Trump Team Leaves Behind an Alliance in Crisis
Vice President JD Vance speaking with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Friday.
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Volunteers Search for ISIS Kidnap Victims
Pari Ibrahim founded an organization to help Yazidis, especially women.
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Knife Attack in Austria Kills One and Injures Four
The site of a stabbing attack in Villach, Austria, on Saturday.
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M23 Rebels in Congo Say They Have Entered Bukavu
M23 rebels advancing on Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday.
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Trump’s Ambition to Redraw the World Map Ignores Those Affected Most
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and Vice President JD Vance on Friday at the Munich Security Conference.
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Putin Has Long Wanted More Power in Europe. Trump Could Grant It.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia in Togliatti, Russia, last month, in a photo released by Russian state media.
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Ukraine Rejects U.S. Demand for Half of Its Mineral Resources
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last week during a meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital.
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Gold Mine Collapse in Mali Kills at Least 43
This informal gold mine in Danga, Mali, was where a landslide killed at least 10 people and left many others missing last month. On Saturday, in a different informal mine in Mali, at least 43 people died when an open pit gold mine they had gone into collapsed.
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East Timor’s Challenges Two Decades After Independence
Vendors at the Taibesi market in Dili, East Timor, in September. The country’s economy remains heavily reliant on oil and gas.
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15 Reported Dead in Stampede at New Delhi Rail Station
Passengers jostling with each other to board a train at the New Delhi Railway station on Saturday.
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Argentina’s Milei Orders Investigation After Promoting Crypto That Cratered
Javier Milei, Argentina’s president, in Buenos Aires last year.
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Israel and Hamas Make 6th Exchange, Keeping Cease-Fire Intact for Now
The three hostages, Alexander Troufanov, Sagui Dekel-Chen and Iair Horn, being handed over by Hamas as part of the cease-fire agreement with Israel, in Khan Younis, Gaza on Saturday.
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Vance and Musk Attack German Consensus on Nazis and Speech
Vice President JD Vance arriving in Munich on Thursday.
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She’s Trying to Stay Ahead of Alzheimer’s, in a Race to the Death
Irene Mekel, who seeks medical assistance in dying, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease a year ago.
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Rubio Visits Israel as Trump Pushes Plan to Expel Palestinians From Gaza
Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, has suggested to reporters that President Trump was merely trying to “get a reaction” and “stir” other nations into providing more assistance for postwar Gaza.
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Shark Bites Tourist Who Was Trying to Take Photo With It
A beach in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, was the site of a shark bite.
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British Couple on World Motorcycle Tour Is Detained in Iran
Craig and Lindsay Foreman, who have been detained in Iran, in a photograph released by their family.
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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 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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Tilted Axis Press Took a Big Risk on Translated Literature. 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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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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German Chancellor Scholz Rebukes Vance’s Support for Far-Right During Munich Conference
El canciller de Alemania, Olaf Scholz, en la Conferencia de Seguridad de Múnich, el sábado.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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What’s Best, According to the Italian Mathematician Alessio Figalli
Alessio Figalli, a mathematician at ETH Zurich and a current member 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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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