Trump Treats European Allies as a Cash Cow
President Trump’s antagonism toward Europe has been public for decades.
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on April 2025
How South Korea’s Democracy Prevailed Over a Reckless Leader
Demonstrators in Seoul last month calling for the ouster of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol.
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on April 2025
‘I Hope Trump Won’t Deceive Us’: Ukrainians Are Wary of U.S. Minerals Deal
Volodymyr Savytskyi, a geologist, says Ukraine should cut a deal that gives his country its “fair share.”
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on April 2025
Roman Empire Skeletons Found Under Vienna Soccer Field
People work on the excavation of a Roman mass grave from the end of the 1st century A.D., in the Simmering district of Vienna, in November.
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on April 2025
She Accused the Senate President of Harassment. The Backlash Was Swift.
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan last week at home in Abuja, Nigeria.
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on April 2025
Trump Envoy Visits Lebanon Amid Fears Over a Shaky Cease-Fire
Morgan Ortagus, the U.S. deputy envoy for the Middle East, center, meeting with Prime Minister Nawaf Salam of Lebanon in Beirut on Saturday.
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on April 2025
Surprising Allies for Syria’s New Leaders: Some Jews Who Fled Long Ago
Henry Hamra, a Syrian Jew, in a meeting with lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday. Mr. Hamra is working with Syrian American advocacy groups in lobbying the United States to lift sanctions.
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on April 2025
Detained in The Hague, Duterte Pursues a Political Comeback at Home
Supporters of Rodrigo Duterte, the arrested former Philippine president, gathered on his 80th birthday on March 28 in Davao City, the Philippines.
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on April 2025
Dublin Acts to Protect Molly Malone Statue
Posing for photos with the statue of Molly Malone last month during the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin.
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on April 2025
Garbage Strike in UK’s Second Largest City Leaves Trash Piled High
A large pile of trash on the pavement of a street in Birmingham, United Kingdom on March 24.
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on April 2025
Works of Art
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on April 2025
In Canada’s Auto City, Tariffs Have Already Caused a Shutdown
The Stellantis plant in Windsor, Ontario, which makes Chrysler minivans and Dodge muscle cars, is suspending production for two weeks.
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on April 2025
YouTuber Is Arrested After Leaving Diet Coke on Isolated Tribe’s Island
The Indian authorities said they had arrested the man when he returned to land, and that he appeared to have recorded his journey on a GoPro and used GPS.
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on April 2025
Russian Strike Kills 18, including 9 Children, Ukraine Says
Emergency personnel work next to a body lying on the ground, at the site of a Russian missile strike in a residential area of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on Friday.
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on April 2025
Rubio Warns Russia that U.S. Patience on Ukraine War Is Running Out
Secretary of State Marco Rubio attended a North Atlantic Council meeting in Brussels on Thursday.
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on April 2025
Something Else for Europe and the U.S. to Disagree About: ‘Free Speech’
Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton, then E.U. officials, announcing the Digital Services Act in 2020. The law is meant to prevent the spread of illegal content and disinformation.
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on April 2025
Trump Weighs In on Marine Le Pen Conviction
Marine Le Pen, a far-right French politician, was a leading candidate to become the country’s next president, but has now been barred from running for public office for five years.
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on April 2025
Israeli Military Expands Ground Operations in Gaza City
Palestinians fleeing the Shajaiye neighborhood of Gaza City after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders on Thursday.
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on April 2025
What Will Trump’s Tariffs Do to EU-China Trade Relations?
The production line at a Chinese electric vehicle maker, Nio, in Hefei, China, on Wednesday. The E.U. imposed higher tariffs on China-made electrical vehicles last year, but China’s commerce ministry said at a news conference on Thursday that the two sides had agreed to restart negotiations.
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on April 2025
Celebrations as South Korean Court Removes Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol
At a rally of supporters of Mr. Yoon, there was loud booing after the Constitutional Court delivered its ruling. Many of them left, dejected, soon after.
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on April 2025
Protesters in Gaza Call on Hamas to Step Aside
An antiwar rally in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on March 26.
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on April 2025
The New Democratic Party That Pushed Canada to the Left Is Imperiled
Jagmeet Singh, the leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party, speaking in Ontario. Several public opinion polls show support for the New Democrats in the single digits.
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on April 2025
What Is Next for Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s Ousted President?
Supporters of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol waved a flag with his image after the Constitutional Court announced the verdict today in Seoul, upholding the impeachment.
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on April 2025
Australia’s Relationship with United States Gets a Second Look
A U.S. submarine sailing off the coast of Western Australia in March.
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on April 2025
Seoul Reacts As Impeached President Yoon Is Removed from Office
Students from Ewha Womans University cheering the Constitutional Court’s decision to remove President Yoon, in Seoul on Friday.
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on April 2025
What to Know About South Korea President Yoon’s Impeachment Over Martial Law
Protesters opposed to Yoon Suk Yeol cheered the Constitutional Court’s decision on Friday to remove him as president.
