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It’s been six months since the U.S. cut off the island’s fuel sources. Our reporters went there and found remarkable stories of resilience. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/world/cuba-us-trump-ukraine-iran-japan-quake.html

Human rights activists say the Iranian government has been rapidly escalating executions. The latest prompted public protest, videos appear to show. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/world/middleeast/iran-hanging-protesters.html

Huge wildfires in France and Spain have grown to the largest either country has seen in decades, breaking modern records. source https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/28/world/europe/france-spain-wildfires-2026-fire-season.html

Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany has questioned the country’s terrorism surveillance laws after it was revealed that the suspect behind Saturday’s attack on Berlin’s Pride parade had previously tried to join the Islamic State. source https://www.nytimes.com/video/…

The German authorities said that police officers had shot and killed the man suspected of killing one person and injuring 29 others at a gay Pride event in Berlin on Saturday. source https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000011053965/berlin-pride-parade-attack…

With surrounding towns in southwestern France evacuated and fire still spreading rapidly, several thousand are sheltering in the city, unsure what will become of their homes. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/world/europe/france-fires-bordeaux.html

Anti-immigrant activism reveals the contradictions of a country that projects itself as a bastion of human rights. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/world/south-africa-identity-crisis-wildfires.html

In central Spain, thousands of people sleep in shelters or in their cars, some of them evacuated multiple times ahead of the advancing flames, awaiting word on what they left behind. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/world/europe/spain-fires-evacuees-voices.ht…

The police said a hunt for suspects was underway after the episode at one of Europe’s biggest gay-themed festivals. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/world/europe/berlin-car-attack.html

Brazilian authorities refused to grant visas to two senior U.S. officials out of concern they planned to sow doubt about the security of the country’s voting systems. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/world/americas/brazil-united-states-election-voting.html

One person died and dozens were injured as fast-moving wildfires in France and Spain devastated tens of thousands of acres and forced mass evacuations. source https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000011053056/europe-wildfires-france-spain.html

The wildfires are scorching parts of France and Spain that had already faced usually hot and dry summers. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/world/europe/wildfires-europe-spain-france.html

President Trump has insisted the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran would be a relatively short “excursion,” although it has now lasted nearly five months, with no end in sight. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/us/politics/trump-escalation-iran.html

Witness footage verified by The New York Times shows the aftermath of the latest attacks on border crossings in the Middle East as the U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes on Thursday. source https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000011048583/border-crossings-u…

Saudi Arabia has long said that a condition of normalizing relations with Israel would be a pathway toward Palestinian statehood, a prospect that Israel’s current government has rejected. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/world/middleeast/trump-saudi-arabia-pa…

After Andrew and Tristan Tate, prominent leaders of the so-called manosphere, were arrested in Miami, many of their onetime allies on the American right pulled back support. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/us/tate-brothers-trump-tucker-carlson.html

Secretary of State Marco Rubio spent much of a meeting with China’s foreign minister discussing the summit, but did not bring up President Trump’s claims of election interference by China. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/us/politics/trump-xi-rubio-manila-chi…

A.I.-generated images showing Gadi Eisenkot, the Israeli leader’s top challenger in upcoming elections, played on anti-Arab sentiments and used images seen as disrespectful to his son, who was killed in the recent Gaza war. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/wo…

The death of the man, a Moroccan resident of Italy, set off an outcry across the country and prompted comparisons to the death of George Floyd in the United States. source https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/world/europe/moroccan-italy-police-death-george-floyd.html

source https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/20/world/iran-war-strikes-trump-hormuz/suspected-iranian-strikes-have-targeted-us-military-in-at-least-four-countries