How the Israel-Iran Conflict Could Spiral Into More Turmoil
A projectile hit buildings on Friday as the Israeli Iron Dome air-defense system fired to intercept missiles over Tel Aviv.
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British Gujaratis Gather to Mourn Those Who Died in Air India Crash
People gathered to pray for victims of the Air India crash at the International Siddhashram Shakti Centre in London on Saturday.
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on June 2025
In a Mexico Border Town Famed for Crossings, ‘There Are No Migrants’
Tents in a migrant shelter this week in Tijuana, Mexico.
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on June 2025
Israel and Ukraine Show How Drone Smuggling Is Powerful New War Technique
People gathered on a hilltop in Tehran on Friday, after attacks by Israel.
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on June 2025
Russia’s Summer Offensive in Ukraine Gains Ground With New Tactics
Ukrainian soldiers launching rockets toward Russian positions near Pokrovsk, earlier this month.
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on June 2025
Data Recorder Is Found for Air India Plane That Crashed
Investigators at the crash site of Air India Flight 171 in Ahmedabad, India, on Friday.
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on June 2025
A Dream Wedding for Jeff Bezos in Venice? No Way, Locals Say
Protesters display a banner reading “No Space for Bezos!” on the Rialto Bridge during a protest against the wedding of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, and Lauren Sánchez.
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on June 2025
Trump Era Tests Ties in German City Long Home to American Troops
A U.S. military honor guard carrying American and German flags leading the procession at a memorial ceremony in May in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
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on June 2025
A Miscalculation by Iran Led to Israeli Strikes’ Extensive Toll, Officials Say
A building damaged after Israel hit multiple structures early Friday in Tehran.
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on June 2025
What to Know About Israel’s Strikes and Iran’s Retaliation
Rescue workers at the site of an Iranian attack in Rishon Lezion, Israel, on Saturday.
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on June 2025
Trump Leaves European Leaders Praying for a Boring G7 Summit
President Trump at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Tuesday. European leaders hope to avoid topics that might set off an angry response from him.
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on June 2025
Israel’s Netanyahu Looks to His Legacy in Striking Iran
A building damaged by an Israeli strike in Tehran, on Friday.
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on June 2025
At a Weak Moment, Iran Weighs Difficult Options to Respond to Israel
Destruction in Tehran on Friday after strikes by the Israeli military.
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on June 2025
What to Know About Iran’s Ballistic Missiles and the Attacks on Israel
Missiles fired from Iran in the sky over Jerusalem, on Saturday.
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on June 2025
Putin condemns Israel’s attack in call with Trump and offers to mediate.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, seen here in photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, told President Trump that he feared the conflict between Israel and Iran could escalate unpredictably, according to a Kremlin aide.
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on June 2025
Britain Agrees to Open New Inquiry Into Child Sex Abuse
Prime Minister Keir Starmer had faced criticism for refusing to set up a comprehensive national investigation with wide-ranging powers into the abuse by so-called “grooming gangs” of men.
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on June 2025
‘I Was Afraid I’d Die’: Iran’s Missiles Rained Down on Tel Aviv
Rescue workers at the site of an Iranian attack in Rishon Lezion, Israel, on Saturday.
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on June 2025
Israel Expands Attack to Include Iran’s Oil and Gas Industry
A natural gas refinery at the South Pars gas field in Bushehr Province, Iran, in 2019.
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on June 2025
Defying Calls for De-Escalation, Israel and Iran Exchange Deadly Fire
Rescue workers scanned the impact of an Iranian missile in Rishon LeZion, Israel, on Saturday.
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on June 2025
At U.N. Conference, Countries Inch Toward Ocean Protection Goal
A reef in waters off Tahiti, French Polynesia. Countries and territories including Chile, Colombia and others pledged 20 new marine protected areas on Friday.
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on June 2025
Gazans Worry Israel-Iran Conflict Will Shift World’s Attention From Their Plight
Palestinians displaced by the war walking through a camp in the port area of Gaza City earlier this month.
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on June 2025
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, 95, Dies; Led Nicaragua After Civil War
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro received the presidential sash from Nicaragua’s outgoing leader, Daniel Ortega, in April 1990. Her election stunned many people in Nicaragua and around the world.
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on June 2025
2 Men Are Sentenced in Theft of Golden Toilet
A fully functioning gold toilet, made by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, was stolen from a palace in England in 2019.
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on June 2025
Conference on Palestinian Statehood Postponed Amid Israel-Iran Fighting
President Emmanuel Macron of France, right, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, left, had been set to co-chair the conference.
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on June 2025
Israel Takes Aim at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran
Smoke billowed from the site of an Israeli strike on Tehran on Saturday. Iran and Israel continued to trade aerial attacks for a second consecutive day.
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on June 2025
The airspace closings over Iran and Israel have affected thousands of flights.
Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport remains closed, and the country’s three major airlines have moved their fleets outside the country to prevent them from being hit by Iranian airstrikes.
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on June 2025
The West Bank is in the firing line without shelters or air-raid sirens.
