A Crisis at a British Steel Mill Has Cast a Shadow Over U.K.-China Relations
A view of the blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, on Monday. They are the last working blast furnaces in Britain, producing crude steel which is vital for major construction projects.
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Inside Trump’s Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants
Nathali Sánchez, the wife of Arturo Suárez, a migrant sent to prison in El Salvador, with her daughter in Santiago, Chile.
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Airport Warned Repeatedly on Bird Strikes Before Fatal Jeju Air Plane Crash
A flock of birds flying near the airport at the scene of the Jeju Air plane crash in Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, in December.
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Van Gogh’s Last Painting Poses a Problem for an Idyllic French Village
Auvers-sur-Oise, long famous as an artist’s paradise, is embroiled in a dispute over “Tree Roots,” lately determined to be the final work of Vincent Van Gogh.
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Head of Kuwait Specialty Field Hospital in Gaza Says Israeli Strike Killed a Guard
Palestinians inspect the damage after Israel’s attack on the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday.
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Algeria Expels 12 French Officials
Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s foreign minister, said he was “ready to act” in response to the expulsions.
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China’s Xi Courts Vietnam as Trade War With the U.S. Mounts
China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, landed in Hanoi on Monday, and will also visit Malaysia and Cambodia this week.
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Trump Calls Russia’s Strike on Sumy a ‘Mistake’
A rescue worker in Sumy, northeast Ukraine, on Sunday, after a Russian missile strike.
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Why a Ukrainian Lawmaker Is Pushing to Legalize Pornography
Creators of erotic content say that their work should be decriminalized given that they are being asked to contribute to the tax rolls.
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A Small City That Lost Big in the Dominican Nightclub Tragedy
Mourners attending a Mass in honor of the people who died after a roof collapse at the Jet Set nightclub, in Haina, Dominican Republic, on Sunday.
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Trump Cracks Down on Cuba and Its Medical Missions Around the World
Cuban medical workers in Honduras last year. The team includes oncologists and cardiologists who will work in the country for two years.
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Hungary Changes Constitution to Mandate Two Genders
Demonstrators protesting the banning of the annual Pride march in Budapest last month.
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Attackers Target Prisons in France, Burning Vehicles and Firing Shots
The Toulon-La Farlède prison near Toulon, France, which was targeted by attackers overnight Monday to Tuesday.
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In Argentina, a Boom in Antarctic Cruises Is Straining the ‘End of the World’
About 90 percent of Antarctic cruises depart from Ushuaia, Argentina. Many of those passengers will spend a night or two in town, where they may take day trips to see penguins in places like nearby Martillo Island.
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Tuesday Briefing: El Salvador Will Not Return Deportee
President Trump greeted President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador.
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Trump’s Dilemma: A Trade War That Threatens Every Other Negotiation With China
President Trump may be entering any eventual negotiations alone because he has alienated the allies who in recent years had come to a common approach to countering Chinese power.
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Trump Administration Memo Proposes Cutting State Department Funding by Nearly Half
The memo proposes cutting funding for humanitarian assistance and global health programs by more than 50 percent, despite Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s pledges that lifesaving assistance would be preserved.
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China’s Halt of Critical Minerals Poses Risk for U.S. Military Programs
Rare earth minerals are present in almost every form of American defense technology. They can form very powerful magnets, for use in fighter jets, warships, missiles, tanks and lasers.
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Tuesday Briefing: El Salvador Won’t Return Deportee
President Trump greeted President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador.
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Pope Places Antoni Gaudí, ‘God’s Architect,’ on Path to Sainthood
Construction of the Sagrada Familia began in 1882, and Antoni Gaudí took over the project a year later.
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Mehul Choksi, Fugitive Jeweler Wanted by India, Is Arrested in Belgium
Mehul Choksi in Dominica, where he was arrested in 2021.
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Pete Marocco, Who Helped Gut Foreign Aid for Trump, Leaves State Department
Pete Marocco had been acting as the head of foreign aid at the State Department and would have overseen the remaining aid operations, which amount to only a fraction of those active before President Trump took office.
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When Elected Leaders Pursue Risky Policies, What Can Stop Them?
An Apple Store in New York. President Trump added some tariff exemptions for smartphones and computers late Friday.
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Military Leader Wins Presidential Election in Gabon
Gen. Brice Oligui Nguema celebrated the provisional results of Gabon’s presidential election at his campaign headquarters in Libreville on Sunday.
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With Trump’s Tariffs, Europe Fears a Flood of Cheap Goods From China
New cars in Guangzhou, China, this month. With China facing an extraordinary wall of tariffs thanks to President Trump, Europe is bracing for an influx of diverted goods.
