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A federal judge on Thursday moved to extend by one week a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump administration from carrying out plans that would all but dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development. The order, which Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said he would file later … Read more
Belarus, Russia’s closest ally, has released an American prisoner and two others from jail, an exiled opposition group said on Wednesday, in the latest sign that the autocratic Belarusian president, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, was looking for ways to improve frozen relations with the West. The releases, announced by an opposition group led by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya … Read more
For years, officials in the Czech Republic had pushed a dam project to protect a river south of Prague, and the critically endangered species living in it. But the project, hamstrung by land negotiations, stalled. In the meantime, a group of chisel-toothed mammals — renowned for their engineering skills and work ethic, and unencumbered by … Read more
new video loaded: Indian Migrant Says Deportation Flight Was ‘Torture’ transcript Back transcript Indian Migrant Says Deportation Flight Was ‘Torture’ As India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, meets with President Trump, issues around immigration are likely to be a source of tension, including a U.S. military flight that returned shackled migrants to India. Harwinder Singh was … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India began meeting senior U.S. officials in Washington ahead of his anticipated visit to the White House to meet President Trump on Thursday. Mr. Modi has a warm personal relationship with Mr. Trump, and the two leaders have called each other friends. But Mr. Trump has criticized India for its … Read more
When President Trump said on Wednesday that he might soon meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Putin, to discuss an end to the nearly three-year war in Ukraine, he named what may have seemed like an unlikely venue for the talks. “We expect that he’ll come here, and I’ll go there and we’re going … Read more
The U.S. defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, on Thursday defended President Trump’s conversation about Ukraine with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, saying it was “no betrayal” of Kyiv even though no representative of that country took part. The call on Wednesday, which Mr. Trump characterized as the beginning of a negotiation to end the war … Read more
Dashcam Footage Captures Deadly Shopping Mall Explosion in Taiwan
At least four people were killed and 30 others injured in a suspected gas explosion in the food court of a Taiwan shopping mall on Thursday morning, according to Taiwan’s state-owned news outlet. The explosion occurred in the city of Taichung, about 100 miles southwest of Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, local officials said. The fire department … Read more
The question of where Ukraine’s borders with Russia should be drawn in any peace negotiations came into sharp focus this week after Pete Hegseth, the U.S. defense secretary, said that it was “unrealistic” for Ukraine to try to regain all of the territory Russia has seized since 2014. Ukraine’s government has long said that its … Read more