Catholicism Thrives in Africa, but Pope’s Cameroon Visit Highlights a Divide
Pope Leo arriving in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, on Tuesday.
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How China’s Weapons Transfers to Iran Have Evolved Over Decades
Military delegates at an annual legislative session in Beijing last month.
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Dodging Bombs and Drones, This Postman in Ukraine Still Delivers
Oleksiy Klochkovsky, a driver for Nova Poshta, a private postal service in Ukraine, in the back of his truck in the Kharkiv region in January.
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Claudia Sheinbaum’s War on Crime in Mexico Faces a Grim Reckoning: 133,000 Missing People
Izaguirre ranch in Teuchitlán, Jalisco, where volunteer groups found charred human remains. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel had been using it as a training camp for its new recruits.
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When El Salvador’s Prisoners Are Set Free, She’s There To Pick Them Up
Sugey Amaya has spent the past three years waiting for her brother, Alexis, to be released from prison. He was detained under President Nayib Bukele’s state of emergency and accused of being part of a gang.
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Trump Breaks With Meloni, Italy’s Leader, Amid Dispute Over Pope and Iran
President Trump greeting Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at the White House last year. They were once considered close allies.
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Top U.S. Diplomat in Venezuela Leaves Post After Arriving in January
Laura Dogu, the top U.S. diplomat in Venezuela, last month in the capital, Caracas.
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With Iran War on Pause, Political Battle Resumes Over Israeli Democracy
Israeli Supreme Court justices on Wednesday before hearing a petition to force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to oust the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir.
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‘We Cannot Lose Sight of Ukraine.’ Europeans Promise More Aid to Kyiv.
Mark Rutte, NATO’s secretary general, met with the defense ministers of Ukraine, Germany and Britain in Berlin on Wednesday.
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After Fighting for the Rights of Workers, Brazil’s President Lula Faces a Labor Abuse Crisis
A factory for the automaker BYD under construction last year in Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil. A labor ministry inspection found that Chinese workers building the plant were living in squalid conditions.
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American Streamer Johnny Somali Is Sentenced to Prison in South Korea
Johnny Somali, an American YouTuber, arriving at a Seoul courthouse on Wednesday. He was sentenced to six months in jail.
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At Least 4 Dead in Second School Shooting in Turkey in 2 Days
An ambulance leaving the scene after a deadly school shooting in southern Turkey on Wednesday.
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Kuwait Detained Journalist After Comments on Iran War Images, Watchdog Says
Ahmed Shihab‑Eldin in Qatar in November. He has not posted online or been seen in public since early March.
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Iran could struggle to enforce all of its latest shipping threats, experts say.
A vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday. Traffic is still at a fraction of its usual levels.
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The Pope in Africa
Pope Leo arrived in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, yesterday.
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Pakistani Mediators Arrive in Tehran in Bid to Keep U.S.-Iran Peace Talks Alive
A vessel at the Strait of Hormuz, off the coast of Oman’s Musandam province, on Sunday.
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Saudi Fund to Back Away From LIV Golf Under Mounting Financial Pressures
The wealth fund’s leader, Yasir al-Rumayyan, presenting a trophy at the LIV Golf championship in Michigan in 2025.
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Getting the Pope to Answer a Pointed Question at 30,000 Feet
Pope Leo XIV, flanked by press minders, spoke to journalists during a flight to Algeria on Monday.
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South Africa Names Roelf Meyer, Apartheid-Era Negotiator, as U.S. Ambassador
Roelf Meyer, center, with President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa to his right at an event in Pretoria in August. Mr. Meyer was appointed ambassador to the United States on Wednesday.
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BBC Announces Plan to Cut Around 2,000 Jobs
The headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation in London.
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Debt Alarms Ring as Countries Rack Up More Emergency Spending
Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, second from left, with other officials at a news briefing in Berlin this week.
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Israel Considering Cease-Fire With Lebanon, Officials Say
Residents collecting scrap metal from a power station destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Tyre, Lebanon, earlier this month. While Israel recently scaled back attacks on Beirut, the Lebanese capital, it has continued striking the southern part of the country.
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Iran-Linked Ships Slow or Stop as U.S. Navy Enforces Strait of Hormuz Blockade
A vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday. Traffic is still at a fraction of its usual levels.
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Here’s how the U.S. blockade of Iranian shipping is taking shape.
A cargo ship off the coast of Ras al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, on Monday.
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Kanye West Postpones Concert in France as Government Considers Banning It
Ye announced that he had postponed a concert in Marseille, France.
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U.S. Applies Little Pressure to Israel to Stop the Fighting in Lebanon
Mourning victims of airstrikes at a temporary cemetery in Aamrousiyeh, Lebanon, on Monday. Hezbollah flags are displayed at some graves.
