By Roger Cohen and Dmitry Kostyukov from NYT World https://ift.tt/ZArGF5w
via IFTTT The periphery of the French capital is more vital than ever, and its creativity and dynamism have blurred old boundaries.

By David Pierson, Mujib Mashal and Nataliya Vasilyeva from NYT World https://ift.tt/WpzfU0l
via IFTTT With the leaders of Russia and India visiting, China’s president will show how he can use statecraft, military might and history to push for global influence.

By Isabella Kwai from NYT World https://ift.tt/daOp8BZ
via IFTTT The Air Force is phasing out its use of the symbol, which dates to its foundation in 1918. An official said that it had sometimes caused “awkward situations.”

By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega from NYT World https://ift.tt/mMTNyUZ
via IFTTT Scientists published a study this month on the nurse shark, which was caught and photographed by sport fishermen last year.

By Jim Tankersley and Laetitia Vançon from NYT World https://ift.tt/9w4qYlS
via IFTTT In Salzburg, an anniversary of “The Sound of Music” looks grand through a child’s eyes, even if the locals are gazing elsewhere.

By Victoria Kim and Damien Cave from NYT World https://ift.tt/YKxg9AI
via IFTTT The government expelled Iran’s diplomats, saying the country had orchestrated attacks on a Melbourne synagogue and a Sydney restaurant.

By Isabel Kershner, Aaron Boxerman and Ameera Harouda from NYT World https://ift.tt/ZihKVON
via IFTTT Five journalists, along with medical workers, were among the dead at Nasser Hospital, where a second strike hit as ambulance crews were arriving. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military would investigate.

By Kim Barker and Constant Méheut from NYT World https://ift.tt/K5ZkjlM
via IFTTT The contested region is where Russia’s war in Ukraine began a decade ago. Scores of Ukrainian soldiers have died defending it. Would Ukraine give it up now?

By Elisabeth Bumiller, Natan Odenheimer and Johnatan Reiss from NYT World https://ift.tt/1qnUJaV
via IFTTT Ultra-Orthodox Israelis, exempt for decades from military service, are now being drafted. Their rage is dividing Israel and threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition.

By Vivian Yee from NYT World https://ift.tt/W1r0d2z
via IFTTT At least half a million people in the enclave were facing the most severe conditions measured by U.N.-backed international experts: starvation, acute malnutrition and death.

By Lara Jakes from NYT World https://ift.tt/K2VO30B
via IFTTT Israel approved new settlements in the occupied West Bank, while its troops have reached the outskirts of Gaza City. The developments raise questions about the viability of a cease-fire proposal.

By Claire Moses from NYT World https://ift.tt/tGJ1z36
via IFTTT Alec Luhn, 38, an American journalist, hopes the lessons he learned from his ordeal in a national park in Norway can help others.

By Jenny Gross, Ivan Nechepurenko, Declan Walsh, Aaron Boxerman and Sui-Lee Wee from NYT World https://ift.tt/91aQBi4
via IFTTT President Trump has cast himself as a global peacemaker. His interventions have calmed some conflicts, while in others his role is less clear.

By Mark Landler from NYT World https://ift.tt/laubHNp
via IFTTT The leaders dropped everything to travel to Washington to ensure President Trump didn’t force a bad deal on Ukraine. A road map for peace remains elusive.

By Catherine Porter from NYT World https://ift.tt/E6etzC3
via IFTTT City planners say the day when temperatures as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit, or 50 Celsius, could stall the French capital is not far off. They are already starting to prepare.

By Paul Sonne and Michael Schwirtz from NYT World https://ift.tt/IqPu7U1
via IFTTT In Alaska, the Russian leader proposed that Ukraine hand over the remainder of the Donbas region to Moscow to stop the fighting.

By Isabel Kershner from NYT World https://ift.tt/2DGdpV6
via IFTTT The agents cajoled people into acts of sabotage and even assassination plots. The cases have raised questions about greed, gullibility and loyalty.

