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What to Know About Planned Social Media Bans in Australia, the U.K. and Beyond

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di: Amelia Nierenberg
Britain said it would ban social media access for children under 16 starting in 2027, joining several other countries introducing similar measures.

© Katie Collins/Reuters

Students in Wimbledon, London, during an interview this year about social media. Public opinion in many countries has coalesced around the idea that more must be done to protect children online.
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Father Dionysios Tabakis’s Drone Metal Debut

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di: Hester Underhill
Father Dionysios Tabakis has never played a live concert, but after his first album became a word-of-mouth hit, he’ll be performing at a U.S. festival this summer.

© Myrto Papadopoulos for The New York Times

Dionysios Tabakis is a priest in Nafplio, Grecce, where he has served the same congregation for nearly 30 years.
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Taking on Neo-Nazis, One Trademark at a Time

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di: Aishvarya Kavi
In Germany, a campaign called Rights Against the Right is securing trademarks for right-wing symbols and phrases, aiming to cut into a revenue stream that sustains hate groups.

© Schore Mehrdju for The New York Times

Among the latest trademarks awarded to Rights Against was for the term “ess ess,” code for S.S., or Schutzstaffel, the elite guard of the Nazi Reich.
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Britain Announces Social Media Ban for Children

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di: Megan Specia
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government planned to bar children under 16 from social media, following policies in Australia and elsewhere.

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High school students in Wimbledon, London, this year during an interview about social media. Britain plans to place an age limit on social media.
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Jean Ziegler, Swiss Gadfly Who Provoked His Countrymen, Dies at 92

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di: Adam Nossiter
In a nation that sees itself as a tranquil oasis of prosperity and business virtue, he drew death threats for pointing out a dark underside.

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Jean Ziegler in 2009. A writer, sociologist and politician, he was called Switzerland’s “national troublemaker” by Le Monde in 1997 for his critiques of Swiss society, particularly the banking system.
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Switzerland Rejects Measure to Cap Its Population at 10 Million

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di: Jim Tankersley
The referendum was about limiting migration after the number of residents rose by more than a quarter since 2000, but it was framed around affordability and sustainability.

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A citizen casting her ballot on Sunday at a polling station in Bern, Switzerland, amid a vote on a divisive anti-immigration proposal to cap the country’s population and another referendum on restricting access to conscientious objection to military service.
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Curaçao Is the Smallest Country Ever to Reach the World Cup

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di: James Wagner and Luis Antonio Rojas
Competing for the first time, Curaçao is brimming with joy. Most of the Caribbean nation’s team was born and raised in the Netherlands, but residents say the players represent them.

Soccer players and artists at a celebration this month in Curaçao, a Caribbean island and constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Germany and Japan Are Rearming Again, 80 Years After World War II

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di: Jim Tankersley and Javier C. Hernández
After becoming allies to disastrous effect in the 1940s, Berlin and Tokyo are finding new reasons to team up — including rebuilding their militaries.

© Pool photo by David Mareuil

Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan’s defense minister, and his German counterpart, Boris Pistorius, at a naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, in March. The countries have been building up their militaries.
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Should Switzerland Cap Its Population at 10 Million? Voters Will Decide.

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di: Jim Tankersley
One of the world’s richest countries is about to hold a referendum on a measure that would curb migration and most likely the economy. It is being sold in warm tones.

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Campaign posters ahead of the population cap vote. President Trump’s face is on a no poster, with the slogan, “Now, of all times, a break with Europe?” The yes slogan shown is “Protect Switzerland.”
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Spain’s Church Hopes Pope Trip Will Stem Secular Tide

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di: Jason Horowitz
Leo XIV’s visit to Spain, which ended on Friday, has spurred expectations among Catholic leaders of a spiritual revival.

© Bernat Armangue/Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV arrives at Plaza de Lima in Madrid on Saturday, June 6, for a prayer vigil with young people on the first day of a seven-day visit to mainland Spain and the Canary Islands.
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Refugees’ Numbers Drop, but Many Return to Turmoil at Home, U.N. Says

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di: Nick Cumming-Bruce
There were nearly 118 million forcibly displaced people in 2025, slightly fewer than in the previous year, the United Nations refugee agency said.

© David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

Displaced people at a campsite in Lebanon in early April. Israel’s military offensive there had driven more than a million people from their homes by mid-May, the United Nations said.
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