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How a Times Reporter Has Covered a Turbulent Period in Latin America
The reporter Frances Robles, right, with the Rev. Thomas Ngigi at St. Theresa’s parish, a waterfront church in Black River, Jamaica, that was badly damaged by Hurricane Melissa last year.
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Super Typhoon Sinlaku Slams Saipan, Causing Widespread Damage
Debris scattered on Wednesday in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, as the super typhoon Sinlaku moved through.
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Ship ‘Spoofing’ in Strait of Hormuz May Compound Confusion
A cargo ship off the coast of Ras al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, on Monday.
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Rubio Hosts Israel and Lebanon for Rare Meeting Shadowed by U.S.-Iran War
Secretary of State Marco Rubio meeting with officials from Lebanon and Israel at the State Department in Washington on Tuesday.
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Trump’s Blockade Risks Upending an Emerging Détente With China
President Trump meeting with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, in South Korea last October. They will meet again next month.
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Carney Suspends Gas Tax in Canada as War Drives Up Fuel Costs
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada at a news conference in Ottawa, on Tuesday.
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Mario Ríos Montt, Bishop and Brother of Genocidal General, Dies at 94
Bishop Mario Ríos Montt in 1999 at a news conference on human-rights atrocities committed by the military in Guatemala. “What interests me is the truth, and come what may, the truth is the truth,” he said.
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Rare Direct Talks Between Israel and Lebanon Focus on Hezbollah
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, center, speaking during a meeting with Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors at the State Department on Tuesday.
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King Charles III and Queen Camilla Will Visit D.C., New York and Virginia
Queen Camilla and King Charles III of Britain earlier this month.
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Russian Oil Revenues Nearly Doubled in March
A Panamanian-flagged ship carrying crude oil from Russia, moored off an oil refinery in Limay, Bataan Province, the Philippines, this month.
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How Peter Magyar Defeated Viktor Orban, a Former Ally, In Hungary’s Election
Peter Magyar campaigning in 2024 in Viktor Orban’s hometown, Felcsut, Hungary.
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Benin’s Romuald Wadagni Poised to Win Presidential Election
Romuald Wadagni campaigning in Cotonou, Benin, last month. He has become the country’s new president, according to provisional results.
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Italy Suspends Defense Pact With Israel, Further Straining Ties
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome last week.
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China Offers Veiled Criticism of U.S. as Iran War Threatens Oil Imports
China’s leader Xi Jinping has tried to maintain a neutral stance on the war in Iran as it balances its partnership with Tehran and managing tensions with the United States.
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Middle East War Will Slow Global Economic Growth, I.M.F. Warns
New International Monetary Fund projections showed a global economy that was stopped in its tracks by the U.S. war in Iran.
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State of U.S. Blockade Is Unclear as Some Ships Transit Strait of Hormuz
A ship is seen in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, on Monday, the day after U.S.-Iran peace talks broke down.
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Will Viktor Orban’s Legacy Live On in Brussels, Even Without Him?
Viktor Orban at an European Union summit meeting in Brussels, in March.
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Ex-Student Wounds 16 in High School Shooting in Turkey
Security forces outside a high school in Siverek, southeastern Turkey, on Tuesday, after a shooting on the premises.
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In Leo, Trump Faces a Different Kind of Papal Opponent
At the Vatican, Pope Leo presents a new foil for President Trump.
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Trump’s Latest Oil Blockade Brings Bigger Economic Risks
A strike on the Bapco oil refinery in Bahrain in early March. A U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz may give Iran a reason to restart attacks on energy assets throughout the Persian Gulf.
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Mark Carney Seals a Majority Government and Remakes Canada’s Liberal Party
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada speaking on Saturday at a Liberal Party convention in Montreal.
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As Bahrain Cracked Down Amid War, a Death in Custody Sparked Outrage
Smoke rising over Manama, Bahrain’s capital, last month after what was reported to be a drone strike on an airport’s fuel storage facility.
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Europe Is Desperate for More Energy. Can Norway Come to the Rescue?
The Johan Sverdrup oil field in the North Sea west of Stavanger, off the southwestern coast of Norway.
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As War Chills Economy, Dubai’s Most Vulnerable Bear the Cost
Residents of Dubai neighborhoods like Satwa have been hit especially hard by the economic downturn.
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Israel and Lebanon Seek Way Forward in Rare Direct Talks
A building on Saturday in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, that was destroyed by Israeli strikes.
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Trump Says 2nd Round of U.S.-Iran Talks Could Take Place This Week
Israel’s Spy Chief Addresses Criticism About the War With Iran
Iran War Live Updates: Pakistani Mediators Arrive in Iran to Keep Peace Talks Alive
In Defense of Dumb Dogs
Hungary’s Populist Paradox
What Happened After Denmark Adopted a Ruined City in Ukraine