Why Keir Starmer Remains in Deep Peril After Staving Off Calls for Resignation
Prime Minister Keir Starmer meeting with Labour Party members in London on Friday.
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Xi Is Poised to Press Trump on Arms Sales to Taiwan During China Summit
A high mobility artillery rocket system, or HIMARS, displayed during a military exercise in Taichung, Taiwan, last year.
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on May 2026
Russia Keeps Attacking U.S. Firms in Ukraine. The White House Is Silent.
A rescue worker at a Philip Morris factory in Kharkiv, Ukraine, which was hit in a Russian missile strike in January.
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Putin’s Credibility Has Suffered in the Iran War. Or Has It?
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at the Kremlin in Moscow, on Saturday.
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Altar Boy Who Called Out Sexual Abuse in the Philippines Is Now a Lawyer for Victims
Michal Gatchalian last year in front of a makeshift altar he had setup at his suburban village’s clubhouse. He no longer goes to the church where he was an altar boy.
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Video Shows Philippine Senator Outrunning Agents and Avoiding I.C.C. Warrant
Senator Ronald dela Rosa, who once was the chief enforcer of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly “war on drugs,” talking to journalists at the Senate in Manila on Tuesday.
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Macron Makes a Bid for New Partners in Africa
President Emmanuel Macron of France and President William Ruto of Kenya at the Africa Forward summit in Nairobi on Monday. Mr. Macron announced $27 billion of investment in Africa.
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Is France’s Centrist Leader Trying to Weatherproof It From the Far Right?
President Emmanuel Macron of France speaking in Yerevan, Armenia, last week. He cannot run for re-election in France’s next presidential election.
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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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Putin Said the War ‘Is Coming to a Close,’ but That’s Not All He Said
President Vladimir V. Putin during the celebration on Saturday in Moscow of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.
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U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retains Substantial Missile Capabilities
Missile displays in Tehran in 2024. According to classified U.S. intelligence assessments, Iran retains roughly 70 percent of its prewar missile stockpile.
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U.S. Might Restart Strikes on Iran, Trump and Hegseth Warn
“We’re either going to make a deal or they’re going to be decimate,” President Trump told reporters at the White House before departing for China on Tuesday.
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Drones Are Leading Cause of Civilian Deaths in Sudan War, U.N. Says
A man injured by a drone strike near Um Baru, Sudan, received treatment at a hospital in Tine, Chad, in January.
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Trump and Xi Enter China Summit Distracted by Iran War
President Trump meeting with President Xi Jinping of China in Busan, South Korea, last year. The two leaders are set to meet in Beijing on Wednesday.
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Kuwait Accuses Iran of Trying to Infiltrate Its Territory
Kuwait says it arrested four members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps who arrived on a boat.
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on May 2026
Starmer has struggled with the economy, the Mandelson scandal and other issues.
The appointment of Peter Mandelson to the position of Britain’s ambassador to Washington was perhaps Keir Starmer’s most damaging error.
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UK’s Starmer Faces Calls to Resign. Here Are 4 Ways He Could Respond.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain tried to face down critics on Tuesday.
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Former Hostage Calls on All of Israel’s Government to Resign
Rom Braslavski, in glasses, with three other former hostages during a ceremony in Tel Aviv in January marking the return of Israel’s last remaining hostage.
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Former Top Zelensky Aide Is Accused in Corruption Inquiry
Andriy Yermak resigned in November after law enforcement agencies searched his apartment as part of a corruption investigation, but he was not charged.
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on May 2026
Shady Shipping
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As Trump Dismisses Iran Truce Plan, World Braces for Lasting Economic Pain
Tehran last week. Iranian officials are facing domestic pressure to reach a deal as the country’s economic problems have grown only more dire since the war.
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on May 2026
Israel Prepares to Prosecute First Suspects in Oct. 7 Attack Led by Hamas
Palestinians wave their national flag and celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank in southern Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023.
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on May 2026
Cruise Ship Hit by Hantavirus Leaves Canary Islands and Sails Toward Netherlands
Three people who were aboard the MV Hondius have died since it left from Argentina in April.
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on May 2026
Trump Proposes Suspending Federal Gas Tax Until Prices Fall
Gas prices have risen about 50 percent since the United States and Israel began the war with Iran on Feb. 28.
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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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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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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
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
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
Starmer Faces Mounting Calls From Own Party to Resign as British Prime Minister
Prime Minister Keir Starmer 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
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
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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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
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
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
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
Labour’s deep losses in local elections reflect a shift in the public mood.
Iran War Live Updates: Trump Says Iran Must Make Deal or Face Renewed Attacks
How Israel Turned Eurovision’s Stage Into a Soft Power Tool
Earthquake Shakes Tehran, Where Nerves Are Already Strained by Iran War
A Shift in Ukraine