Gaza Cease-Fire Deal Hangs in the Balance Ahead of Trump’s Meeting With Jordan’s King
A shelter amid the rubble in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, on Monday.
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Netanyahu Says Fighting in Gaza Will Resume if Hostages Are Not Freed Saturday
Relatives of hostages held in Gaza block a highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on Tuesday.
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Can European ‘Boots on the Ground’ Help Protect Ukraine’s Security?
Ukrainian volunteers who collect the bodies of people killed in combat recovering the remains of Russian soldiers in the Kharkiv region on Sunday.
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Germany’s Would-Be Chancellor Tries to Get Back on Cruise Control
Friedrich Merz, the head of the Christian Democratic Union. He has said that a parliamentary election on Feb. 23 will be a “directional election” for Germany.
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Nations Denounce Trump Tariff on Metals and Warn of Retaliation
The ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel production facility in Hamilton, Ontario. Canada is the United States’ biggest supplier of aluminum and steel.
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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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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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Vance, in First Foreign Speech, Tells Europe That U.S. Will Dominate A.I.
“The A.I. future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety,” Vice President JD Vance told an artificial intelligence summit in Paris on Tuesday.
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Ukrainian Lawmakers Approve Contentious Purchase of Nuclear Reactors
Employees standing in front of a power unit of the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant, undergoing construction, in western Ukraine in August.
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Luis Rubiales, Spain’s Former Top Soccer Official, Testifies About Kissing Star Player
Luis Rubiales arriving at the court near Madrid on Tuesday. He has denied accusations of sexual assault and coercion.
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Pope Criticizes Trump’s Deportation of Migrants, Calling It a Violation of Dignity
The first flight transporting Venezuelan deportees from the United States arriving in Caracas on Tuesday. In an open letter, Pope Francis said such deportations violate the “dignity of many men and women, and of entire families.”
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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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Gaza Truce Imperiled as Netanyahu and Hamas Send Dueling Warnings
A shelter in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, on Monday.
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Wednesday Briefing: Israel Threatens to End the Cease-Fire
A shelter amid the rubble in northern Gaza on Monday.
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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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Jordan’s King Faces a Bind as He Meets With Trump
King Abdullah II of Jordan, right, and President Trump at the White House in 2018. Mr. Trump has said he would pressure Jordan and Egypt to take in the estimated 1.9 million Palestinians he would expel from the Gaza Strip as part of his plan for the United States to “own” the territory.
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Tuesday Briefing
Pictures of hostages held in Gaza at a demonstration in Tel Aviv on Saturday.
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Trump Says He May Cut Aid to Jordan and Egypt if They Don’t Take Gazans
President Trump on Sunday aboard Air Force One. On Monday, he doubled down on the idea of forced displacement of Palestinians, which some scholars have said would amount to a war crime and ethnic cleansing.
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U.N. Suspends Humanitarian Work in Yemeni Area Over Houthi Hold More Staff
Houthis patrolling in Sana, the capital of Yemen, last month. The group is the de facto ruler of parts of Yemen, including Sana.
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Israeli Hostages’ Accounts of Abuse Raise Alarms for Remaining Captives
Hamas handing over the Israeli hostages Ohad Ben Ami, left, Eli Sharabi, right, and Or Levy, not pictured, to the Red Cross as part of the fifth round of an exchange deal on Saturday.
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Tuesday Briefing: Trump’s New Tariff Fight
A wholesale steel market in Shenyang, China.
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Bus Plunges off Bridge in Guatemala City, Killing at Least 53
Emergency workers at the site of a deadly bus crash in Guatemala City on Monday.
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Deportation Flights Return Migrants From U.S. to Venezuela
A Venezuelan National Guard officer stood on the tarmac on Tuesday, near the first flight transporting deportees from the United States to Venezuela.
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Woman Files First U.S. Lawsuit Against Andrew Tate and His Brother
Andrew Tate, left, and his brother Tristan arriving for a hearing court in Bucharest, Romania, last month.
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Nonstop Earthquakes Leave Santorini Empty and Its Residents on Edge
Waiting in Santorini, Greece, last week to board a ferry to leave the island. Thousands of tremors have shaken the area in recent weeks.
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Trump Wants to Clear Bombs From Gaza. He’s Sidelined Groups That Would Do It.
Unexploded munitions litter Gaza after months of Israeli bombardment.
