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
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
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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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
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
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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on February 2025
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
Singing to Trees to Make Good Cider: 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
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
Putin’s Call With Trump Delivers a Victory for Russian Leader
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is likely to keep the military pressure on Ukraine while appealing to President Trump’s ambitions as a peacemaker.
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on February 2025
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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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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on February 2025
USAID Lifesaving Aid Remains Halted Despite Rubio’s Promise
Food provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development during a flood in South Sudan in 2023.
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on February 2025
Czech Dam Project Was Stalled by Bureaucracy. Beavers Built Their Own.
Beavers along the Vltava River in Prague in 2022.
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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
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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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
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
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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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
Tuesday Briefing
Pictures of hostages held in Gaza at a demonstration in Tel Aviv on Saturday.
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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
Tuesday Briefing: Trump’s New Tariff Fight
A wholesale steel market in Shenyang, China.
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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
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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on February 2025
Who Is Marc Fogel? The American Teacher Caught in a Global Power Struggle.
Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads
How Escalating Violence Is Upending Lives in the West Bank