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May 19, 2025
The Indian subcontinent's connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.
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May 18, 2025
Analysts called the presidential election the country's most consequential since the 1989 fall of communism.
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May 18, 2025
Bucharest Mayor Nicosur Dan also led right-wing Euroskeptic George Simion in a partial vote count in Sunday's presidential election.
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May 18, 2025
The Israeli military said the new offensive would include dividing up the enclave and pushing the population out of areas in which it operates.
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May 18, 2025
The Israeli military said the ground maneuvers were part of Operation Gideon's Chariots, an offensive that could include the occupation of Gaza.
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May 18, 2025
The meeting, which also included Secretary of State Marco Rubio, was the first encounter between Vance and Zelensky since a heated Oval Office session in February.
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May 18, 2025
Leo, the first American and second Latin American pope, celebrated his inaugural mass at the Vatican after waving to the faithful on the popemobile.
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May 18, 2025
Leo, the first American and second Latin American pope, celebrated his inaugural mass at the Vatican after waving to the faithful on the popemobile.
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May 18, 2025
How the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. foreign aid in Africa exposed its devastating downside for recipients.
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May 18, 2025
El Salvador's top independent investigative news outlet moved its headquarters to Costa Rica in 2023. More of its journalists left the country this month.
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May 18, 2025
Leo, the first American and second Latin American pope, is holding his inaugural mass at the Vatican after waving to the faithful on the popemobile.
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May 18, 2025
The Catholic church on Sunday will inaugurate the first American and second Latin American pope.
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May 18, 2025
George Simion suggests Romania, a member of the European Union and NATO, should stop aiding Ukraine. Ukraine has banned him as a "national security threat."
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May 18, 2025
Days into a fragile ceasefire, The Washington Post visited devastated villages near the Line of Control in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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May 17, 2025
Chinese officials are balancing nationalistic fervor and diplomatic restraint amid Pakistani claims that Chinese jets downed five Indian warplanes. And Washington is watching.
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May 17, 2025
A family and pension-aged women were among the victims of a strike by a Russian Lancet attack drone on Saturday, said local authorities and President Zelensky.
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May 17, 2025
There are early signs that Pope Leo XIV is capitalizing on a moment of euphoria for Catholics and gaining traction within a divided church.
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May 17, 2025
There are early signs that Pope Leo XIV is capitalizing on a moment of euphoria for Catholics and gaining traction within a divided church.
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May 16, 2025
After dangling the possibility of his attendance, Trump said he would stay away but still wants to meet with Putin, further weakening the Istanbul talks.
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May 16, 2025
The withering Israeli aerial campaign appeared to presage the ground operation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to launch if no ceasefire and hostage deal were struck by the time Trump returned to the U.S.
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May 16, 2025
After dangling the possibility of his attendance, Trump says he will stay away but still wants to meet with Putin, further weakening the Istanbul talks.
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May 16, 2025
Karim Khan, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, is pursuing cases against Russia's Vladimir Putin and Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu.
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May 16, 2025
After dangling the possibility of his attendance, Trump says he will stay away but still wants to meet with Putin, further weakening the Istanbul talks.
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May 16, 2025
The disruptive impact of artificial intelligence poses moral, ethical and spiritual questions. The new pope says the world's largest church has answers.
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May 16, 2025
Seabirds have been fishing plastic from the ocean and feeding it to their chicks, researchers say. One bird was found to have ingested nearly 800 pieces.
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May 16, 2025
Sunday's presidential election in Romania could have significant implications for NATO and the European Union if the ultranationalist candidate wins.
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May 16, 2025
Pakistan's generals are in an unexpectedly comfortable position after the ceasefire with India. But will they help bridge the country's deep political divides?
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May 16, 2025
Russia claims the hotels have housed military targets, but Reporters Without Borders says the attacks are aimed at reducing coverage of the war.
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May 16, 2025
As President Donald Trump's Middle East sojourn drew to a close, a much-vaunted "grand bargain" bringing peace to a restive region was nowhere in sight.
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May 15, 2025
The ramped up strikes began just hours after the Trump administration brokered the release on Monday of Edan Alexander in direct talks with Hamas.
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May 15, 2025
The Trump administration is resettling Afrikaners in the United States after halting admission for other refugees. Here's what to know.
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May 15, 2025
Rubio said the low level of the Russian delegation likely meant there would be no major breakthroughs for the first direct talks between the two sides in years.
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May 15, 2025
There had been speculation that the talks would feature a Putin-Zelensky meet-up, but the Kremlin opted for less-prominent negotiators.
