Why Vietnam Ignored Its Own Laws to Fast-Track a Trump Family Golf Complex
Among those who attended a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday for a Trump golf project in Vietnam were Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, second from left, the businessman Dang Thanh Tam, third from left, and Eric Trump and Lara Trump, center.
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on May 2025
Qatari Push to Dominate Another Sport, Table Tennis, Draws Scrutiny
Qatar hosted the table tennis world championships last week, although there is little local interest in the sport.
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on May 2025
In the Shadow of a Tainted Election Steal, Maduro Asks Venezuelans to Vote Again
Supporters of opposition candidate Juan Requesens attended a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday.
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on May 2025
Venezuela Is Holding an Election in Essequibo, a Region of Neighboring Guyana
Dock workers on the shores of the Essequibo River in Parika, Guyana. Most countries and the 125,000 people who live in Essequibo say it belongs to Guyana, not Venezuela.
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on May 2025
North Korea Arrests 3 Over Failed Ship Launch That Angered Kim Jong-un
A satellite image released by Maxar Technologies showing North Korea’s new destroyer, covered with tarpaulins, at a port in Chongjin on Friday, two days after the botched attempt to launch it.
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on May 2025
Trump’s Warming Toward Syria Complicates Israel's Military Strategy
Syrians in Aleppo celebrated President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions this month.
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on May 2025
Selfies From the Front: Inside the ‘V.I.P.’ Brigade for Ambitious Russian Officials
An undated photograph showing Aleksandr Malikov, center, a senior member of United Russia’s youth wing in St. Petersburg who joined a drone brigade offering short stints far from the fighting.
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on May 2025
Europe’s Been Negotiating by the Book, but Trump’s Tearing It Up
Nearly $5 billion in goods and services cross the Atlantic between the United States and European Union every single day, by E.U. estimates.
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on May 2025
Israel’s Campaign to Win Eurovision Went All the Way to the Top
Yuval Raphael, representing Israel, during the final of the Eurovision Song Contest last Saturday in Basel, Switzerland. She came first in the public vote, but was beaten by the contestant from Austria.
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on May 2025
In the Midst of War, a Tale of Hot Dogs
Alisa Dombrovska preparing a Nathan’s hot dog at the flagship store of the Ukrainian gas station chain Socar in Kyiv last month.
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on May 2025
Hamburg, Germany Stabbing Victims in Stable Condition, Police Say
Investigators working at Hamburg’s central train station on Friday.
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on May 2025
How an Iconic Blouse Became the Center of a Political Tussle in Romania
Embroidering traditional blouses this month in Domnesti, a village near the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
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on May 2025
In Attacks on Harvard, Chinese See Yet Another Reason to Write Off the U.S.
The Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass., in April. American schools like Harvard have remained attractive to Chinese students, who were willing to overlook other concerns for the promise of a best-in-the-world education.
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on May 2025
Russia Bombards Ukraine With One of Largest Air Assaults of the War
Emergency workers extinguishing fires on Sunday from a Russian strike in the Kyiv region of Ukraine.
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on May 2025
The Israeli Connections to a New Gaza Aid Plan Promoted as Independent
Displaced people at a charity food kitchen in Gaza City on Wednesday.
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on May 2025
Power Outage in Cannes During Film Festival Is Sabotage, Officials Say
A closed ice-cream shop during the power outage in Cannes, France, on Saturday.
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on May 2025
Working Out
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on May 2025
Canada’s Central Banker on Economic Turmoil and Diversifying Trade
Tiff Macklem, the governor of the Bank of Canada, said uncertainty over tariffs was freezing investment.
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on May 2025
Russia and Ukraine Exchange Air Assaults Amid Major Prisoner Swap
An apartment building damaged during a drone attack in Kyiv on Saturday. The Ukrainian capital was the Russian air assault’s main target.
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on May 2025
Teachers Protest in Mexico City Shuts Down Airport
Protesters at Mexico City’s international airport blocking a terminal on Friday.
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on May 2025
Trump Signs Executive Orders for Faster Build-Out of Nuclear Power Plants
A cooling tower is seen at the nuclear-powered Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Waynesboro, Ga.
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on May 2025
Knife Attack at Train Station in Hamburg, Germany, Wounds at Least 17
Forensic police officers investigating a railway platform in Hamburg, Germany, the site of a knife attack in which at least 17 people were injured on Friday.
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on May 2025
Lebanon Moves to Disarm Palestinian Groups, a Test Run for Hezbollah
At the Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon this week. More than 200,000 Palestinian refugees live in Lebanon, according to the United Nations agency that serves Palestinian refugees.
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on May 2025
Paris Court Convicts Eight in 2016 Robbery of Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian, center in black, was accompanied by her mother, Kris Jenner, after Ms. Kardashian testified in a Paris court earlier this month.
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on May 2025
Historic Shipwrecks Come to Light in the Great Lakes
The bow of the Phillip Becker, covered in quagga mussels.
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on May 2025
American Emigration to Britain Rises
Pedestrians crossing a bridge across the River Thames in London. Immigration lawyers said they had received an increasing number of inquiries in recent months from people in the United States about possibly relocating to Britain.
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on May 2025
Yuri Grigorovich Dead: Soviet Ballet Choreographer Was 98
Yuri Grigorovich at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow in 2017. As the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1964 to 1995, he reshaped late-Soviet-era dance.
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on May 2025
South Africa Sets the Stage for Starlink Approval
Elon Musk at the White House in April.
