What Middle Powers Fear from the Trump-Xi Summit
President Trump and Xi Jinping after their meeting in Busan, South Korea, in 2025.
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Starmer Says Defeat Hurt but Promises He’ll Fight to Stay On
Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivering a speech in London on Monday. “I get it. I feel it. And I take responsibility,” he said of last week’s results.
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on May 2026
Ukraine Looks to Step Away From Trump and U.S.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Yerevan, Armenia, last week. Mr. Zelensky has publicly criticized the United States in ways that would have been unthinkable last year.
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on May 2026
Modi Urges Indians to Buy Less Gold and Skip Foreign Trips as Iran War Strains Economy
Commuters on an electric bus in Delhi, India, last month. Mr. Modi appealed to people to conserve energy and use electric vehicles more.
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on May 2026
European Union Hits Israeli Settlers With Sanctions
Israeli settlers blocking a road as they try to stop Palestinian farmers from leaving their land after harvesting their olive trees in the village of Silwad, near East Ramallah, in October.
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on May 2026
The Fight to Euthanize Pablo Escobar’s Hippos in Colombia
A male hippopotamus walking in Doradal, Colombia. Despite their bulk, they can easily outrun humans.
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on May 2026
Thailand’s Thaksin Shinawatra Is Out of Prison. What Will He Do Now?
Thaksin Shinawatra, a former prime minister of Thailand, leaving prison in Bangkok on Monday. He was paroled after serving eight months of a one-year sentence.
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on May 2026
How to Win Eurovision With Just a Few Hundred Voters
Yuval Raphael of Israel topped last year’s public vote and almost won Eurovision. Contest organizers don’t release detailed vote data.
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on May 2026
Sara Duterte, Philippine Vice President, Is Impeached, Again
Sara Duterte announced her intention to run for the presidency in 2028 at a news conference in February.
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on May 2026
Cruise Ship Linked to Hantavirus Outbreak Arrives in Spain’s Canary Islands for Disembarking
A passenger from the MV Hondius speaking with medical staff in the Granadilla Port in Tenerife, Canary Islands, on Sunday.
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on May 2026
What to Know About the Hantavirus Outbreak on an Atlantic Cruise Ship
The cruise ship MV Hondius stationed off the port of Praia, Cape Verde, on Sunday.
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on May 2026
Quebec Novelist Shines a Harsh Spotlight on Migration, and on Trump’s America
The Haitian poet and novelist Thélyson Orélien at a café in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood.
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on May 2026
Narges Mohammadi, Jailed Iranian Nobel Prize Winner Is Transferred to Tehran Hospital
Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian human rights activist, last year. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 for her advocacy of women’s rights in her country.
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on May 2026
Iran defends its demands after Trump’s rejection.
Esmail Baghaei, the spokesman for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Tehran last month.
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on May 2026
Where Are the Passengers of the Hantavirus-Hit Cruise Ship Now?
British citizens repatriated from the MV Hondius arriving at a hospital in northwest England on Sunday.
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on May 2026
A Single Infusion Could Suppress H.I.V. for Years, Study Suggests
A study led by an H.I.V. expert at the University of California, San Francisco, could offer a path toward a lasting H.I.V. treatment.
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on May 2026
A One-Party India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kolkata on Saturday.
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on May 2026
Lebanese Mourn Eight Members of One Family Killed in Israeli Strike
Mourners paying their respects to the eight family members who were killed in an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon.
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on May 2026
How Might a Leadership Challenge Against Keir Starmer Play Out?
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain speaking in London on Friday, the day after elections in England, Wales and Scotland.
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on May 2026
British Paratroopers Deliver Aid to Remote Islands With Possible Hantavirus Case
A photo released by the British Ministry of Defense showed a parachuter landing on Tristan da Cunha, an archipelago of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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on May 2026
Putin’s Forces Are Barely Inching Along on the Battlefield
An Ukrainian soldier in the besieged eastern city of Kostiantynivka early this year.
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on May 2026
U.S.-China Rivalry Reaches South American Skies
The unfinished Chinese telescope at night at the Cesco observatory in El Leoncito, in Argentina’s San Juan Province.
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on May 2026
Mass Layoffs in Iran as Businesses Buckle Under Wartime Pressures
Crowds inside the sprawling Grand Bazaar in Tehran on Saturday. Imports of goods have been affected by the war.
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on May 2026
Red Card or Black Card? The Conscription Lottery in Thailand.
Volunteer recruits getting fitted for uniforms in Nonthaburi, Thailand, in April. Tens of thousands of men are conscripted every year.
