A Quick, Quiet Trip to Belarus Signals a Turn in U.S. Policy
President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus during joint military exercises between Russia and Belarus in 2022.
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German Chancellor Rebukes Vance for Supporting Party That Downplays Nazis
Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany at the Munich Security Conference, on Saturday.
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Even in Death, Navalny Is Seen by the Kremlin as an Enduring Threat
A gathering last June at the Moscow grave of Aleksei A. Navalny, on what would have been his 48th birthday. He died in February 2024.
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Armed Bandits in Brazil Pursue New Loot: Ozempic
A video monitoring system inside a pharmacy in São Paulo.
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Have You Seen This Pilgrim? Lost in the Throngs of the Kumbh Mela.
Pilgrims showing photographs of their lost relatives at the lost-and-found center last month at the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, India.
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Cuts to U.S.-Backed Rights Groups Seen as a Win for China
Chinese traffic police officers walk by a U.S. flag on an embassy car in Shanghai.
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Vance Tells Europeans to Stop Shunning Parties Deemed Extreme
Vice President JD Vance speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Friday.
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Zelensky Says Ukraine Is Unlikely to Survive the War Without U.S. Support
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arriving at the Munich Security Conference on Friday.
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High Above Chernobyl, Workers Grapple With Ice, Fire and Nuclear Fears
The breach at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was dangerous for many reasons, mainly because it jeopardized the safety of the protective shell covering Reactor No. 4.
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With Fighting Stilled, Gazans Face New Trauma: Searching for Their Dead
Hani al-Dibs and his children in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, at the site of the home they fled with 14 family members believed to be beneath the rubble.
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Whiskey Offers Window Into the Pain of a Trade War
A worker in the Scotch whisky section of Jensen’s Liquors in Miami. Alcohol could end up back in the crossfire of a trade war.
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Tensions Build in Syria Between New Leaders and Kurdish-Led Militia
Kurdish fighters at a training camp in Al-Hasakah, Syria, in December.
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Relief in Israel as Newly Released Hostages Appear to Be in Better Shape
Crowds gathered at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv to watch the televised release of three men held in Gaza on Saturday.
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Love Letters
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In D.C. Visit, Canadian Leaders Face Trump’s Tariff Hawks
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau toured a steel mill in Hamilton, Ontario, after President Trump’s latest threat to impose tariffs on steel products.
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A Closer Look at the 3 Hostages Freed by Hamas
Posters bearing the photos of the three hostages -- Sagui Dekel-Chen, Sasha Troufanov and Iair Horn -- who were released on Saturday.
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A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off.
“The kind of literature we’re publishing, it can be a risk for major publishers,” said Kristen Vida Alfaro, Tilted Axis’s publisher. “These are stories written in languages that often hadn’t been translated into English before.”
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Vance Shocks Europe With Support for Far Right, in Message Familiar to U.S.
Vice President JD Vance and Usha Vance, the second lady, visiting the urn with the ashes of the unknown prisoner at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site outside Munich on Thursday.
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Diplomats in Munich Fear Trump Is Giving Up Leverage to Putin Before Talks With Ukraine
Kaja Kallas, the top foreign policy official for the European Union, speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Friday.
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Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese Actress and Star of ‘Meteor Garden,’ Dies at 48
The actress Barbie Hsu in 2006. Fans were drawn to the relatable and resilient nature of the character she played on the hit teenage TV drama “Meteor Garden.”
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Texas County Declares an Emergency Over Toxic Fertilizer
Johnson County, south of Fort Worth, has been roiled since investigators found high levels of PFAS at two cattle ranches that came from contaminated fertilizer.
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Tensions Mount in Lebanon as Deadline Nears for Israeli Withdrawal
Israeli military vehicles driving past destruction in southern Lebanon last month after a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect in November.
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Munich Car Attack Injured Dozens: What We Know
The car that was driven into a union march was removed from a street in Munich on Thursday. Dozens of people were injured in the attack.
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Sexual Violence Against Children Soars in Congo, U.N. Group Says
Warehouses of humanitarian organizations were looted during clashes in Goma between Congolese soldiers and rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo last month.
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Trump’s Funding Freeze Raises a New Question: Is the Government’s Word Good?
Energy Department officials have ordered an internal review of potentially billions of dollars worth of climate and infrastructure spending that was awarded by the Biden administration after the Nov. 5 election.
