Steeling China for a Tariff Fight, Xi Faces His Biggest Test Since Covid
Xi Jinping in 2019, waiting for President Trump to arrive for bilateral talks in Osaka, Japan.
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Marine Le Pen’s ‘Witch Hunt’ Talk Echoes Trump. Will It Work in France?
Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally party, after being convicted of embezzlement, speaking at a rally od supporter in Paris last Sunday.
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Why Iran’s Supreme Leader Came Around to Nuclear Talks With Trump
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has granted his permission for nuclear talks with the United States, at first through an intermediary, and then, if things proceeded well, for direct discussions.
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on April 2025
Trump Envoy Steve Witkoff Is in Russia, the Kremlin Says
Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s senior aide on Russia negotiations, in Washington last month.
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U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Steps Down Amid Strained Ties Under Trump
Bridget A. Brink, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, in Kyiv in 2022.
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on April 2025
Effort to Get Starlink in South Africa Collides With Tension Over Musk
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa answering lawmakers’ questions at Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, last month.
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Siemens Executive and His Family Died in Hudson Helicopter Crash
Agustín Escobar, shown last year, and four members of his family were killed in a helicopter crash on the Hudson River near Lower Manhattan on Thursday.
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on April 2025
A Deadly Earthquake Rocks a Pillar of a Buddhist Nation: Its Monks
The Old Masoeyein monastery, in Mandalay, Myanmar, after it was destroyed by the earthquake.
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French Soccer Icon Kylian Mbappe Battles Former Club P.S.G. for Millions
Kylian Mbappé playing for Paris Saint-Germain last May.
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Children Seeking Cholera Care Die After U.S. Cuts Aid, Charity Says
A delivery of aid in South Sudan in 2023. The country is dependent on foreign aid, and its people face the compounding tragedies of war and malnutrition, making recent cholera outbreaks even more deadly.
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Turkey and Israel Aim to Avoid Clashes in Syria as Tensions Rise
The scene of an Israeli strike in Syria’s southern Hama governorate last week.
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Germany Is Falling Apart (Literally). Here’s How the New Government Might Fix It.
A portion of a collapsed bridge in Dresden, Germany, in September. Falling bridges are one example of the country’s infrastructure struggles.
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on April 2025
Can Nigeria Help Save the Pangolins Amid a Global Wildlife Crime Crisis?
Rescued pangolins bought off a wildlife seller in Lagos, Nigeria in 2020.
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on April 2025
Stay or Go? Israel’s Evacuation Orders Leave Gazans Facing an Excruciating Choice.
Palestinians in the Shajaiye neighborhood of Gaza City last week after an evacuation order.
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U.S. Military Removes Commander of Greenland Base
Col. Susannah Meyers, left, has been removed from her post as the commander of the U.S. Space Force’s Pituffik base in Greenland.
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Friday Briefing
A cargo ship at the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan in China’s Zhejiang province last month.
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on April 2025
Friday Briefing: A Worsening Trade War
The New York Stock Exchange.
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Andrew Tate Is Accused of Rape and Threatening a Woman with Gun in U.K. Lawsuit
The women said their encounters with Mr. Tate took place while he was based in England. He moved to Romania around 2016.
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on April 2025
Trump’s Tariff Fight With China Poses New Threat to US Farmers
The soybean industry is one of the sectors most concerned about tariff retaliation.
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on April 2025
Inside Trump’s Plan to ‘Get’ Greenland: Persuasion, Not Invasion
Greenland’s economic and strategic value has grown as warming temperatures melt Arctic ice.
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on April 2025
Southeast Asia, With Little Leverage, Seeks to Placate Trump on Trade
An electronics factory in Svay Rieng Province in Cambodia, near the border with Vietnam.
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on April 2025
Fridrik Olafsson, Grandmaster Who Led Iceland’s Rise in Chess, Dies at 90
Fridrik Olafsson in 1955, when he was a 20-year-old phenom. Self-taught, he learned the game of chess by watching father play.
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on April 2025
Search Ends for Victims in Dominican Republic Roof Collapse That Killed 221
Trabajadores de rescate en la discoteca Jet Set de Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, el miércoles, un día después de que se derrumbara su techo, matando a más de 200 personas.
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on April 2025
Michelle Obama Addresses Divorce Rumors and Public Absences
Michelle Obama onstage at the South by Southwest Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas, in March.
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on April 2025
Hundreds of Israeli Air Force Reservists Call for Halt to Gaza War
The Israeli air force has been a key part of the country’s campaign in Gaza.
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on April 2025
China Says Shoppers Will Offset Trump Tariffs, But Doubts Remain
A night market in Guangzhou, China, on Monday.
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on April 2025
How Hamas and the U.S. Tried to Strike a Hostage Deal
Demonstrators holding posters of hostages, including Edan Alexander, a dual Israeli and American citizen, in Tel Aviv.
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on April 2025
After Trump’s Pause on Tariffs, EU Delays Retaliation to Allow Talks
A steel plant in Duisburg, Germany, on Wednesday. Europe’s planned retaliation was in response to metal-sector tariffs, and those levies appeared to be still in place.
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on April 2025
Poilievre’s Populism Is a Hit in Alberta, but Falters Elsewhere in Canada
Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative party leader, speaking during a rally this week in Nisku, just south of Edmonton, Alberta.
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on April 2025
How Trump’s Auto Tariffs Are Landing in an English Car Making Town
The Jaguar Land Rover plant dominates the economy of Solihull.
