Around the Globe

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A steel plant in Duisburg, Germany, on Wednesday. Europe’s planned retaliation was in response to metal-sector tariffs, and those levies appeared to be still in place.

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Rescue workers at the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on Wednesday, the day after its roof collapsed, killing over 200 people.

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The Ikea in Vilnius, Lithuania, where Daniil Bardadim is accused of planting an incendiary device.

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The Jaguar Land Rover plant dominates the economy of Solihull.

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An oil refinery in Omsk, Russia, in 2023.

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Bridget A. Brink, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, in Kyiv in 2022.

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An electronics factory in Svay Rieng Province in Cambodia, near the border with Vietnam.

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The scene of an Israeli strike in Syria’s southern Hama governorate last week.

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A portion of a collapsed bridge in Dresden, Germany, in September. Falling bridges are one example of the country’s infrastructure struggles.

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Rescued pangolins bought off a wildlife seller in Lagos, Nigeria in 2020.

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A night market in Guangzhou, China, on Monday.

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The Israeli air force has been a key part of the country’s campaign in Gaza.

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Demonstrators holding posters of hostages, including Edan Alexander, a dual Israeli and American citizen, in Tel Aviv.

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The women said their encounters with Mr. Tate took place while he was based in England. He moved to Romania around 2016.

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The soybean industry is one of the sectors most concerned about tariff retaliation.

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Greenland’s economic and strategic value has grown as warming temperatures melt Arctic ice.

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Michelle Obama onstage at the South by Southwest Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas, in March.

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Ksenia Karelina at a court in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in August.

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Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative party leader, speaking during a rally this week in Nisku, just south of Edmonton, Alberta.

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A United States special operations forces trainer speaking to Danab recruits in 2023. The United States has trained and equipping vetted units of Somalia’s special forces, known as the Danab.

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Paul Chambers, left, a lecturer in civil-military relations at Naresuan University, outside a police station in Phitsanulok, Thailand, on Tuesday.

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President Trump has reversed course on the steep levies.

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Kim Shin-jo, the North Korean commando sent with a hit squad in 1968 to kill the then dictator of South Korea was the only one captured.

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Flooding in Frankfort, Ky., this month. The next National Climate Assessment is due in 2027 or 2028.

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A worker waving to his colleagues after finishing one of the final shifts before Stellantis’s Chrysler assembly facility in Windsor, Ontario, shuts down for two weeks.

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A hotel at Atlantis Bahamas, a resort on Paradise Island, where Dinari McAlmont was staying with his family.

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Mike Huckabee, President Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Israel, testifying at a Senate confirmation hearing in late March.

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Ronald Johnson, President Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Mexico, during a Senate confirmation hearing last month.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, center, with renderings of the proposed Universal Studios theme park.

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Friedrich Merz had been under pressure to get a coalition government moving.

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Relatives hold back the father of a man killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home in a neighborhood in Gaza City, on Wednesday.

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Benjamin Zalman-Polun, Marcel Malanga and Tyler Thompson waiting in September to hear the court verdict about the coup attempt, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Asked on Monday about Gaza emigration, President Trump said it was “a concept that I had,” and passed the question to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

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Paddington Bear is back in Newbury, England, enjoying a marmalade sandwich and the sunny weather.

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Rescue teams working at the Jet Set nightclub a day after the collapse of its roof in Santo Domingo on Wednesday.

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The Bombay Stock Exchange in Mumbai on Monday, when Indian stocks lost about $170 billion in value.

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Lin Jian, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, disputed a Ukrainian claim that many Chinese volunteers were fighting for Russia in Ukraine, on Wednesday in Beijing.

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Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss triggered market turmoil in 2022 after she proposed sweeping tax cuts. She was forced to step down after 44 days in office.

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A small factory in Guangzhou, China, that makes restaurant appliances. The Trump administration’s tariffs will ravage export-oriented companies along China’s eastern seaboard.

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Men accused of being Islamic State fighters last month in a cell Al-Sina Prison, run by the Syrian Democratic Forces, in Hasaka, Syria.

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The European Union is not in the business of responding “cent for cent,” said Maros Sefcovic, its trade commissioner. But officials say all options are on the table.

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Dana Mroueh, left, owner of Mon Choco, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in 2019.

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Nicolas Puech at his hacienda in Aracena, Spain, in 2011.

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People crossing a footbridge in Shanghai on Wednesday, as a screen displayed information about financial markets.

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A broadcast in Seoul showing Han Duck-soo, South Korea’s interim leader, on a call with President Trump on Tuesday.

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A woman prays at a makeshift memorial in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, where a Russian Strike on Friday killed 19 people, including nine children.

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American shoppers were behind 24 percent of global consumer spending on luxury goods last year.

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A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. The Pentagon has deployed two aircraft carriers, additional B-2 stealth bombers and fighter jets, as well as Patriot and THAAD air defenses to the Middle East.

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Food distribution in Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.

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Wading through floodwaters in the Ndjili district of Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sunday.

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A flooded neighborhood in Bowling Green, Ky., on Saturday.

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President Trump signed several executive orders on Tuesday aimed at reviving the coal industry. But a major coal revival seems unlikely, some analysts say.

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