Canada Fires Back in Trade War Against Trump With Up to 50% Tariffs
The U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Plant in Clairton, Pa. Canada has announced it will impose retaliatory tariffs of up to 50 percent on hundreds of American products including steel.
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Iran May Have Little to Lose as U.S. Tries to Squeeze Its Economy
Drivers waiting at a taxi station in Tehran last month.
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Christian Convert Who Fled Iran and Was Deported By Trump Finds New Home
Artemis Ghasemzadeh at her new home on Denman Island near Vancouver.
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What Happened to the Coveted Western Tanks Sent to Ukraine?
Soldiers replacing the engine of a Leopard tank at a repair and storage facility in the Kharkiv region last month.
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Israeli Lawmaker Smashes Palestinian Monument in West Bank
The damaged Palestinian monument in the West Bank village of Madama on Tuesday.
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How U.S.-Canada Tariff Negotiations Turned Into an All-Out Trade War
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada speaking about the trade dispute with the United States on Monday at the Davie Shipyard in Levis, Quebec.
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Tornado Rips Through Towns in Southern France
Cleaning up after the tornado in Pomas, southwestern France, on Tuesday.
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U.S. Removes Syria From Its List of Terrorism Sponsors
A small market in Homs, Syria, in 2025, with the scars of the civil war evident.
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What We Know About Australia’s Bird Flu, Which Has Crossed Over to Mammals
A penguin getting vaccinated on Philip Island, Australia, on Sunday.
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Trump Administration to Return Diplomats to Middle East Embassies
The U.S. Embassy in Beirut will be the first to see staff return, according to State Department documents.
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Chinese Artist Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Mao Sculptures
Gao Zhen, left, and Gao Qiang, with their artwork, “Mao’s Guilt,” in Beijing in 2009.
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Australia Bans Generative A.I. From Official Music Charts
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), which oversees the charts of the country’s most popular music, said the changes will apply from Friday.
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‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It’: Early Harvest Rattles France’s Wine Industry
Harvesting grapes in the Champagne region of France last week.
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‘I’m Fine With My Body’: Danish Leader Responds to Unsolicited Beauty Advice
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Copenhagen last year. Elected at 41, she is the youngest person in Danish history to be prime minister.
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U.S. Tariffs Could Price Canadian Firms Out of U.S. and Threaten Thousands of Jobs
Harvested logs in British Columbia in 2023. Canada’s forestry industry may be hit particularly hard by the latest American tariffs.
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Man Who Told of a Childhood With Wolves Dies at 80
Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, right, in Madrid in 2010 at the premiere of “Among Wolves,” a film based on his life, with Juan José Ballesta, left, and Manuel Camacho, the actors who played him as an adult and child.
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Iran Pledges to Defy Trump’s Economic Sanctions
Motorists drive past an anti-American billboard in Tehran on Monday. President Trump has threatened Iran with “economic warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale.”
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Syria and Israel Hold U.S.-Mediated Talks to Try to Ease Tensions
The Abu al-Duhur air base in northwestern Syria last week after Israeli strikes.
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U.S. Marines Cancel Drill With South Korea, Citing Iran War Demands
South Korean marines participate in the Ssangyong, or “Twin Dragons,” exercise in Pohang, South Korea, in 2024.
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UK Prime Minister Burnham Arrives in Ukraine as Russia Amps Up Warnings
Prime Minister Andy Burnham of Britain on Monday at the tomb of the unknown soldier at Ukraine’s national military memorial cemetery in Hatne, southwest of Kyiv.
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Some of Russia’s A.I. Drones Are Powered by Nvidia Microcomputers, Ukrainian Officials Say
A Nvidia Jetson Orin minicomputer that Ukrainian officials say was found in an autonomous drone that Russia recently tested in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
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Iceland’s Murder Rate Is Off the Charts (in Its Books, at Least)
Crime novels on display in a bookstore in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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As El Niño Dries Indonesia, Wildfires Intensify
A firefighter battles a wildfire in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra, Indonesia, earlier this month. This fire season, the country has had an unusually high number of hot spots, according to one estimate.
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The Price of Bread
A combine harvester in Seeluebbe, Germany, this month.