By Andrew Higgins from NYT World https://ift.tt/z3Bu9UE
via IFTTT Speaking after Friday’s summit, President Putin again implied that the war is all about Russia’s diminished status since the fall of the Soviet Union.

By Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Ian Austen from NYT World https://ift.tt/RZwrhXg
via IFTTT A walkout by flight attendants ended after about 12 hours with the imposition of binding arbitration. But getting travel back to normal will take days.

By Ian Austen and Matina Stevis-Gridneff from NYT World https://ift.tt/pfAVh9W
via IFTTT Ahead of the work stoppage, the airline said it had canceled most of the 700 flights that it directly operates, which carry about 130,000 people each day.

By Mike Ives from NYT World https://ift.tt/TB09ivt
via IFTTT The Trump-Putin summit will take place in a former Russian colony that the United States bought for $7.2 million in 1867. Here’s how the deal came together and why its legacy matters.

By Andrew Higgins and Nataliya Vasilyeva from NYT World https://ift.tt/SOwrU85
via IFTTT The talks on Friday in Alaska pull the Russian leader out of diplomatic isolation from the West, and Ukrainian and European leaders fear it gives him an opening to sway the American president.

By Patrick Kingsley, Fatima AbdulKarim and Natan Odenheimer from NYT World https://ift.tt/n6hASo4
via IFTTT Extremists are carrying out one of the most violent campaigns against Palestinian villages since the U.N. began keeping records.

By Constant Méheut from NYT World https://ift.tt/nP4eFpy
via IFTTT Once a vague proposal for a territorial swap gained clarity, a worried President Volodymyr Zelensky worked to rally allies before Friday’s Trump-Putin summit.

By Michael Levenson from NYT World https://ift.tt/h6TYUt2
via IFTTT Ethan Guo, a content creator, said that he has been effectively trapped at a Chilean base since June. The authorities had said he landed there without permission.

By Anatoly Kurmanaev, Josh Holder, Paul Sonne and Oleg Matsnev from NYT World https://ift.tt/iPqf9LH
via IFTTT As he heads to Alaska for talks with President Trump, the Russian leader projects confidence that his edge on the battlefield will secure a peace deal on his terms. It’s the result of a yearslong re-engineering of his country’s military and economy.

By Steven Erlanger from NYT World https://ift.tt/nymYkAZ
via IFTTT In 1945, the map of Europe was redrawn in Yalta without input from the affected countries. Ukraine and Europe fear a repeat in Alaska.

By Vivian Nereim from NYT World https://ift.tt/IRQBFS5
via IFTTT The soccer star has been living in the country with Georgina Rodríguez, the mother of his children, testing the boundaries of social change in the conservative Islamic kingdom.

By Jason Horowitz from NYT World https://ift.tt/9gKQjnR
via IFTTT A restoration of a beloved figure of the Virgin Mary causes an uproar. “The Macarena cannot be made up!”

By Aurelien Breeden and Josh Holder from NYT World https://ift.tt/wJNLbWq
via IFTTT As heat waves batter Europe, the need (or not) for air-conditioning has become part of the political tug of war in France between the right and the left.

By Ephrat Livni from NYT World https://ift.tt/HYTDe5A
via IFTTT Anas al-Sharif, a well-known correspondent, was among those killed. Israel said it had targeted Mr. al-Sharif, claiming he worked for Hamas, which he had denied.

By Anton Troianovski from NYT World https://ift.tt/MEh2qpy
via IFTTT For three years, Sergei V. Kiriyenko has handled the political aspects of the war in Ukraine, rising among a cadre of skilled managers who oversee the sprawling Russian state.

By Michael D. Shear, Steven Erlanger and Roger Cohen from NYT World https://ift.tt/9AsIbSR
via IFTTT Images of starving children and Israel’s planned expansion of settlements spurred Britain, France and Germany to a tougher stance. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was undeterred.

