Toast, Trees and a Wassailing Queen: An Ancient English Ritual Is Back
Em Sibley, the “wassail queen," after successfully completing the ceremony at Sheppy’s farm in Bradford-on-Tone, England.
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on February 2025
Dozens Injured as Driver Crashes Car Into Munich Protest
Members of the emergency services working at the scene on Thursday where a car was driven into a crowd in Munich.
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on February 2025
Hamas Says It’s Ready to Resume Hostage Releases
Aid deliveries in Rafah, in southern Gaza, on Thursday.
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on February 2025
Putin’s Call With Trump Delivers a Victory for Russian Leader
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in a photo provided by Russian state media. Mr. Putin is likely to keep the military pressure on Ukraine while appealing to President Trump’s ambitions as a peacemaker.
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Warming Trend in U.S.-Russia Relations Leaves Ukraine in a Tough Spot
Ukrainian soldiers firing at advancing Russian troops in the Pokrovsk area in eastern Ukraine in November. The momentum on the main front of the war has favored Russia for more than a year.
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Taiwan Prepares for Trump’s Tariffs, and a Changed Washington
President Lai Ching-te of Taiwan visiting a military base in Taitung in January. The Trump administration has urged Taiwan to spend more on its military.
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Trump Funding Freeze Decimates Women’s Health Care, U.N. and Others Say
An unstaffed reception area at the offices of Uganda Young Positives, in Kampala. The group helps young people living with H.I.V.
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Between Russia and Elon Musk, German Voters Face a ‘Dual Front’ of Disinformation
Elon Musk addressed an election campaign rally in Halle, Germany, last month.
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on February 2025
Trump’s Whirlwind Now Blows Through Europe
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, left, and the secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte, in Brussels on Thursday.
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on February 2025
The Fiercest Fighting of the Ukraine War May Be in Russia
Russian soldiers are locked in a fierce battle to reclaim all of the Kursk region from the Ukrainian Army.
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on February 2025
How Venezuela Helps Feed the Violence in Colombia
Displaced families in a shelter in Tibú, Colombia.
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on February 2025
Modi Hopes a White House Visit Will Keep India Out of Trump’s Sights
President Trump with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India at the White House in 2017. They are scheduled to meet there again on Thursday.
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Myanmar Refugees’ Dreams of Living in America Dashed by Trump Orders
The world’s largest refugee camp is in Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have sought shelter after fleeing Myanmar. It was built with the help of U.S.A.I.D., an agency paralyzed by the Trump administration.
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U.S.S. Harry S. Truman Carrier Collides With Commercial Ship Off Egypt
The U.S.S. Harry S. Truman was involved in a collision off Egypt on Wednesday, Navy officials said.
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No Tubman, No Rainbows: Defense Schools Prepared for Hegseth’s Wife
Jennifer Rauchet Hegseth watched her husband, Pete Hegseth, speak after being sworn in as Secretary of Defense last month.
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Friday Briefing: Trump Orders New Global Tariffs
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India arrived in the United States on Wednesday.
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on February 2025
NATO Worries Grow That Europe Will Be Left Out of Talks to End War in Ukraine
The U.S. defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday.
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Trump Announces ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs Across the Globe
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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on February 2025
Protests in Brussels Halt Over 400 Flights and Snarl Public Transit
Demonstrators in Brussels marching past police officers during a nationwide protest on Thursday.
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James Howells’s Final Proposal to Recover Lost Bitcoin: Buying the Landfill
James Howells has one final ask of the Newport City Council, which has treated him with varying degrees of seriousness throughout the years: If the council won’t let him dig up the city’s landfill, let him buy it.
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on February 2025
U.S. Deports Migrants From Asia to Panama
After meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio this month, President José Raúl Mulino of Panama indicated that he was open to receiving deportees from other countries.
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on February 2025
At Least 4 Killed in Suspected Gas Explosion at Taiwan Shopping Mall
A video still showing the damage from an explosion at a department store in Taichung City, Taiwan, on Thursday.
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on February 2025
Trump-Putin Call Was ‘No Betrayal’ of Ukraine, Hegseth Says
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in Brussels on Thursday.
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Trump Says Saudi Arabia May Host Talks With Putin on Ukraine
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, right, meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2023, in a photograph provided by the Saudi Foreign Ministry.
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Modi to Meet Trump With Eyes on Trade and Immigration
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Wednesday.
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on February 2025
Tropical Cyclone Zelia Heads Toward Australia’s Pilbara
The town of Port Hedland closed all services and facilities to the public on Wednesday.
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on February 2025
Thursday Briefing
President Vladimir Putin of Russia at the Kremlin earlier this month.
