What to Know About the Bulgarian Election
The Black Sea country is holding its eighth election in five years, with Bulgarians yearning for the kind of prosperous life enjoyed by other Europeans.
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CreditNikolay Doychinov/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Tensions Rise in Strait of Hormuz Over Ship Attacks and Iranian Threats
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they were closing the strait until the U.S. blockade is lifted. Two ships reported being hit as they tried to pass through the strait.
CreditAsghar Besharati/Associated Press U.S. Officials Visited Havana to Lay Out Proposals for Cuban Reforms
The delegation told Cuba’s leadership that it had only a narrow window of time to make the economic and political changes demanded by the Trump administration.
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It was the deadliest mass shooting in Ukraine in years, where firearms have proliferated since the war with Russia began.
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Why Iran’s ‘Mosquito Fleet’ Remains a Potent Threat in the Strait of Hormuz
Although much of the regular Iranian navy is destroyed, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps can still deploy small, speedy boats to disrupt shipping.
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CreditMorteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto, via Getty Images Pope Says News Outlets Misread Some of His Remarks as Criticism of Trump
Pope Leo responded directly on Monday to a presidential attack. But since then, he said, some of his statements during his Africa trip have been misconstrued.
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CreditPatrick Meinhardt/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Maduro Is Gone, and the Purge Has Begun
The successor to Venezuela’s captured President Nicolás Maduro is purging the people who kept him in power.
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CreditThe New York Times How a Fight With Trump Threw Spain’s Leader a Political Lifeline
To leftists abroad, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain is a hero for standing up to President Trump. At home, Mr. Trump is seen as Mr. Sánchez’s political savior from thorny domestic challenges.
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CreditThomas Coex/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Carney’s Liberal Majority Reshapes Fortunes to the Left and the Right
Mark Carney’s brand of centrist politics and his invitation to floor crossers with conservative convictions into the Liberal Party’s ranks have reshaped the country’s political economy.
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In Angola, Pope Faces the Legacy of Colonialism
His visit includes a trip to a shrine where enslaved Africans were baptized before being forced into the treacherous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
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CreditThemba Hadebe/Associated Press Trump Wants to Stop Drugs Coming From South America. Is That Possible?
Authorities are using drones, troops and A.I. to crack down on cocaine smuggling. But gangs are finding new ways to move record amounts of drugs across the world.
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Credit A Mild-Mannered Pope Finds His Voice
Leo XIV has had a reputation for being cautious. But since President Trump attacked him at the start of his Africa trip, he has been more combative.
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CreditAndrew Medichini/Associated Press News AnalysisThe 27-Year-Old Diplomat Waging Trump’s Cultural War With Europe
Five years out of college, Samuel Samson has driven the Trump administration’s push to upend America’s postwar relationship with Europe.
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CreditU.S. Embassy Budapest ‘I Just Want to Be Back’: Thousands Rush South in Lebanon Under Cease-Fire
Lebanese people who had been displaced by fighting expressed a mix of excitement and uncertainty about a pause in Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah.
By Christina GoldbaumHwaida Saad and
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Johnson Masase has found local fame, and self acceptance, through performances that play on people’s ignorance about his genetic condition and his 3-foot-4 inch frame.
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CreditJoao Silva/The New York Times Dodging Bombs and Drones, This Postman Still Delivers
Oleksiy Klochkovsky has driven mail and parcels around the front line in Ukraine for four years. He keeps one ear tuned for danger from above.
By Cassandra Vinograd and
CreditBrendan Hoffman for The New York Times Jailed for Love Songs? Yes, and Still Singing.
Nguyen Van Loc was persecuted for performing Hanoi’s old romantic music during (and after) the Vietnam War. He can’t stop. He won’t stop.
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CreditLinh Pham for The New York Times He Changed How Blackness Was Viewed in South Africa. Now He Gets Personal.
Mfundi Vundla spent 21 years in exile and created the popular television show “Generations.” His latest project is a play that explores the imperfections of the fight against apartheid.
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CreditJoao Silva/The New York Times In a Muzzled Russia, He Still Speaks His Mind
While hundreds of other journalists fled into exile after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitri A. Muratov stayed. But he did not stay quiet.
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More in Dispatches ›How War in the Middle East Paralyzed an Asian Food Giant
Vietnam, the world’s No. 2 rice exporter, cut production as power prices surged. Even with a temporary cease-fire in Iran, worries linger over the world’s food supply.
By Damien Cave and
Credit ‘City of Parasites’ or ‘Glamorous Metropolis’? China’s Cosmopolitan Contradiction.
