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Zohran Mamdani’s success is especially meaningful for Muslim New Yorkers. He would be the first Muslim mayor of New York City, and his faith played a role in expanding the diverse coalition that propelled his campaign www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/n...

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Zohran Mamdani, a little-known state lawmaker whose progressive economic platform electrified younger voters, surged into the lead in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, putting him on the verge of a stunning upset www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Thailand and Cambodia shut several border crossings in tit-for-tat moves, ratcheting up tensions between the two Southeast Asian neighbors as Thailand's PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra fights to save her government from a political crisis www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06...

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President Trump said on social media that Israel and Iran had agreed to a cease-fire after more than a week of missile strikes on each other and a weekend attack on Iranian nuclear facilities by American bombers www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Thailand's tourism industry has not started off well in the first half of the year. It lost its crown as the most visited country in ASEAN, now Malaysia, and arrivals from what used to be its biggest visitor market has also been falling www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bj1...

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Music producer Bob Ezrin talked about more than 50 years of creating rock's biggest records, including Pink Floyd’s The Wall, and explains his decision to renounce his U.S. citizenship and return to Toronto, Canada www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6-V...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is warning Germany’s new chancellor Friedrich Merz against sharing its long-range AI-equipped Taurus cruise missile with Ukraine www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnqT...

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Speaking directly to people in Iran is difficult. Nazanin Boniadi, an actress and human rights activist in Los Angeles, focused on Iran, where she was born and which her family fled after the 1979 revolution www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwUy...

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The U.S. strikes on nuclear sites in Iran are an extraordinary turn for a military that was supposed to be moving on from two decades of forever wars in the Middle East, and they put the United States back on war footing www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

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Al Jazeera: Israel versus Iran: Why now after four decades of shadow war? www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFv2...

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President Trump announced the United States had struck Fordo, Iran’s heavily fortified nuclear facility, as well as two other sites, entering a war against Iran www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBwR...

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Thai PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra is under pressures after a key coalition partner abandoned her government. It stemmed from a leaked 9-minute phone call between Shinawatra and Cambodia’s leader Hun Sen over a border dispute, talking negatively about a Thai general www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b7Z...

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Hangzhou is gaining recognition as a leading technology centre in China, primarily because of the rise of local start-ups known as the “Six Little Dragons” including DeepSeek. The city is already home to Zhejiang University and Alibaba www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX-Z...

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With BTS poised to reunite, “Squid Game” returning and a Broadway show winning awards, the Korean cultural wave keeps on rolling. How South Korea became a cultural powerhouse, and what’s next? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/w...

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In Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not only picked replacements in his chain of military command in case they are killed in Israeli strikes, he has also named three senior clerics to replace him should he, too, be slain www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/w...

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If the U.S. strikes Fordo, the Iranian nuclear plant, that might prompt Iran to retaliate against U.S. interests around the Middle East. In turn, that could force Trump to retaliate against Iran, a escalatory cycle that might lead to a much bigger war www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

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Stanley Fischer, a professor and practitioner of macroeconomics who helped guide central banks in Israel and the U.S. and mentored a younger generation of economic decision-makers, has died. He was 81 www.afr.com/world/north-...

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At George Soros’s estate in Southampton, N.Y., Huma Abedin and Alex Soros signed the ketubah in honor of his Jewish faith and the nikah in honor of her Muslim faith in an intimate, interfaith ceremony. Abedin wore a vintage-inspired Erdem dress with lace sleeves www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/s...

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Vance Boelter in #Minnesotafreak wasn’t just a political assassin; he was a Christian assassin — and a person deeply connected to one of America’s most radical religious movements www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/o...

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In Washington DC, Voice of America recalls staff for Iranian language news service from leave. Most of the staff of VOA News, the federally funded news network, were put on administrative leave by the Trump administration in March www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

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Zen priest Peter Coyote on protest: A protest is an invitation to a better world. It’s a ceremony. No one accepts a ceremonial invitation when they’re being screamed at www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

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Israel launches attack on Iran as Tehran scrambles their jets. The Israeli government has been making preparations for weeks for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities after negotiation with the U.S. had failed www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Isan food stall, Larb Chareon, in Khlong Toei, Bangkok, serves 18 types of som tum (papaya salad). Its husband-and-wife team serve authentic northeastern Thai cuisine. But urban development could be threatening good-yet-affordable stalls like theirs www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH9G...

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More deaths reported in West Papua clashes between Indonesian security forces and indigenous fighters in Central Highland www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific...

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U.S. foundations are bracing for big cuts to their charity outlays as President Donald Trump’s proposed budget seeks to ratchet up taxes on investment returns for non-profit groups www.ft.com/content/8330...

