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Spain Bakes in Summer-Like Heat, and Worries About What Comes Next

In Madrid, where it hit around 90 degrees Fahrenheit on Friday, schools were allowed to close early to avoid the heat. In Catalonia,...

In Uman, a mother holds out hope her children will still be found alive.

UMAN, Ukraine — Inna stood staring at what was left of her home on Friday, the building’s facade blown nearly completely off. Maybe...

Cease-Fire Is Extended in Sudan, but Bombardments and Gunfire Ensue

Civilians continued to flee renewed clashes in Sudan on Friday, as a three-day extension of an already-tenuous truce got off to a fitful...

Pranksters posed as Zelensky in a call with the Federal Reserve chairman.

WASHINGTON — Pranksters posing as President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine tricked the chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome H. Powell, into having a...

What I’m Reading: Wives and Muses Edition

You’ve probably noticed, if you read this column regularly, that I think a lot about the interplay between public and private interests: the...

The E.U. will keep letting in Ukrainian grains without tariffs.

BRUSSELS — Ukraine’s grains will continue to enter the European Union tariff-free for another year despite protests from neighbors such as Poland, which...

Venus the Influencer? An Italian Tourism Campaign Prompts Backlash.

If Italy’s tourism ministry hoped to make waves with a new marketing campaign promoting the country’s many wonders, it certainly hit the mark,...

BBC Chairman Resigns, Deepening Turmoil at Britain’s Broadcaster

The chairman of BBC’s board, Richard Sharp, resigned on Friday after an investigation concluded that he failed to disclose his involvement in arranging...

‘Lord Commander’ of the DMZ Has Seen It All on the Korean Frontier

Lt. Cmdr. D.E. McShane was holding his plane ticket home to begin his retirement in 2019 when President ​Donald J. ​Trump announced that...

Australia Eyes a Fraught Pivot from Coal Power to Renewables

The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email.When it was first announced in...

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