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Afghanistan was on a timid recovery path. But four years after the Taliban retook power, it has been badly hit by aid cuts and an inflow of two million Afghans forced out of Iran and Pakistan.

This weekend marks summer’s unofficial end — but that doesn’t have to mean abandoning the season’s many splendors.

A festival known as Summer in Moscow showcases the city’s transformation into an ultramodern metropolis. But the feast can’t last forever.

He endorsed Mr. McCain’s presidential bid in 2008 after insisting, despite accounts to the contrary, that no Americans were tortured under his watch in the Vietnam War.

The layoffs set up a potential battle with a federal judge who blocked previous efforts by Kari Lake, a fierce Trump ally, to restructure the agency.

Months after the shutdown of the 355-year-old Hudson’s Bay Company, the legal action it created continues apace.

Moscow is hosting a big summer festival as Russia continues its war in Ukraine. Katrin Bennhold, a senior international reporter for The New York Times, talks with Ivan Nechepurenko, a Times reporter in Russia, about the spectacle and what it says about Russian public opinion more than three and a half years into the war.

Rising unemployment and inflation have driven days of demonstrations. A 21-year-old man was killed when police responded with force to a protest on Thursday.

Afghanistan was on a timid recovery path. But four years after the Taliban retook power, it has been badly hit by aid cuts and an inflow of two million Afghans forced out of Iran and Pakistan.

The decision is a big blow to President Trump’s trade policies, but the judges left the duties in place for now to allow time for a likely appeal to the Supreme Court.

The United States generally allows foreign officials to attend the United Nations General Assembly. The administration’s move comes amid a new push for Palestinian statehood.

While the country is a constitutional monarchy that holds regular elections, analysts say it is beholden to an unelected old guard.

A package of U.S. cruise missiles is among the first shipments of purchases by NATO allies to be sent to the embattled country.

Around 150 people boarded a boat in Gambia that was thought to have been headed for Europe. The boat capsized after traveling about 380 miles.

The British government said it was acting in response to Israel’s escalating military operation in Gaza. Israel condemned the decision.

The Trump administration’s campaign against wind power continued as it targeted funding for marine terminals and ports to support development of the industry.

Xu Chao, 33, could face a “lengthy” prison sentence, the judge said. Most of his victims have not been identified.

The Russian authorities have seized on the crisis in Donetsk to argue that taking over the rest of the region from Ukraine would allow Moscow to restore the water supply.

Paetongtarn Shinawatra became the third member of her family to be removed from the job, as the nation plunged into fresh political instability.

The decision was a temporary reprieve for the government but will intensify a political battle over how Britain should house tens of thousands of asylum seekers.