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    U.S. and Hamas Hold Direct Talks on Hostages in Gaza, Officials Say

    U.S. and Hamas officials have had talks in Qatar about hostages held in the Gaza Strip, according to two Israeli officials, a Western...

    France Open to Discussing Extension of Nuclear Deterrence, Macron Says

    France is willing to discuss extending the protection afforded by its nuclear arsenal to its European allies, President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday,...

    South Africa’s Play to Ease Tensions With Trump: A New Trade Deal

    South Africa is preparing a new trade offer to present to President Trump, hoping to appeal to his transactional approach to foreign policy...

    ‘We Have Given Him Everything’: Trump’s Tariffs Stun Mexico

    Up to the last minute, Isaac Presburger, like a lot of other Mexican businessmen, still could not believe that President Trump would deliver...

    America the Evil Mastermind? Not So Fast, Russians Are Told

    Five weeks ago, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, delivered a routine speech blasting the “hegemonic, egoistic” United States at the helm of...

    In Oct. 7 Report, Israeli Security Agency Puts Some Blame on Netanyahu Government

    Israel’s domestic security service on Tuesday assumed responsibility for failing to heed warning signs of a planned Hamas attack before the militants’ devastating...

    Not Time’s Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered

    “What was once a kind of erotic, playful love poem,” Professor Shapiro said, had “been repurposed to speak to people in the midst...

    In Face of Trump Tariffs, Mexico Embraces Nationalism

    Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico, stood underneath a giant Mexican flag and before troops at a military installation in Mexico City. It...

    Where Being Gay Is Punishable by Death, Aid Cuts Are ‘Heartbreaking’

    In the weeks since President Trump signed an executive order dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, Andrea Minaj Casablanca’s phone has been...

    Tuesday Briefing: Trump’s Tariffs Set to Take Effect

    Trump is set to impose sweeping tariffsPresident Trump’s threats to impose stiff tariffs on goods imported from Canada, Mexico and China are expected...

    Pope Experiences Another Setback With Respiratory Crisis

    Pope Francis had two acute respiratory crises on Monday, the Vatican said, stoking further concerns about the health of the 88-year old pontiff,...

    U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid

    The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw foreign aid and dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development is likely to cause enormous human suffering,...

    Why These Oscars Mean So Much to Brazil

    The streets of Rio de Janeiro have been littered with Fernanda Torres imitators.They drink beer, clutch plastic Oscars and deliver the impromptu acceptance...

    Mexico’s Response to Trump’s Tariffs: Troops, Cartels and China

    Mexico braced for the worst when President Trump threatened steep tariffs on its exports. But as a deadline looms, Mexico’s leaders hope they...

    A Tough Start for Greenpeace in Court Fight With Pipeline Giant

    The opening week of the landmark trial of Greenpeace in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by Energy Transfer over the Dakota Access Pipeline protests did...

    Europe Races to Repair a Split Between the U.S. and Ukraine

    European leaders scrambled on Sunday to salvage Ukraine’s relationship with the United States, after a bitter rupture last week between President Volodymyr Zelensky...