Iran’s Battered Leaders Emerge From War Confident — and With New Cards
A woman waving an Iranian flag in Tehran. Iran’s leadership is entering into renewed negotiations after the cease-fire with a new set of demands.
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A Cease-Fire for Now in Iran, but a Blow to American Credibility
Iranian demonstrators burning a U.S. flag in Tehran on Wednesday after the announcement of a two-week cease-fire.
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Zelensky Sees Small Window for Peace
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in the city of Slovyansk, Ukraine, last month.
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137-Year-Old Piece of Eiffel Tower to Be Auctioned in Paris
Gustave Eiffel, left, and a friend on the spiral staircase of the newly built Eiffel Tower in 1889.
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A Newspaper Is Raided and a Rights Group Outlawed Amid Kremlin Crackdown
Dmitry Muratov, a Nobel laureate, during a meeting at Novaya Gazeta’s office in Moscow, Russia, in 2025.
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What to Know About the U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire
Pro-government demonstrators in Tehran early on Wednesday, after the cease-fire was announced.
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3 Russian Submarines Detected Near Britain Were Spying, U.K. Says
Defense Secretary John Healey said on Thursday that the U.K. military operation “reinforces the seriousness with which we take the Russian threat.”
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North Korea Tests New Weapons, Drawing Lessons from Iran War
File footage of a North Korea missile launch shown at a train station in Seoul on Wednesday.
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Amid U.S.-Iran Negotiations, Netanyahu’s Interests May Conflict With Trump’s
At an underground bomb shelter being used as a hospital in Haifa, Israel, on Thursday, a television showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the nation.
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In Germany’s East, the Far Right Could Soon Take Power. This Is Its Plan.
Supporters of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party at the party’s election campaign launch in Halle, Germany, in January of last year,
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A Maker of Pet Toys in Ukraine Turns to Killer Drones
A drone with a weighted dummy explosive attached.
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No, Britain Is Not Having a Christian Revival
Churches like the St. Nicholas in Pluckley were once the beating heart of every British village, but have declined in number.
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Netanyahu Says He Ordered Israel to Hold Talks With Lebanon About Disarming Hezbollah
Destruction in Beirut on Thursday, a day after Israel launched an intense wave of attacks on Lebanon.
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Israel Says It Will Talk With Lebanon but Gives No Sign of a Cease-Fire There
Damage on Thursday in Beirut, which the Israeli military continued to bombard.
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Trump Officials Push Allies to Pursue Antifa and Far Left as Terrorist Threats
Left-wing protesters clashing with police in Milan in February. A State Department official said the episode showed why Western governments must combat “antifa and far-left terrorism.”
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I.M.F. Says Iran War Will Drag Global Growth Lower
Buildings of Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran damaged by airstrikes last week. The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that the war would cause slower growth in the world economy this year.
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European Leaders Demand That U.S. Cease-Fire With Iran Include Lebanon
Bodies in a hospital morgue after Israel launched a deadly wave of attacks in Lebanon that killed more than 200 people on Wednesday.
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What to Know About Israel’s Strikes on Lebanon
A rescue worker on Thursday at one of the sites in Beirut, Lebanon, that Israel bombed.
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Trump Again Hits Out at NATO Over Iran War
President Trump complained on Wednesday that NATO had refused to participate in the war in Iran and help to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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Lebanon Mourns After Israeli Onslaught Kills More Than 300 People
Rescue workers at the site of an airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday.
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Michigan Man Is Arrested in Disappearance of Wife in Bahamas
Boats anchored near Elbow Cay in the Bahamas.
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Disagreement Over Lebanon’s Inclusion in Cease-Fire Threatens to Unravel It
The skies in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, were smoky in the aftermath of multiple airstrikes by Israel on Wednesday.
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Trump Finds Himself With Fragile Iran Cease-Fire After the Scramble to Make a Deal
President Trump’s efforts to circumvent the reality on the ground in the Middle East and move into a peace process have been hampered by an adversary that continues to hold leverage.