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Trump Issues Cease-Fire Ultimatum After Hamas Postpones Release of Israeli Hostages
Protesters with pictures of hostages held in Gaza during a demonstration on Saturday in Tel Aviv.
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Fresh Violence as Bangladesh’s Ousted Ex-Leader Addresses Nation
Part of a new wave of violence protesting Bangladesh’s ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina included the demolition last week of the former residence of her father, a founder of the country.
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Trump Says Palestinians Will Not Be Allowed to Return to Gaza
Palestinians returning to the north of Gaza on Sunday. President Trump has proposed for the United States to take over Gaza.
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Israeli Police Raid Two Palestinian Bookshops in East Jerusalem
One of the shuttered bookshops after a raid by the Israeli police in East Jerusalem on Monday. The stores opened again later in the day.
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Monday Briefing
A steelworker at Steel Speed fabrication shop in Ontario.
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Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway.
Most of the 12 chapters in the report were written by teams of a dozen or so specialists.
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Gisèle Pelicot May Not Be Her Husband’s First Victim, Police Say
A police cortège thought to be transporting Dominique Pelicot arrives at the courthouse before a hearing at the cold case unit in Nanterre, west of Paris, in January.
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What DeepSeek’s Success Tells Us About China’s Ability to Nurture Talent
A student preparing for the 2025 national postgraduate entrance exam at Hebei University of Engineering in Handan, China, in December.
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Dozens of Maoist Guerrillas Killed in Central India, Officials Say
Maoist guerrillas, or Naxalites, during an exercise at a temporary base in the state of Chhattisgarh, India, in 2007.
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Israeli Troops Withdraw From Netzarim Corridor in Gaza
A traffic jam as Palestinians headed north from southern Gaza on Sunday after Israeli troops withdrew from the Netzarim Corridor.
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‘Dad, I Came Back Alive!’ Israeli Hostages Start to Give Glimpses of Ordeal.
The released Israeli hostages from left: Naama Levy, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Liri Albag and Daniella Gilboa during a musical performance in their honor in a hospital in central Israel this month.
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Ecuador’s President Faces Runoff After Falling Short in Re-Election Bid
Voting in Tanicuchi, Ecuador, on Sunday. A second round of voting in the presidential election will be held in April.
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European Court Ruling Gives Hope in Italy Region Known for Toxic Waste
Illegally dumped waste scattered on the side of a road in Marcianise, part of an area known as “the land of fires,” north of Naples, Italy, last month.
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Angela Merkel Is Retired. But She’s Still on the Ballot.
Former Chancellor Angela Merkel published an autobiography late last year, but it made less of a splash than many analysts expected.
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Thai Hostages Return From Gaza
Pongsak Thaenna and four other recently released Thai hostages arriving at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Sunday in Bangkok.
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Some Afrikaners Cheer as Trump Amplifies Claims of Persecution
Irrigation equipment on a farm near Krugersdorp in Gauteng Province, South Africa, on Saturday. On Friday, President Trump ordered all aid to South Africa to be halted.
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Far-Right Leaders Rally in Spain to ‘Make Europe Great Again’
A rally on Saturday in Madrid hosted by Spain’s hard-right Vox party. The event featured appearances by far-right leaders, including Viktor Orban of Hungary and Marine Le Pen of France.
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Trump Plans to Send $8 Billion in Arms to Israel, Bypassing Some Lawmakers
President Trump meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in the Oval Office last week.
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Hamas Makes Gaunt Israeli Hostages Thank Captors Before Release
Hamas handed over Eli Sharabi, center; Or Levy, right; and Ohad Ben-Ami, left, to the Red Cross on Saturday as part of the cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas.
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U.S.A.I.D. Workers Brace for the Worst
Signage removed and covered up with tape and plastic sheeting at the U.S. Agency for International Development headquarters in Washington on Friday.
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Dark Comedy
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A Trade War Is on Hold, but Trump’s Motives and a Fix Remain Uncertain
The Ambassador Bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit.
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Trump and Musk Bring Vast Aid Machinery to a Halt in Africa
Tigrayan refugees from Ethiopia collecting food rations provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development in eastern Sudan in 2021.
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Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads
Who Is Marc Fogel? The American Teacher Caught in a Global Power Struggle.
Trump Is Freezing Money for Clean Energy. Republican States Have the Most to Lose.
Lebanon’s Emigrants Return to a Battered Homeland After Israel-Hezbollah War
Monday Briefing: The Last Guard Against Trump’s Orders?