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#washingtonpost.com. × Roy Prosterman, who fought poverty through land rights, dies at 89. After abandoning a career at a white-shoe law firm in the 1960s, he helped lead a movement to secure land rights for impoverished people around the world.

#washingtonpost.com. × U.S. suspends commercial satellite imagery service to Ukraine. Maxar, a leading provider of orbital imagery, said that the U.S. government has decided to temporarily suspend services to Ukraine. Soldiers on the ground are feeling the impact already.

#washingtonpost.com. × In Europe’s north, soldiers train amid worries over Trump’s belief in NATO. Uneasiness grows over continued U.S. support for the 75-year-old alliance as Trump casts doubt on support from other members if attacked.

#washingtonpost.com. × Turns out birdsongs evolve with time and age — just like human music. Birds change their tune over time depending on age, movement and memory, similar to how human dialects are shaped, researchers say following a study of great tits in the U.K.

#washingtonpost.com. × Syria clashes kill dozens in worst violence since fall of Assad regime. Members of Syria’s Alawite minority said they feared widespread revenge killings, as grisly videos of field executions circulated.

#washingtonpost.com. × Teen with gun on plane disarmed and tackled by passengers. The 17-year-old is facing eight charges while a sheepshearer who stepped in to disarm him is being praised as a hero and has been offered free flights for life.

#washingtonpost.com. × A Turkish arms firm helped fuel Sudan’s brutal civil war, records show. A trove of documents and communications provided to The Post reveals how a Turkish company covertly funneled weapons to the Sudanese army.

#washingtonpost.com. × U.K. gives up its position as a leader on foreign aid, in echo of Trump. Postcolonial Britain has asserted itself in the world through development aid. But it is now cutting aid in favor of defense spending and hard power.

#washingtonpost.com. × U.S. foreign aid cuts threaten to choke off information from Iran. The reduction in funding for Iranian groups, based largely outside Iran, is affecting the work of human rights monitors, news outlets and civic activists.

#washingtonpost.com. × Column | The radical vision behind Trump’s Gaza policy. The Israeli right wing’s long term ambitions for Gaza loom over the Trump administration’s more immediate interventions in the Middle East.

#washingtonpost.com. × U.S. proposes ceasefire extension in exchange for hostages. U.S. negotiators are pursuing direct talks with Hamas in hopes of first releasing the last American held hostage in Gaza.

#washingtonpost.com. × New Zealand fires ambassador to U.K. for asking whether Trump ‘understands history’. “President Trump has restored the bust of Churchill to the Oval Office. But do you think he really understands history?” the New Zealand diplomat asked.

#washingtonpost.com. × Pope Francis’s words air in St. Peter’s Square for first time since illness. The recorded message was the first released by the Vatican since Pope Francis was hospitalized with a respiratory illness on Feb. 14.

#washingtonpost.com. × Trump administration’s direct talks with Hamas break an old taboo. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not informed of the talks before they took place and was caught off guard, said one Israeli source with knowledge of the matter.

#washingtonpost.com. × Trump officials, aid groups can’t agree on timing to restart global aid. Global health groups accused the Trump administration of flouting a judge’s order to restart nearly $2 billion in payments for food, medicine and more.

#washingtonpost.com. × Cyclone Alfred heading toward Brisbane and eastern Australia for rare landfall. Alfred is forecast to make landfall near Brisbane, the capital of Queensland and Australia’s third largest city.

#washingtonpost.com. × Trump grants month-long tariff reprieve to Mexico. Mexico will be granted a month-long reprieve from tariffs on goods that fall under an existing free-trade agreement with the United States, Trump wrote on social media.

#washingtonpost.com. × Ukraine fears Musk may cut vital Starlink internet amid Trump pressure. As the Trump administration pressures Volodymyr Zelensky to engage in peace talks, commanders fear their Starlink battlefield internet could be the next victim.

#washingtonpost.com. × Cambodia says U.S. Navy could visit military port tied to China. A Cambodian official said his government would welcome a request from the United States for its ships to visit Ream Naval Base.

#washingtonpost.com. × South Korean jets mistakenly bomb village, injuring 15. Two KF-16 fighter jets dropped eight bombs in a rural area near the North Korean border. Footage showed plumes of smoke and damaged trucks, houses and a church.

#washingtonpost.com. × Spooked by Trump and Putin, Europe rushes to rearm. It’s a “turning of the page” as European leaders fast-track plans to bolster their militaries and back Ukraine — and ultimately curb dependence on the United States.

#washingtonpost.com. × All-day breakfast, no vodka: Poland’s milk bars are for everyone. Dating back to the communist era, the milk bars of Warsaw appeal to a wide cross-section of society.

#washingtonpost.com. × New Zealand reckons with its own divisive culture war. New Zealand is deeply divided over the Treaty Principles Bill, which seeks to re-interpret the de facto constitution. Now the prime minister must stop it.

#washingtonpost.com. × Canadian provinces pull U.S. alcohol from shelves as Trump tariffs kick in. Lawson Whiting, CEO of Jack Daniel’s maker Brown-Forman, said Canada removing U.S. alcohol is “worse than a tariff.”

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