In Call With Trump, Putin Concedes Little on Ukraine
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, the Kremlin said, identified his “key condition” for settling the conflict more broadly: a complete cessation of outside military and intelligence support for Ukraine.
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on March 2025
Can Europe’s New Military Spending Help Its Economies?
Assembling Leopard 2A4 battle tanks at a Rheinmetall plant in 2023. Since the war in Ukraine began, the German defense company has grown into one of the West’s largest arms makers.
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on March 2025
Israelis Take to Streets a Day After Gaza Strikes
Israelis marched into Jerusalem during a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday.
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on March 2025
Congo and Rwanda Called for a Cease-Fire in Their Deadly Conflict. What Now?
Soldiers from the M23 rebel group in January in Goma, one of two key cities in eastern Congo that the group has seized.
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on March 2025
What Pausing Strikes on Energy Sites Would Mean for Ukraine and Russia
Workers inspecting a power line restored after it had been destroyed in a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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on March 2025
Trump Spoke With Zelensky About Next Steps After Putin Call, White House Says
“Just the assertion and the word of Putin that he will not strike energy sites is too little,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said. “War has made us practical people.”
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on March 2025
Turkey Arrests Istanbul Mayor, Key Rival to President Erdogan
Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul. Opposition figures have accused the Turkish government of trying to exclude him from politics so he cannot run for president.
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on March 2025
As Pope Francis Ails, Outlandish Rumors Run Wild
Outside the hospital in Rome where Pope Francis is being treated, a drawing of him has been hung from a statue of Pope John Paul II.
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on March 2025
Armed Rohingya Group’s Leader Is Arrested in Bangladesh
More than a million Rohingya are confined to a series of tent settlements in neighboring Bangladesh, like this one in Cox’s Bazar, seen on Saturday.
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on March 2025
Six Women Were Elected. So Why Were Their Husbands Sworn In?
Lining up to cast votes in the state of West Bengal in an election for a local panchayat.
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on March 2025
Germany Is Lifting a Foot Off Its ‘Debt Brake.’ Here’s Why.
Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor in waiting, is attempting to make a constitutional change even before he takes office.
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on March 2025
Trump Has Hinted at a Xi Visit. China Is Still Wondering What He Wants.
President Trump leaving Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Monday.
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on March 2025
Israeli Forces Expand ‘Targeted Ground Activities’ in Gaza Strip
Displaced Palestinians waiting to cross through a checkpoint at the Netzarim corridor in Gaza last month.
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on March 2025
Wednesday Briefing
President Vladimir Putin of Russia is demanding an end to Western military and intelligence support for Ukraine.
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on March 2025
Trump Administration Ends Tracking of Kidnapped Ukrainian Children in Russia
A regional children’s home in Kherson, southern Ukraine, seen in November 2022. Russian authorities have been accused of abducting hundreds of Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories during its occupation of the area.
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on March 2025
Mexico City Bans Traditional Bullfights for Violence-Free Option
A bullfight at La Plaza México, the largest bullfighting arena in the world, last year in Mexico City.
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on March 2025
Earth’s 10 Hottest Years on Record Are the Last 10
Pedestrians took a break on the Brooklyn Bridge during a heat wave last year.
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on March 2025
Parents of Student Missing in the Dominican Republic Believe She Drowned
The Dominican authorities deployed drones, helicopters, divers, boats, police dogs and other resources to search around Punta Cana after Ms. Konanki was reported missing earlier this month.
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on March 2025
Son of Jair Bolsonaro Says He Will Seek Political Asylum in the U.S.
Eduardo Bolsonaro during a visit to the White House in 2019, during President Trump’s first term.
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on March 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Russia Agreed to Halt Some Strikes
A Ukrainian thermal power plant damaged by Russian missile strikes last year.
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on March 2025
South Africa Will Not Remove Antarctic Team After a Reported Assault
Antarctica’s harsh conditions have routinely made it difficult for countries to scrutinize researchers’ behavior there.
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on March 2025
Israeli Strikes on Gaza Kills Over 400, in Breakdown of Cease-Fire
Palestinians at a hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday with the body of someone killed in Israeli airstrikes.
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on March 2025
Putin Agrees to Limited Cease-Fire on Ukraine Energy Targets
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia held a call with President Trump on Tuesday.
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on March 2025
Canada Announces Arctic Radar Deal With Australia Amid Trump Threats
The northern lights illuminating the sky above a former Distant Early Warning radar station in the Canadian Arctic, a legacy of the Cold War.
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on March 2025
John “Paddy” Hemingway, Last Surviving Pilot of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105
Mr. Hemingway posed in 2022 in front of a Hurricane fighter plane, the kind he flew in the Battle of Britain.
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on March 2025
Hamas Does Not Respond Militarily to Renewed Israeli Attack on Gaza
Hamas fighters during a handover of Israeli hostages last month.
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on March 2025
Why Did Israel Resume Airstrikes on Gaza? What to Know About the Attacks
Praying over the bodies of Palestinians killed in Gaza City on Tuesday.
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on March 2025
Trump’s Focus on Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Is Partly Linked to Minerals Deal, Officials Say
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in 2022. The facility was seized by Russia early in the war.
