The upcoming tournament, hosted in North America for the first time in three decades, reflects the President’s nativist and transactional approach to foreign affairs.https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/donald-trump-enters-his-world-cup-era
Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani are leading the Democratic field. Even they seem nervous.https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/there-are-no-perfect-choices-in-the-new-york-mayoral-race
While the idea might be novel for many Americans, military parades are common spectacles in many parts of the world.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/13/us-army-international-military-parades/
Lula’s likely decision to run for a fourth presidential term at nearly 80 years old has drawn uncomfortable comparisons with former U.S. president Joe Biden.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/14/brazil-lula-age-presidential-election/
Explosions could be heard in Tel Aviv on Friday night local time, as sirens rang out across Israel amid what the Israeli military said was an Iranian missile attack.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/12/israel-attacks-iran-tehran-explosions/
Russia says it has moved into the previously unscathed Dnipropetrovsk region to create a buffer zone, a claim Ukraine has dismissed.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/14/ukraine-sumy-russia-dnipropetrovsk/
Iran fired missiles at Israel late Friday after waves of Israeli strikes killed senior Iranian commanders and nuclear scientists in Tehran.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/13/iran-israel-strikes-tehran-destruction-military-retaliation/
Iran’s most important nuclear sites at Natanz and Fordow have escaped significant damage from Israeli strikes, according to reports and satellite imagery.https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/13/iran-nuclear-damage-natanz-fordow/
Netanyahu seems no closer to realizing his goal of keeping Iran from securing nuclear weapons, analysts say. Some Israeli officials say only talks can do that.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/13/israel-iran-attacks-strategic-aims/
Gregory Sanabria Tarazona was at a routine check-in in Houston on Thursday when he was detained and taken to an ICE processing center.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/13/ice-arrests-tortured-venezuela-asylum-seeker/
A tip to an Italian TV show focused on missing individuals helped police in Rome identify an American man who was arrested in Greece on Friday.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/13/american-arrested-infant-murdered-rome/
An Air India plane crashed into a medical college in Ahmedabad, killing people on the ground and leaving a sole survivor on the flight. Authorities said 269 died.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/13/air-india-plane-crash-deaths-ahmedabad-aftermath/
The targeting of leaders and sensitive sites relied on activating intelligence teams, pre-positioned weapons and other capabilities that had long lain dormant.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/13/mossad-israel-iran-attack/
The Trump administration says its reviewing a deal to sell nuclear-powered submarines to Australia over concerns that the U.S. is not producing enough of its own.https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/13/aukus-nuclear-submarines-pentagon-review-china/
Iran confirmed the deaths of senior officials, including the army chief and the head of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, along with key figures in its nuclear program.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/13/iran-commanders-scientists-killed-israel-attack-strikes/
Hundreds of professors and other intellectuals signed a declaration — modeled after a statement issued 100 years ago in Italy — decrying the rise of authoritarianism.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/13/anti-fascist-manifesto-intellectuals-trump/
Viswashkumar Ramesh, on Air India Flight 171 in seat 11A, was the only survivor after the plane crashed in Ahmedabad. An expert called his escape “extraordinary.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/13/air-india-plane-crash-survivor-vishwash-kumar-ramesh/
The strikes are a sign of Israel’s shift away from restraint, containment and short wars, and toward using force to project power across the Middle East.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/14/israel-iran-attacks-netanyahu-power/
The Iranian and Israeli strikes mark the most sustained, direct attacks ever between the two rivals. Three people were killed in Israel and at least 78 in Iran, officials said.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/14/israel-iran-attacks-live-tehran-tel-aviv/
As a longtime enemy attacks an oppressive government, Iranians are cycling through conflicting emotions: hope and hopelessness, celebration and trepidation.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/14/israel-iran-attacks-war-people-reaction/