Palestinian residents in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday. Few Palestinians in the West Bank have safe rooms or shelters to protect them from incoming Iranian missile attacks on nearby Israel.
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on June 2025
Next Round of Nuclear Talks Between U.S. and Iran Is Off
Ali Shamkhani, who was overseeing the nuclear talks between Iran and the United States, was among those killed by Israeli strikes on Friday.
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on June 2025
Group of 7 Mountain Summit Time
About 20 world leaders will gather in Alberta’s Kananaskis country, with Prime Minister Mark Carney playing host.
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on June 2025
Trump Relishes Troops in American Streets While Shunning Conflict Overseas
Members of the Air Assault Band of the 101st Airborne Division practicing before the military parade in Washington set for Saturday.
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on June 2025
In one underground bomb shelter, Israelis huddle, and wait.
People in a Jerusalem bomb shelter early Saturday morning.
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on June 2025
Iranians Describe Israel’s Attacks in Voice Memos and Calls
Outside a damaged building in Tehran on Friday following attacks by Israel.
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on June 2025
Republicans Are Divided Over Iran. Will Trump Pick a Side?
President Trump had several times this year dissuaded Israel from launching an attack, but afterward he called the strikes “excellent.”
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on June 2025
Israel destroyed part of Iran’s premier weapons facility, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said.
Members of the U.N. Security Council listening to a briefing by Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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on June 2025
World Leaders Urge Restraint Between Israel and Iran
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain had separate calls Friday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and President Trump.
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on June 2025
Iran Retaliates and Israel Vows More Strikes After Devastating Attack
The remains of a building in Tehran on Friday after Israeli strikes.
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on June 2025
Mpox Surges in Sierra Leone
Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.
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on June 2025
Mexico’s President Calls Image of Flag in Protests a ‘Provocation’
A protester waving the Mexican flag near a self-driving Waymo taxi set on fire at a protest in Los Angeles on Sunday.
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on June 2025
U.S. Urges Americans to Steer Clear of Nicaragua
Surfers at Remanso Beach in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, last year.
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on June 2025
What Are Israel’s Defenses Against Iran?
Israel’s Iron Dome defense system over Ashkelon, Israel, in October, following a launch of missiles from Iran.
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on June 2025
How is Israel protecting its critical sites from Iranian retaliation?
A partial view of the Dimona nuclear reactor in Israel’s southern Negev desert, in 2014.
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on June 2025
Israel’s Strikes on Iran Divide Congress, Drawing Praise and Concern
The US Capitol on Friday morning. Many members of Congress were quick to cheer Israel’s actions and framed them as a justified response to Tehran’s refusal to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
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on June 2025
Israel’s Next Target is Fordo, Iran’s Second-Largest Nuclear Site Hidden in a Mountain
A satellite photo from February showing the Fordo uranium enrichment facility, south of Tehran.
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on June 2025
Shock and Grief in U.K. After Air India Plane Crash: ‘I Didn’t Really Believe It’
Relatives of Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, who survived the Air India crash, in Leicester, England, on Friday, before some flew to India to see him.
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on June 2025
Trump Talks Big on Global Diplomacy, but His Goals Are in Tatters
Spectators look at a building damaged in an Israeli strike in Tehran on Thursday. A day after Israel began the massive attack on Iran, Mr. Trump’s peace projects are in tatters.
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on June 2025
The U.S. helped protect Israel from Iranian strikes.
The U.S.S. Thomas Hudner, a destroyer, sailing through the Bosphorus in Turkey in 2021. The Pentagon directed the ship, along with a second destroyer, to move to the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Friday to help defend Israel.
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on June 2025
Israel’s Allies Voice Less Support and More Concern After Latest Attack on Iran
A damaged, burning building after a strike in Tehran on Friday.
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on June 2025
Middle East Is Tense as Israel-Iran Conflict Sinks Hopes for De-Escalation
The Abqaiq oil processing plant in Saudi Arabia, after it was damaged in an attack from Iran in 2019.
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on June 2025
A Sprawling Israeli Intelligence Effort Underpinned the Iran Strikes
The aftermath of an attack by Israel using walkie-talkies, in Sidon, Lebanon, last year.
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on June 2025
Trump Says Iran ‘Must Make a Deal, Before There Is Nothing Left’
President Trump’s social media post attempted to put pressure on Iran to continue negotiating.
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on June 2025
Israel’s Strike on Iran Comes at a Moment of Weakness for Iran’s Proxies
Hezbollah supporters paid tribute Hassan Nasrallah, a top leader of the group, at his funeral in Lebanon in February, months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
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on June 2025
Much of Iran’s Nuclear Program Remains After Israel’s Strikes. At Least for Now.
Israel Bombards Tehran, Setting Oil Facilities Ablaze
Why Eight Mennonite Families Left Mexico for Angola
Two Major Energy Facilities in Tehran Hit in Israeli Strikes
Relatives of Air India Crash Victims Seek Answers
In L.A.’s Little Tokyo, Protests Draw Sympathy and Frustration
Lives Lost in India Crash: Expectant Grandparents, a Boy Selling Tea
Israeli Strikes Targeted Some of Iran’s Most Important Nuclear Facilities