Toast, Trees and a Wassailing Queen: 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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Dozens Injured as Driver Crashes Car Into Munich Protest
Members of the emergency services working at the scene on Thursday where a car was driven into a crowd in Munich.
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Hamas Says It’s Ready to Resume Hostage Releases
Aid deliveries in Rafah, in southern Gaza, on Thursday.
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Putin’s Call With Trump Delivers a Victory for Russian Leader
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in a photo provided by Russian state media. Mr. Putin is likely to keep the military pressure on Ukraine while appealing to President Trump’s ambitions as a peacemaker.
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Warming Trend in U.S.-Russia Relations Leaves Ukraine in a Tough Spot
Ukrainian soldiers firing at advancing Russian troops in the Pokrovsk area in eastern Ukraine in November. The momentum on the main front of the war has favored Russia for more than a year.
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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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Trump Funding Freeze Decimates Women’s Health Care, U.N. and Others Say
An unstaffed reception area at the offices of Uganda Young Positives, in Kampala. The group helps young people living with H.I.V.
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Between Russia and Elon Musk, German Voters Face a ‘Dual Front’ of Disinformation
Elon Musk addressed an election campaign rally in Halle, Germany, last month.
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Trump’s Whirlwind Now Blows Through Europe
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, left, and the secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte, in Brussels on Thursday.
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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
How Venezuela Helps Feed the Violence in Colombia
Displaced families in a shelter in Tibú, Colombia.
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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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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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Remnants of a Roman Basilica Are Found Under a London Office Building
Archaeologists found “massive foundations and walls made of flint, ragstone and roman tile” under the basement of a commercial building in London’s financial district.
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China Says U.S. Should Lead Trump’s Proposed Arms Controls Push
Military vehicles carrying nuclear ballistic missiles during a parade in Beijing in 2019.
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Russian Drone Hits Chernobyl Nuclear Radiation Shield, Ukraine Says
Reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl, in northern Ukraine, in 2022. In 1986, the plant was the site of the worst nuclear accident in history.
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Ukrainians Fear Peace May Strand Them Forever From Lost Homes
Most of the roughly 46,000 people who once lived in the Ukrainian city of Myrnohrad have left.
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Trump Pushes Tariff Threats on Global Scale
President Trump has weaponized the power of the U.S. market in a way no other American leader ever has.
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With Fighting Stilled, Gazans Face New Trauma: Searching for Their Dead
Hani al-Dibs and his children in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, at the site of the home they fled with 14 family members believed to be beneath the rubble.
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What’s Best, According to the Italian Mathematician Alessio Figalli
Alessio Figalli, a mathematician at ETH Zurich and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., investigates “optimal transport,” the study of starting points, end points and the paths between.
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Fire at Busan Resort Construction Site Kills 6
A construction site that caught fire in Busan, South Korea, on Friday.
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Vance Mentions Sanctions, Military Action to Push Russia to End Ukraine War
Vice President JD Vance arrived in Munich on Thursday.
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on February 2025
Friday Briefing
President Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on goods from across the globe is likely to further roil relations with foreign governments.
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Trump and Modi Shove Disputes Into Background in White House Visit
President Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday.
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Judge Extends Halt on Trump Plan to Dismantle U.S.A.I.D.
Employees and supporters of U.S.A.I.D. attend a rally in Washington earlier this month.
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As Ukraine Presses for Role in Russia Peace Talks, Trump Offers Reassurances
The Shkval Special Forces Assault Battalion during training exercises in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine on Thursday.
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U.S.S. Harry S. Truman Carrier Collides With Commercial Ship Off Egypt
The U.S.S. Harry S. Truman was involved in a collision off Egypt on Wednesday, Navy officials said.
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No Tubman, No Rainbows: Defense Schools Prepared for Hegseth’s Wife
Jennifer Rauchet Hegseth watched her husband, Pete Hegseth, speak after being sworn in as Secretary of Defense last month.
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on February 2025
Friday Briefing: Trump Orders New Global Tariffs
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India arrived in the United States on Wednesday.
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NATO Worries Grow That Europe Will Be Left Out of Talks to End War in Ukraine
The U.S. defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday.
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Trump Announces ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs Across the Globe
President Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on goods from across the globe is likely to further roil relations with foreign governments.
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on February 2025
Protests in Brussels Halt Over 400 Flights and Snarl Public Transit
Demonstrators in Brussels marching past police officers during a nationwide protest on Thursday.
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James Howells’s Final Proposal to Recover Lost Bitcoin: Buying the Landfill
James Howells has one final ask of the Newport City Council, which has treated him with varying degrees of seriousness throughout the years: If the council won’t let him dig up the city’s landfill, let him buy it.
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on February 2025
U.S. Deports Migrants From Asia to Panama
After meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio this month, President José Raúl Mulino of Panama indicated that he was open to receiving deportees from other countries.
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At Least 4 Killed in Suspected Gas Explosion at Taiwan Shopping Mall
A video still showing the damage from an explosion at a department store in Taichung City, Taiwan, on Thursday.
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Trump-Putin Call Was ‘No Betrayal’ of Ukraine, Hegseth Says
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in Brussels on Thursday.
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Trump Says Saudi Arabia May Host Talks With Putin on Ukraine
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, right, meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2023, in a photograph provided by the Saudi Foreign Ministry.
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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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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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Thursday Briefing
President Vladimir Putin of Russia at the Kremlin earlier this month.
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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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USAID Lifesaving Aid Remains Halted Despite Rubio’s Promise
A woman in Cubal, Angola, in November, where a U.S.A.I.D. program trained female farmers.
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on February 2025
Czech Dam Project Was Stalled by Bureaucracy. Beavers Built Their Own.
A beaver in a protected wetland south of Prague this month.
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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
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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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
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
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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