The Wall Street Journal
Thai Teen Goes on School Rampage
FRANTIC: Family members reunited with children after a 14-year-old boy opened fire Friday at a school outside Bangkok, killing five staff members and injuring more than 20 people. The attacker, who took his own life, had earlier shot to death his two...
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U.S. Says Putin Willing to Test NATO With Limited Assaults
WASHINGTON—Russian President Vladimir Putin could try to test NATO’s resolve with a limited assault on an allied country in the next few years, according to new U.S. intelligence reports that posit possible scenarios ranging from a cyberattack to a...
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Kyiv Pounded as Antimissile Stockpile Dwindles
DEADLY STRIKE: A warehouse burns in Kyiv on Wednesday after a Russian missile and drone attack killed at least 17 people. Ukraine’s air-defense forces said they were unable to intercept any of the projectiles that targeted a civilian area.
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Business & Finance ◆ Elon Musk outlined ambitious targets for SpaceX, including launching data centers in space in 2027 and reaching $1 trillion in revenue, as part of his first address to investors since the company’s IPO. A1 ◆ Major U.S. stock...
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Drought Is Draining Europe’s Rivers
A drought is wreaking havoc along Europe’s rivers. In Romania, authorities set off an explosion beside a river in a bid to divert much-needed water to a power plant. In Bulgaria, 200 vacationers had to be evacuated from a stranded cruise ship. In...
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Greece Fights Wildfires as Europe Crisis Spreads
DIRE BATTLE: Volunteers on Sunday worked to douse a wildfire near Porto Germeno, about 40 miles northwest of Athens. Two Greek firefighting helicopters collided on Sunday while battling a wind-driven fire, killing two crew members.
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Spain Pushes Back After Migrants Rush Enclave
CHAOTIC SCENES: Migrants run back to Morocco after Spanish soldiers moved to secure Ceuta. As many as 60,000 migrants streamed into the Spanish territory in North Africa on Thursday and Friday but authorities said most of them left.
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Massive Strikes Highlight Ukraine Defense Gap
DEADLY BARRAGE: A series of Russian missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on Thursday killed at least eight people and wounded more than 50, Ukrainian authorities said. A child injured in an attack on a building in Lviv is taken away by stretcher.
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Fauci Refuses to Answer Senators’ Covid Queries
TAKES THE FIFTH: Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic, repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights before a Senate committee hearing, which he said he believed was part of a slander campaign against him.
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Graham Praised as ‘American Original’
WASHINGTON—President Trump called the late Sen. Lindsey Graham “a respected statesman, giant of the U.S. Senate and true American original” in a speech eulogizing the influential lawmaker at a funeral at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday...
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Monsoon Floods Death Toll Tops 100 in Pakistan
SWAMPED: People wade through floodwaters Monday after the Ravi River overflowed in Lahore, Pakistan. Flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains has claimed more than 100 lives in the nation in the past month, and more rain is forecast.
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Tour de France Champion Makes History
Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, 27, rolled onto the Champs-Élysées to claim his fifth Tour de France on Sunday, making him one of only five men to win bicycling’s biggest race five times. Pogacar won by six minutes and 26 seconds.
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Fires Turn French Beaches to Holiday Hellscape
HAZY HAZARD: The beach in Lacanau, France, is nearly empty Friday as clouds of smoke from a wildfire can be seen. Tens of thousands of residents and tourists are fleeing as blazes fueled by a summer of heat waves rage in southwestern Europe.
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Ukraine Strikes Blow at Russia’s Online Commerce
NEW FRONT: The ruins of a Moscow area warehouse for Wildberries, Russia’s version of Amazon, and its merchandise Thursday after a strike by a Ukrainian drone. Four company sites have been hit in the last week as Kyiv expands its targeting in Russia.
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Surge of Forces Gives Trump Options to Escalate Iran War
WASHINGTON—The U.S. is surging forces, medics and weaponry to the Middle East to give President Trump more muscular military options as he considers expanding the conflict against Iran, according to people familiar with the matter. In the past week,...
