NYT

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel handed a letter to President Trump nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize. But it’s not clear whether stroking the president’s ego has long-lasting effects.

The outrage reflects the growing difficulty of affording a city that has become a hot spot for Western immigrants.

The incident occurred a day after Houthi militants in Yemen targeted another vessel, their first assault on shipping since President Trump announced a truce with them.

The ongoing presence of negotiators from Hamas and Israel in the Qatari capital, Doha, suggests that both sides are serious about clinching a deal.

A small company in northern Mexico had faced steep competition from China in making straps, plugs, fasteners, grommets, zip ties and clamps. Now, U.S. tariffs have driven a spike in his business.

Many countries thought they were negotiating in good faith. The White House renewed its “reciprocal” tariff plan anyway, giving countries until Aug. 1 to make offers.

The country’s new president, in office for a little over a month, had just dispatched his senior deputies to Washington to try to work out a trade deal.

“They have to be able to defend themselves,” the president said, appearing to signal a reversal after his administration paused some weapons transfers just last week.

Hamas wants a guarantee that negotiations will lead to a permanent end to the Gaza war.

The White House is planning to eliminate the board, a small agency that investigates chemical disasters to understand what went wrong.

Haiti’s famed Oloffson Hotel, a cultural landmark and celebrity haven, was incinerated amid rising violence by gangs that control most of the country’s capital.

Roman V. Starovoyt, the transport minister, had governed the Kursk region before Ukrainian forces occupied part of it in 2024.

Plus, the beautiful chaos of Rio’s beaches.

Bloody conflict has splintered many families in Myanmar over the past four years. But for one set of siblings, a surprise reunion was joyful, if bittersweet.

As the rebels have gained ground, they have detained thousands of prisoners of war. Their enemy, the junta, keeps few captives.

The two confronted an array of high-stakes Middle East issues. But first they took a victory lap, including the Israeli leader telling President Trump he had nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize.

About 800,000 people have been deported to Afghanistan, a desperately poor country, under an Iranian campaign that accelerated sharply in June.

The June 23 airstrikes on Evin prison, including the hospital ward, have turned it from a hated symbol of oppression into a new rallying cry against Israel, even among the Iranian regime’s domestic critics.

President Trump said Japan and South Korea would face tariffs of 25 percent unless they reached an agreement with the United States. Other countries received notice of higher levies.

A coroner said that she could not exclude the possibility that an officer’s racist attitudes contributed to the death of Kumanjayi Walker in 2019.