Global Dispatch

Smoke rising from a government building on Sunday in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Tents housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City earlier this week. Israel is preparing for a major attack on Gaza City, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are living.

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U.S. volunteer soldier Zachery Miller, second from left, with fellow foreign solders after a live fire exercise at a military ground in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, in July.

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A training session on Saturday ahead of the choosing of a new Syrian Parliament in Damascus.

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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan has been under intense pressure from within his own party to step down.

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A crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday to celebrate the naming of two new saints. A likeness of one, Carlo Acutis, is shown.

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Abdallah Abu Samra in front of the tent where he lives in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, in February.

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Police officers detain a demonstrator at the “Lift The Ban” rally at Parliament Square in London, on Saturday.

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Using a smartphone in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Thursday, the day a compliance deadline for social media companies expired.

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Heavy machinery at a standstill at the site of an electric vehicle battery plant co-owned by Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution, in Ellabell, Ga., on Friday.

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Over 12 days of war in June, more than 1,000 Iranians were killed in Israeli attacks. Most were civilians.

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Tributes to victims of the funicular accident in Lisbon, on Friday.

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Dr. Aseem Malhotra at the Reform U.K. party conference at the NEC Birmingham, England, on Saturday.

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A priest conducting a mass burial ceremony of people killed during World War II in the now-abandoned, formerly ethnic Polish village of Puzhnyky, Ukraine, on Saturday.

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At Flushing Meadows.

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An Air Canada flight attendant walks through the terminal at Pierre-Elliott Trudeau Airport in Montreal last month.

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L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics passed through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday as part of the Roman Catholic Church’s Year of Jubilee.

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A frigate under construction in Glasgow, Scotland, on Thursday. Norway has signed a $13.5 billion deal to buy at least five such warships from British shipbuilders.

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Palestinians fleeing Gaza City after the Israeli military intensified its attacks on the area this week.

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If a plan by its maker proceeds, most Crown Royal will no longer be bottled in Canada

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A Hyundai plant in Ellabell, Ga., in March. On Thursday, U.S. law enforcement officers arrested hundreds of South Korean nationals at a neighboring construction site owned by Hyundai and LG.

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Angela Rayner in March at 10 Downing Street in London. Her resignation as Britain’s deputy prime minister came after two weeks of questions about her tax problems.

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Karina Milei, the sister of Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, is considered perhaps the second most powerful person in the country and helped catapult him to office.

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Shark attacks are relatively common in Australia.

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A photo provided by the Australian Defense Force of an MQ-28A Ghost Bat in Woomera, South Australia, on Friday.

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A delivery driver drives in front of the Colloseum in Rome

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Shinobu Kamiyama, center, playing the tormented ghost of a famously beautiful woman in the play “Tamakazura” at Ushio Shrine on Sado Island, Japan. Noh dramas often center on supernatural visitations.

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In Rome, couriers and food carriers have become frontline workers during heat waves. Glovo’s attempt to provide drivers with bonuses for working in the heat backfired in Italy last month.

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Chris Wright, the energy secretary, also said, “We don’t want to be in the race for the most expensive electricity in the world.”

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Police officer stand outside Brazil’s Supreme Court in Brasília on Wednesday.

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The Navy warship U.S.S. Sampson docked at the Amador International Cruise Terminal in Panama City last month.

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Nigel Farage, the leader of the right wing populist Reform U.K. party, after delivering his speech at the party’s conference in Birmingham, England on Friday.

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Dispensing with royal decorum, the duchess embraced Jana Novotna after she lost the 1993 Wimbledon women’s final to Steffi Graf.

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Over the years, Marianne Smyth has been accused of using deceptions to swindle hefty sums of money in schemes that led to two felony convictions in the U.S.

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An Israeli strike hit the Mushtaha Tower in Gaza City on Friday. The Israeli military said Hamas used the building for intelligence-gathering, but Hamas denied the accusation.

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Angela Rayner in July. As deputy prime minister, she had come to be seen as a powerful ally of Keir Starmer and a bridge to the left of the Labour Party.

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Hamas fighters in southern Gaza stood guard as the group handed over the bodies of Israeli prisoners as part of an exchange deal in February.

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A grape picker in a vineyard during the Champagne harvest in Pierry, France, in 2024. The first rule of Champagne is that only producers using local grapes can claim that name.

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Some of the satellite technology at risk of being defunded is attached to the International Space Station.

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An image hanging from the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican of Carlo Acutis, a British-born Italian boy who will become the first millennial to be made a Catholic saint.

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President Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, had an erratic relationship. They met on Sentosa Island in Singapore in 2018.

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Anutin Charnvirakul arriving at Parliament in Bangkok on Friday.

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A photo released by Russian state media showing President Vladimir V. Putin, center, at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Friday.

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Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, leaving after meeting with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, in Beijing on Thursday. It was their sixth summit.

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Volodymyr Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron in Paris yesterday.

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After a Russian attack on the Kharkiv area of Ukraine in July. Russian forces continue to bombard Ukraine, including killing civilians.

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George Finch, left, leader of Warwickshire County Council, appearing at a news conference alongside Reform U.K.’s leader, Nigel Farage, last month.

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Thaksin Shinawatra in Bangkok last week. His political dynasty is in a diminished state.

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Volodymyr Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron in Paris yesterday.

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A cutaway illustration of the modern Martian interior. A meteor striking one side of the planet’s surface, left, creates seismic waves that are detected by NASA’s InSight lander, right.

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Hezbollah supporters marching during Ashoura, a Shiite Muslim holiday, near Beirut in July.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, with President Daniel Noboa of Ecuador at the presidential palace in Quito. The two countries discussed taking on criminal groups.

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Receiving a vaccination against Ebola in 2019 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A team, joined by World Health Organization personnel, has been deployed to monitor the latest outbreak.

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