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Bowing to Protests, Zelensky Ousts Army Chief
President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy on Tuesday as head of Ukraine’s armed forces. Protesters have thronged Kyiv in the wake of Zelensky’s removal of Mikhailo Fedorov, the tech-savvy defense minister who criticized Syrskiy for...
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Burnham Becomes U.K.’s 7th Leader In Decade
LONDON—Andy Burnham, the U.K.’s seventh prime minister in a decade, arrived Monday at 10 Downing Street pledging that a bigger, more muscular state can solve the country’s economic woes and restore political stability. Standing in front of the prime...
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Justice Department Pulls Back On Pursuing Corporate Crime
The Trump administration has moved sharply away from charging companies over the wrongdoing of employees, recently closing a string of criminal investigations with lenient resolutions or no charges at all. In matters involving Alibaba, EagleBank and...
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Texas Floods Leave Destruction, Prompt Rescues
More heavy rains in stormweary Texas sent first responders rushing to people trapped in high waters Friday, widening the danger caused by floods that have killed at least two people and left hundreds more in need of rescue. A relentless week of...
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Canadian Fires Cast Pall Over Wide Swath of U.S.
CHICAGO—Acrid haze sat low to the ground Thursday as wildfire smoke from Canada continued to blanket the Midwest and Northeast, creating a strain on visibility and unhealthy air quality that is expected to last at least through Friday night. Winds...
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Blanche Gets Grilled by Senators On Payout Fund, Trump IRS Deal
WASHINGTON—Todd Blanche tried to ease concerns over a settlement between President Trump and the Internal Revenue Service that has become a sticking point for key Republican senators whose support he needs to be confirmed as attorney general. Blanche...
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France Makes Show of EU Might on Bastille Day
ESPRIT DE CORPS: President Emmanuel Macron of France rides in a light reconnaissance vehicle Tuesday on Paris’s Champs-Élysées for a Bastille Day parade that featured soldiers from mainly European nations that support Ukraine’s war effort.
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Thailand Seeks Answers in Deadly Bar Fire
TRAGIC AFTERMATH: Bodies are removed Monday from the Rong Beer Na Ladprao bar in Bangkok, where at least 27 people died in a fire. Most of the victims were found in windowless bathrooms, where they might have sought shelter from flames.
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Sen. Graham, GOP Stalwart, Dies at 71
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a foreign-policy hawk who transformed from a fierce critic of President Trump into one of his closest allies in Congress, has died. He was 71. The Republican senator, who was the chief congressional proponent of...
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Mooove Out of the Way for Famed Bull Run
CHARGE! Bulls barrel through the streets of Pamplona, Spain, on Friday during the annual San Fermín Festival, which draws thousands of visitors. It was featured in Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Sun Also Rises,’ which marks its 100th anniversary this year.
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Deadly Floods Batter South China After Typhoon
WATERLOGGED: Rescuers evacuate students who had been trapped by flooding in Guigang in south China’s Guangxi region on Thursday. The death toll stood at 39 from the effects of a typhoon, most of them in a partial dam collapse, authorities said.
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Trump, in Shift, Backs Ukraine Striking Targets Deep in Russia
President Trump said he supported Ukraine striking targets deep inside Russian territory, calling it an escalation that could help end the war. The comments mark his strongest praise yet of Ukraine’s military strategy and deal a significant blow to...
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Trump Push on Jets for Turkey Sets Up Clash With Congress
ANKARA, Turkey—President Trump said he would consider selling the F-35 jet fighter to Turkey, signaling his embrace of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and setting up a potential showdown with U.S. lawmakers who have long opposed such a...
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Belgium Ends U.S. Run for the World Cup
President Trump confirmed that he called FIFA President Gianni Infantino and asked him to review U.S. striker Folarin Balogun’s one-game suspension, a move that set off an uproar among soccer fans across the world. “All I did, I asked for a review. I...