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May 15, 2025
President Donald Trump has falsely claimed the U.S. is alone in offering citizenship as a birthright. More than 30 countries do — but some have rolled it back.
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May 15, 2025
Valeria Márquez was streaming on TikTok from a salon in Jalisco state, Mexico, when she was shot by a person not visible to the camera.
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May 15, 2025
There had been speculation that the talks would feature a Putin-Zelensky meet-up, but the Kremlin opted for less-prominent negotiators.
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May 15, 2025
Survivors say Pope Leo must commit to transparency in investigations of priests accused of sexual abuse. His record on doing so in past years has some worried.
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May 15, 2025
There had been speculation that the talks would feature a Putin-Zelensky meet-up, but the Kremlin opted for less-prominent negotiators.
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May 15, 2025
Ulviyya Ali reported for Voice of America for years. Trump's moves to dismantle the U.S.-funded outlet may have put her at greater risk, activists say.
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May 15, 2025
At a moment when Harvard is battling the Trump administration, a scholar who helped discover the charter said it was an "almost providential" find.
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May 14, 2025
A review of satellite images and aftermath videos found that the strikes damaged three hangars, two runways and a pair of mobile buildings used by the air force.
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May 14, 2025
The talks in Istanbul complicated a European push for the U.S. to pressure Russia an into a ceasefire in Ukraine, even as questions persist on who is attending.
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May 14, 2025
For more than a decade, U.S. restrictions have barred nearly all trade with Syria. Now, Syrians are daring to hope for better lives.
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May 14, 2025
Trump's Middle East trip comes amid a heady few days for Turkey, with news the PKK would disarm and as it is set to host delegations from Russia and Ukraine.
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May 14, 2025
The restrictions, including on chlorine-rinsed chicken and hormone-fed beef, suggest that President Donald Trump's efforts on trade will have limits.
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May 14, 2025
Reform UK's surge has upended politics, sparked panic in Britain's two major parties and drawn comparisons to the rise of global populist movements.
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May 14, 2025
Reform UK's surge has upended politics, sparked panic in Britain's two major parties and drawn comparisons to the rise of global populist movements.
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May 14, 2025
Trump's Middle East trip comes amid a heady few days for Turkey, with news the PKK would disarm and as it is set to host delegations from Russia and Ukraine.
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May 13, 2025
The strikes hit the European Hospital complex in Gaza, with reports suggesting Israel was trying to kill a high-level Hamas target.
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May 13, 2025
The strikes hit the European Hospital complex in Gaza, with reports suggesting Israel was trying to kill a high-level Hamas target.
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May 13, 2025
The new round of negotiations comes amid a long history of delaying tactics by the Russian side as the fighting in Ukraine grinds on.
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May 13, 2025
‘Bullying' leads to isolation, Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned, after the Trump administration rolled back many tariffs.
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May 13, 2025
After half a century in the United States, she returned to live in her native Berlin and became one of Germany's most prominent survivors of the Holocaust.
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May 13, 2025
The new round of negotiations comes amid a long history of delaying tactics by the Russian side as the fighting in Ukraine grinds on.
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May 13, 2025
Kardashian said she thought she was going to die the night in 2016 when men dressed as police officers entered her Paris apartment and took jewelry worth millions.
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May 13, 2025
Chinese state media — and many outside analysts — declared Beijing had won round one of the trade war after the Trump administration rolled back many tariffs.
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May 13, 2025
The 76-year-old actor has been found guilty of groping two women during the filming of "Les Volets Verts" ("The Green Shutters") in 2021. He had denied the accusations.
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May 12, 2025
Russia has called for direct negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul, but Ukraine's European allies say Putin needs to agree to a ceasefire first.
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May 12, 2025
The entirety of Gaza is at a critical risk of famine, and the situation is expected to worsen in the coming months, according to an IPC report.
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May 12, 2025
We're tracking what happened to the hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, from Israel. Dozens were freed or killed, and 23 are believed to be alive in Gaza.
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May 12, 2025
Hamas agreed to release Alexander, the last living U.S. hostage in Gaza, after talks with the Trump administration. His parents traveled to Israel from New Jersey.
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May 12, 2025
As Edan Alexander is released, nearly two dozen hostages are believed to be alive in Gaza, including a student, a software tester, a bartender and several soldiers.
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May 12, 2025
The world's leading body on food emergencies, the IPC, said Gaza was at "critical" risk of famine, two months into an aid blockade by Israel.
