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Kanye West Announces Russia Concerts, Months After Western Europe Cancellations

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di: Ivan Nechepurenko and Alex Marshall
Two St. Petersburg concerts by the rapper formerly known as Kanye West could become the first performances by a major Western act in Russia since the country invaded Ukraine.

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Ye performing in Arnhem, the Netherlands, in June. Several of his other European concerts were canceled in recent months.
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American Hiker Dies After Lightning Strike on Mount Etna in Italy

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di: Leo Sands and Josephine de La Bruyère
Rescuers found a 29-year-old man in serious condition on the volcano’s eastern slope on Sunday. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital in Catania.

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Volcanic activity at Mount Etna as seen from Mareneve near Catania in Italy last week. Italian authorities say a 29-year-old American hiker was killed by lightning while hiking on Europe’s most active volcano.
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Andy Burnham, UK Prime Minister, Exchanged Texts With Someone Posing as Trump’s Chief of Staff

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di: Michael D. Shear
Prime Minister Andy Burnham messaged briefly with a person impersonating Susie Wiles, a British government official said.

© Pool photo by Kin Cheung

Prime Minister Andy Burnham of Britain speaking in London this month. An official said Mr. Burnham had exchanged a few messages of no significance with an impersonator.
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‘Posh George,’ the Convicted Fraudster in Nigel Farage’s Inner Circle

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di: Michael D. Shear
Scrutiny over the gifts and support provided by George Cottrell to Mr. Farage, the Reform U.K. leader, will continue even after he won last week’s special election in Clacton.

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Nigel Farage and George Cottrell in Brussels in 2020, as the European Parliament ratified the terms of Brexit, which both men campaigned for.
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As the Old Files Open, One Family Confronts Another’s Dark Nazi Past

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di: Nina Siegal and Melissa Schriek
A woman who secured the criminal file of her grandmother, a collaborator, offered to share it with a Jewish family that had been betrayed. Then she balked and a new dispute ensued.

© Melissa Schriek for The New York Times

Maria-Elisabeth Stratermans-Coenegrachts was arrested after the war and accused of having served as a collaborator.
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$10 Million in Gold Found Buried Under Former Brewery in Belgium

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di: Zane Irwin
A construction worker’s drill struck gold during a renovation project in East Flanders, setting off a search for the owners of the stashed fortune.

© Lokale Politie Dendermonde

Gold bars found at the site where a 19th-century brewery had stood in Dendermonde, Belgium. The police do not know who put the gold there, or what its fate might be.
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Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring

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di: Mara Hvistendahl · Megan Specia · Leo Sands · Ali Watkins and Susan Dominus
Jason Arday, the school’s youngest Black professor, was found dead on Friday. The school ignored a series of warnings about his life story and his work.

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Cambridge University in May. Jason Arday was hired in 2023, becoming the university’s youngest Black professor.
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When a Rare Wolf Got Too Close, Denmark Faced a Conservation Dilemma

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di: Maya Tekeli
The authorities tracked the animal after a string of close encounters with residents, reigniting a bitter debate over how a small, densely populated country should live with wolves.

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A wild wolf in West Jutland, Denmark, last year. The return of the animals to a country with few predators has recently come under scrutiny after a wolf was spotted near a small town, apparently unafraid of people.
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France’s Top Court Strikes Down Ban on Social Media for Children

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di: Mark Landler and Ségolène Le Stradic
The move was a setback for President Emmanuel Macron, who championed the ban. He vowed to pass a new version before he leaves office next spring.

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France’s Constitutional Council said that the ban was too wide-ranging, and did not take into account the age, maturity or family situation of children.
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Why Europe Keeps Being Pummeled by Heat Waves

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di: Raymond Zhong
The whole planet is warming, but changes in weather patterns could help explain why the continent is suffering so many bouts of severe heat.

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A tourist at the parched bed of Lac des Brenets on the France-Switzerland border on Tuesday.
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As Europe Gets Hotter, Its Transportation Systems Struggle to Cope

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di: Amelia Nierenberg
The continent’s railways and roads “were engineered for a climate that no longer exists,” one expert said.

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Commuters at a train station in Bordeaux, France, during a heat wave in July. Much of Europe’s infrastructure was not built to withstand scorching summer heat.
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Russia Campaigned to Derail Moldova’s Pro-Western Government

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di: Michael Schwirtz · Adam Goldman and Aaron Krolik
In Moldova, Moscow paid Orthodox priests, conducted a vote-buying scheme and set up training camps on election interference — all in an effort to derail the Western-leaning government.

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Police officers in Chisinau, the Moldovan capital, watching protesters gather outside the electoral commission after the polls closed for parliamentary elections in 2025.
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Salvage Company Hoping to Sell Titanic Artifacts Challenges Court’s Role

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di: Marc Davis
A Virginia federal court has awarded the company the rights to collect, but not sell, items from the shipwreck. But the company says its earliest retrievals are governed by a French court.

