Beef Up Its Military After Decades of Atrophy?
Canadian soldiers during a training exercise in March. Prime Minister Mark Carney has not specified where the money for increased military spending would come from.
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Democrat Seeks to Limit Trump’s War Powers Amid Middle East Escalation
Senator Tim Kaine introduced a resolution that would require explicit congressional authorization or a formal declaration of war before U.S. forces could engage in hostilities against Iran.
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Iranians Weigh Escaping Tehran as Israeli Strikes Continue
Iranians waiting in traffic as they sought to leave Tehran on Sunday.
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Iran Has Sustained Blow After Blow Since October 2023
People gathered on top of a hill watching the smoke in Tehran on Friday. Israel has been attacking the city for days.
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Business Lobbyists Scramble to Kill $100 Billion ‘Revenge Tax’
Legislation being advanced by Republicans in Congress would substantially increase the tax bills for many foreign companies that operate in the United States, raising more than $100 billion over a decade.
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Walls Are Put Up Walls Around Israeli Displays at French Weapons Show
The closed Elbit Systems stand at the Paris Air Show on Monday.
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Iran’s nuclear sites have not been damaged further, the U.N.’s atomic agency says.
A satellite image of the Natanz nuclear enrichment site in central Iran on Sunday after multiple buildings were destroyed by Israeli airstrikes.
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‘We couldn’t breathe’: An Israeli city wakes up to carnage.
Petah Tikva, in central Israel, sustained some of the worst damage in an Iranian missile attack early on Monday.
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Pangolins Should Receive Endangered Protections, U.S. Officials Say
A pangolin looking for food on a private property in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2019.
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What Is Iran’s Quds Force?
Gen. Esmail Ghaani, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, in Tehran in October.
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Israel Closed its Airspace After Attacking Iran, Leaving Thousands of Israelis Stranded Abroad
The Ben Gurion airport, which serves Tel Aviv, was largely empty on Friday after flights were canceled following Israel’s attack on Iran.
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Iranian Strikes Kill at Least 8 in Israel, Including 4 in Petah Tikva
A damaged building in Petah Tikva, Israel, on Monday.
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Monday Briefing: Iran-Israel Conflict Continues
Smoke rising in Tehran yesterday after Israeli strikes.
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Israel appears to have destroyed a refueling plane in Iran’s far east, satellite imagery and video shows.
The smaller plane, seen on the right, is a Boeing 707, parked where a large fire was seen a few hours after this image was captured.
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As Trump Returns to G7, Rift With Allies Is Even Deeper
White House officials have said little about goals for the summit, but they are facing a self-imposed deadline of early July to reach trade deals.
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Monday Briefing: Israel and Iran Traded Missile Strikes
After an attack on an oil refinery in Tehran yesterday.
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Israel and Iran Trade Attacks as Toll From Conflict Mounts
Smoke rising from explosions in Tehran on Sunday after Israeli strikes.
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Israel Diminished Iran’s Air Defenses in Rounds of Strikes
Israeli strikes in Tehran on Sunday. The attacks have highlighted Iran’s lack of preparedness for war.
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Tehran Residents Describe Fear, Uncertainty
Some residents of Tehran worried about how the conflict would intensify.
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Syrian General Questioned in Case of Austin Tice, Missing American Journalist
The parents of the American journalist Austin Tice during a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2018.
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Israel Wakes Up to More Casualties After Second Night of Fighting
A building damaged by an Iranian missile attack in Bat Yam, Israel, on Sunday.
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What to Know About the New Head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi speaking in Tehran last year. He has served as defense and interior minister, and the United States and others have imposed sanctions on him for human rights violations.
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Diplomacy With Iran Is Damaged, Not Dead
Photographs of some of the officials and military leaders killed during Israel’s attack on Iran, in Tehran on Friday.
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A Takeoff, a Mayday Call, and 2 Air India Pilots Who Never Made it Home
The Air India flight crashed into a building moments after taking off from the airport in Ahmedabad, a city in western India. On Saturday, workers tried to extract the plane tail from the wreckage.
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Israel’s Attack in Iran Echoes Its Strategy Against Hezbollah
A rally in Tehran in support of the Iranian government on Saturday following attacks by Israel.
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What to Know About Iran’s Ballistic Missiles and the Attacks on Israel
Missiles fired from Iran in the sky over Jerusalem, on Saturday.
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Putin condemns Israel’s attack in call with Trump and offers to mediate.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, seen here in photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, told President Trump that he feared the conflict between Israel and Iran could escalate unpredictably, according to a Kremlin aide.
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Britain Agrees to Open New Inquiry Into Child Sex Abuse
Prime Minister Keir Starmer had faced criticism for refusing to set up a comprehensive national investigation with wide-ranging powers into the abuse by so-called grooming gangs of men.
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‘I Was Afraid I’d Die’: Iran’s Missiles Rained Down on Tel Aviv
Rescue workers at the site of an Iranian attack in Rishon LeZion, Israel, on Saturday.
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Israel Expands Attack to Include Iran’s Oil and Gas Industry
A natural gas refinery at the South Pars gas field in Bushehr Province, Iran, in 2019.
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Defying Calls for De-Escalation, Israel and Iran Exchange Deadly Fire
Rescue workers scanned the impact of an Iranian missile in Rishon LeZion, Israel, on Saturday.
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Israel and Ukraine Show How Drone Smuggling Is Powerful New War Technique
People gathered on a hilltop in Tehran on Friday, after attacks by Israel.
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At U.N. Conference, Countries Inch Toward Ocean Protection Goal
A reef in waters off Tahiti, French Polynesia. Countries and territories including Chile, Colombia and others pledged 20 new marine protected areas on Friday.
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on June 2025
Gazans Worry Israel-Iran Conflict Will Shift World’s Attention From Their Plight
Palestinians displaced by the war walking through a camp in the port area of Gaza City earlier this month.
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Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, 95, Dies; Led Nicaragua After Civil War
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro received the presidential sash from Nicaragua’s outgoing leader, Daniel Ortega, in April 1990. Her election stunned many people in Nicaragua and around the world.
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2 Men Are Sentenced in Theft of Golden Toilet
A fully functioning gold toilet, made by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, was stolen from a palace in England in 2019.
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Conference on Palestinian Statehood Postponed Amid Israel-Iran Fighting
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, left, and President Emmanuel Macron of France had been set to be co-chairmen of the conference.
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on June 2025
Iranians turn to one another amid a dearth of official guidance.
As Israel and Iran Continue to Bomb Each Other, New Yorkers Fear for Their Loved Ones
Live Updates: Israel Strikes Iranian State TV as It Expands Targets in Tehran
Sahel Crisis Goes Coastal as Insurgents Push Toward the Atlantic
Why Eight Mennonite Families Left Mexico for Angola
‘Golden Share’ in U.S. Steel Gives Trump Extraordinary Control
Two Major Energy Facilities in Tehran Hit in Israeli Strikes