Global Dispatch

Yalta, Crimea, last month. Roughly six million Ukrainians and Russians visited annually before Russia annexed the peninsula, but the numbers plummeted afterward and the nose-dived again with the invasion of Ukraine.

Posted by Thomas on June 2025

Gazans carrying relief supplies distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday.

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The U.S. Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, at Lancaster House in London on Monday as trade talks resumed between the United States and China.

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A Starlink satellite internet antenna in rural Brazil in 2024.

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Sheltering in a metro station in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, on Friday. Amid intensified bombardment, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has urged civilians to pay attention to air-raid warnings.

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A polling station in Rome on Sunday.

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Greta Thunberg and members of the crew of the Madleen in Catania, Italy, ahead of their departure.

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A tunnel near a major hospital in southern Gaza that leads to a tiny room where the Israeli military says a top Hamas militant commander was killed.

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Mr. Uribe, 39, has said that he intends to run for president.

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A man from Turkestan, who fought with the Syrian rebels who ousted the Assad regime, at his shop in Binnish, Syria. He is one of many foreign fighters whose future is in limbo.

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Mehdi Taremi, an Iranian soccer player, posing with fans after Iran defeated Qatar in a World Cup qualifier on Thursday. Iran, the first team from Asia to qualify for the World Cup, is on a list of 12 countries that President Trump banned from travel to the United States.

Posted by Thomas on June 2025

Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers of the Seventh Regiment going through physical tests at Camp Katsuren in Okinawa, Japan, last month.

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People walking by a mural of Ernest Wilimowski in May in Chorzow, Poland.

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A banner promoting the referendum on citizenship in Milan on Wednesday. Turnout must exceed 50 percent for the referendum to count; a majority is required for passage.

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National Guard troops in Los Angeles yesterday.

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A video shows people carrying Miguel Uribe Turbay after he was shot in Bogotá, Colombia, on Saturday.

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National Guard troops in Los Angeles yesterday.

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The Magura V7 unmanned marine vehicle being presented at an undisclosed location last month in Ukraine.

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A Russian airstrike on Friday in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russia has launched hundreds of drones and decoys across Ukraine since the end of May.

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In Ilulisaat, Greenland, early this year. President Emmanuel Macron of France will visit the Arctic island this month with the aim of “contributing to the reinforcement of European sovereignty.”

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The aftermath of an Israeli attack in Gaza City that killed and injured Palestinians, on Saturday, in Gaza.

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A firefighter extinguishing a blaze at a civilian plant after Russian attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Saturday.

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Some of the dozens of mannequins on sale at the Hudson’s Bay Company store in downtown Ottawa.

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Alfred Williamson, who is from Wales, was accepted to Harvard, making him the first person from his school to get into an Ivy League college and the first in his family to study in the United States.

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The Kremlin looming in the distance in February in Moscow.

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A food distribution line in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, in April. The territory is facing a hunger crisis.

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Outside the headquarters of the Federal Security Service, or F.S.B., in Moscow.

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There are about 1,400 Chinese students at the University of Texas’ Austin campus.

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China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last month in Moscow for Victory Day celebrations.

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Ghanaian student Helen Dekyem, photographed near the China Pharmaceutical University, where she is enrolled, in Nanjing, China, in 2023.

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People heading into the new Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong. The city is seeking to rebrand itself as the region’s events capital, emphasizing concerts and trade shows.

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He Tianying outside the White House on May 23. Mr. He is a member of an advisory body that seeks to broaden the Communist Party’s influence and solicit support from influential people in Chinese society.

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The Royal Courts of Justice, England’s High Court, in central London, detailed two recent cases in which fake material generated by artificial intelligence was used in written legal arguments.

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The entrance to Bull Mountain mine near Billings, Mont., in 2022.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a ceremony on the 81st anniversary of D-Day in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, on Friday.

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A government vehicle that was damaged in clashes with armed militias in Tripoli, Libya, last month.

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The headquarters of Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization, in Lyon, France.

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The king and the future knight.

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Palestinians carry aid packages in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Friday.

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A meeting with Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, in Japan in 2019, during President Trump’s first term. The leaders spoke by phone on Thursday after weeks of worsening tensions between Washington and Beijing.

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President Trump and Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany in the Oval Office on Thursday. They seemed chummy from the start.

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In Khartoum, the war-torn capital of Sudan, in March.

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A passenger train on the outskirts of Jammu, Kashmir, in May, part of a new line that has connected Kashmir by rail to the rest of India.

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President Trump in the Oval Office yesterday.

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“Terrorism is something that gets public attention,” Jonathan Hall said, while state threats are “much harder to conceptualize.”

Posted by Thomas on June 2025

Lee Jae-myung, South Korea’s new president, appearing at a post-election rally with his wife, Kim Hye-kyeong, in Seoul on Wednesday.

Posted by Thomas on June 2025

People taking shelter from Russian drone and missile strikes early Friday in an underground parking garage in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Marc Garneau in 2000, the year he took his third trip to space.

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Philippe Labro, 2004. “He wrote our popular, French, and universal history,” President Emmanuel Macron said in a tribute posted on X.

Posted by Thomas on June 2025

Smoke and fire erupting from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Thursday.

Posted by Thomas on June 2025

The United States and Israel are not members of the International Criminal Court and have long chafed at its efforts to prosecute officials in their governments and militaries.

Posted by Thomas on June 2025