For Europe’s Right, Trump Stirs Caution Alongside Celebration
While President Trump has inspired many on the right, nationalist parties are as wary as others about what he will mean for Europe.
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Trump’s Gaza Plan Has Many Pitfalls, Hamas Among the Biggest
A Palestinian man cleaning out a house in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, on Sunday.
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on February 2025
Japan’s Prime Minister Will Seek to Preserve Status Quo at Summit With Trump
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan in Parliament in Tokyo last month. The summit with President Trump is the result of months of behind-the-scenes efforts.
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on February 2025
Trump’s Gaza Plan Reflects Broader Push for Annexation of Palestinian Land
The aftermath of an attack in August by Jewish settlers on the village of Jit, in the occupied West Bank.
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on February 2025
Why It Is So Difficult to Stop the Flow of Fentanyl Into the U.S.
A cook for the Sinaloa Cartel working on an order of fentanyl in Culiacán, Mexico, in December.
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on February 2025
To Keep Aid Coming, Ukraine Appeals to Trump Allies: Conservative Christians
A destroyed Russian tank in front of the damaged Sviatohirsk Cave Monastery in eastern Ukraine, in 2023.
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on February 2025
What to Know About Canada’s Role in the Fentanyl Crisis
A 36-year-old woman was revived after overdosing on fentanyl at a supervised injection site in Toronto, in 2018.
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on February 2025
As Elon Musk Dismantles USAID, Foreign Leaders Rejoice
A U.S.A.I.D. cargo container in Manila on Tuesday. The scope of the agency is extensive and covers a variety of humanitarian relief efforts.
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on February 2025
Congo Mourns Its Dead After Rebels Capture Key City of Goma
Volunteers mobilize to prepare a mass burial of those killed during the week of clashes in Goma.
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on February 2025
What We Know About the Mass Shooting in Sweden
Police officers on Wednesday near the scene of the shooting in Orebro, Sweden.
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on February 2025
Mirroring Trump, Milei Pulls Argentina From W.H.O.
President Javier Milei of Argentina speaking in Buenos Aires in December. He has taken actions that mirror those taken by President Trump.
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on February 2025
Ismaili Muslims Get a New Leader, the Fifth Aga Khan
Prince Rahim al-Hussaini in 2023.
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on February 2025
French Government Survives No-Confidence Vote
Members of France’s Parliament at the National Assembly in Paris on Wednesday.
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on February 2025
Want to Smoke Outdoors in Milan? Better Be Far From Other People.
Under the new rules, smoking is banned everywhere in Milan except for “isolated areas where it’s possible to respect a distance of at least 33 feet from other people.”
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on February 2025
Thursday Briefing
Palestinians returning to their homes in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, on Sunday.
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on February 2025
January Was Hottest January on Record, Scientists Report
Looking west on the Pacific Ocean from Pacific Palisades, Calif., on Jan. 9.
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on February 2025
Inside Trump’s Hastily Written Proposal to ‘Own’ Gaza
Speaking at the White House on Tuesday, President Trump announced a plan for the United States to take over Gaza.
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on February 2025
Valérie André, Daring French Army Copter Pilot, Dies at 102
Dr. Valérie André in 1976, the year she was promoted to general, becoming the first woman to hold that position in the French Army.
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on February 2025
What to Know About the Trump Family’s Deals in the Middle East
The Trump Organization’s multiple projects in the Middle East include a deal to build a golf course and hotel in Oman, involving land owned by that country’s government.
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on February 2025
Trump and Netanyahu Leave Little Daylight Between Them
President Trump made Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel the first foreign leader he has invited to the White House since his own return to power a little over two weeks ago.
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on February 2025
Thursday Briefing: An Uproar Over Trump’s Gaza Plan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel with President Trump at the White House on Tuesday.
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on February 2025
Trump Torpedoed the Iran Nuclear Deal. Now He’s Calling for Another One.
Members of Iran’s Basij paramilitary forces march past a missile on display during the “Force Parade,” in Tehran, last month.
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These Are the Major Obstacles to Trump’s Gaza Plan
The northern Gaza city of Jabaliya on Monday. Much of the enclave has been destroyed over more than a year of war between Israel and Hamas. Some estimates say rebuilding could take more than a decade.
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on February 2025
U.K. Counterterror Program Prematurely Closed Case on Southport Killer, Report Says
A memorial set up in Southport, England, after three girls were killed in a stabbing spree last July.
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on February 2025
Manhunt in Brussels After Masked Men Open Fire Outside Metro Station
The Clemenceau metro station in Brussels on Wednesday. It was closed after a shooting early in the morning.
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on February 2025
Trump’s Proposal on Gaza Is a Risk for Egypt and Jordan
Patients from a hospital in Gaza City departing for Egypt to receive treatment last week.
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on February 2025
Sweden Mass Shooting Site Was Foundational in a Diverse Community
Mourners gathering at a makeshift memorial on Wednesday for victims of the shooting in Orebro, Sweden.
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on February 2025
Gazans Condemn Trump’s Proposal for a U.S. Takeover
Palestinians dig through rubble near Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Wednesday.
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on February 2025
Trump’s Gaza Takeover Would Be Illegal Under International Law, Experts Say
Palestinians making tea near the rubble of their destroyed house in Jabaliya in northern Gaza last week.
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on February 2025
Trump’s Gaza Plan Is Unworkable, Analysts Say. Does He Mean It?
Displaced Palestinians returning to the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday.
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on February 2025
Vice President Sara Duterte of the Philippines Is Impeached
Vice President Sara Duterte speaking in Manila last December. On Wednesday afternoon, lawmakers voted to impeach her.
