Beyond Borders

President Trump and China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, in 2019 at the Group of 20 Summit in Osaka, Japan.

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The president of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, 83, waving at supporters on Thursday during his final political rally in Abidjan before the country’s presidential election on Saturday.

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A five-day tour of Asia, starting this weekend, is President Trump’s first trip to the region during his second term.

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A pumpkin spice latte at a cafe in Antwerp, Belgium. The drink, a fall mainstay in the United States, has become more common in some European cities.

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A funeral worker, left, helping local authorities retrieve a body in a field in the outskirts of Culiacán.

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After a Russian strike on Sloviansk in the Donetsk region of Ukraine this month. “What happens on the front line of Donetsk today is shaping our collective future for years to come,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain said on Friday.

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Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, during the Calgary Stampede in July.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to the news media on Friday after visiting the Civil-Military Coordination Center in southern Israel.

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Estonian reservists conducting a defense readiness exercise at the Nursipalu training area in Voru, Estonia, this month.

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The Toronto Blue Jays after winning the American League Championship and advancing to the World Series.

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Destroyed buildings seen from west of Nuseirat Camp, central Gaza, this month.

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China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is expected to meet with President Trump in South Korea next week. China has shown that it is ready to use its chokehold over rare earths against any country that stands in its way.

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A commemorative event for Lola Daviet in Fouquereuil, northern France, on Tuesday.

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Gaza City on Thursday.

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Soldiers in the Zaporizhzhia region of eastern Ukraine this month.

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A photo provided by the Metropolitan Police of a damaged warehouse in London.

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Alexander Böcker, the chief executive of the German crane manufacturer Böcker Machine Works, poses in front of a crane in Werne, Germany, on Thursday.

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Most passengers were asleep at the time of the accident, the police in Andhra Pradesh state said.

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Ukrainians firing at Russian targets this month in the Zaporizhzhia region. With cold weather setting in, the emphasis is expected to shift away from the battlefield.

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President Javier Milei of Argentina at the closing of a campaign rally in Rosario City, Argentina, on Thursday.

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The Earthshot Prize, an environmental award founded by Prince William, required a plant-based menu for a dinner in Rio de Janeiro next month. The Brazilian chef initially selected for the event, Saulo Jennings, was surprised to learn he could not serve Amazonian fish.

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A Honda plant in Ohio. The Trump administration has said its plan will benefit the auto industry in particular.

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A study in Uganda found that treated baby wraps dramatically reduced malaria infections in the young children carried in them — 66 percent fewer cases among those children compared with babies in untreated wraps.

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President Trump is scheduled to travel through Malaysia, Japan and South Korea before holding a bilateral meeting with Xi Jinping, China’s president.

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Queen Sirikit of Thailand with King Bhumibol Adulyadej. For decades their portraits appeared in houses and shops around the country.

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General Pavkovic in 2005 on the first day of his war-crimes trial in The Hague. Indicted for crimes against humanity and violating the laws of war, he was convicted in 2009.

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Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s president, at the White House in 2023 for a meeting with former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

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Patricia Gutiérrez, left, and her father José, sensed an opportunity to put their town, Deifontes, Spain, on the map following intrigue around the disappearance of a Picasso painting.

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President Trump and Xi Jinping last met in person in 2019. The new trade investigation could ramp up tensions between the world’s largest economies ahead of a consequential meeting next week.

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Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s lawyers, called the plan by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to send his client to Liberia “punitive, cruel and unconstitutional.”

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, shown on Monday, announced on Friday that six people were killed by the U.S. military in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea.

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Mr. Blanche said in the letter that arresting federal agents in the performance of their official duties would violate federal laws that prohibit interfering with and impeding immigration and other law enforcement operations.

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Palestinian prisoners arriving at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, this month after being released from Israeli detention.

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Lindsay Whittle of the nationalist party Plaid Cymru celebrating after being declared the winner of a Welsh Parliament special election in Caerphilly early on Friday.

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A protest against visa-free entry for Chinese tourist groups in downtown Seoul last month.

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President Trump with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada in the Oval Office earlier this month.

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Supporters of the Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan clashing with the police in Lahore, Pakistan, this month.

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Cumana in Trinidad and Tobago, where two bodies washed ashore.

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An Israeli settler outpost in the northern West Bank, last year.

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Bleached and dying elkhorn coral at Looe Key Reef, off Big Pine Key in Florida, during an ocean heat wave in 2023.

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Havana in 2023. Zhi Dong Zhang was detained in Cuba after having escaped Mexico, where he was accused of helping lead a vast criminal network.

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British soldiers during a Roman Catholic march in Derry, Northern Ireland, on Jan. 30, 1972, which became known as Bloody Sunday.

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“There’s supposed to be incentives for ending wars and conflicts around the world,” the far-right activist Laura Loomer said.

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An investigation by the Trump administration could be a U.S. effort to gain leverage before a meeting between President Trump and the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping.

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A Rosneft building in Moscow on Thursday. President Trump has imposed sanctions on Rosneft and another major Russian oil company, Lukoil.

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Pope Leo XIV with King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the Vatican on Thursday.

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Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform U.K. and an ally of President Trump, after an appearance in Washington last month.

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Vice President JD Vance leaving Israel on Thursday.

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A stone marker along a pilgrimage trail in Forollhogna National Park.

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A tanker with liquefied natural gas in the Russian port of Prigorodnoye in 2021. The European Union is moving toward a full ban on liquefied natural gas from Russia.

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Police escorting South Koreans accused of working in online scam centers in Cambodia, upon their arrival at Incheon airport in Seoul in October.

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A destroyed building in Druzhkivka, Ukraine, earlier this month.

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Ryan Chen is a Chinese Trump impersonator who has garnered fans worldwide for his flawless mimicry of the American leader.

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People enjoying the beach in Sahel el-Tayeb, a village along Egypt’s northern Mediterranean coast that caters to less wealthy residents and visitors, in July.

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The Himalayan village of Chamkhar in Nepal has beautiful scenery, but little economic opportunity for its residents.

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A Lukoil refinery in Volgograd, Russia, in 2022. Lukoil and Rosneft, the country’s two largest oil companies, were targeted in the latest round of new U.S. sanctions.

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A confiscated submarine that had been used by drug cartels, on display the entrance of an Ecuadorian naval base in Guayaquil.

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Google’s data center in Santiago, Chile.

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A common house mosquito (culex pipiens), a different type from the ones found in Iceland last week.

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Under the terms of a cease-fire, Israel is required to release the bodies of 15 deceased Palestinians in exchange for every deceased Israeli hostage returned by Hamas.

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