{"category":"world","articles":[{"title":"Gay-Themed Mediterranean Cruise Turned Away From Turkey and Then Egypt","link":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/middleeast/gay-cruise-turkey-egypt.html","date":"Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:59:40 +0000","desc":"In both Muslim-majority countries, official hostility to gay people has increased in recent years. But the same cruise had visited before without problems."},{"title":"Iran War Updates: U.S. Launches New Strikes, as Tensions Escalate Over Strait of Hormuz","link":"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/16/world/iran-war-trump-hormuz","date":"Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:48:11 +0000","desc":"American forces appeared to be focused on infrastructure, hitting bridges and a railway junction, Iranian state media reported."},{"title":"Here’s the latest.","link":"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/16/world/iran-war-trump-hormuz/heres-the-latest","date":"Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:48:10 +0000","desc":"Here’s the latest."},{"title":"Australia to Put Environmental Brakes on A.I. Data Centers","link":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/world/australia/albanese-artificial-intelligence-guardrails.html","date":"Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:46:07 +0000","desc":"The country will also seek to protect the rights of creators of work used to train artificial intelligence models, as it aims to impose parameters on the growin..."},{"title":"<![CDATA[Blasts reported in Iran as US launches new wave of strikes]]>","link":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c151gdjwd10o?at_medium=RSS&amp;at_campaign=rss","date":"Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:57:26 GMT","desc":""},{"title":"A 59-Year-Old Hunger Striker Joins a Gen Z Protest Movement in India","link":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/asia/india-sonam-wangchuk-cockroach-janata-party-hunger-strike.html","date":"Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:43:19 +0000","desc":"Sonam Wangchuk, a longtime activist, has fasted for 19 days, joining forces with a student-led campaign to change India’s education system."},{"title":"<![CDATA[One man's hunger strike changed India's map. Can it still change politics?]]>","link":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4d4eq9n8do?at_medium=RSS&amp;at_campaign=rss","date":"Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:21:03 GMT","desc":""},{"title":"Canada’s Wildfires Are Burning Through the Night","link":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/canada/canada-wildfires-firefighters-heat.html","date":"Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:08:16 +0000","desc":"As overnight temperatures climb across Canada, fires that once spread more slowly after dark are burning around the clock, straining fire crews."},{"title":"<![CDATA[At least one dead in Texas floods ravaging same area where campers died]]>","link":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v0xe5elzyo?at_medium=RSS&amp;at_campaign=rss","date":"Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:08:13 GMT","desc":""},{"title":"<![CDATA[I thought we'd grow old together, says band leader whose girlfriend died in Thai bar inferno]]>","link":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1k13zj914mo?at_medium=RSS&amp;at_campaign=rss","date":"Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:01:32 GMT","desc":""}]}