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via NYT > World News Though electric machines are now standard, the Venezuelan weaver Margarita Mora has clung to a mix of ancestral Indigenous and Spanish practices to create surprisingly modern work.

via NYT > World News A security expert who had recently become chief of staff to the new defense minister was abducted, the latest example of violence gripping the country.

via NYT > World News The children — four girls and one boy — were among 10 people in the van at the time of the crash. An infant was seriously injured, the police said.

via NYT > World News A senior administration official said the two sides were “not quite at the finish line yet.”

via NYT > World News For months, mice have been found in tea kettles, crunched by car tires and even appeared in people’s beds. In one town, the end might be in sight.

via NYT > World News Facing President Trump’s threats, many Canadians have taken a defensive stance to their neighbor. But now Canada is playing co-host with the United States and Mexico, and welcoming the world.

via NYT > World News A “memorandum of understanding” between the two sides is under discussion. Both sides are keen to frame it as a victory.

via NYT > World News Elon Musk and people in his orbit are about to get much, much richer.

via NYT > World News As the largest World Cup ever kicks off in Mexico City on Thursday afternoon, the security around Estadio Azteca was strict, as law enforcement officers held off protesters.

via NYT > World News A U.S. military official said the president’s seemingly dramatic announcement on Wednesday referred to a previously reported effort to shepherd commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.

via NYT > World News With a host country actively at war with a participating nation, this year’s tournament is set to be unlike any other.

via NYT > World News With no end to the turmoil in the Middle East, the U.N. secretary general lamented that a cease-fire had become “more like a lesser-fire.”

via NYT > World News The two crossed paths in Spain, where they have been on decidedly different tours. Sorry, no photos were released.

via NYT > World News He leveraged the war in Ukraine to become North Korea’s most powerful leader to date.

via NYT > World News On social media, Chinese entrepreneurs are touting cheap labor across the border, as trade between the two countries regains momentum.

via NYT > World News The virologist was stopped at the Detroit airport after working in Congo during a mpox epidemic. His lawyer said the material was for research.

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via NYT > World News A clip of the actor Elon Gold with Lizzy Savetsky, a social media influencer, at the premiere of “The Wedding Entertainer” has been circulating online.

via NYT > World News Israel had struck the outskirts of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, earlier on Sunday, prompting threats of Iranian retaliation.

via NYT > World News Since the fall of the Third Reich, German voters have shunned mayoral candidates from neo-Nazi parties. That could change on Sunday in a small town in the country’s east.