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May 12, 2025
Pakistani officials have said Saturday's ceasefire with India reestablished deterrence. But New Delhi insists the rules of engagement have irrevocably changed.
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May 12, 2025
Russia has called for direct negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul, but Ukraine's European allies maintain Putin needs to be pressured into a ceasefire first.
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May 12, 2025
In his first encounter with journalists as pope, Leo called on the news media to highlight the "voices of the weak who have no voice."
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May 12, 2025
The June 1 vote, intended as a radical exercise in democracy, is sparking growing concerns about penetration by drug-trafficking groups.
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May 12, 2025
The June 1 vote, intended as a radical exercise in democracy, is sparking growing concerns about penetration by drug-trafficking groups.
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May 12, 2025
Hamas agreed to release Alexander, the last living U.S. hostage in Gaza, after talks with the Trump administration. His parents traveled to Israel from New Jersey.
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May 12, 2025
Both sides are hailing the temporary reprieve, which will cut U.S. duties on Chinese goods to 30 percent, but analysts say underlying issues remain.
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May 12, 2025
The Kurdistan Workers' Party said it will disarm and disband as part of a peace initiative with Turkey, the PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency reported.
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May 12, 2025
The agreement lowers tensions in the trade war but does little to change the overall direction of deteriorating ties between Beijing and Washington, analysts say.
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May 12, 2025
Netanyahu has long trumpeted his ties to Trump. But the president is sidelining him on urgent issues like the Iran nuclear talks and the conflict with Houthi rebels.
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May 12, 2025
"When you have ‘America First,' you have to be careful that it's not ending as America alone," said Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken.
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May 11, 2025
The planned release of the last living U.S. hostage still in captivity followed direct contact between Hamas and Trump administration officials, the group said.
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May 11, 2025
Trump's endorsement came the day after he backed European leaders' demand for a ceasefire first.
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May 11, 2025
As much as Leo he has echoed Francis, the first American pope is fast emerging as his own man.
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May 11, 2025
The Supreme Court ruled that only biological women are women. Now British institutions are trying to figure out what that means.
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May 10, 2025
Fears of an all-out conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have abated with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, but the wounds of decades of strife are deep.
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May 10, 2025
Ukraine's Western allies said they would strengthen sanctions if Russia refused an unconditional 30-day ceasefire.
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May 10, 2025
The sudden announcement of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire followed four days of steady escalation between India and Pakistan and mixed signals from Washington.
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May 10, 2025
Leo's ascent occurred with remarkable speed. Just over two years ago, he'd been one of the church's 5,400 bishops — a role with no global visibility.
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May 10, 2025
Indian officials and media reported continued shelling after the truce was to take hold.
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May 10, 2025
As a U.S. citizen, the man formerly called Cardinal Robert Prevost technically is required to file returns to the IRS.
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May 10, 2025
If the Kremlin fails to comply with the unconditional 30-day ceasefire, Ukraine's Western allies said they would strengthen sanctions against Russia.
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May 10, 2025
The two nuclear-armed countries appeared to be getting closer to war after weeks of tensions and attacks that killed dozens.
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May 10, 2025
President Trump said the agreement followed "a long night of talks mediated by the United States." Pakistani and Indian officials confirmed the ceasefire.
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May 10, 2025
China produces many American summer essentials — from swimsuits and flip-flops to beach shades to grills — and this weekend's trade talks might not avert price rises.
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May 10, 2025
Attacks on the Druze by Islamist gunmen backing the new Syrian government have pushed some in the community to welcome Israeli promises of protection.
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May 10, 2025
Pakistan said early Saturday that it had struck multiple military targets, days after India launched its largest strikes inside Pakistan in decades.
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May 09, 2025
Pakistan said early Saturday that it had struck multiple military targets, days after India launched its largest strikes inside Pakistan in decades.
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May 09, 2025
The administration's plan for Gaza food aid distribution remains in flux, as anticipated major funders and humanitarian groups decline to participate.
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May 09, 2025
Prevost, who was promoted by Francis and has a knack for management and a zeal for missionary work, was a stronger candidate then many outside the Vatican knew.
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May 09, 2025
To many, Pope Leo XIV seemed a different sort of American, a man who served the poor of Peru for decades, who spoke Spanish and Italian, and who was close to Pope Francis.
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May 09, 2025
In a review of visuals posted online, The Post verified debris consistent with at least two French-made fighter jets flown by the Indian air force.
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May 09, 2025
The pomp, the vestments and the spectacle have always drawn attention, but no previous conclave was quite so online.
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May 09, 2025
Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.
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