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on February 2025
U.S. Military Plane Deports Migrants to India
A U.S. Air Force plane carrying deported Indians landing in Amritsar, a city in Punjab State in northwestern India, on Wednesday.
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on February 2025
Wednesday Briefing
President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the White House on Tuesday.
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on February 2025
A Veteran U.K. Political Battler Takes on Trump’s Washington
Peter Mandelson at the Labour Party annual conference in Liverpool, England, in 2023.
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on February 2025
Trump’s Proposal to ‘Take Over’ Gaza Sparks Immediate Rebukes
A Palestinian looking at the rubble of buildings in Rafah, southern Gaza, on Tuesday.
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on February 2025
Trump Says He Would Jail Americans in El Salvador ‘in a Heartbeat’
For President Trump, even musing over the proposal signaled his willingness to embrace extreme measures to show he is tough on crime and illegal immigration.
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on February 2025
El Salvador’s Prisons Are Notorious. Will They House Trump’s Deportees?
Inmates in a cell at the Terrorism Confinement Center, a prison complex in Tecoluca, El Salvador, that has become a symbol of President Nayib Bukele’s administration.
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on February 2025
Trump Signs Executive Order Calling for Review of U.S. Ties to U.N.
President Trump signed an executive order to end America’s involvement in the U.N.’s Human Rights Council.
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on February 2025
The Aga Khan IV, Wealthy Leader of the Ismaili Muslims, Dies at 88
Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV, in 2014.
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on February 2025
West Bank? Call It Judea and Samaria, Some Republicans Say.
A settler outpost in the northern West Bank in July. Settlements in the territory are widely considered to be illegal under international law.
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on February 2025
Richard Williamson, Renegade Priest and Holocaust Denier, Dies at 84
Richard Williamson in 2009. He was ordained a bishop by the Society of St. Pius X, but the Vatican never recognized him as such and excommunicated him in 1988.
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on February 2025
How Canada and Mexico’s Leaders Took Different Routes to a Tariff Deal With Trump
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico announcing that tariffs on exports to the United States had been postponed.
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on February 2025
Greenland, Eyeing Trump, Bans Foreign Political Funding
Greenlanders were initially shocked and confused by President Trump’s repeated desire that the United States take control of the territory.
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on February 2025
Sweden School Shooting Leaves at Least 10 Dead in Country’s ‘Worst’ Gun Attack
Police officers responding to a shooting at an adult education center in Orebro, Sweden, on Tuesday.
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on February 2025
The Closed-Door Battle to Become IOC President
Members of the International Olympic Committee will vote to elect a new president in March.
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on February 2025
A Trump. A Dead Duck. And an Uproar in Italy.
A flag flutters on the island of Sant’Erasmo near Venice, Italy, in December.
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on February 2025
Lawsuit Accuses Neil Gaiman of Sexual Assault Facilitated by His Wife
Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer performing in London in 2017.
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on February 2025
Teenager Known for Lifesaving Skills Is Killed in Shark Attack in Australia
Charlize Zmuda died on Monday after being bitten by a shark while swimming at Woorim Beach.
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on February 2025
Mexico Pledges to Send 10,000 Troops to U.S. Border: What to Know
Mexican National Guard soldiers near tents set up as part of a plan to receive thousands of its deported citizens from the United States, in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, last week.
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on February 2025
As Israel Expands West Bank Operation, Two Soldiers Are Killed
Members of the Israeli military at the site of a shooting in the northern West Bank on Tuesday.
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on February 2025
In Turkey, New Syrian Leader and Erdogan Pledge to Work Together
Ahmed al-Shara, Syria’s interim president, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Tuesday, in a photo released by the Turkish government.
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on February 2025
Top Doctors Question Conviction of ‘Killer Nurse’ Lucy Letby in 7 Baby Deaths
Dr. Shoo Lee, right, at a news conference in London, on Tuesday. Dr. Lee led a panel that looked into the evidence against the British nurse Lucy Letby, who was convicted in 2023 of killing seven babies.
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on February 2025
What It’s Like to Be a Football Fan in Antarctica
Palmer Station is a tiny American research base in Antarctica — and a temporary home to several Bills fans.
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on February 2025
Tuesday Briefing
President Trump made deals with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada on Monday.
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on February 2025
Where a Strongman Failed, Women Are Now Fueling a Democratic Revival
Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya of Sri Lanka at her office in Colombo in December.
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on February 2025
As Australia’s Election Nears, Peter Dutton Has a ‘Trump Lite’ Approach
Peter Dutton, center, Australia’s opposition leader, has accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, lower right, of being too distracted by “woke” issues to address high prices.
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on February 2025
Mexico Managed to Stave Off Trump’s Tariffs. Now What?
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico announcing on Monday that tariffs on exports to the United States would be postponed for a month.
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on February 2025
Chris Wright Is Confirmed as Secretary of Energy
Chris Wright, in his Senate hearing, also tried to reassure Democrats that he believed climate change was a “global challenge that we need to solve.”
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on February 2025
Canada Gets 30-Day Tariff Delay as Trump and Trudeau Reach Border Deal
The Ambassador Bridge, where $400 billion in trade crosses between Canada and the U.S. each year, in Windsor, Canada.
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on February 2025
State Dept. Fires About 60 Contractors Working on Democracy and Human Rights
Some Republican politicians say the State Department’s democracy-promotion programs often end up supporting political parties or groups abroad that are opposed to conservative or far-right political figures in those countries.
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on February 2025
Wednesday Briefing: China Hits Back Against U.S. Tariffs