Shanghai’s many layers of architecture, culture and politics have made it a difficult fit for the Communist Party’s preferred narrative of Chinese victimhood and Western sins.
By Andrew Higgins and
Credit ‘Nowhere Else to Go’: The Squatters in the Richest Part of Seoul
The city wants to redevelop a shantytown in Gangnam district, where hundreds are defying eviction, fighting for a right to own a home in an area notorious for the exorbitant cost of housing.
By Choe Sang-Hun and
CreditChang W. Lee/The New York Times Halfway Through Lent, a Small Quebec Island Celebrates With Masks and Jigs
Few islanders still observe Lent, but they cling to a tradition once seen as defying the all-powerful Roman Catholic Church.
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For centuries, an Omani exclave has been defined by a peculiar duality: rugged isolation and proximity to one of the world’s most important trade routes.
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La prisión no pudo conseguir que Nguyen Van Loc, perseguido por interpretar la vieja música romántica de Hanói durante la guerra de Vietnam, dejara de cantar.
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CreditLinh Pham for The New York Times La guerra en Medio Oriente frenará el crecimiento económico mundial, advierte el FMI
El Fondo Monetario Internacional también planteó la posibilidad de una recesión mundial y otro brote de inflación.
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CreditMartin Bernetti/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Trump quiere bloquear Irán para abrir el estrecho de Ormuz. Los expertos tienen sus dudas
El anuncio del presidente Trump de un bloqueo estadounidense a Irán es su esfuerzo más reciente por presionarlo para negociar, después de que en las conversaciones del fin de semana no se llegara a un acuerdo.
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CreditArash Khamooshi para The New York Times La industria eléctrica de China podría salir beneficiada de la guerra en Medio Oriente
Un grupo de empresas chinas está a punto de ganar a lo grande con la crisis energética desencadenada por la guerra en Irán, gracias al auge de la inversión en inteligencia artificial.
By Meaghan Tobin and
CreditGilles Sabrié para The New York Times La visita de los reyes de los Países Bajos a la Casa Blanca crea polémica
El rey y la reina de los Países Bajos se alojarán en la Casa Blanca el lunes por la noche. En un momento de tensión transatlántica, los neerlandeses no están seguros de cómo se sienten al respecto.
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By Lynsey Chutel, Euan Ward, Leily Nikounazar and Somini Sengupta
Hezbollah is Willing to Cooperate With a Cease-Fire with Israel. For Now.
The leader of the Iran-backed militia said that a more durable peace with Israel would require the fulfillment of a list of long-standing demands.
By Pranav Baskar
TimesVideoIran Says the Strait of Hormuz Is Closed Again
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they were closing the Strait of Hormuz until the U.S. blockade was lifted. Two Indian-flagged ships reported being hit as they tried to cross the passage.
By McKinnon de Kuyper
TimesVideoPope Leo Says News Outlets Misunderstood Recent Remarks as Trump Criticism
Pope Leo XIV said that news outlets misinterpreted his recent remarks as criticism of President Trump. The pontiff has called for an end to the violence in the Middle East but told reporters on Saturday he had no interest in debating the president.
By Jorge Mitssunaga
Ships in Strait of Hormuz Turn Back as 2 Are Said to Be Hit
The day after Iran declared the vital waterway open, it reversed course, injecting new peril into navigation there.
By Lynsey Chutel
Six Are Missing After Cargo Ship Is Found Overturned Near Guam
The ship, the Mariana, was found overturned days after the Coast Guard lost contact with its crew, after a super typhoon struck.
By Mark Walker
More Displaced Lebanese Head Home as Cease-Fire Is Tested
The truce appeared to mostly hold even as Israel said it had carried out strikes on what it called “terrorists” approaching its forces in southern Lebanon. Separately, a U.N. peacekeeper was killed.
By Euan Ward, Sarah Chaayto and Christina Goldbaum
How Iran’s Cheap, Low-Tech Drones Have Cost the U.S.
The United States and its allies have historically prioritized accurate but expensive defense solutions. Drones challenge that math.
By Ashley Cai, Jeremy White and John Ismay
Trading Spaces
With spring comes the urge to spring-clean. It’s about so much more than just organizing your closet.
By Melissa Kirsch
TimesVideoWho Is the New Leader of Hungary?
Our reporter Andrew Higgins describes why Hungary’s voters chose Peter Magyar over Viktor Orban in a landslide, ending Orban’s 16 years in power.
By Andrew Higgins, Christina Thornell and Leila Medina
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