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via NYT > World News President Trump has signed an order telling the Pentagon to begin using military force against certain criminal gangs that the United States has named terror organizations.

via NYT > World News A former federal judge, he first came to the F.B.I. just as two of the worst spies in American history were running rampant.

via NYT > World News A series of border skirmishes between Thailand and Cambodia escalated into a military conflict in July that killed dozens of people and rattled the region. As negotiations take place, Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times’s Southeast Asia bureau chief, talks to Katrin Bennhold, a senior writer on the International desk, about the context behind the evolving dispute.

via NYT > World News Plus, the global response to Trump’s tariffs.

via NYT > World News Slapped with a steep tariff, South African officials hope for a deal, but some worry the U.S. may insist that it roll back measures that redress the damage of apartheid.

via NYT > World News The legal claim, one of a raft of lawsuits across the country, had accused companies of a yearslong disinformation campaign about climate change.

via NYT > World News Also, a possible Russia-Ukraine-U.S. summit.