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Five years after it left the European Union, Britain may have finally found a new role on the global stage — a gig that looks curiously like its old one. In the frantic few weeks since President Trump upended the trans-Atlantic alliance with his overtures to Russia and rift with Ukraine, Britain’s prime minister, Keir … Read more
A group of volunteers searching for their missing relatives first received a tip last week about a mass grave hidden in western Mexico. When they arrived at an abandoned ranch outside La Estanzuela, a small rural village outside Guadalajara, they discovered three underground cremation ovens, burned human remains, hundreds of bone shards and discarded personal … Read more
new video loaded: Duterte Makes First Appearance at International Criminal Court transcript Back transcript Duterte Makes First Appearance at International Criminal Court Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, appeared by video at a pre-trial hearing on charges of crimes against humanity for the killing of tens of thousands of civilians in his antidrug … Read more
Despite high tensions between the Trump administration and some of America’s closest allies over tariffs and Ukraine, foreign ministers from the Group of 7 industrialized democracies who were meeting this week in Canada forged common ground in a communiqué that glossed over many of their sharp differences. Top diplomats from Canada, the host of the … Read more
More than a million people in the world’s largest refugee camp could soon be left with too little food for survival. In the camp in Bangladesh, United Nations officials said, food rations are set to fall in April to about 18 pounds of rice, two pounds of lentils, a liter of cooking oil and a … Read more
Carl Lundstrom, the heir to a Swedish crisp bread fortune who financed the Pirate Bay, a notorious file-sharing service that was popular in the mid-2000s, was killed on Monday in a small plane crash in Slovenia, according to Alternative for Sweden, the far-right party that he supported. Mr. Lundstrom, 64, was the pilot and sole … Read more
new video loaded: Mark Carney Sworn In as Canada’s 24th Prime Minister transcript Back transcript Mark Carney Sworn In as Canada’s 24th Prime Minister Mark Carney replaced Justin Trudeau, who led Canada for nearly a decade. I, Mark Carney, do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles … Read more
Syria’s new government has adopted a temporary constitution that concentrates much power in the hands of the interim president and retains Islamic law as the foundation of the legal system. The interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, signed the constitutional declaration on Thursday following the dissolution in January of the previous constitution under the authoritarian president, Bashar … Read more
Russian troops appear close to driving Ukraine from all the territory it seized in the Kursk region of Russia last year, a prospect that President Trump referenced in a social media post on Friday. The Russian push in Kursk appeared to accelerate after Mr. Trump froze military aid and intelligence support to Ukraine on March … Read more
A United Nations commission on Thursday accused Israel of targeting hospitals and other health facilities in Gaza that provide reproductive services, including an I.V.F. clinic where thousands of embryos were destroyed, in what it called an effort to prevent Palestinian births. The report by the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, called … Read more