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on May 2025
Bangladesh’s Leader Threatens to Resign Over Election Pressure
Muhammad Yunus at his temporary office at Jamuna State Guest House in Dhaka, last year.
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on May 2025
Trump Threatens 50% Tariff on E.U. and 25% Tariff on Apple
A Volkswagen factory in Zwickau, Germany. President Trump had paused heavy tariffs on countries around the world until July, but he announced on Friday that he was recommending a 50 percent tariff on imports from the European Union.
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on May 2025
Ukraine and Russia Begin Largest Exchange of Prisoners of War
Olena Nehir with her husband, Oleksandr Nehir, a Ukrainian prisoner of war who was released from Russian captivity on Friday in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine.
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on May 2025
How to Understand Trump’s Latest Deportation Tactics
Juba international airport in South Sudan, last year.
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on May 2025
In ‘Cancer Alley,’ a Battle Over Who Gets to Measure Air Pollution
A meeting of Rise St. James in 2023, a group leading an effort to use low-cost air pollution monitors.
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on May 2025
At an Uncertain Moment for Germany, Suddenly Boring Doesn’t Look So Bad
The main shopping street in Bielefeld, Germany, this week.
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on May 2025
As Trump Demands More Military Spending, NATO Allies Reconsider What Counts
Lithuanian soldiers participating in NATO military exercises at an American facility in Hohenfels, Germany, in March.
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on May 2025
Syrians Rush to Preserve Remembrances of a Painful Revolution
Preserving posters and banners from the uprising against the dictator Bashar al-Assad in the northwestern town of Kafranbel, Syria.
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on May 2025
New Studies Dismiss Signs of Life on Distant Planet
An artist’s concept of the exoplanet K2-18b, 120 light-years from Earth, whose atmosphere has been creating a stir in astronomical circles.
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on May 2025
Friday Briefing
Outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington yesterday.
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on May 2025
Trump Confirms Attempted Deportation of Migrants to South Sudan
President Trump confirmed that a group of migrants from several countries were stuck in Djibouti on their way to being deported to South Sudan.
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on May 2025
Cargo Ship Crashed Into Man’s Yard After Crewman Fell Asleep, Police Say
The bow of a cargo ship sits lodged into the ground beside a house in Byneset, Norway, on Thursday.
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on May 2025
U.S. to Impose Sanctions on Sudan Over Use of Chemical Weapons
Sudanese armed forces during a military demonstration outside the city of Omdurman last year.
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on May 2025
Netanyahu Names Maj. Gen. David Zini as New Domestic Spy Chief
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named Maj. Gen. David Zini as his pick to head Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic intelligence agency.
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on May 2025
Friday Briefing: Two Israeli Embassy Staff Killed
Outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington yesterday.
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on May 2025
After More Than a Century in Skorts and Skirts, Ireland’s Camogie Allows Shorts
Niamh Hanniffy of Galway and Meabh Murphy of Cork wore skorts, the required uniform, during a final in Dublin last year.
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on May 2025
Trump Makes False Genocide Claims. South Africans Respond With Humor.
A mother and a daughter watching a television broadcast of a bilateral meeting between President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and President Trump, at their home in Silverton, Pretoria, South Africa, on Wednesday.
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on May 2025
G7 Finance Ministers Show Unity in Support of Ukraine Against Russia
Finance ministers and central bankers of the Group of 7 nations continued to blame Russia for the war in Ukraine, despite some initial resistance from the United States at their meeting in Banff, Canada.
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on May 2025
Who Is Julius Malema, the South African Politician in the White House Video?
Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters party, voting for the national assembly speaker in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2024.
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on May 2025
Shooting Outside D.C. Jewish Museum Is Part of Global Surge in Antisemitism
The entrance to the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington was cordoned off after the killing of two Israeli Embassy employees on Wednesday.
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on May 2025
Simon Mann, Mercenary Who Sought to Overthrow African Ruler, Dies at 72
Simon Mann in 2009, after being released from prison in Equatorial Guinea. He was the “most notorious and best paid mercenary of my generation,” he wrote in his memoir.
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on May 2025
Forest Loss Around the World Hit a Record in 2024
Fires spread through the Brasília National Park during the dry season last September in Brazil.
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on May 2025
Inside a Harrowing, Hail-Damaged Flight: ‘We Thought It Was Our Last’
As passengers deplaned from the IndiGo jet, they noticed the plane’s nose was severely damaged from the hail.
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on May 2025
Gaza Aid Deliveries Begin After Days of Delays
Employees working inside a bakery in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip after Israel allowed limited humanitarian aid to enter the Palestinian territory on Thursday.
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on May 2025
Kneecap Member Is Charged With Terror Offense Over Flag at London Concert
Liam Og O Hannaidh, left, also known as Mo Chara, with fellow members of Kneecap last year.
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on May 2025
Kim Jong-un Vents Fury After Botched Launch of North Korean Destroyer
A satellite image released by Maxar Technologies showed a new navy destroyer on Sunday, before its failed launch in Chongjin, North Korea.
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on May 2025
Israelis, Stunned by D.C. Shooting, Fear Backlash Over Gaza War
Police officers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington early on Thursday.
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on May 2025
UK Net Migration Almost Halved in 2024, Data Shows
Passengers arriving at Heathrow Airport near London in 2023. The government estimated that net migration had dropped by almost half in 2024 compared to 2023.
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on May 2025
Sebastião Salgado, Acclaimed Brazilian Photographer, Is Dead at 81
In Trump Era, Taiwan Defense Chief Says U.S. Still Is a Check on China
Hong Kong’s Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs On (for Now)