Trump’s Tariffs Will Wound Free Trade, but the Blow May Not Be Fatal
President Trump on Wednesday in the White House Rose Garden, where he announced a sweeping list of tariffs on more than 100 countries.
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Recovering Pope Francis Surprises Pilgrims With a Public Appearance
Thunderous applause and cheers greeted Pope Francis on Sunday, as he made his first public appearance since leaving a Rome hospital two weeks ago.
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Israel Turns Away 2 British Lawmakers
Ben-Gurion International Airport, which services Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, is Israel’s busiest although many airlines avoid traveling to and from the country.
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Eyewitnesses Recount Deadly Israeli Attack on Medics in Gaza
Munther Abed, a volunteer paramedic, said he survived an Israeli attack on his ambulance.
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Amid Trump’s Threats, Canada’s Conservative Leader Faces Uncertainty in National Election
Pierre Poilievre greeting supporters during his campaign launch for the Canadian federal election, in Manotick, a community in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on March 23.
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Russia Strikes Kyiv as Ukraine Mourns Deadly Attack on Zelensky’s Hometown
Smoke rising in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday after a Russian attack. One person was killed and seven wounded, officials said.
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Syria Likely Has Over 100 Chemical Weapons Sites, Inspectors Say
Investigating a possible chemical weapons attack site in the Ain Tarma area of Syria in 2013. As president, Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons during the country’s long civil war.
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Vietnam Urges United States to Delay Imposing Tariffs On It
To Lam, Vietnam’s top leader, in Hanoi last month. He was one of the first world leaders to reach out to President Trump after details of the new tariffs were announced.
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Trump, Tariffs and Carney: Canada Polls Show Liberals With Early Election Lift
Support signs for the Liberal Party of Canada, in the windows of a house in the community of Manotick, in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Peace in Ukraine Will Not Mean a Return Home, Russian Émigrés Say
At a recent exhibition at Black Mustache, a bookstore in Istanbul founded by a Russian exile in 2022.
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Trump Treats European Allies as a Cash Cow
President Trump’s antagonism toward Europe has been public for decades.
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What We Know About the Case of Gaza Aid Workers Killed by Israeli Gunfire
Members of the Palestine Red Crescent and other emergency services last Monday carrying the bodies of rescue workers killed a week earlier by Israeli forces in Gaza.
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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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Trump Administration Revokes Visas of South Sudanese in Clash Over Deportees
A billboard showing President Salva Kiir of South Sudan in Juba, the country’s capital, last year. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would revoke the visas of all South Sudanese passport holders over the country’s failure to accept the return of its repatriated citizens.
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Monday Briefing: Trump’s Team Defends Tariffs
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the White House on Wednesday.
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Defiant, Le Pen Tells Supporters ‘I Won’t Give Up’ Despite 5-Year Ban
Marine Le Pen arriving to deliver a speech in Paris on Sunday.
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The Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write
[[CAPTION INFO: Jehuda Lindenblatt at home in November 2024.]]
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After Trump’s Tariffs, Stocks Plunged but Penguin Memes Ticked Up
A photo released by the Australian Antarctic Division shows a group of King penguins standing on the shores of Corinthian Bay in the Australian territory of Heard Island.
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U.K. Labour Lawmaker Suspended From Party After Arrest
Dan Norris, a member of the Labour Party, speaking at the University of Bath in July in England.
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Chemical Industry Asks Trump for Exemption From Pollution Limits
The OxyVinyls chemical plant in La Porte, Texas.
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Netanyahu Will Meet Trump in Washington in a Sign of Their Strong Ties
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Budapest on Friday, where he met with Hungary’s leader, Viktor Orban.
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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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Works of Art
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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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As Unexplained Quakes Ease, Santorini Insists It’s Open for Business
A cruise ship arriving at Santorini, Greece, last month.
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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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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
‘0 to 1939 in 3 seconds’: Why Anti-Elon Musk Satire Is Flourishing in Britain
India Passes Contentious Bill Increasing Oversight of Muslim Land Trusts
Sudanese Refugees Flee to Chad Amid Deadly Airstrikes
What One Image Shows About a Strike in Gaza
When Kenyan Maids Sought Help Overseas, Diplomats Demanded Sex
Friday Briefing: Trump’s Tariffs Rattle the Markets