Global Dispatch

The Yangshan Port near Shanghai. President Trump has accused China of failing to do enough to stop the export of fentanyl and the chemicals that are used to make it.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

President Donald Trump’s freeze on foreign aid could be opening up opportunities for China to boost its standing on the global stage.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Peter Dutton, center, Australia’s opposition leader, has accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, lower right, of being too distracted by “woke” issues to address high prices.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya of Sri Lanka at her office in Colombo in December.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico announcing that tariffs on exports to the United States had been postponed.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Police officers responding to a shooting at an adult education center in Orebro, Sweden, on Tuesday.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Dr. Shoo Lee, right, at a news conference in London, on Tuesday. Dr. Lee led a panel that looked into the evidence against the British nurse Lucy Letby, who was convicted in 2023 of killing seven babies.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Ahmed al-Shara, Syria’s interim president, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Tuesday, in a photo released by the Turkish government.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Greenlanders were initially shocked and confused by President Trump’s repeated desire that the United States take control of the territory.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Members of the Israeli military at the site of a shooting in the northern West Bank on Tuesday.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

A flag flutters on the island of Sant’Erasmo near Venice, Italy, in December.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

German soldiers unloading a U.S.-made surface-to-air missile system last month in Jasionka, Poland.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

The Ambassador Bridge, where $400 billion in trade crosses between Canada and the U.S. each year, in Windsor, Canada.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico announcing on Monday that tariffs on exports to the United States would be postponed for a month.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the White House on Tuesday.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Peter Mandelson at the Labour Party annual conference in Liverpool, England, in 2023.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

“We’ll own it,” President Trump said of Gaza on Tuesday, adding that the enclave could be turned into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

For President Trump, even musing over the proposal signaled his willingness to embrace extreme measures to show he is tough on crime and illegal immigration.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Inmates in a cell at the Terrorism Confinement Center, a prison complex in Tecoluca, El Salvador, that has become a symbol of President Nayib Bukele’s administration.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

President Trump signed an executive order to end America’s involvement in the U.N.’s Human Rights Council.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV, in 2014.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

A settler outpost in the northern West Bank in July. Settlements in the territory are widely considered to be illegal under international law.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Yangshan Port in Shanghai.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Richard Williamson in 2009. He was ordained a bishop by the Society of St. Pius X, but the Vatican never recognized him as such and excommunicated him in 1988.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Members of the International Olympic Committee will vote to elect a new president in March.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer performing in London in 2017.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Charlize Zmuda died on Monday after being bitten by a shark while swimming at Woorim Beach.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Mexican National Guard soldiers near tents set up as part of a plan to receive thousands of its deported citizens from the United States, in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, last week.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Palmer Station is a tiny American research base in Antarctica — and a temporary home to several Bills fans.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

President Trump made deals with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada on Monday.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Chris Wright, in his Senate hearing, also tried to reassure Democrats that he believed climate change was a “global challenge that we need to solve.”

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Some Republican politicians say the State Department’s democracy-promotion programs often end up supporting political parties or groups abroad that are opposed to conservative or far-right political figures in those countries.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

A truck unloads partly refined titanium ore at a factory east of Kyiv in June.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, yesterday.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

A mural in Tehran depicting Iran’s first hypersonic ballistic missile. U.S. officials believe Iran has the know-how to make an older-style nuclear weapon that could be quickly put together but could not be miniaturized to fit on a ballistic missile.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

The Yangshan Port in Shanghai. China is by far the biggest source for low-value packages shipped to the United States.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

A crane lifting the fuselage from the wreckage of the crash of an American Airlines jet on the Potomac River on Monday.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

The standoff is unlikely to have an immediate effect on arms supplies to Ukrainian troops, the companies said, as current deliveries are drawn from previous contracts.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Luis Rubiales arriving at court outside Madrid on Monday. He faces charges of sexual assault and coercion.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

The damaged entrance of a residential building after a blast in Moscow on Monday.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Emergency preparations in Fira, on the Greek island of Santorini, on Monday.

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The film director Christophe Ruggia arriving at court in Paris on Monday.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

The city of Manbij, in northern Syria, is about 20 miles from the border with Turkey and has been a focal point of clashes between armed groups.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Hamas militants handing over the Israeli hostages Ofer Kalderon and Yarden Bibas in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Saturday.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

U.S. drivers may see higher prices at the pump.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Panama’s foreign minister, Javier Martínez-Acha, in Panama City on Sunday.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

A glimpse of Detroit on Friday, across the river from Windsor, Ontario.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Cargo trucks waiting to enter Mexico on Saturday in Otay Mesa, in San Diego, Calif.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

The Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Canada, over which billions of dollars in trade occurs between Canada and the United States each year.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Demonstrators on Saturday blocking a bridge over the Danube River, one of three barricaded this weekend in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

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The speed and scope of the import duties that President Trump unveiled in executive orders on Saturday prompted widespread criticism from many lawmakers, economists and business groups.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Rescuers carrying a body found at the site of an apartment building that Ukrainian officials said was hit by a Russian missile strike on Saturday in Poltava, Ukraine.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel plans meetings this week with the president and senior members of his administration.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Russian soldiers at the entrance of the Hmeimim Air Base outside Latakia, Syria, in late December.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

President Trump arriving at Palm Beach International Airport on Friday.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

In this photograph released by the Saudi Ministry of Media, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is greeting Syria’s interim president, Ahmad al-Shara, left, during his arrival on Sunday at the royal palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025

Atlantic lobster caught by the Mi’kmaw fisherman Bill Bartlett off the coast of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

Posted by Thomas on February 2025