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Indonesian finance minister Sri Muljani visited conflict zone Nduga in Papua Highland with defense minister Sjafrie Sjamsuddin. A defense spokesman said the visit marked “the first time a finance minister had visited a high-risk conflict zone” www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...

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Theresia Gouw, born in Indonesia, grew up in New York, now a longtime Silicon Valley investor and co-founder of Acrew Capital. She's America's first and only female billionaire venture capitalist, worth US$1.7 billion www.forbes.com/profile/ther...

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Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Norway and the United Kingdom have announced sanctions against far-right Israeli government ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. The pair will face a travel ban and their assets will be frozen www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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President Donald Trump and California's Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom escalated their confrontation over the handling of protests in Los Angeles triggered by Trump's immigration crackdown abcnews.go.com/Politics/war...

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The United Kingdom under PM Keir Starmer may have paused trade talks with Israel, but arms embargo is still the elephant in the room www.newarab.com/opinion/with...

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Pakistan’s blasphemy laws perpetuate religious discrimination and are used to target the poor and minorities in unlawful evictions and land grabs. In Pakistan, the federal and provincial governments have failed to prevent the abuse www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

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BBC Verify team have been assessing a range of material - from satellite images to drone footage - to build up a picture of what happened inside Russia's military bases and how Ukrainian drones were sent and prepared www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YuM...

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Thomas Crooks went through a gradual and largely hidden transformation, from a meek engineering student critical of political polarization to a focused killer with mental illness who tried to kill Donald Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

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Africa lacks enough universities to educate its own students, but China has mounted an effort to recruit them as the United States reduces its diplomatic, military and humanitarian engagement on the continent www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/w...

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Elon Musk’s blowup with President Trump may have doomed Washington’s most potent partnership, but the billionaire’s signature cost-cutting project has become deeply embedded in Trump’s administration and could be there to stay www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...

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Edmund White mined his own life story, including his vast and varied catalog of sexual experiences, in more than 30 books of fiction and nonfiction and hundreds of articles and essays, becoming a grandee of the New York literary world for more than half a century www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/b...

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In 2024, Russian drone strikes killed dozens of civilians and injured hundreds more in the city of Kherson, in apparently deliberate or reckless attacks that constitute war crimes www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

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By smuggling more than 100 explosive-laden drones across the Russian border in cargo trucks, Ukraine managed to evade air defenses and then fly the drones undetected above four Russian bases, where they damaged more than 40 military aircrafts www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

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Ukraine’s drone attack against Russian military airfields on Sunday was audacious and daring. But most of all, it was meticulously planned and executed flawlessly against Russia, destroying dozens of the bombers www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR1W...

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The owners of the multi-billion-dollar Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park on Halmahera Island are violating the rights of local communities. Nickel mining and processing is causing deforestation, air and water pollution, emitting greenhouse gases from coal plants cri.org/reports/ongo...

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The Trumpian ban on gender affirming care replaced best-practice medical care with blunt, politically driven restrictions. It undermines the mental and physical well-being of transgender youth as well as places emotional and financial strain on families www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

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Trump and Musk’s relationship expectedly melts down in spectacular fashion. Musk first tweeted, “Without me, Trump would have lost the election. Such ingratitude” 🫢https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/politics/trump-elon-musk-fight.html

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The mosquito buzzing is annoying and disgusting. A male mosquito follows the sound of a female mosquito’s beating wings to find a mate. Male mosquitoes are buzzing at 600 Hz, female at 400 Hz www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qezz...

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A jury in El Salvador convicted three former senior military officers of murder in the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists. The three officers —a former defense minister; a former police director; and a colonel— each received 15-year prison sentences www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w...

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Beyond Maldives's crystal-clear waters and pristine, white-sand beaches, local communities are facing a far harsher reality: a growing water crisis driven by climate change. Some islands are literally running out of fresh water www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

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Lee Jae-myung, South Korea’s new president, has survived criminal charges, a near-fatal stabbing attack and the martial law enacted by his fiercest enemy, former President Yoon Suk Yeol. Now he must lead a deeply divided nation www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/w...

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Army spokesman said that it is recruiting 24,000 non-commissioned officers to form of the Territorial Development Battalion. These new battalions will serve 514 regencies in Indonesia. Each battalion will stand on 30 hectares of land nasional.kompas.com/read/2025/06...

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As the United States under President Donald Trumps cuts budgets and restricts immigration, China and Europe are offering researchers money and stability www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

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Hundreds of Papuan students demonstrated in Jakarta, demanding that the Minister of Human Rights Natalius Pigai, himself a Papuan, to investigate the shooting of 8 indigenous Papuans in Intan Jaya and stop military operations in the Central Mountains www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfT6...

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