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The Former C.I.A. Officer Capitalizing On Europe’s Military Spending Boom
Eric Slesinger, the venture capitalist at 201 Ventures, which invests in European defense start-ups.
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In Canada’s Fight With Trump, Danielle Smith Is Playing Good Cop
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at a provincial government office building in Calgary, Alberta, in February.
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Musicians Who Knew Amadou Bagayoko Pay Tribute With Their Songs
Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia in New York City in 2009, the year they performed in honor of President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Monday Briefing: China Pauses Crucial Exports
A factory making rare earth magnets in Ganzhou, China. The country produces 90 percent of the world’s rare earth magnets.
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Ecuadorean President’s Opponent Contests His Re-election Win
Supporters of President Daniel Noboa during an election campaign event in Quito, Ecuador, in February.
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-Winning Peruvian Novelist, Dies at 89
Mr. Vargas Llosa in the library of the Académie Française in Paris in 2023, when he became the first writer with no original works in French to join the institution.
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UK Laws Are Not ‘Fit for Social Media Age,’ Says Report Into Summer Riots
Riot police holding back protesters after disorder broke out last July in Southport, England. Violent disorder, fueled by the far right, affected several towns and cities for days after a teenager stabbed multiple children at a dance class.
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Monday Briefing: China Pauses Crucial Exports
A rare earth magnets factory in Ganzhou. China produces 90 percent of the world’s rare earth magnets.
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Irmgard Furchner, Secretary at a Hub of Nazi Atrocities, Dies at 99
Irmgard Furchner in a courtroom in Itzehoe, northern Germany, in 2022. She was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders at a concentration camp.
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U.S. Revives Talks With Saudi Arabia on Transfer of Nuclear Technology
Chris Wright, the U.S. energy secretary, in Washington last month. After meetings with officials in Riyadh, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have agreed to increase cooperation “to better develop energy resources,” he said.
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Gaza Medic Missing Since Israeli Attack Is in Israeli Custody, Palestinian Group Says
A still image from a cellphone video taken by a paramedic and released by the Palestinian Red Crescent showed the moments before he and other rescue workers were killed by Israelis in Gaza on March 23.
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Israel Strikes Hospital in Northern Gaza and Captures Key Part of South
Assessing the damage on Sunday after the strike at the Ahli Arab Hospital in Zeitoun, northern Gaza.
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U.S. Nuclear Talks With Iran Move Forward
Steve Witkoff, left, President Trump’s special envoy, in Washington last month, and Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, in Tehran in February. The two men led negotiations on Saturday.
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Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, Once a Formidable Force, to Disband
Lo Kin-hei, the chairman of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, at a news conference on Sunday.
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Russian Attack on Sumy in Ukraine Kills and Wounds Dozens
Emergency workers at the site of a strike in Sumy, Ukraine, on Sunday. Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine’s interior minister, said the streets had been crowded with civilians out enjoying Palm Sunday.
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What to Know About Ecuador’s Presidential Election
Supporters of President Daniel Noboa with cutouts of him in a suit and a presidential sash in Quito, the Ecuadorean capital, in February.
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As Ukraine’s Politics Heat Back Up, a Former President Sees an Opening
Petro O. Poroshenko, Ukraine’s former president, this past week in his office in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital.
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Xi Jinping Travels to Southeast Asia Amid Tariff War with U.S.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, will be testing Southeast Asia ties this week as he visits Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia.
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How Brexit, a Startling Act of Economic Self-Harm, Foreshadowed Trump’s Tariffs
Demonstrators in favor of and against Brexit outside Parliament in 2019 in London.
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Sudan Clinic Workers Killed in Zamzam Camp
A makeshift bunker in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State in Sudan. Civilians use these dugout bunkers to hide from fighting between the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group, and the Sudanese Army and its allied militias.
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Trump Tariffs Muddle Campaigning for Canada’s Conservatives
Prime Minister Mark Carney, speaking this week, called the outcome for Canada’s trade with the United States “the best of a series of bad deals.”
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Ecuadoreans Are Split Between Two Candidates Ahead of Runoff Election on Sunday
Supporters of the party of President Daniel Noboa campaigning this week in Machala, Ecuador.
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Manchester Arena Bomber’s Brother Is Accused of Attack on Prison Guards
How Trump Offers This African Territory Its ‘Biggest Opportunity’
Assad Defaced: Syrians Destroy a Dictator’s Icons
Sandstorm Turns Iraq’s Skies Orange and Sends Thousands to Hospitals
Santa Lives in Rovaniemi, Finland. Some of His Neighbors Are Not Thrilled.
Prepping for War With Russia on the Ice and Snow