Europe Seeks a Direct Line to Trump, Skeptical That Aides Speak for Him
In President Trump’s White House, he is the ultimate decision maker, and is far from a predictable one.
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on April 2025
China Wants Countries to Unite Against Trump, but Is Met With Wariness
Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, during his visit to Vietnam on Monday. In Hanoi, he urged Vietnam to join China in opposing “unilateral bullying.”
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on April 2025
The Ukrainian Schoolmaster Teaching History to His Invaders
Vitalii Dribnytsia, a former history teacher, speaks with someone in Russia via Chatroulette, where he often challenges Russians on their understanding of history.
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on April 2025
Europe and America, at Odds Over Ukraine, Try Talking to Each Other
President Emmanuel Macron of France, left, meeting with Steve Witkoff, a Trump administration envoy; Marco Rubio, the secretary of state; and Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s minister for foreign affairs, at the Élysée Palace in Paris on Thursday.
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on April 2025
South Korea Shipbuilding Strength Could Help in Tariff Talks With U.S.
A shipyard of Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan, South Korea, in 2013.
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on April 2025
Hundreds of Capybaras ‘Conquered’ This Town. Now What?
A family of capybaras near a lake in Nordelta, a gated community north of Buenos Aires.
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on April 2025
Canada Election 2025: What to Know
The prime minister of Canada is not required to be a member of Parliament. Mark Carney, a former central banker, took the position after Liberal Party members elected him as their leader last month. He is now running in his first election, to represent a middle-class suburb of Ottawa.
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on April 2025
France Acknowledges Devastating Effect of Debt Imposed on Haiti for Freedom
A school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, that was transformed into a camp for displaced people escaping violence.
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on April 2025
U.K. Court Ruling on Trans Women Is Part of Wider Debate on Sex and Gender
Susan Smith and Marion Calder, the directors of For Women Scotland, which brought the legal case that Britain’s Supreme Court weighed in on, celebrating outside the court in London on Wednesday.
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on April 2025
The Dutch Love Their Bicycles. Helmets? Not So Much.
Riding an electric bike without a helmet in Amsterdam in August. Data show that since 2000, traffic accidents have claimed the lives of an average of 199 cyclists in the Netherlands each year.
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on April 2025
Trump Waved Off Planned Israeli Strike on Iranian Nuclear Sites
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel during a meeting with President Trump this month.
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on April 2025
Iran Says Despite Shifting U.S. Messages, It Plans to Keep Participating in Nuclear Talks
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has been Iran’s envoy in the talks with the United States. He and President Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, planned to hold a second round of talks on Saturday.
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on April 2025
Italy’s Meloni Heads to Washington to Meet Trump. Will It Pay Off for Europe?
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy has built a reputation as a collaborative player on the European stage.
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on April 2025
Ukraine and U.S. Sign Agreement in Lead-Up to Full Minerals Deal
Mining ilmenite in the central region of Kirovohrad, Ukraine, earlier this year. President Trump has said he expects the United States to reap $500 billion from Ukraine’s natural resources in the deal and win access to deposits of rare earth metals.
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on April 2025
Costa Rica Violated Rights of 81 Migrant Children Deported by U.S., Lawsuit Says
An image provided by an attorney representing Iranian deportees held at a detention center in Costa Rica. Some deported migrants sleep outdoors at the facility.
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on April 2025
Friday Briefing: Trump’s Tariff Bargaining
President Trump met with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at the White House.
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on April 2025
Chris Van Hollen Meets With Abrego Garcia in El Salvador
Senator Chris Van Hollen, with his hands on his waist, was stopped at a military checkpoint about a mile away from the prison in El Salvador where Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is being detained.
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on April 2025
Katie Perry Is Suing Katy Perry in Australia. Wait, What?
Katy Perry, the singer and international pop star, performing in Philadelphia in 2024.
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on April 2025
Here’s What to Know About Rare Earth Minerals and Renewable Energy
A rare earth mine in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China.
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on April 2025
At Least 4 Are Killed in Cable Car Crash in Italy
Rescuers working in Castellammare di Stabia, Italy, where a cable car carrying tourists crashed, on Thursday.
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on April 2025
U.S. Is Withdrawing Hundreds of Troops From Syria
A U.S. military convoy in northeastern Syria in January. The military is shuttering three of its eight small operating bases in the country’s northeast.
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on April 2025
Measles Outbreaks in Canada and Mexico Bring Grim Prognosis
A measles testing site in Seminole, Texas, in February. The outbreak that began in Texas is showing no signs of slowing. Cases have appeared in Ontario, Canada, and Chihuahua, Mexico.
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on April 2025
Trump Meets With a European He Likes, Meloni of Italy, and Discusses Tariffs
President Trump heaped praise on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy during her visit to the White House on Thursday.
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on April 2025
Trump Threatens to Block Harvard From Enrolling International Students
Harvard University has been in a standoff with the Trump administration over admissions and hiring policies.
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on April 2025
4 Men Charged With Trying to Smuggle Thousands of Ants From Kenya
The captured ants were shown in court, packed in tubes with cotton to help keep them alive.
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on April 2025
Trump Administration Aims to Redefine ‘Harm’ for Endangered Species
A loggerhead sea turtle hatchling on Ossabaw Island, Ga.
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on April 2025
Climate Change Is Stressing the World’s Blood Supplies
A home in Los Angeles burning on Jan. 9. Thousands of blood donations were canceled during the fires.