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Zelensky Says His Ex-Defense Minister Was Wrong to Call for Elections
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine this month in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Iran Warns Gulf States Not to Join Trump’s Economic War
Mohsen Rezaei, Iran’s new security chief, last month in Tehran. Though hostilities have largely ceased, the United States and Iran are locked in an economic standoff.
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A Murder Trial in Massachusetts
A close-up of Lindsay Clancy in court on Friday.
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U.S.-Canada Trade War: What to Know About Tariffs and the Negotiations
In a powerful speech on Saturday, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said the country was under attack by President Trump’s tariffs and “at war” with the United States.
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Echoing Trump, Latin America’s Leaders Boost Allies Across Borders
President Javier Milei of Argentina, left, with Flávio Bolsonaro, who hopes to be Brazil’s next president, last month. Mr. Milei’s strident support of Mr. Bolsonaro’s candidacy led to a rift with the current Brazilian president.
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The World’s Breadbaskets Are Getting Pounded by War, Weather and Trade Spats
A combine harvester threshing wheat in a field in Seeluebbe, Germany, this month. Yields in the country are down for several crops, including wheat, because of drought and heat.
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Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has.
Nicole Suszek last month with a phone showing a missing-person poster for her older brother, Sylwester Suszek.
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Trump’s Top Trade Representative Details Offer That Canada Rejected
Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said Canada would have been given the most preferential treatment of any trading partner.
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Carney Slams U.S.-Canada Trade Proposal and Vows Retaliation
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said that he had pulled negotiators out of trade talks with the United States because the Trump administration had “asked too much and offered too little.”
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Waking Up to an Escalating Canada-U.S. Trade War
Dominic LeBlanc and Janice Charette at the Canadian Embassy in Washington in June.
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What Does Harry and Meghan’s Return to England Mean for Their Children?
A view of Eton College, the boarding school that both Harry and his brother, William, attended.
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Carney Stands Up to Trump in U.S.-Canada Trade War
Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, said on Saturday that “Canada is becoming stronger and less dependent on America.”
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Lebanon’s Efforts to Tame Hezbollah Stall Amid Israel War
A demonstration showing support for Hezbollah and opposition to the decision of Lebanese authorities to engage in direct negotiations with Israel, in Beirut in April.
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Yvette Roudy, France’s First Minister for Women’s Rights, Dies at 97
Yvette Roudy in 2006. After her death, President Emmanuel Macron of France saluted her for “a life spent making equality between men and women a real right” and for her “untiring capacity for indignation.”
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How Two British Historians Made a Smash Hit Podcast
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland last month at Hampton Court Palace in southwest London. The podcast they began during the pandemic now gets about 30 million downloads and streams a month.
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How a Trump Envoy Uses Vodka and Dirty Jokes to Conduct U.S. Diplomacy
John Coale, the U.S. special envoy to Belarus, was on hand last year in Lithuania for the arrival of released prisoners from Belarus.
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Cities Compete in Dizzying ‘Gold Rush’ to Be Japan’s Backup Capital
Looking out across the city of Sapporo, in Hokkaido, Japan.
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Close and Loving, or Oppressive? A Novelist Takes Aim at Italian Families.
Andrea Bajani in Rome last year. An English translation of his best-selling novel, “The Anniversary,” will be published on Tuesday.
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Canada-U.S. Trade War Escalates as Talks Collapse
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said he suspended the trade talks because the American side introduced last-minute terms that ”called into question the reliability of any deal.”
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Mexican Governor, Accused by U.S. of Helping Cartel, Returns to His Job
Rubén Rocha Moya, the governor of Sinaloa state, during an annual earthquake drill in Culiacán, Mexico, in 2024.
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Iran Cracks Down on One Luxury Left to Its Youth: Coffee Shops
Mexican Governor Accused by U.S. of Aiding Cartel Leaves Office, Again
A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.
A New Effort to Punish Iran
A Chinese Robot Beat Usain Bolt’s 100-Meter Record. Should We Be Impressed?
What Canadian Goods Will Take Trump’s 50% Tariffs? Some Pretty Strange Items.
Someone Was Impersonating Collien Fernandes Online. She Says It Was Her Husband.