Zelensky Agrees in Call With Trump to Halt Strikes on Russian Energy Targets
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine agreed to a mutual pause with Russia in attacks on energy infrastructure.
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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
Israeli Ground Forces Seize Part of Gaza Corridor, Raising Pressure on Hamas
The rubble of a building that was destroyed in an airstrike on Wednesday in Gaza City.
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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
After Israeli Strike Kills More Than 400, Palestinians Tally the Dead
More than 400 Gazans were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday.
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on March 2025
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
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
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
Menaced by Trump, Canada Prepares to Join E.U. Military Industry Efforts
An armored personnel carrier being made for export to Ukraine in 2023 at the Canadian manufacturer Roshel in Mississauga, Ontario.
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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
Race for IOC Presidency Turns Increasingly Harsh as Decision Day Looms
The International Olympic Committee will elect a new president on Thursday at a meeting in Costa Navarino, Greece.
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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 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
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
Viktor Orban Is a Conservative Lodestar. Now He Wants to Fix the Price of Eggs.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary speaking at an economics conference in Budapest this month.
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on March 2025
Wealth and Warfare Empower a Rwanda-Backed Militant Group in Congo
An M23-organized event at a Goma stadium last month.
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on March 2025
How George Lewis Made Comedy Gold Imagining Two Toddlers Chatting
George Lewis, a bard of British parenting comedy, is on his first tour as a headliner, and his shows keep selling out.
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on March 2025
Canada Condemns China’s Execution of 4 Canadians on Drug Convictions
Canada’s foreign affairs minister, Mélanie Joly, during a news conference last week.
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on March 2025
Trump Says Houthis in Yemen Will Be ‘Annihilated,’ as U.S. Keeps Up Strikes
Smoke plumes rose Wednesday above the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital, Sana, after it was bombarded.
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on March 2025
Thursday Briefing: Ukraine Agrees to a Strike Pause
A power plant in eastern Ukraine that was hit by Russian strikes this week.
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on March 2025
Greenpeace Is Ordered to Pay Energy Transfer, a Pipeline Company, $660 Million
Demonstrators against the Dakota Access Pipeline near Cannon Ball, N.D., in 2016.
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on March 2025
Donald Trump Jr. Mixes Business and Politics in Serbia, as Protests There Rage
Donald Trump Jr.’s visit immediately became national news in Serbia, apparently showing that the Trump administration supported the current government despite the growing protests.
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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
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, in 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
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
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
As France Sours on Trump’s America, De Gaulle Is on the Rise
Trump and Putin Discuss Ukraine-Russia Cease-Fire: What to Know
U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts Hit Sudanese Refugees Fleeing Violence and Famine in Darfur