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Why Trump’s Plan to Relocate Gazans Is Untenable for Jordan
King Abdullah II of Jordan and President Trump at a meeting in the White House on Tuesday.
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Britain’s Hard-Right Reform U.K. Party Wins Over Some Labour Voters
Stuart Keyte, second from left, a Reform U.K. candidate in Penygarn, Wales, with Paul Jones, left, a local business owner, who said: “People are starting to change their outlook, especially when it comes to Labour. It’s time for change.”
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Pope Francis Is Admitted to Hospital for Bronchitis
The hospital in Rome where Pope Francis was being treated for bronchitis.
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Hamas Names Hostages Set for Release on Saturday
A rally for Alexander Troufanov, who was abducted during the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. A Hamas statement said that he would be among those to be freed.
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Remnants of a Roman Basilica Are Found Under a London Office Building
Archaeologists found “massive foundations and walls made of flint, ragstone and roman tile” under the basement of a commercial building in London’s financial district.
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China Says U.S. Should Lead Trump’s Proposed Arms Controls Push
Military vehicles carrying nuclear ballistic missiles during a parade in Beijing in 2019.
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Ukrainians Fear Peace May Strand Them Forever From Lost Homes
Most of the roughly 46,000 people who once lived in the Ukrainian city of Myrnohrad have left.
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Trump Pushes Tariff Threats on Global Scale
President Trump has weaponized the power of the U.S. market in a way no other American leader ever has.
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What’s Best, According to the Italian Mathematician Alessio Figalli
Alessio Figalli, a mathematician at ETH Zurich and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., investigates “optimal transport,” the study of starting points, end points and the paths between.
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Fire at Busan Resort Construction Site Kills 6
A construction site that caught fire in Busan, South Korea, on Friday.
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Vance Mentions Sanctions, Military Action to Push Russia to End Ukraine War
Vice President JD Vance arrived in Munich on Thursday.
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Friday Briefing
President Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on goods from across the globe is likely to further roil relations with foreign governments.
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Trump and Modi Shove Disputes Into Background in White House Visit
President Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday.
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Judge Extends Halt on Trump Plan to Dismantle U.S.A.I.D.
Employees and supporters of U.S.A.I.D. attend a rally in Washington earlier this month.
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As Ukraine Presses for Role in Russia Peace Talks, Trump Offers Reassurances
The Shkval Special Forces Assault Battalion during training exercises in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine on Thursday.
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U.S.S. Harry S. Truman Carrier Collides With Commercial Ship Off Egypt
The U.S.S. Harry S. Truman was involved in a collision off Egypt on Wednesday, Navy officials said.
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No Tubman, No Rainbows: Defense Schools Prepared for Hegseth’s Wife
Jennifer Rauchet Hegseth watched her husband, Pete Hegseth, speak after being sworn in as Secretary of Defense last month.
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Friday Briefing: Trump Orders New Global Tariffs
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India arrived in the United States on Wednesday.
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NATO Worries Grow That Europe Will Be Left Out of Talks to End War in Ukraine
The U.S. defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday.
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Trump Funding Freeze Decimates Women’s Health Care, U.N. and Others Say
An unstaffed reception area at the offices of Uganda Young Positives, in Kampala. The group helps young people living with H.I.V.
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Trump’s Whirlwind Now Blows Through Europe
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, left, and the secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte, in Brussels on Thursday.
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Trump Announces ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs Across the Globe
President Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on goods from across the globe is likely to further roil relations with foreign governments.
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Protests in Brussels Halt Over 400 Flights and Snarl Public Transit
Demonstrators in Brussels marching past police officers during a nationwide protest on Thursday.
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James Howells’s Final Proposal to Recover Lost Bitcoin: Buying the Landfill
James Howells has one final ask of the Newport City Council, which has treated him with varying degrees of seriousness throughout the years: If the council won’t let him dig up the city’s landfill, let him buy it.
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U.S. Deports Migrants From Asia to Panama
After meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio this month, President José Raúl Mulino of Panama indicated that he was open to receiving deportees from other countries.
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All 3 Fayed Brothers, Ex-Owners of Harrods, Are Now Accused of Sexual Assault
Live Updates: Israel and Hamas Finish 6th Exchange of Hostages for Prisoners
Man Is Briefly ‘Swallowed’ by Whale in Chile
These Podcasters Want to Teach You How to Date
Tropical Cyclone Zelia Makes Landfall in Northwest Australia