Why China Isn’t Pushing Iran to Accept U.S. Demands to End War
A mural representing the Strait of Hormuz, on a building in Tehran this week. The strait is a critical passageway for China’s energy and goods.
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Got $100 Million? Ukraine Has Just the Fertilizer Plant for You.
The Odesa Portside Plant, one of Europe’s largest fertilizer producers and a crown jewel of Ukrainian industry dating back to Soviet times.
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The Costa Rican Mountain Town Offering Sanctuary to Families Deported by Trump
Vusala Yusifova and her daughter, Inji, asylum seekers from Azerbaijan, cut a client’s hair in Monteverde, Costa Rica.
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Pope Leo, Amid Standoff With Trump, Says ‘Woe to Those Who Manipulate Religion’
Pope Leo XIV at Saint Joseph’s Cathedral in Bamenda, Cameroon, on Thursday. A violent secessionist movement centered in the area has divided the country over the past decade.
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Orban’s Defeat Punctures Europe’s Far Right, but Also Offers It a Road Map
Viktor Orban, center right, in Budapest on Sunday, the night of his election defeat. He was voted out after 16 years in power in Hungary.
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Russian Strikes Kill at Least 15 in Ukraine in Biggest Attack in Months
A warehouse hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday.
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Pakistan Looks to Play Peacemaker Between U.S. and Iran, Again
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, center, and other Pakistani officials during peace talks between the United States and Iran in Islamabad, Pakistan, last week.
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Bahrain Charges Intelligence Officer in the Death of a Detainee
Smoke rising over Bahrain’s capital, Manama, after a reported Iranian drone strike last month.
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South African Politician Julius Malema Is Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison
Julius Malema at a hearing in KuGompo City, South Africa, on Wednesday. Citizens are barred from serving as a lawmaker if they are sentenced to more than 12 months in prison without the option of a fine.
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U.S. Completes Handover of Military Bases in Syria
U.S. forces patrol near the town of Tel Hamees in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province in 2023. The U.S. military first came to Syria in 2015 to fight the terror group Islamic State.
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Xi Alludes to Trump’s Policies to Make a Case for Closer Ties to Vietnam
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, welcomed President To Lam of Vietnam in Beijing on Wednesday. Mr. Xi said that defending Communist Party rule was a common strategic interest.
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Rohingya Refugee Recounts Rescue From Capsizing Boat That Left Nearly 250 Others Missing
A Rohingya survivor being carried on a bamboo stretcher to a hospital at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, after being rescued last week from a capsized boat.
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Shakespeare Bought One Property in London. Now We Know Exactly Where.
William Shakespeare’s property was just across the river from the Globe Theater, left, which staged his plays then and does so today, having been recreated and reopened in 1997.
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Israel-Lebanon Cease-Fire: What to Know
Families make their way home on Friday after the announcement of a cease-fire in Lebanon.
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In northern Israel, relief at the cease-fire is overshadowed by unease.
Waving Hezbollah flags on Friday in Dahiya, a suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
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Lebanon’s Cease-Fire Buys Time, Not a Way Out
A family returning to Dahiya, Lebanon, after the cease-fire on Friday.
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Myanmar Frees Ousted President, but Not Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar’s then-president, U Win Myint, at an event in Naypyidaw, the capital, in 2019. He was released from a prison in central Myanmar on Friday.
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Lebanon Cease-Fire Leaves Netanyahu in an Uncomfortable Spot
Thousands of families made their way along the highway south of Beirut and Saida, Lebanon, on Friday after the cease-fire with Israel was announced.
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Starmer Fires Senior U.K. Civil Servant Over Mandelson Revelations
Olly Robbins in London in 2019. Mr. Robbins, the top civil servant in the British Foreign Office, was fired on Thursday night.
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Iran War Forces America’s Friends in Asia to Court Its Rivals
A gas station in Manila. In the Philippines, America’s oldest treaty ally in Asia, the oil shortage prompted officials to declare a national emergency.
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Trump says he might go to Pakistan if an Iran deal is signed there.
President Trump speaking to reporters outside the White House on Thursday.
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10-Day Cease-Fire Between Israel and Lebanon Goes Into Effect
Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday. Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese have been forced by the fighting to leave their homes.
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The cease-fire goes into effect after Israel and Hezbollah exchange fire.
A man observing the aftermath of an attack in Corniche Mazraa from his home in Beirut on Monday.
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Mandelson, a Friend of Epstein’s, Became U.S. Ambassador Despite Failing Security Vetting
Peter Mandelson, then Britain’s ambassador to the United States, at the ambassador’s residence in Washington, in February last year.
