Greenland’s Big Moment
On the western coast of Greenland, ice defines life.
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on February 2025
Thanks to Trump, Saudi Arabia Gets a Big Week in Diplomacy
Secretary of State Marco Rubio being welcomed on Monday by the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, in Riyadh.
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on February 2025
Bucha, Site of Massacre, Feels Sting of Trump Shift on Ukraine
The funeral for a Ukrainian soldier, Oleksiy Onyshchenko, on Wednesday in Bucha, Ukraine.
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on February 2025
Next Likely Chancellor Promises a Tougher Germany
Friedrich Merz, center, a conservative former businessman, is the favorite to become Germany’s next chancellor.
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on February 2025
Chinese Embassy Plan in London Sets Off Opposition
Protesters this month outside Royal Mint Court, site of the proposed Chinese Embassy in London.
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on February 2025
Australia, New Zealand Alarmed by Chinese Warships in Tasman Sea
A photo released by the Australia Defense Force showing a Chinese frigate in the Torres Strait last week. The Australian military has been tracking it and two other Chinese ships since then.
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on February 2025
China Uses Public Shaming to Motivate State Workers
Crowds lining up for a civil service exam in Nanjing, China, in December.
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on February 2025
Migrants Deported to Panama by Trump Administration Taken to Jungle Camp
Migrants deported from the United States outside the Decapolis Hotel in Panama City on Saturday.
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on February 2025
Meet Germany’s Far-Right Leader, a Study in Contradictions
Alice Weidel, center, when the AfD named her its candidate for chancellor.
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on February 2025
Ukrainians Say They Feel Betrayed by Trump and U.S.
A memorial for fallen Ukrainian soldiers in Independence Square in Kyiv on Friday.
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on February 2025
Trump Calls Zelensky a ‘Dictator’ as Feud Escalates Over Ukraine Peace Talks
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine told reporters on Wednesday that President Trump was “living in a disinformation space.”
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on February 2025
Trump Falsely Suggests Ukraine Is to Blame for the War: What to Know
Ukrainian soldiers on the front line last week.
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on February 2025
Luis Rubiales Found Guilty of Sexual Assault for Kissing Jennifer Hermoso
Luis Rubiales, former president of the Spanish soccer federation, leaving court this month.
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on February 2025
Zelensky to Meet U.S. Envoy to Ukraine Amid Public Spat With Trump
Keith Kellogg, center, the U.S. special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, meeting with European leaders in Brussels on Tuesday before traveling to Ukraine.
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on February 2025
Thursday Briefing
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine responded to comments by President Trump that included a suggestion that Ukraine had started the war.
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on February 2025
Delta Offers $30,000 to Passengers on Plane That Crashed in Toronto
The wreckage of Delta Flight 4819 at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Tuesday.
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on February 2025
Trump Flips the Script on the Ukraine War, Blaming Zelensky Not Putin
President Trump’s revisionism sets the stage for a geopolitical about-face unlike any in generations.
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on February 2025
Thursday Briefing: Trump and Zelensky Feud Over Peace Talks
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Wednesday.
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on February 2025
Trump Administration Has Fired Health Inspectors at Some Border Stations
A port of entry in El Paso, Texas, in 2021. In 2019, more than 400 million travelers arrived via more than 300 ports of entry. About half of those people crossed the border between the United States and Mexico.
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on February 2025
Israeli Military Prosecutor Charges Five Soldiers in Abuse of Palestinian Detainee
An Israeli military prosecutor accused five Israeli reservist soldiers of abusing a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman base in southern Israel.
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on February 2025
What We Know About the Secretive Migrant Mission at Guantánamo Bay
The new camp site where the Trump administration plans to house thousands of undocumented migrants at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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on February 2025
Bessent to Skip G20 Finance Ministers Meeting in South Africa
Scott Bessent’s decision to forgo a major economic gathering is highly unusual for a Treasury secretary, particularly one who was confirmed to his post three weeks ago.
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on February 2025
Kremlin Message to Trump: There’s Money to Be Made in Russia
Kirill Dmitriev, right, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, on Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where meetings between Russian and U.S. officials took place.
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on February 2025
South Korean Officials Convicted Over Forcibly Sending North Koreans Home
North Korean defectors living in South Korea protested in 2019 against the deportation of the North Korean fishermen.
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on February 2025
European Leaders Try to Recalibrate After Trump Sides With Russia on Ukraine
President Emmanuel Macron of France awaiting the arrival of European leaders at the Élysée Palace in Paris on Monday. On Wednesday he called another urgent meeting of European allies.
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on February 2025
Trump Media Group Sues Brazilian Judge Weighing Arrest of Jair Bolsonaro
Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil, in the capital, Brasília, on Tuesday.
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on February 2025
As Moscow and Washington Discuss Ukraine, Russians Hope for Normalcy
A recruiting billboard with the slogan, “Hero City has its heroes,” in St. Petersburg, Russia, last month. The Kremlin has portrayed the end of the war in terms of a grand deal that should cement its hold over at least parts of Ukraine.
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on February 2025
Israelis Gird for Release of Bodies of Captives From Gaza
Posters with photographs of members of the Bibas family on chairs in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
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on February 2025
Alarmed by Trump’s Gaza Plan, Arab Leaders Brainstorm on Their Own
Much of Gaza has been destroyed in 500 days of fighting between Hamas and Israel.