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on May 2026
The Man Who Cuts the Perfect Slice of Ham
Ernesto Soriano at work inside the Joselito flagship store in Madrid last month. He began learning to carve at 15.
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on May 2026
Strait of Hormuz Remains Effectively Blocked After Naval Skirmishes
Tankers anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, last month.
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on May 2026
Passengers on Hantavirus Cruise Ship Will Disembark in Tenerife and Return to Home Countries
Workers on the island of Tenerife setting up tents at an expected reception point for passengers from the cruise ship MV Hondius.
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on May 2026
Deadly Israeli Strikes Erode Cease-Fire in Lebanon
Rescue workers searching for survivors under the rubble of houses damaged by an Israeli airstrike Saturday, in the village of Saksakiyeh in southern Lebanon.
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on May 2026
Britain’s Electorate Is ‘Splintering.’ Can Its System Stand the Strain?
“The electorate are fed up with the fact that their lives aren’t changing quickly enough,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain said on Friday, after his Labour Party suffered significant losses at the polls.
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on May 2026
Rhun ap Iorwerth Breaks Labour’s Dominance in Wales
Rhun ap Iorwerth, second from left, arriving at a polling station with his wife and daughters in Llangristiolus, Wales, on Thursday.
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on May 2026
Why Antiwar Protesters Are Rallying in Japan
A crowd of protesters in Tokyo this week. One demonstrator holds a number 9, referring to the article of the Japanese constitution that renounces war.
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on May 2026
One Nation Wins Australia Special Election, Claiming Seat in Lower House
Pauline Hanson, the leader of One Nation, an Australian anti-immigration party.
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on May 2026
Early Adopter
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Canada and the European Union Are in Love. Where Can It Lead?
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, left; Mark Rutte, NATO’s secretary general; and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, at the European Political Community summit in Yerevan. Armenia, on Monday.
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on May 2026
Russia Has Lost More Than 350,000 Soldiers, New Estimate Finds
Fresh graves of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine at a cemetery in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia-Alania, Russia, in February.
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on May 2026
How China May Have Sought to Recruit a House Aide to Spy on the U.S.
The outreach appears to provide a vivid portrait of how Beijing’s spy services seek to gain access to information from within the corridors of power in Washington.
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on May 2026
Long Overlooked, Caspian Sea Provides Strategic Trade Route for Iran
A woman walks along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea in the port city of Bandar Anzali, Iran. The Caspian has emerged as a key trade route between Russia and Iran.
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on May 2026
China’s Exports and Imports Set Records in April Amid High Energy Costs
At the Beijing auto show in April, which featured hundreds of electric cars. Chinese electric vehicles are being exported in record numbers.
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on May 2026
Peter Magyar Takes Over as Hungary’s Leader From Viktor Orban
Peter Magyar getting a standing ovation on Saturday in Budapest as he became Hungary’s new prime minister.
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on May 2026
Punch, the Lonely Monkey Who Drew Crowds to a Small Japan Zoo, Is Growing Up. He’s Still a Star.
Punch has handled the limelight better than most young stars. Since first hitting the headlines he has slowly integrated into his troop and made friends — monkey and human alike.
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on May 2026
Trump and Xi Are Set to Meet Again. Here’s What to Know.
President Trump meeting with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, in Busan, South Korea, in 2025.
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on May 2026
A Scaled-Back Victory Day Parade Shows Putin’s Growing Vulnerability in Ukraine War
Russia’s Victory Day military parade on Saturday in Moscow. The parade, in Red Square, included none of its usual muscle-flexing missiles and armor.
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on May 2026
How China’s Leader Lost Faith in His Generals
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, during a military parade in Tiananmen Square in 2025 in Beijing.
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on May 2026
In Hungary, Viktor Orban Loyalists Jump Ship
Peter Magyar, the former opposition leader, last month in Budapest.
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on May 2026
Norovirus Outbreak Sickens 115 on Cruise Ship
The Caribbean Princess left Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on April 28 and is expected to return to Florida on Monday.
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on May 2026
After Frederiksen Falls Short in Denmark, Right-Leaning Politician Is Asked to Form Government
Given high marks for handling President Trump, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark was seen as falling short when it came to domestic issues.
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on May 2026
U.F.O. Files Released by U.S. Shed Light on What the Government Knows
An image of a U.F.O. resembling a football-shaped body near Japan that the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command reported.
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on May 2026
Iran War Live Updates: Long-Term Energy Crisis Looms as Trump Says Truce Is on ‘Life Support’
How Israel Turned Eurovision’s Stage Into a Soft Power Tool
After Capturing Maduro, Trump Celebrated Victory. Did It Bring Venezuelans Home?