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A company that has the rights to salvage items from the shipwreck of the Titanic is looking to sell 100 of the artifacts it has recovered at auction.
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Train Derails Near Town of Lewes in East Sussex, U.K.

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di: Michael D. Shear
Emergency services said they were working at the scene of a derailment near Lewes, in East Sussex, on Thursday. Eighteen other people were less badly hurt.

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Some cars of a passenger train flipped onto their sides on Thursday in southern England near Lewes. The accident’s cause had not yet been determined.
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How a Long-Shot U.S. Oil Drilling Project Is Shaking Up Greenland

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di: Jeffrey Gettleman and Maya Tekeli
A U.S. oil company says it could be on the verge of a major discovery in Greenland. The proposal comes at a tricky time for the Arctic island, and locals are lining up against it.

© Esther Horvath for The New York Times

Ittoqqortoormiit, a settlement in eastern Greenland. The remote area has been targeted by a U.S.-British joint venture for potential oil exploration.
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Trump’s Plane Switch Ruse Pales in Comparison With Putin’s Secrecy

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di: Anton Troianovski
President Trump’s Air Force One subterfuge pales in comparison to the secrecy surrounding Russia’s president, whose fixation on security has reached new heights in recent years.

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A Russian state media photo of President Vladimir Putin in his office in the Kremlin last month. The secrecy around Mr. Putin’s movements means journalists have resorted to tracking his activity by assessing the wilting of the plants in his office.
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Eurovision Bans Countries in War Zones From Hosting

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di: Alex Marshall
The event’s organizers would not say whether that included Israel, but its participation has been a matter of contention during the war in Gaza.

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The singer Noam Bettan representing Israel at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna in May.
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How Scientists Use Eclipses for Research

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di: K. R. Callaway
It’s a chance not just to study the sun but also space weather, light pollution and even animal behavior.

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The Gran Telescopio Canarias, at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma in the Canaries, Spain.
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In Europe, the Total Solar Eclipse Is Hours Away

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di: Jason Horowitz
Sky watchers have flocked to places, from Iceland to Spain, where the moon will completely block the sun.

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A researcher from a San Francisco museum in a village near Burgos, Spain, on Monday, making preparations for live coverage of the total solar eclipse.
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In Europe, the Total Solar Eclipse Is Hours Away

✇NYT > World > Europe
di: Jason Horowitz
Sky watchers have flocked to places, from Iceland to Spain, where the moon will completely block the sun.

© Cesar Manso/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A researcher from a San Francisco museum in a village near Burgos, Spain, on Monday, making preparations for live coverage of the total solar eclipse.
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Russian Civilian Deaths Are Growing Rapidly as Ukraine Expands Its Air War

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di: Paul Sonne and Oleg Matsnev
The higher tempo of Ukrainian strikes has fueled discontent among Russians, but it is far from clear that it will change the Kremlin’s calculus about the war.

© Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times

A residential building in Zelenograd, in the Moscow region, was damaged in a Ukrainian drone strike in May. Four people were killed in the attack.
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The Eclipse Is Coming, and Iceland Is Looking for a Break in the Clouds

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di: Amelia Nierenberg
Rooms were booked years ago, and officials have been making plans. But there’s no telling where, exactly, Icelanders might go to find the best possible view.

© Amelia Nierenberg/The New York Times

Cloudy skies along the road to the Latrabjarg cliffs, the place in Iceland where the total eclipse will last the longest on Wednesday.
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Why Rumors About Morocco Followed Spain’s Ceuta Migrant Surge

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di: Jason Horowitz
Claims swirled that Morocco, perhaps spurred by Israel and the United States, organized a recent border disaster. That unproven speculation, experts said, was exacerbated by the region’s complicated history.

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Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa waiting on a beach for humanitarian assistance after about tens of thousands of people, mostly from Morocco, surged across the border into Ceuta, Spain, this month.
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How Social Media Sparked a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco

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di: Steven Lee Myers · Aida Alami and Carlos Barragán
A wave of disinformation online contributed to a surge of migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta who were trying to reach Europe, resulting in about 90 deaths.

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Moroccan border guards and boats patrolling the coastline on the border with Spain in Fnideq, Morocco, this month.
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France Bans Unsolicited Telemarketing Calls

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di: Ségolène Le Stradic
Companies will no longer be allowed to advertise goods and services through cold calls without previous consent from consumers.

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At Parc des Buttes-Chaumont in Paris. The ban on unsolicited telemarketing is unlikely to be met with any opposition in a country where 97 percent of the population say they are annoyed by such daily calls.
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Yabloko, Russian Antiwar Party, Is Banned From Parliament Elections

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di: Nataliya Vasilyeva
The party, Yabloko, has navigated a delicate balancing act with an increasingly heavy-handed Kremlin, but its pro-peace manifesto turned out to be the red line.

© Pavel Bednyakov/Associated Press

Nikolai Rybakov, right, the Yabloko party’s leader, and his lawyer, second from right, listening to the court decision after a hearing on a lawsuit to bar the party from upcoming parliamentary elections on Monday in Russia’s Supreme Court in Moscow.
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