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Throngs Mourn Iran Leader Killed Early in War
Large crowds gathered in Tehran as Iran began six days of funeral ceremonies for its slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in what the Islamic Republic is framing as a show of defiance against the West. Iranian authorities predicted that as...
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Ready to Ring In America’s 250th Birthday Party
CRACK TEAM: A group of 250 people forms the shape of the Liberty Bell on Independence Mall in Philadelphia on Thursday as the nation prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
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Qatari Gift Makes Maiden Flight as Air Force One
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE— A new paint job. Lie-flat leather seats. And library bookcases. President Trump on Wednesday took his maiden flight on his long-awaited new Air Force One, a Boeing 747-8 luxury jet that was given to the U.S. by the Qatari...
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Russia’s Fuel Shortages Pressure Putin
Fuel shortages across Russia have triggered a new political challenge for President Vladimir Putin, as a relentless Ukrainian drone campaign aimed at the country’s oil refineries has brought the war home for most ordinary Russians. While Ukraine has...
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U.S. Troops Arrive to Aid Venezuela
ON GUARD: U.S. soldiers patrolled Caraballeda, Venezuela, on Monday as part of an extraordinary effort to help the nation’s new U.S.-aligned government respond to twin earthquakes.
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No Relief as Heat Wave Fans Out Across Europe
France saw around 1,000 additional deaths last week at the height of its record-smash- ing heat wave, the country’s public health agency said Sunday, as the head of the World Health Organization warned Europe is the fastest-warming continent and needs...
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Desperate Venezuelans Dig for Quake Survivors
Two devastating earthquakes have plunged Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, into her first crisis, posing a crucial test of the Trump administration’s bet that she can transform the country into a more functional, compliant ally. Hollowed...
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Venezuela ‘All in Shock’ After Quakes
Benito Quivera was in his underwear, about to get in the shower late Wednesday afternoon when his phone emitted a shrill alarm. His Caracas apartment began violently shaking. “I had never heard it before, and then suddenly everything began to move...
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Trump Derails Housing Bill, Fueling Strains
WASHINGTON—President Trump abruptly canceled plans to sign bipartisan housing legislation while again pushing a bill that would impose strict new voter-eligibility rules, and hours later engaged in a fiery clash with one of his top Republican critics...
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Towering Temperatures Set a Record in France
France recorded its hottest day ever on Tuesday amid an exceptional early heat wave across Europe, the national weather agency said. It said France’s national thermal indicator—an average of temperatures measured at 30 weather stations—hit 85.6...
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U.K. Prime Minister Starmer Quits Amid Labour Party Revolt
LONDON—U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday he would step down following a rebellion in his Labour Party, clearing the way for Andy Burnham, a left-wing former mayor, to likely become the country’s sixth prime minister in seven years. Speaking...
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U.S.-Iran Talks Turn Focus to Lebanon Fight
BÜRGENSTOCK, Switzerland—Iran and the U.S. agreed to the creation of a mechanism to ensure the termination of military operations in Lebanon, mediators said early Monday. The announcement by Pakistan and Qatar, the two mediators in Iran peace talks,...
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U.S. Soccer Wins Again, Beating Australia 2-0
Alex Freeman scored the U.S. team’s second goal Friday in Seattle as it notched its second win in as many matches in the World Cup, outscoring its opponents 6-1. The win guarantees the U.S. advances to the knockout round.
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Fed Holds Interest Rates Steady As Officials Signal an Increase
Federal Reserve officials signaled Wednesday that their next move might be to raise interest rates, not cut them, a striking reversal at Kevin Warsh’s first meeting as chairman and a sign of how sharply the inflation outlook has turned. The Fed held...
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Iran Can Start Selling Its Oil Following Deal
The U.S. will allow Iran to begin immediately selling oil and fuel under the deal to end the war, offering Tehran an early financial incentive to wind down the conflict, people familiar with the agreement said. The provision for waivers of sanctions...