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on February 2025
Cambodia’s Stolen Statues Are Coming Home to an Overflowing Museum
Visitors to the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh in January.
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on February 2025
Updates on Pope Francis’ Health Leave Room for Speculation
A statue of Pope John Paul II on Wednesday in front of the Rome hospital where Pope Francis is being treated for several health problems.
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on February 2025
Bomber Given 10 Years in Prison for Attempted Murder of Japanese Premier
Fumio Kishida, then prime minister of Japan, being shielded by his security team after an explosion while he was at an event in Wakayama in 2023.
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on February 2025
Wednesday Briefing
The U.S. delegation, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, seated second from left, meeting with the envoys from Moscow in Saudi Arabia yesterday.
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on February 2025
Nepal Took a Risk on a $500 Million U.S. Grant. It May Now Regret It.
Travelers exiting a new international airport, built largely by Chinese companies, in Pokhara, Nepal, in 2023.
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on February 2025
Right-Wing Media Praises U.S.-Russia Talks as ‘Breath of Fresh Air’
From left, Kari Lake, Jack Posobiec and Charlie Kirk applauded news that the United States would work directly with Russia on trying to end the war in Ukraine.
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on February 2025
Trump’s Pivot Toward Putin’s Russia Upends Generations of U.S. Policy
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, far left, met with Saudi officials and Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, far right, in the Saudi capital. No Ukrainian representatives were present.
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on February 2025
Brazil Charges Bolsonaro With Attempting a Coup
Jair Bolsonaro during an interview last month. On Tuesday, he said his indictment was “a desperate attempt to criminalize my political movement.”
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on February 2025
Pope Francis Has Bilateral Pneumonia
A statue of Pope John Paul II outside the hospital in Rome where Pope Francis was being treated on Tuesday.
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on February 2025
Will That Asteroid Strike Earth? Risk Level Rises to Highest Ever Recorded.
The asteroid 2024 YR4 observed by the Magdalena Ridge 2.4-meter telescope at the New Mexico Institute of Technology on Jan. 27.
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on February 2025
Wednesday Briefing: U.S. and Russia Discuss Cooperation
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with envoys from Moscow, including the Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, right, in Saudi Arabia yesterday.
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on February 2025
Zelensky Lashes Out at Trump for Excluding Ukrainians From Peace Talks
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, in Turkey on Tuesday, said, “Decisions on how to end the war in Ukraine cannot be made without Ukraine, nor can any conditions be imposed.”
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on February 2025
RSF Announces Plans for Breakaway Government in Sudan
The deputy leader of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, Abdul Rahim Dagalo, center with his arm raised, during a meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday.
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on February 2025
Hamas Says It Will Release the Bodies of Bibas Children and Other Hostages
Photos of Yarden Bibas, his wife, Shiri, and their children, Ariel, top, and Kfir.
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on February 2025
USAID Climate Programs Fighting Extremism and Unrest Are Closing Down
Bags of lentils provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development in Ethiopia in 2021.
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on February 2025
Hamas to Release 6 Living Hostages to Israel This Weekend
A rally in Tel Aviv this month calling for the release of the remaining hostages.
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on February 2025
Pope Francis, Hospitalized, Has Pneumonia, Vatican Says
Pope Francis is being treated at a hospital in Rome for what doctors have described as a “complex picture.”
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on February 2025
Korean Victim of WWII Sex Slavery Who Fought for Japan’s Apology Dies
Gil Won-ok, a Korean woman who was forced to work as a sex slave for Japanese soldiers during World War II, protested in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul in 2012.
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on February 2025
When a Journey Home to Israeli-Occupied Lebanon Becomes Deadly
Some people carried Hezbollah flags as they returned to Aitaroun, in southern Lebanon, this month. The cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah is contingent on both ceding control of southern Lebanon to the Lebanese military.
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on February 2025
C.I.A. Expands Secret Drone Flights Over Mexico
John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, has repeatedly promised more intense action against Mexican drug cartels. Increasing the drone flights was a quick initial step.
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on February 2025
Under Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, Some Migrants Are Being Sent to Panama
Migrants deported from the United States are being held at the Decapolis Hotel in Panama City. They come from Afghanistan, Iran, China and other nations.
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on February 2025
Europe, Dazed by Trump, Confronts Hard Choices in Ukraine
Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany giving a statement after an informal summit of European leaders in Paris on Monday.
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on February 2025
A Delta Plane Crashes in Toronto, but Tragedy Is Averted
Emergency responders at the Delta Air Lines plane crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday.
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on February 2025
Pete Marocco Returns to Battle in Trump’s War on Foreign Aid
Pete Marocco, the State Department official who took over the remains of U.S.A.I.D., during a round table discussion in Colombia in 2019. He has described the agency as something of a rogue organization at odds with President Trump’s agenda.
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on February 2025
U.S.-Russia Talks in Saudi Arabia Set to Go Beyond Ukraine
The U.S. delegation, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, seated second from left, meeting with the envoys from Moscow, including the Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, right, in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
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on February 2025
Hamas Hands Bodies of 4 Hostages Back to Israel
A Strong Dollar Means Bargains for Americans Traveling Abroad
Jet-Skis in Rwanda. Bodies Ashore in Congo.