Time Magazine International Edition June 23, 2025

TIME hosted a dinner May 22 to celebrate its inaugural list of 100 leaders in philanthropy, including (clockwise from top) Ayesha Curry, Stephen Curry, and David Beckham (pictured with Victoria Beckham); Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda; and Elizabeth Alexander of the Mellon Foundation. time.com/time100-philanthropy Reel Talk Grab the popcorn! TIME rounded up the 37 most anticipated summer movies. It’s a summer of sequels, from Freakier Friday to M3GAN 2.0 and 28 Years Later, plus another Jurassic Park movie, Jurassic World Rebirth, will roar into theaters. A Brad Pitt F1 movie (see the Time Off section) will likely drive ticket sales. And Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme includes stars like Tom Hanks and Scarlett Johansson. Find all the features at time.com/summer-2025 On the covers Photograph by Davide Monteleone for TIME Illustration…

The drone factory in Kyiv had an enviable problem. It could make more combat drones than the Ukrainian military needs. The heavy ones, known as Vampires, can be assembled at a rate of 4,000 per month, the factory’s founder told me on a tour of the facility in March. The smaller ones, similar to the drones Ukraine used on June 1 to attack several Russian air bases, could be made many times as fast, he said: roughly 4,000 per day. All around us, the noise of the production line made it difficult to hear, as did the speaker system playing ’80s music. (“I just died in your arms tonight…”) So I asked the founder to repeat himself: 4,000 drones … per day? “Yeah, that’s at full capacity,” he said. “Right…

The firebombing of a rally in Boulder, Colo., supporting the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza continued a surge in antisemitic incidents and hate crimes toward Jewish Americans. A dozen people were injured in the June 1 incident involving an improvised flamethrower. It came less than two weeks after two Israeli embassy employees were fatally shot outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Suspects in both attacks shouted “Free Palestine!” RISING FEARS Antisemitic incidents in the U.S. skyrocketed 361% in the three months after the October 2023 start of the Israel-Hamas war, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). In February, the American Jewish Committee reported that 33% of American Jews said they had been the target of antisemitism, in person or virtually, at least once over the past…

Climate change is leading not only to droughts, wildfires, and extreme weather. It’s also leading to oxymorons—at least when it comes to what are known as 100-year storms, floods, and other events. Long-term weather forecasting is all about probabilities, factoring together not only current conditions and trends, but also the historical record. Environmental scientists have gotten so good at reading weather history that they can characterize some severe storms or floods as likely to occur in a given area only once in 100 years—or even 500 years or 1,000 years. That’s where the oxymoron comes in. As climate change leads to greater meteorological volatility, the events forecast to happen once in 100—or 500 or 1,000—years are occurring twice or three times or more in those windows. Since 1999, there have…

DIED Sebastião Salgado Photographer and humanitarian Sebastião Salgado, 81, who died in Paris on May 23, took photographs that were too beautiful to look away from. This was key since his subjects were often those which people didn’t want to see: humans laboring in brutal conditions, families trying to find safe haven through hostile terrain, the decline of the environment. Born in Brazil in 1944, but exiled in 1969, Salgado was college-trained in economics and self-trained in photography. He shot photos in more than 120 countries, capturing events as varied as the 1980s Ethiopian famine, the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, and firefighters in Kuwait battling burning oil wells. He endured land mines, malaria, freezing temperatures, and thousands of miles of barely walkable roads to get the images he…

Muslims gather at the Kaaba in Mecca on June 1, three days before the start of hajj. This year, under a new rule imposed as an effort to reduce overcrowding, the expected 2 million pilgrims are barred from bringing children. Saudi officials also have tightened visa enforcement, deployed AI surveillance drones, and installed the world’s largest cooling system in the Grand Mosque complex. In 2024, more than 1,300 people died amid temperatures that reached 116°F (47°C). ▸ For more of our best photography, visit time.com/lightbox Photograph by Hazem Bader—AFP/Getty Images…