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on April 2025
U.S. Strikes in Yemen Burning Through Munitions With Limited Success
Damage from overnight strikes in Yemen on Wednesday.
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on April 2025
They Fought to Save Lives in Myanmar. The Earthquake Claimed Theirs.
A patient at Mandalay General Hospital, three days after the deadly Myanmar earthquake.
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on April 2025
As Unexplained Quakes Ease, Santorini Insists It’s Open for Business
A cruise ship arriving at Santorini, Greece, last month.
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on April 2025
Protesters Amass in Seoul Ahead of Court Ruling on South Korea’s Yoon
On Thursday, police locked up the streets with buses near the Constitutional Court in Seoul, which will decide the fate of President Yoon Suk Yeol.
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on April 2025
Workers at Wilson Center Put on Leave as Trump Seeks Shutdown
Only five employees of the Wilson Center will remain at their posts, after President Trump signed an executive order directing the center to be gutted.
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on April 2025
Two Top Organizers of Canada’s Freedom Convoy Found Guilty of Mischief
A weekslong protest in 2022 by demonstrators angered by pandemic mandates paralyzed Ottawa.
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on April 2025
Why Did Trump Impose Tariffs, and What’s Next? Everything to Know.
The tariffs announced by President Trump on Wednesday apply to most of the world.
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on April 2025
Israeli Strike Kills Dozens at Gaza City Shelter, Officials Say
A boy injured in a strike at a school-turned-shelter is carried to a hospital in Gaza City, on Thursday.
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on April 2025
Ex-Yankees Player Brett Gardner’s Son Died From Carbon Monoxide, Officials Say
A moment of silence is observed for Miller Gardner, the son of the former New York Yankees player Brett Gardner, before the start of an opening-day baseball game between the Yankees and the Milwaukee Brewers at Yankee Stadium last week.
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on April 2025
How Trump’s Tariffs Could Hobble a U.S. Battery Boom
An energy storage site in Coolidge, Ariz., that uses lithium-ion batteries.
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on April 2025
Prince Harry Expresses ‘Relief’ Over Charity Commission’s Sentebale Investigation
Prince Harry and Sophie Chandauka, right, the chair of Sentebale, last year. The charity’s board has since been engulfed in a bitter dispute.
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on April 2025
‘It Had Teeth’: A 3-Year-Old Discovers Ancient Treasure in Israel
A 3,800-year-old Egyptian scarab amulet from the Bronze Age, which was found by Ziv Nitzan, 3, while on a hike in Israel with her family.
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on April 2025
Javier Milei, Trump’s ‘Favorite President,’ Has Few Deals to Offer — but Lots of Adoration
President Javier Milei of Argentina, center right, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., last year. Mr. Milei has repeatedly and publicly lauded President Trump.
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on April 2025
What Is the ICC? What to Know After Hungary’s Announcement
Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, left, receiving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Budapest on Thursday.
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on April 2025
Europe Has Economic Power. Can It Use It Against Trump’s Tariffs?
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the E.U. executive arm, said Europeans felt “let down by our oldest ally.”
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on April 2025
Israel Hits Syria With New Strikes and Ground Raid as Tensions Soar
The site of an Israeli airstrike in the southern Hama governorate in Syria on Thursday.
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on April 2025
Putin Envoy Says He’s in U.S. for Talks With Trump Administration
Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and President Vladimir V. Putin’s special representative for investment and economic cooperation, in Saudi Arabia in February.
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on April 2025
Israel Shifts Goal Posts in Gaza War
Smoke rising over damaged buildings in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli strike, as seen from a position on the Israeli side of the border on Wednesday.
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on April 2025
Ignoring Protests, Thailand Opens Door to Myanmar’s Military Leader
Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing arriving to meet survivors of Myanmar’s March 28 earthquake at a hospital in Naypyidaw, the capital.
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on April 2025
Britain Tried Everything, Including a Royal Invite. It Got a 10% Tariff.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain gave President Trump a state visit invitation from King Charles in the Oval Office in February.
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on April 2025
What is ‘Qatargate,’ the Latest Furor Embroiling Israel?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed the case as a “political manhunt.”
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on April 2025
Hungary Says It Will Exit ICC as Netanyahu Visits
Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Budapest on Thursday.
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on April 2025
Thursday Briefing
President Trump signed an executive order on tariffs in the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday.
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on April 2025
Rubio Visits NATO Amid European Alarm Over Trump’s Agenda
Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He told NATO members that President Trump “has made clear he supports” the alliance, while also reiterating calls for more military spending.
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on April 2025
Russell Brand Is Charged With Rape and Sexual Assault in U.K.
India Passes Contentious Bill Increasing Oversight of Muslim Land Trusts
When Kenyan Maids Sought Help Overseas, Diplomats Demanded Sex
What One Image Shows About a Strike in Gaza
Friday Briefing: Trump’s Tariffs Rattle the Markets