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on April 2025
Trump Team Divided Over Future of U.S. Embassy in Somalia
A United States special operations forces trainer speaking to Danab recruits in 2023. The United States has trained and equipping vetted units of Somalia’s special forces, known as the Danab.
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on April 2025
Lawyers for American Scholar Fear Thailand Will Deport Him
Paul Chambers, left, a lecturer in civil-military relations at Naresuan University, outside a police station in Phitsanulok, Thailand, on Tuesday.
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on April 2025
Thursday Briefing
President Trump has reversed course on the steep levies.
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Kim Shin-jo, North Korean Commando Who Sought to Kill South Korea’s Leader, Dies
Kim Shin-jo, the North Korean commando sent with a hit squad in 1968 to kill the then dictator of South Korea was the only one captured.
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on April 2025
How a Ukrainian Teen Became a Suspected Foot Soldier for Russia
The Ikea in Vilnius, Lithuania, where Daniil Bardadim is accused of planting an incendiary device.
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on April 2025
Funding for National Climate Assessment Is Cut
Flooding in Frankfort, Ky., this month. The next National Climate Assessment is due in 2027 or 2028.
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on April 2025
Canada Will Use Its Retaliatory Tariff Earnings to Aid Workers and Businesses
A worker waving to his colleagues after finishing one of the final shifts before Stellantis’s Chrysler assembly facility in Windsor, Ontario, shuts down for two weeks.
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on April 2025
Family Seeks Answers After Death of American Tourist in the Bahamas
A hotel at Atlantis Bahamas, a resort on Paradise Island, where Dinari McAlmont was staying with his family.
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on April 2025
4 Things to Know About Mike Huckabee, Trump’s Ambassador to Israel
Mike Huckabee, President Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Israel, testifying at a Senate confirmation hearing in late March.
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on April 2025
The Trump Envoy Who Got Close to the ‘World’s Coolest Dictator’
Ronald Johnson, President Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Mexico, during a Senate confirmation hearing last month.
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on April 2025
Britain Lost Out on Euro Disney. Now It’s Getting a Universal Theme Park.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, center, with renderings of the proposed Universal Studios theme park.
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on April 2025
Coalition Deal in Germany Clears Way for Friedrich Merz to Become Chancellor
Friedrich Merz had been under pressure to get a coalition government moving.
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on April 2025
Israeli Airstrike in Gaza City Leaves Many Dead, Health Officials There Say
Relatives hold back the father of a man killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home in a neighborhood in Gaza City, on Wednesday.
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on April 2025
Congo Repatriates 3 Americans Sentenced to Death Over Failed Coup
Benjamin Zalman-Polun, Marcel Malanga and Tyler Thompson waiting in September to hear the court verdict about the coup attempt, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
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on April 2025
Netanyahu Sticks by Trump’s Brazen Proposal for Gazans to Leave
Asked on Monday about Gaza emigration, President Trump said it was “a concept that I had,” and passed the question to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
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on April 2025
Paddington Returns to His Bench. Order Is Restored.
Paddington Bear is back in Newbury, England, enjoying a marmalade sandwich and the sunny weather.
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on April 2025
A Dominican Club That Drew Bold-Face Names Became a Graveyard in a Flash
Rescue teams working at the Jet Set nightclub a day after the collapse of its roof in Santo Domingo on Wednesday.
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on April 2025
India’s Millions of New Investors Are Reeling From Tariff Turmoil
The Bombay Stock Exchange in Mumbai on Monday, when Indian stocks lost about $170 billion in value.
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on April 2025
Zelensky Doubles Down on Claim That Many Chinese Are Fighting for Russia
Lin Jian, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, disputed a Ukrainian claim that many Chinese volunteers were fighting for Russia in Ukraine, on Wednesday in Beijing.
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on April 2025
U.S. Bond Sell-Off Is Another Worrisome Echo of the Liz Truss Fiasco
Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss triggered market turmoil in 2022 after she proposed sweeping tax cuts. She was forced to step down after 44 days in office.
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on April 2025
For U.S. and China, a Risky Game of Chicken With No Off-Ramp in Sight
A small factory in Guangzhou, China, that makes restaurant appliances. The Trump administration’s tariffs will ravage export-oriented companies along China’s eastern seaboard.
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on April 2025
Islamic State Regains Strength in Syria
Men accused of being Islamic State fighters last month in a cell Al-Sina Prison, run by the Syrian Democratic Forces, in Hasaka, Syria.
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on April 2025
E.U. Officials Approve Retaliatory Tariffs Against the U.S.
The European Union is not in the business of responding “cent for cent,” said Maros Sefcovic, its trade commissioner. But officials say all options are on the table.
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on April 2025
U.S. Tariffs Hobble African Cocoa Industry and Chocolate Makers
Dana Mroueh, left, owner of Mon Choco, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in 2019.
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on April 2025
The Strange Case of an Hermès Heir, an Emir and a Deal Gone Wrong
Nicolas Puech at his hacienda in Aracena, Spain, in 2011.
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on April 2025
Plunge in Oil Prices Threatens Russia’s Vast Spending on Ukraine War
Live Updates: China Raises Tariffs on U.S. to 125% as Tit-For-Tat Trade War Escalates
Russia Freed Ksenia Karelina, a Detained American, Rubio Says
Thursday Briefing: Trump’s Tariff Reversal
Trump Reverses Course on Global Tariffs, Announcing 90-Day Pause