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on February 2025
State Dept. Draws Up List of Cartels to Be Labeled Terrorist Groups
Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently returned from his first official trip abroad, to five countries in Latin America. He spoke with counterparts about migration and security issues on his travels, though he did not visit Mexico.
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USAID Lifesaving Aid Remains Halted Despite Rubio’s Promise
A woman in Cubal, Angola, in November, where a U.S.A.I.D. program trained female farmers.
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Czech Dam Project Was Stalled by Bureaucracy. Beavers Built Their Own.
A beaver in a protected wetland south of Prague this month.
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on February 2025
Australian Health Workers Suspended After Threatening Israeli Patients
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia called the comments made by two health workers “sickening and shameful.”
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on February 2025
Thursday Briefing: Trump and Putin Discuss an End to Ukraine War
President Vladimir Putin in a photo released by Russian state media.
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on February 2025
California’s Scary Product Warning Labels Might Be Working, Study Says
California’s right-to-know law requires companies to warn of certain chemicals in their products.
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on February 2025
Belarus Frees an American and 2 Others as It Tries to Thaw Relations
The Belarusian president, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, has a long history of maneuvering between East and West.
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Austrian Coalition Talks Collapse, Averting, for Now, a Far-Right Chancellor
The chances of Chancellor Herbert Kickl, head of the Freedom Party, leading Austria’s first far-right national government since World War II have collapsed, for now.
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on February 2025
U.N. Calls Bangladesh Protest Crackdown a Possible Crime Against Humanity
Bangladeshi citizens sitting next to police vehicles that were burned during anti-government demonstrations in Dhaka last summer.
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on February 2025
Trump Says Call With Putin Is Beginning of Ukraine Peace Negotiations
For President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, the call with President Trump was a major milestone, signifying the collapse of Western efforts to isolate him diplomatically after he invaded Ukraine nearly three years ago.
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Hegseth Says Return to Ukraine’s Prewar Borders Is ‘Unrealistic’
The U.S. defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, center, with Britain’s defense chief of staff, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, right, and Germany’s defense minister, Boris Pistorius, at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact group in Brussels on Wednesday.
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on February 2025
North Korea Is Caring for Russia’s Wounded Soldiers, Envoy Says
Russian soldiers in the Kursk region, which shares a border with Ukraine, in December.
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on February 2025
Treasury Secretary Makes Trip to Kyiv
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine meeting Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in Kyiv on Wednesday.
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on February 2025
In Trump’s Cross Hairs Over Taking Gazans, Egypt and Jordan Try Diversion
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid enter Gaza from Egypt on Wednesday.
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on February 2025
U.S. Is Releasing Russian Cybercriminal to Moscow, Officials Say
Russia’s decision to release of Marc Fogel, an American who was welcomed by President Trump at the White House on Tuesday, has set the stage for a reciprocal act by the United States.
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on February 2025
Trump’s W.H.O. Exit Throws Smallpox Defenses Into Upheaval
A colorized transmission electron micrograph of smallpox virus.
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on February 2025
How Ukraine Pitched Trump on a Deal for Critical Minerals
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine had a Trump Tower meeting last September, before Donald J. Trump returned to the presidency.
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on February 2025
When Will China’s Leader Talk to Trump?
Images of Xi Jinping, China’s leader, at the opening of the Asian Winter Games in the Chinese city of Harbin on Friday.
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on February 2025
Wednesday Briefing
Taking shelter in Jabaliya in northern Gaza on Monday.
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on February 2025
Gaza Truce Imperiled as Netanyahu and Hamas Send Dueling Warnings
A shelter in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, on Monday.
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on February 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Israel Threatens to End the Cease-Fire
A shelter amid the rubble in northern Gaza on Monday.
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on February 2025
Italian Police Arrest 181 in ‘Important Blow’ to Cosa Nostra
Tuesday’s arrests in Palermo, Italy, involved about 1,200 police officers, officials said.
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on February 2025
In Overture to Trump, Palestinian Leader Mahmoud Abbas Ends Payments for Prisoners
Palestinians gather overlooking the Ofer prison in the Israeli-occupied West Bank last month. The United States and Israel have long condemned the payment of stipends to families of Palestinian prisoners.
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on February 2025
Jordanian King Rebuffs Trump Proposal to Displace Palestinians in Gaza
King Abdullah II of Jordan and President Trump meeting at the White House on Tuesday.
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on February 2025
What International Law Says About Trump’s Proposal to Remove Palestinians From Gaza
Palestinians making tea near the rubble of their destroyed house in Jabaliya in northern Gaza last week.
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on February 2025