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
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
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
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
The Mine Is American. The Minerals Are China’s.
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
2 Judges Order Federal Agencies to Unfreeze Climate Money
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in January.
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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
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
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
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
Trump Has Mixed Emotions Toward Japan
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
19 Big Cats Rescued in Spain as Police Raid Animal Smuggling Ring
The Spanish authorities released this image of a Caracal, right, confiscated with 18 other exotic felines during a police operation on Majorca.
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on April 2025
Sperm Donors Fathered More Than 25 Children Each, Netherlands Data Reveals
The industry has come under increased scrutiny after two scandals in the Netherlands involving sperm donors who purposely fathered hundreds of children. Jonathan Jacob Meijer, at The Hague in January, fathered more than 500 children around the world.
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on April 2025
How Trump Might Unwittingly Cut Emissions From Online Shopping
Shein packages ready to be shipped from a factory in Guangzhou, China, in February.
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on April 2025
Autopsies of Slain Gaza Medics Show Some Were Shot in the Head
Members of the Palestine Red Crescent and other emergency services carrying the bodies of fellow rescuers killed by Israeli forces in March.
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on April 2025
American Airlines Will Offer Free Wi-Fi on Most Flights Next Year
American Airlines said it will partner with AT&T to offer internet access at no cost. Other major airlines already offer free Wi-Fi on their flights.
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on April 2025
Jordan Says It Foiled a Plot Against the Kingdom
King Abdullah II of Jordan. In 2021, he faced an attempted palace coup.
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on April 2025
France Says It Will Expel 12 Algerian Officials
Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s foreign minister, said he was “ready to act” in response to the expulsions.
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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
Tuesday Briefing: El Salvador Will Not Return Deportee
President Trump greeted President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador.
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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
Tuesday Briefing: El Salvador Won’t Return Deportee
President Trump greeted President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador.
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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
Hungary Changes Constitution to Mandate Two Genders
Demonstrators protesting the banning of the annual Pride march in Budapest last month.
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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
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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on April 2025
European Spa Company Therme Misrepresented Itself in an Effort to Expand Into Canada
Keith Siegel, a Former Hostage, Recounts Captivity in Gaza
UK Supreme Court Says Trans Women Are Not Legally Women Under Equality Act
The ‘Great Moose Migration’ Livestream Captivates Sweden
Palm Sunday Attack Leaves Sumy Residents Doubtful of a Ukraine-Russia Cease-Fire
Santa Lives in Rovaniemi, Finland. Some of His Neighbors Are Not Thrilled.
Sandstorm Turns Iraq’s Skies Orange and Sends Thousands to Hospitals