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on April 2025
WHO Member Countries Agree to Pandemic Treaty
Anne-Claire Amprou, the French ambassador for global health, and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, at negotiations for the new pandemic treaty in Geneva on Wednesday.
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on April 2025
Ontario Premier Doug Ford Orders Review of Therme’s Toronto Waterfront Lease
West Island, just off Toronto’s lakeshore, has been cleared of trees for development by a European spa company.
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on April 2025
Russia Arrests Former Governor of Kursk Region
This photo released by the Russian government showed Aleksei B. Smirnov in Kursk in 2024.
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on April 2025
How Brazil’s Rare Earths Mine Illustrates China’s Grip Over Minerals
A photograph provided by the company shows the facilities of Serra Verde, a rare earths mine in Minaçu, Brazil, that is under contract to sell nearly all its product to China.
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on April 2025
U.S. Pastor Josh Sullivan, Kidnapped in South Africa, Is Rescued After Police Shootout
A U.S. pastor, Josh Sullivan, was kidnapped while giving a sermon at a church in Motherwell.
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on April 2025
Peru’s Former First Lady Flees as She and Ex-President Are Sentenced to Prison
Peru’s former first lady, Nadine Heredia, in Lima, Peru, in 2018. Ms. Heredia fled to the Brazilian Embassy in Lima on Tuesday, seeking asylum as she and her husband were sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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on April 2025
Trump Aides Close State Dept. Office on Foreign Disinformation
Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House on Monday. Diplomats are bracing for a series of deep cuts at the State Department.
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on April 2025
Latvia Exits Land Mine Convention Amid Fears of Russian Aggression
The border of Latvia with Russia in 2024. A vote in Parliament made Latvia the first country in the region to act on a decision taken last month by three Baltic States and Poland to quit the 1997 Ottawa Treaty.
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on April 2025
2 Judges Order Federal Agencies to Unfreeze Climate Money
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in January.
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on April 2025
Palliative Care Doctor Is Charged With Serial Murder of 15 Patients in Germany
Moabit Prison in Berlin, where the palliative care doctor is being held.
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on April 2025
Pope Francis Thanks Doctors and Nurses for His Recovery
A photograph released by the Vatican shows Pope Francis during an audience on Wednesday with personnel from Policlinico A. Gemelli, where he was recently hospitalized, and with Vatican medical staff.
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on April 2025
R.S.F. in Sudan Declare Parallel Government Amid Assault on Zamzam Camp
People who fled the Zamzam camp resting in a makeshift encampment in Tawila in western Darfur on Sunday.
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on April 2025
Europeans Show Less Stock Market Panic as Tariffs Cause Turmoil
The London Stock Exchange Group office in Canary Wharf, London.
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on April 2025
Russia Jails 4 Journalists for Working With Navalny’s Organization
From left, Sergei Karelin, Konstantin Gabov, Antonina Favorskaya, and Artyom Kriger in court in Moscow on Tuesday. The journalists had pleaded not guilty to charges of extremism.
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on April 2025
Israel Threatens Further Escalation in Gaza War
Inspecting the site of a strike in Jabaliya in northern Gaza on Wednesday.
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on April 2025
Bukele Has Power to Return Deportee in El Salvador to U.S., Experts Say
During a meeting with President Trump at the White House on Monday, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador said he would not return a Maryland man who had been deported.
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on April 2025
Canada Reschedules Political Debate That Conflicted With a Hockey Game
The Canadiens, in red, lost to the Chicago Blackhawks in Montreal on Monday, hurting their playoff hopes.
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on April 2025
Its Journalism Challenged Autocrats. Trump Wants to Silence It.
Andrei Kuznechyk, a journalist with the Belarus service of Radio Free Europe, this month. He was released in February after three years in a Belarus prison.
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on April 2025
The Grand Egyptian Museum Is Finally Open. (Well, Mostly.)
Visitors taking in the ancient pyramids of Giza, framed through a set of windows at the Grand Egyptian Museum.
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on April 2025
Mexico’s Reliance on U.S. Natural Gas Could Be Its Achilles’ Heel
Children playing soccer during a power outage in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in 2023. Mexico relies heavily on natural gas imported from the United States to produce electricity.
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on April 2025
In Toronto, the Fight to Preserve Ontario Place Turns Into a Farewell
The West Island of Ontario Place in Toronto, Canada, is being developed by a European spa company.
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on April 2025
Wednesday Briefing: A Trump-Harvard Showdown
Harvard University is 140 years older than the U.S.
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on April 2025
A U.S.-China Trade War With Students and Tourists as Potential Pawns
Tourists in central Shanghai taking photos of a historic building.
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on April 2025
Trump Joins Japan Trade Talks, Says ‘Big Progress’ Made
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan received a book from Mr. Trump during a visit to the White House in February. Mr. Ishiba has tried to build a relationship with the U.S. president akin to that developed by Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister.
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on April 2025
Wednesday Briefing: A Trump-Harvard Showdown
Harvard University is 140 years older than the U.S.
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on April 2025
Thursday Briefing: A Judge’s Pushback Against Trump
Thursday Briefing: A Judge’s Pushback Against Trump
European Spa Company Therme Misrepresented Itself in an Effort to Expand Into Canada
UK Supreme Court Says Trans Women Are Not Legally Women Under Equality Act
Keith Siegel, a Former Hostage, Recounts Captivity in Gaza