Global Dispatch

High-level talks on Thursday in Paris between American, European and Ukrainian officials.

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Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, and King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia walking past the honor guards upon arrival at Phnom Penh International Airport on Thursday.

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Representative Cory Mills arriving at a hotel in Damascus, Syria, on Friday.

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The basement of an underground medical center in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, where victims of a chemical attack were taken in 2013.

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In President Trump’s White House, he is the ultimate decision maker, and is far from a predictable one.

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Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, during his visit to Vietnam on Monday. In Hanoi, he urged Vietnam to join China in opposing “unilateral bullying.”

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A shipyard of Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan, South Korea, in 2013.

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Canada’s political leaders at the election debate in Montreal on Thursday.

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Vitalii Dribnytsia, a former history teacher, speaks with someone in Russia via Chatroulette, where he often challenges Russians on their understanding of history.

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A family of capybaras near a lake in Nordelta, a gated community north of Buenos Aires.

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A school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, that was transformed into a camp for displaced people escaping violence.

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Susan Smith and Marion Calder, the directors of For Women Scotland, which brought the legal case that Britain’s Supreme Court weighed in on, celebrating outside the court in London on Wednesday.

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Riding an electric bike without a helmet in Amsterdam in August. Data show that since 2000, traffic accidents have claimed the lives of an average of 199 cyclists in the Netherlands each year.

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A still image from a video released on Friday by the Houthi-run Al-Masirah channel showing fire and destruction at the site of American strikes on the port of Ras Isa in Yemen.

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President Trump and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at the White House on Thursday. The meeting was largely a smooth affair.

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Street performers have been a fixture in Leicester Square for generations, but they were barred from the tourist hub this week.

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Security guards outside the headquarters of the National Investigation Agency in New Delhi this month.

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President Trump met with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at the White House.

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Mining ilmenite in the central region of Kirovohrad, Ukraine, earlier this year. President Trump has said he expects the United States to reap $500 billion from Ukraine’s natural resources in the deal and win access to deposits of rare earth metals.

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An image provided by an attorney representing Iranian deportees held at a detention center in Costa Rica. Some deported migrants sleep outdoors at the facility.

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President Trump met with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at the White House.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is shown in a handout photo from his office with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly deported, on Thursday in El Salvador.

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Katy Perry, the singer and international pop star, performing in Philadelphia in 2024.

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A rare earth mine in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China.

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Rescuers working in Castellammare di Stabia, Italy, where a cable car carrying tourists crashed, on Thursday.

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A U.S. military convoy in northeastern Syria in January. The military is shuttering three of its eight small operating bases in the country’s northeast.

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A measles testing site in Seminole, Texas, in February. The outbreak that began in Texas is showing no signs of slowing. Cases have appeared in Ontario, Canada, and Chihuahua, Mexico.

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President Trump heaped praise on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy during her visit to the White House on Thursday.

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President Emmanuel Macron of France, left, meeting with Steve Witkoff, a Trump administration envoy; Marco Rubio, the secretary of state; and Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s minister for foreign affairs, at the Élysée Palace in Paris on Thursday.

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Harvard University has been in a standoff with the Trump administration over admissions and hiring policies.

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The prime minister of Canada is not required to be a member of Parliament. Mark Carney, a former central banker, took the position after Liberal Party members elected him as their leader last month. He is now running in his first election, to represent a middle-class suburb of Ottawa.

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The captured ants were shown in court, packed in tubes with cotton to help keep them alive.

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Judge James Boasberg.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel during a meeting with President Trump this month.

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Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has been Iran’s envoy in the talks with the United States. He and President Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, planned to hold a second round of talks on Saturday.

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A loggerhead sea turtle hatchling on Ossabaw Island, Ga.

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A home in Los Angeles burning on Jan. 9. Thousands of blood donations were canceled during the fires.

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Anne-Claire Amprou, the French ambassador for global health, and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, at negotiations for the new pandemic treaty in Geneva on Wednesday.

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Judge James Boasberg.

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West Island, just off Toronto’s lakeshore, has been cleared of trees for development by a European spa company.

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This photo released by the Russian government showed Aleksei B. Smirnov in Kursk in 2024.

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A photograph provided by the company shows the facilities of Serra Verde, a rare earths mine in Minaçu, Brazil, that is under contract to sell nearly all its product to China.

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A U.S. pastor, Josh Sullivan, was kidnapped while giving a sermon at a church in Motherwell.

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Peru’s former first lady, Nadine Heredia, in Lima, Peru, in 2018. Ms. Heredia fled to the Brazilian Embassy in Lima on Tuesday, seeking asylum as she and her husband were sentenced to 15 years in prison.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House on Monday. Diplomats are bracing for a series of deep cuts at the State Department.

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The border of Latvia with Russia in 2024. A vote in Parliament made Latvia the first country in the region to act on a decision taken last month by three Baltic States and Poland to quit the 1997 Ottawa Treaty.

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U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in January.

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Moabit Prison in Berlin, where the palliative care doctor is being held.

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A photograph released by the Vatican shows Pope Francis during an audience on Wednesday with personnel from Policlinico A. Gemelli, where he was recently hospitalized, and with Vatican medical staff.

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People who fled the Zamzam camp resting in a makeshift encampment in Tawila in western Darfur on Sunday.

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The London Stock Exchange Group office in Canary Wharf, London.

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From left, Sergei Karelin, Konstantin Gabov, Antonina Favorskaya, and Artyom Kriger in court in Moscow on Tuesday. The journalists had pleaded not guilty to charges of extremism.

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Inspecting the site of a strike in Jabaliya in northern Gaza on Wednesday.

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During a meeting with President Trump at the White House on Monday, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador said he would not return a Maryland man who had been deported.

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The Canadiens, in red, lost to the Chicago Blackhawks in Montreal on Monday, hurting their playoff hopes.

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Andrei Kuznechyk, a journalist with the Belarus service of Radio Free Europe, this month. He was released in February after three years in a Belarus prison.

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