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Trump Starts Visit to a Wary Europe
ARM’S LENGTH: French President Emanuel Macron greets President Trump on Monday in Évianles-Bains as the G-7 summit opens. Europe’s leaders are in a less trusting mood with the U.S.
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Fight Night Kicks Off on the White House Lawn
BIRTHDAY BOUT: Mixed martial-arts fans watch Diego Lopes battle Steve Garcia in an Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight fight at the White House. The event coincided with the 80th birthday of President Trump, who was on hand.
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SpaceX Soars in Record Debut
Shares in SpaceX soared 19% Friday as Elon Musk’s rocket-maker pulled off the largest initial public offering ever and turned Musk into the world’s first trillionaire. The company, valued at $1.77 trillion when it sold $75 billion worth of shares a...
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Hundreds of Billions in Loans Fail to Dent Global Poverty
BATTAMBANG, Cambodia— Giving tiny loans to shoestring entrepreneurs was meant to be capitalism’s cure for global poverty. Microfinance, loans issued in communities not served by traditional banks, would help poor people in developing countries start...
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Pope Blesses Gaudí’s Barcelona Landmark
MASTERPIECE: Thousands flocked to the Sagrada Familia as Pope Leo XIV inaugurated a newly finished tower of the basilica he called a ‘sign of unity and harmony for all of Spain’ on Wednesday, the 100th anniversary of the death of its architect, Antoni...
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First-Time French Open Winner Floored by Feat
For the past two weeks, a strange vibe has hung over Roland-Garros. First, there was the Parisian heat wave. Then came the driving rain. And through it all, favorites tumbled on the red clay until all that remained was the most surprising tennis major...
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Trump Urges New Spy Chief To Fire Intelligence Staffers
WASHINGTON—President Trump said he wants Bill Pulte, his incoming acting director of national intelligence, to begin firing a large number of employees as part of a shake-up of the U.S. intelligence community. In an interview with The Wall Street...
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Russia’s Attacks on Ukraine Civilians Intensify
KYIV, Ukraine—Russia unleashed its third massive attack on Kyiv in less than three weeks overnight into Tuesday, with deadly aerial barrages indicating that as the Kremlin stalls on the battlefield it is exploiting holes in Ukraine’s air defense to...
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Kenyans Protest U.S. Plans for Ebola Center
Hundreds of youths in the central town of Nanyuki on Monday demonstrated against the establishment at the Laikipia Air Base of an Ebola quarantine center for U.S. citi- zens exposed to the virus. The protests come two days after Kenya’s High Court...
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Far Right’s ‘Tiger’ Surges Into Colombia Runoff
BOGOTÁ, Colombia—A farright lawyer who pledged to smash the cocaine-fueled armed groups that have expanded in this country took the most votes in Sunday’s first round of the presidential election, a blow to both the ruling leftist party and...
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Rocket Explosion Is Major Blow for Bezos
Blue Origin spent Friday sifting through the aftermath of a rocket explosion that threatens to delay a spate of missions, including lunar exploration flights for NASA. A rocket the Jeff Bezosowned company was testing Thursday night exploded, sending...
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Tennis’s No. 1 Player Wilts in Heat of French Open
JANNIK SINNER landed in Paris last week believing he was safe from his biggest rival. Carlos Alcaraz, the defending champion, had pulled out of the tournament due to injury. What Sinner hadn’t counted on here was a rematch with his other nemesis: the...
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♦ Some one million prospective buyers have defected from the U.S. newcar market since the start of the decade and aren’t expected to return soon. A1 ♦ Tesla sales in Europe grew strongly in April as the electricvehicle maker maintains momentum there...
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Patients Evacuated in Race to Trace Deadly Virus
OUTBREAK: Three people, including two with acute hantavirus symptoms, were moved Wednesday from the MV Hondius off Cape Verde. Swiss authorities were trying to trace the contacts of a man who became ill after leaving the cruise ship.
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