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on March 2025
UK Aims to Cut Billions in Welfare Amid Budget Crunch
Liz Kendall, Britain’s work and pensions secretary, told Parliament on Tuesday that the cuts aim to get those who can work into jobs, protect those who cannot work and save taxpayers money.
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on March 2025
Lucy Letby Murders Inquiry Should Be Halted, Hospital’s Ex-Managers Say
The Countess of Chester Hospital in 2023. Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies while she was a neonatal nurse there about a decade ago.
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on March 2025
Russia Escalated Sabotage to Pressure U.S. and Allies on Ukraine, Study Says
Poland blamed Russia for a fire at a shopping center in Warsaw last May.
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on March 2025
Americans Describe Being Detained as Hostages in a Venezuelan Prison
Gregory David Werber, who had been detained in Venezuela, in Tempe, Ariz., on Thursday.
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on March 2025
Small Plane Crashes Off Roatán Island in Honduras, Killing 12
A photograph supplied by the Honduran Air Force showing emergency workers caring for an injured person after the crash off Roatán.
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on March 2025
Chinese Nationalists Praise Trump’s Cuts to Voice of America
Voice of America’s ability to operate is in question after President Trump signed an executive order calling for the dismantling of the federal agency that oversees it.
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on March 2025
Israel Resumes Attacks in Gaza After Stalled Cease-Fire Talks With Hamas
An injured man searching through the rubble of his home in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, after an Israeli strike on Tuesday.
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on March 2025
Tuesday Briefing
President Trump’s administration has come close to open defiance of the federal judiciary.
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on March 2025
Fewer Than Half of the 59 Hostages in Gaza Believed to Be Alive
Einav Zangauker, center, the mother of Matan Zangauker, an Israeli hostage held in Gaza, near the Gaza border in Kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel, on Tuesday.
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on March 2025
Pelicot’s Daughter Pursues Conviction That He Raped Her, Too
“My case, in that court, it was like it didn’t exist,” said the daughter of Gisèle and Dominique Pelicot. She uses the pen name Caroline Darian.
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on March 2025
Drones Will Do Some Schlepping for Sherpas on Mount Everest
A Sherpa in Nepal’s Everest region, with Mount Kongde in the background. More guides have died in accidents on Mount Everest as snowmelt has accelerated.
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on March 2025
Timeline of Trump’s Deportation Flights, From Alien Enemies Act to Judge’s Order
A photograph released by El Salvador’s government showed U.S. deportees arriving at the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador.
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on March 2025
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Leader, Sees Opportunity in Trump’s Deportations
The government of El Salvador released photos on Sunday that it said showed deportees from the United States inside the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador.
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on March 2025
Canada Turns to European Allies Amid Trump Threats
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, left, meeting on Monday with Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain at 10 Downing Street.
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on March 2025
Trump Discussion With Putin to Focus on What Ukraine Will Lose
The Yalta Conference of 1945, where Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin carved Europe into the American-aligned West and the Soviet-controlled East.
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on March 2025
Tuesday Briefing: A Trump-Putin Call
“We want to see if we can bring that war to an end,” President Trump said on Sunday.
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on March 2025
Alone at Sea for 95 Days, a Peruvian Fisherman Clung to Hope
Peruvian fisherman Maximo Napa spent 95 days lost in the Pacific Ocean before being rescued by an Ecuadorian fishing patrol.
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on March 2025
Trump’s Tariff Policies Jolt Auto Industry Executives
For corporate America, the shock of President Trump’s second term is that it turns out he really does believe that foreign countries are ripping America off and that tariffs are a silver bullet.
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on March 2025
Émilie Dequenne, Belgian Actress Who Starred in ‘Rosetta,’ Dies at 43
Émilie Dequenne at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes in 2023. She won best actress at Cannes when she was 17.
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on March 2025
Trump Lawyer Refuses to Answer Judge’s Questions in Deportation Flight Hearing
Judge James E. Boasberg directed a Justice Department lawyer to inform him by noon on Tuesday exactly what time the government believes his order stopping the deportation flights went into effect.
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on March 2025
Rwanda Cuts Ties With Belgium Over Congo Conflict and E.U. Sanctions
M23 fighters with captured Congolese troops on trucks in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, in January.
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on March 2025
A Special St. Patrick’s Day Guest: the Head of King George V
The Northern Irish rap trio Kneecap brought what appeared to be the severed head of a statue of King George V onstage at a show in Melbourne, Australia.
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on March 2025
In North Macedonia, Officials Investigate Lapses in Deadly Nightclub Fire
Relatives of the victims of the deadly fire waiting for news at a hospital in Kocani, North Macedonia, on Sunday.
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on March 2025
Telegram’s Pavel Durov, Charged With Range of Crimes, Is Allowed to Leave France
Pavel Durov, the chief executive and co-founder of the Telegram messaging app, arriving at a courthouse in Paris for a hearing in December.
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on March 2025
Trump and Putin Discuss Ukraine-Russia Cease-Fire: What to Know
As France Sours on Trump’s America, De Gaulle Is on the Rise
U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts Hit Sudanese Refugees Fleeing Violence and Famine in Darfur
In Ukraine’s Frontline Town of Sloviansk, a Taste of Normalcy Beckons