#washingtonpost.com. × Trump’s global funding cuts leave a void in Africa for rivals to exploit. America’s vanishing presence in Africa has upended critical programs, severed relationships and left a vacuum that Russia and China will look to capitalize on.
#Mar.24.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × Column | Sudan’s bloody civil war may be reaching a turning point. International diplomacy has failed to bring an end to the war in one of Africa’s largest countries, but recent events suggest a shift in battlefield fortunes.
#Mar.24.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × South Korea’s prime minister is reinstated, still no word on president. Prime Minister Han Duck-soo is back as acting president, but the Constitutional Court has still not given a date for its ruling on the impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol.
#Mar.24.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × China and U.S. need ‘candid communication,’ premier tells Trump ally. Steve Daines, a Republican senator from Montana, and American business leaders are in Beijing amid a worsening trade war that threatens to hurt both economies.
#Mar.23.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × Paris votes on making 500 streets car-free, in test for green city policies. Mayor Anne Hidalgo has floated a plan to “revegetate” 500 Parisian streets to make the city more liveable. Critics say it would deepen divides between urbanites and commuters.
#Mar.23.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × Canada’s Carney calls snap election as Trump looms over campaign. The contest between Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre is likely to be dominated by one question: Who can best handle President Donald Trump and his threats?
#Mar.23.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × Trump turbulence leads allies to rethink reliance on U.S. weapons. European capitals are reviewing vulnerabilities and want to wean themselves from dependence on American weapons, but expanding homegrown options will take time.
#Mar.23.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × Russia launches massive drone attack on Kyiv ahead of ceasefire talks. The drone attack on Kyiv killed a father, his 5-year-old daughter and an 80-year-old woman, the first fatalities in Ukraine’s capital in more than two months.
#Mar.23.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × Greenland is hard to defend. As Trump threatens, the Danes are trying.. “One way or the other,” President Donald Trump told Congress, the United States needs to “get” Greenland, strategically located and rich in rare metals.
#Mar.23.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × Pope Francis makes first public appearance, leaves hospital after five weeks. Pope Francis was released home to the Vatican following a hospitalization in which he suffered two respiratory episodes that almost cost him his life.
#Mar.23.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × Gaza death toll passes 50,000 in Israel’s war with Hamas, Health Ministry says. Gaza’s Health Ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Experts say the official death toll is probably an undercount.
#Mar.23.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × How Israel plans to escalate its war on Hamas in Gaza. Israel’s political and military leaders are considering plans for a fresh ground campaign that could include a military occupation of Gaza for months or more.
#Mar.23.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × Pope Francis to be discharged from hospital Sunday, doctors say. “The pope will be released tomorrow,” said one of the pope’s attending physicians Saturday, after Francis spent five weeks battling a severe health crisis.
#Mar.22.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × Amid ceasefire talks, Russian strike kills family in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. The attack came as negotiators prepare to return to Saudi Arabia on Monday with a list of civilian infrastructure that should be spared from future strikes.
#Mar.22.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × IDF strikes Lebanon after rocket fire in biggest exchange of ceasefire. The Israel Defense Forces targeted “dozens of Hezbollah rocket launchers and a command center,” killing two and wounding 10. Hezbollah denied launching rockets.
#Mar.22.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × What to expect as Russia and Ukraine hold indirect talks in Saudi Arabia. The U.S.-mediated talks will focus on a proposed maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, with the two sides still far apart on the terms of a final peace.
#Mar.22.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × Autocrats roll back rights and rule of law — and cite Trump’s example. Trump’s statements, policies and actions are providing cover for attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, freedom of expression and the rule of law around the world.
#Mar.22.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × London’s Heathrow Airport partially reopens after substation fire cuts power. There was no indication of foul play, authorities said, but they were not ruling it out. Counterterrorism investigators were dispatched.
#Mar.21.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × Netanyahu ousts intelligence chief as Israeli troops expand Gaza operations. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar amid mass protests against the move and Israel’s resumption of hostilities in Gaza.
#Mar.21.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × Sudan’s military says it has retaken presidential palace from rebels. The military’s seizure of the Republican Palace in Khartoum is considered a significant symbolic victory, two years into Sudan’s devastating civil war.
#Mar.21.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × Arab mediators rush to salvage Gaza ceasefire as Israel restarts war. Egypt and Qatar are pushing for an emergency truce, as the Palestinian death toll from renewed Israeli strikes soared past 500 according to health officials.
#Mar.21.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × Taiwan warns of growing Chinese threat, partly to secure Trump’s support. President Lai Ching-te is pushing boundaries, risking an angry response from China at a time when it’s not clear whether the United States will step in to help.
#Mar.21.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you’re in Brazil.. While the Wright brothers are widely recognized as the fathers of flight, Brazilians believe the true inventor of the airplane was one of their own.
#Mar.21.2025
#washingtonpost.com. × Column | Under Trump, the authoritarian age comes into focus. Authoritarian politics are ascendant. Actions by Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump underscore the shift.
#Mar.21.2025
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