Beyond Borders

An Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon last week. Israel has conducted near-daily strikes in southern Lebanon since it agreed to a cease-fire in November.

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Emergency responders with the Syrian Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets, near the town of Rabia, in the Latakia countryside of Syria, late Sunday.

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Jordan Bardella, the National Rally’s president, accused the French authorities of harassment and called a raid on his party’s offices a threat to “pluralism and democratic change.”

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People look on near the Plage des Corbieres, on the outskirts of Marseille in southern France on Tuesday.

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An Israeli military vehicle driving in March along the buffer zone separating Israeli and Syrian forces in the Golan Heights.

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A section of Flight MH17 after it was shot down in 2014 over eastern Ukraine.

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Ukrainian officials collect pieces of an exploded Russian drone after multiple strikes on Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday.

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South Korea’s Unification Ministry released this photo, which it said showed fishermen returning to North Korean waters on Wednesday.

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Taking shelter Tuesday night inside a Kyiv metro station during an air raid alert during a Russian attack on Ukraine.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and President Trump during a Group of 7 meeting last month in Kananaskis, Canada.

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Seoul in June, when the rainy season would typically begin.

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Office workers and security personnel standing in the street in Guatemala City after an earthquake on Tuesday.

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Yersinia pestis, the microbe that causes plague. DNA in human fossils has revealed a surge in the disease about 5,000 years ago.

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A man dropped off trash at a garbage collection site last week in Philadelphia.

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A rare earths factory in La Rochelle, France.

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The sun rising in Paris on July 1, when temperatures in the city hit 99 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Ukrainian rescue workers carry the body of a victim of a Russian air bombing from an apartment building in Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, last month.

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Protesters at a barricade in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday.

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The Bayeux Tapestry, a large embroidery that chronicles the Norman Conquest of England, on display in Bayeux, France. It will be shown at the British Museum in London from September 2026 to July 2027.

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Inmates at the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a maximum-security prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in March.

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A rare earths factory in La Rochelle, France.

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In a cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday, President Trump used the term “deal” to refer to arrangements that other countries had not consented to at all.

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King Charles speaking at the state banquet for Emmanuel Macron, president of France, at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.

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The person or people impersonating Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent messages to at least five people outside the State Department.

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A woman walking past an abandoned military outpost near Ghazni, Afghanistan, in December 2021.

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The Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Eternity C in Split, Croatia, in 2023. It was attacked on Monday.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents President Donald Trump a letter nominating him for Nobel Peace Prize as they meet for dinner at the White House on Monday.

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As part of a terrorism investigation, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police released a photo showing people engaged in military-style training.

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Hide, a Michelin-starred restaurant in London, was the target of an arson plot directed by Russian operatives.

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Damage after a Russian missile attack in Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine, last month.

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Displaced Palestinians at a tent camp in Gaza City last month. Officials from Israel and Hamas have been negotiating for a possible cease-fire.

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A fire in Narbonne, southern France, on Monday. More than 1,000 firefighters have been working to bring the blaze under control.

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Flight operations were temporarily suspended at Milan Bergamo Airport on Tuesday morning, officials said.

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Mr. Tebbit with Mrs. Thatcher in 1987, waving to supporters from the Conservative Party headquarters in London, after claiming victory in the general election.

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The site of a nitrogen leak in Georgia that killed six workers in 2021. The federal investigative team that determined the cause could face Trump administration cuts.

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A demining team clearing a field in 2023 in Makariv, Ukraine, an area near Kyiv that was occupied by Russian forces during the early months of the war.

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Damage caused by flooding on the Bhotekoshi River, north of Kathmandu, Nepal, on Tuesday.

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Jorge H. Martínez, the owner of Micro Partes, at his factory in Monterrey, Mexico.

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A rare earth factory in La Rochelle, France, owned by the Belgium-based company Solvay. The plant produces crucial materials needed to produce modern cars, wind turbines and military equipment.

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Israeli military vehicles in the Gaza Strip on Sunday.

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New recruits of the Bamar People’s Liberation Army during their first day of training in 2024.

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The Oloffson Hotel, an example of gingerbread house architecture, was constructed in the late 19th century as a private home and played a key role in Graham Greene’s novel “The Comedians.”

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The BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro on Monday. The group issued a thinly-veiled rebuke of President Trump’s tariff battle.

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A protester lighting an aerosol can during a march against gentrification in Mexico City on Friday.

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President Trump meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for dinner at the White House on Monday.

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Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission’s president, speaking before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Monday.

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Returnees cross the border from Iran into Islam Qala, Afghanistan on Thursday.

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President Trump is continuing to impose or threaten tariffs on Japan’s and South Korea’s major exports, including cars, steel and electronics.

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Immigration advocates attending a vigil outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Miami in June 2023.

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Roman Starovoyt, the Russian transport minister, arriving for a meeting at the Kremlin in May.

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The coroner read her findings before residents in a dusty courtyard lined with gum trees, just a few streets away from the red-walled house belonging to the victim’s grandmother, where he was killed.

Posted by Thomas on July 2025