By Claire Moses from NYT World https://ift.tt/o2wb3xX
via IFTTT Three bombs go off on an average night in the Netherlands, blowing out windows and sometimes causing injury or death. “It is not normal,” a security guard says.

By Paulina Villegas, Maria Abi-Habib and Adriana Zehbrauskas from NYT World https://ift.tt/3xDLyid
via IFTTT New York Times reporters documented how fentanyl was concealed by Mexico’s most powerful criminal syndicate, which is adapting in the face of a crackdown by two governments.

By Constant Méheut from NYT World https://ift.tt/OxL1fGy
via IFTTT The Ukrainian leader’s blunt comments risk angering President Trump, who has made a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia one of his signature foreign policy goals.

By Maria Abi-Habib from NYT World https://ift.tt/krRFUnq
via IFTTT The Mexican government thought it had turned a corner in cooperating with the Trump administration on combating the cartels, having launched an aggressive crackdown of its own.

By Neil Vigdor from NYT World https://ift.tt/DSWHk10
via IFTTT Asher Watkins, a real estate executive from Texas, was tracking a Cape buffalo in South Africa when he was attacked, a safari company said.

By Paul Sonne and Anton Troianovski from NYT World https://ift.tt/8jw6ANG
via IFTTT The Russian leader sees direct talks with Trump as essential to achieving his ultimate aims in Ukraine.

By Adam Rasgon, Natan Odenheimer and Ronen Bergman from NYT World https://ift.tt/ntGyhiV
via IFTTT Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, made the remarks ahead of a security cabinet meeting, although military leaders are wary of expanding operations in the territory.

By Jeanna Smialek and Stephanie Nolen from NYT World https://ift.tt/pDQobE6
via IFTTT The U.S. government intends to incinerate $9.7 million in already-purchased birth control in Belgium after U.S.A.I.D shut down. Destruction may have already started.

By Elian Peltier and Zia ur-Rehman from NYT World https://ift.tt/tWcPYZR
via IFTTT Women in Pakistan die every day for supposedly dishonoring their families, and arrests are rare. But Bano Bibi’s defiant last words were caught on video.

By Hannah Beech from NYT World https://ift.tt/aZzuwig
via IFTTT What the world’s only atomic bombings, carried out by Americans, did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

By Victoria Kim from NYT World https://ift.tt/lnaHkhb
via IFTTT Very few people know what it’s like to recover, physically and emotionally, from a shark bite. But some of the ones who do are ready to help.

By Grace Moon, Selam Gebrekidan and Agnes Chang from NYT World https://ift.tt/WUkoAGu
via IFTTT The New York Times identified a series of missteps that made a Jeju Air flight’s catastrophic end much more deadly.

By Yan Zhuang from NYT World https://ift.tt/9veZo4z
via IFTTT The 2-year-old girl was discovered Sunday in the luggage compartment of a bus after the driver noticed the suitcase moving, the police said.

By Patrick Kingsley from NYT World https://ift.tt/xsL5gEM
via IFTTT Israel’s leader is now pushing for an “all or nothing” deal with Hamas. He has not made the compromises needed to make it happen.

By Isabel Kershner and Aaron Boxerman from NYT World https://ift.tt/XnJW1gf
via IFTTT The apparent shift in tone comes as cease-fire negotiations have hit a wall and pressure is mounting on Israel over the hunger crisis in Gaza. But Israel and Hamas remain far apart on the terms of any deal.

By Mark Landler from NYT World https://ift.tt/sbSn9Px
via IFTTT The Sykes-Picot Agreement was a secret treaty Britain and France signed more than a century ago. Many consider it to have seeded a legacy of strife in the Middle East.

By Vivian Wang from NYT World https://ift.tt/PyNQMfg
via IFTTT Even low-level government employees like elementary school teachers and nurses have been ordered to hand in their passports, to enforce “discipline.”