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Despite Cease-Fire, Iran’s Hackers Haven’t Logged Off
Demonstrators in Tehran this week. Iran is trying to keep up pressure on the United States and Israel with cyberattacks but also positioning itself to mount a bigger retaliation if peace talks do not resume.
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The Long-Term Plan to Scrub Carbon From the Sky
A carbon capture facility in Tracy, Calif., in 2023.
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Hegseth Again Threatens Attacks on Iran’s Civilian Infrastructure
“We’d rather not have to do it, but we’re ready to go at the command of our president and at the push of a button,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday.
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White House Declines to Offer Congress an Estimate of Iran War Cost
Russell T. Vought, the White House budget director, said he would not give an estimate of the cost of the conflict because he did not want to be inaccurate.
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A Timeline of the Lebanon-Israel Relationship
Workers removing scrap metal in Beirut last week from the rubble left by Israeli bombardment.
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White House Shrugs Off Shaky Economy as War Exceeds Trump’s Timeline
The energy surge has made groceries more expensive while also raising costs for farmers.
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Sri Lanka Uses U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire to Repatriate Iranian Sailors
A photograph provided by the Sri Lankan Navy showed one of its vessels approaching an Iranian Navy vessel, the Bushehr, during a rescue operation off the coast of Colombo in March.
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What the U.S. Blockade Means for Iran’s Economy
Despite sanctions, Iran conducted about $110 billion in non-oil trade with over 170 nations last year, importing goods including smartphones, auto parts and grain.
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Marco Rubio and Lebanese President Discuss Cease-Fire Efforts
Destruction at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday.
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Carbon Removal Industry Reels as Microsoft Retreats
Workers at a direct air capture facility under construction in Texas in 2024. Hundreds of start-ups developing carbon removal technologies have raised more than $5 billion in recent years.
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3 Killed in Boat Strike in the Pacific, Pentagon Says
Francis L. Donovan at a confirmation hearing in January to become the leader of U.S. Southern Command.
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China’s G.D.P. Stronger Than Expected, Led by Infrastructure Spending
An import and export trade show in southern China this week.
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Iran Will Be in U.S. for World Cup, FIFA’s Infantino Says
Iran tried unsuccessfully to move its matches from the United States to Mexico.
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Sudan Enters Fourth Year of War Amid World’s Most Severe Humanitarian Crisis
A 2-month-old patient, Saidal Altaher, getting treatment for malnutrition on Wednesday in Port Sudan, Sudan.
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Trump’s Portrayal of the War in Iran Collides With Reality
President Trump in Miami last week. Mr. Trump has declared a “regime change” accomplishment in Iran, even though analysts believe the war may have only increased the internal sway of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
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U.K.’s Starmer Summons U.S. Social Media Companies Over Child Safety Online
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain speaking about online safety at a school in London last month.
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Iran could struggle to enforce all of its latest shipping threats, experts say.
A vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday. Traffic is still at a fraction of its usual levels.
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The Pope in Africa
Pope Leo XIV arrived in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, yesterday.
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Pakistani Mediators Arrive in Tehran in Bid to Keep U.S.-Iran Peace Talks Alive
A vessel at the Strait of Hormuz, off the coast of Oman’s Musandam province, on Sunday.
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Saudi Fund to Back Away From LIV Golf Under Mounting Financial Pressures
Yasir al-Rumayyan, left, the head of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, presenting a trophy at the LIV Golf championship in Michigan in 2025.
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Getting the Pope to Answer a Pointed Question at 30,000 Feet
Pope Leo XIV, flanked by press minders, spoke to journalists during a flight to Algeria on Monday.
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South Africa Names Roelf Meyer, Apartheid-Era Negotiator, as U.S. Ambassador
Roelf Meyer, center, with President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa to his right at an event in Pretoria in August. Mr. Meyer was appointed ambassador to the United States on Wednesday.
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With Iran War on Pause, Political Battle Resumes Over Israeli Democracy
Israeli Supreme Court justices on Wednesday before hearing a petition to force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to oust the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir.
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Top U.S. Diplomat in Venezuela Leaves Post After Arriving in January
Laura Dogu, the top U.S. diplomat in Venezuela, last month in the capital, Caracas.
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Lebanon-Israel Cease-Fire Goes Into Effect
‘I Just Want to Be Back’: Thousands Rush South in Lebanon Under Cease-Fire
Iran Resisted a Powerful Attacker. Taiwan Can Too.
‘I Would Rather Be a Dwarf’: A Comic in Botswana Prizes His Difference
Bitcoin’s Greatest Mystery
Forced into a corner by the U.S., Netanyahu agrees to a cease-fire in Lebanon.