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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during their meeting in Moscow on Friday.

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  • Middle East

Iran and the U.S. plan expert-level talks over Tehran's nuclear program

The two countries will begin having experts meet to discuss details of a possible deal over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program, the top Iranian diplomat said after a second round of talks.

April 19, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
British forces charge crowds during bread riots in Manchester, England, in 1819. The event became known as the Peterloo Massacre, when troops were ordered to disperse the crowds.

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  • Europe

One city prides itself as the cradle of the working class. Here's why

As politicians worldwide scramble to appeal to working people, this city in northern England has a claim to be the birthplace of the very concept of the working class.

April 19, 2025
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By:
  • Fatima Al-Kassab and
  • Lauren Frayer
Students, researchers and demonstrators rally during a protest against the Trump administration's funding cuts on research, health and higher education at the University of California Los Angeles on April 8.

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  • National

Nearly 300 scientists apply for French academic program amid Trump cuts in U.S.

Nearly 300 U.S.-based researchers have applied to one program that promises "scientific refugee status" for those fleeing Trump's academic funding rollbacks.

April 18, 2025
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  • Alana Wise
Zelenskyy this week <a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04/18/zelenskyy-says-he-has-information-that-china-is-supplying-weapons-to-russia"target="_blank"   >claimed</a> he had intelligence that China was sending <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/14/nx-s1-5361194/ukrainian-military-officers-attempt-to-dispel-what-they-call-myths-of-russias-war"target="_blank"   >weapons</a>, including gunpowder and artillery, to Russia.

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  • World

Ukraine sanctions 3 Chinese companies as tensions between Kyiv and Beijing rise

The sanctions mean the companies will not be able to do business with Ukraine and any assets they have in the country will be frozen.

April 18, 2025
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  • Emily Feng
Secretary of State Marco Rubio before a meeting with the French foreign minister in Paris on Thursday to discuss steps toward a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.

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  • Europe

Trump may abandon Ukraine peace talks 'within days,' Rubio warns

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that the U.S. would walk away from efforts to broker a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine if progress isn't made within days.

April 18, 2025
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
Mike Huckabee, recently confirmed as U.S. ambassador to Israel, places a note given to him from President Trump in the cracks of the Western Wall, during Huckabee's visit to the holy site in the old city of Jerusalem on April 18.

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  • World

Huckabee arrives in Israel as new U.S. ambassador and visits the Western Wall

At the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites, Mike Huckabee said he'd brought a note with a prayer for peace handwritten by President Trump, who had instructed him to insert it into the wall.

April 18, 2025
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  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, speaks to the media before she enters federal court on April 15, 2025 in Greenbelt, Md.

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  • News

FSU shooting leaves two dead. And, Trump criticizes Fed chairman over interest rates

A shooting on Florida State University's campus has left two people dead and six people injured. And, President Trump criticizes the Fed chairman for not cutting interest rates.

April 18, 2025
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  • Brittney Melton
French President Emmanuel Macron (left) shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio next to special envoy Steve Witkoff (center) and France's foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, before a meeting at the Élysée presidential palace in Paris on Thursday.

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  • Europe

Rubio leads a U.S. team for Paris talks as Macron seeks unity on Ukraine

France hosted top diplomats from the U.S., Germany, the U.K. and Ukraine to discuss efforts toward a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

April 17, 2025
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  • Eleanor Beardsley and
  • Joanna Kakissis
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen speaks to the press in La Libertad, El Salvador, during his trip to lobby for the release of deported Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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  • Politics

A Maryland senator tried to visit his wrongfully deported constituent in El Salvador

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen went to El Salvador to lobby for the release of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, whose deportation has gripped the U.S. He isn't the only lawmaker with such a trip in mind.

April 17, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
Palmyra's ancient theater, seen on Feb. 21, was used by ISIS for public executions during the group's takeover of the region.  Syrians are hoping for a return of tourists now that the country has reopened to international visitors after the fall of the regime of Bashar al-Assad to rebel fighters last December.

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  • World

Syria hopes tourists will return to Palmyra, a World Heritage Site ravaged by war

Before 2015, Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied Silk Road city. Syrians hope restoration can begin now.

April 17, 2025
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  • Jane Arraf
In this photo released by Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP), Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni, right, and Chinese President Xi Jingping attend a welcome ceremony at Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AKP via AP)

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  • Asia

China's Xi Jinping arrives in Cambodia to wrap up 3-nation Southeast Asia tour

The visit, Xi's first since 2016, will conclude a three-nation Southeast Asian tour that included stops in Vietnam and Malaysia.

April 17, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
U.S. President Donald Trump met with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office of the White House April 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump and Bukele are exploring a proposal to send American citizens to be held in Salvadorean prisons, a move critics describe as dangerous and unconstitutional.

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  • News

Trump hopes to jail U.S. citizens abroad. And, retail sales jump ahead of tariffs

Trump's administration is exploring ways to detain U.S. citizens involved in criminal activity and send them to Salvadoran prisons. And, Trump's tariffs lead Americans to splurge before they hit.

April 17, 2025
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  • Brittney Melton
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni holds a year-end press conference in Rome in January.

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  • Europe

Italy's Meloni will test her mettle as EU-U.S. bridge when she meets with Trump

Meloni secured the meeting at a critical juncture in the trade war. As the right-wing leader of her party she has, in a sense, been "knighted" to represent the European Union in meetings with Trump.

April 17, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Headlights illuminate cobblestone streets in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, during an island-wide blackout, Wednesday, April 16, 2025.

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  • Latin America

Power blackout hits all of Puerto Rico as residents prepare for Easter weekend

A power blackout hit all of Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the heavily Catholic U.S. territory prepared to celebrate the Easter weekend.

April 17, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
The entrance of the Supreme Court in London.

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  • Europe

U.K. high court says trans women don't meet definition of women under equalities law

Justice Patrick Hodge said five judges at the court had ruled unanimously that "the terms 'woman' and 'sex' in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex."

April 16, 2025
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  • Lauren Frayer
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