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Vance Says Lebanon Was Never Part of U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire Deal
Vice President JD Vance speaking to reporters in Budapest, on Wednesday.
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White House Knew About Pakistan’s Cease-Fire Post on X Before It Was Sent
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan at the White House to meet President Trump in September.
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White House Secures Foreign Steel for Trump’s Ballroom Project
The construction site for the new White House ballroom last month.
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A Shaky Truce
A pro-government demonstration in Tehran yesterday.
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How War in the Middle East Paralyzed an Asian Food Giant
A boat transporting newly harvested rice in My Thanh Ward, Dong Thap Province, Vietnam, in late March.
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Has Trump Met His War Goals in Iran?
President Trump announced Wednesday he would move forward with diplomacy during a tenuous two-week cease-fire with Iran.
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Uncertainty Clouds Cease-Fire as Lebanon and Gulf States Are Struck
Iranians celebrating the cease-fire in Tehran on Wednesday.
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Canada’s Mark Carney Poised to Secure Liberal Party Majority After Gladu’s Defection
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada during a visit to Norway last month.
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For Trump, Resuming Combat in Iran Would Be Risky, Even if Cease-Fire Expires
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday declared that the Iranians had been “humiliated and demoralized.”
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Freed French Citizens Return From Iran: ‘We Were State Hostages’
Jacques Paris and Cécile Kohler outside the Élysée Palace in Paris on Wednesday. Ms. Kohler said they went through “daily horror” in Evin prison, a notorious facility in Tehran.
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What Is In Iran’s 10-Point Proposal, and How Does It Compare to U.S. Demands?
Iran’s 10-point peace plan presented to American officials included reparations for the damage it has suffered in the war.
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What Trump Has Accomplished in Iran After 5 Weeks of War
President Trump went to war with Iran pledging to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons.
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Greece Plans to Block Social Media for Children Under 15
Children checking their tablets and smartphones at a summer camp in Agios Andreas, Greece, last year.
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Hegseth Demands Iran Turn Over Uranium Stockpiles
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, left, and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff, held a news conference at the Pentagon on Wednesday, hours into a cease-fire between the United States and Iran.
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World leaders welcome the Iran cease-fire but want the Strait of Hormuz opened soon.
Pro-government demonstrators in Iran react to the announcement of the cease-fire on Wednesday.
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How Pakistan Became Key Mediator Between U.S. and Iran
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan with President Trump at a summit in Egypt last year.
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Cease-Fire Leaves Questions Over Fate of Iran’s Uranium
President Trump has said that the United States keeps Iran’s nuclear sites under “intense satellite surveillance” and would strike them again if Iran moved to extract the enriched uranium.
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War Decimated Iran’s Leadership and Pushed Up a New Generation
A funeral ceremony for Alireza Tangsiri, the head of the navy for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and others killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes, earlier this month.
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Iran Cease-Fire Does Little to Convince Netanyahu’s Critics in Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing elections before the end of October, has much riding on how Israelis perceive the outcome of the war.
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Delta Expects Strong Profit Despite Higher Fuel Costs
Delta Air Lines said it expected to earn a profit of about $1 billion, before taxes, in the quarter ending in June.
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Gulf Nations Face New Reality, Whether Cease-Fire Holds or Not
Smoke rising from Dubai’s international airport after an attack last month.
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China Pressed Iran Toward Cease-Fire, Iranian Officials Say
Beijing backed Iran in vetoing a Security Council resolution to open the Strait of Hormuz, at the United Nations on Tuesday.
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Israel Says Iran Cease-Fire Does Not Extend to Lebanon and Continues Strikes
Damage in a neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon, after an Israeli strike on Sunday.
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Even as They Praise Iran Cease-Fire, World Leaders Are Whipsawed by Trump
President Trump addresses the media at the White House on Monday.
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