Worldwide Pulse

Pilgrims taking a holy bath and praying late last month at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, India.

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The DeepSeek app on a phone in Hong Kong on Tuesday.

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M23 soldiers, in the foreground, as they secured Congolese soldiers who had surrendered in Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Thursday.

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Moo Deng striking an adorable pose in her enclosure.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to visit Panama, Guatemala, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and El Salvador.

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A seal with the Indus Valley civilization script that is part of the collection of the National Museum in New Delhi.

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Horst Köhler in Leipzig in 2009, when he was president of Germany. He was little known politically before becoming president in 2004.

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Delivering U.S.-funded food aid in Bentiu, South Sudan, in 2023. Supplies of aid to the country have been disrupted since the freeze announced by President Trump.

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An Italian Navy ship carrying migrants on Tuesday to Albania as part of a deal to process asylum seekers there.

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President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, right, with Richard Grenell, President Trump’s envoy for special missions, at the presidential palace in Caracas on Friday in a photo released by Venezuela’s presidential press office.

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The leader of the New Flemish Alliance party, Bart De Wever, left, with King Philippe of Belgium this month after a meeting at the Royal Palace to discuss the formation of a new government.

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President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt commemorating Police Day last week in a photograph released by the Egyptian presidency.

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Lilian Raham, one of the “Boda Girls,” prepares to drive a client, Beatrice Oduor, and her child to a clinic in the town of Ukwala.

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Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Saturday.

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Israeli hostage Ofer Calderon is handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Saturday, in the latest exchange in a tense cease-fire deal.

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Trucks crossing into the United States from Tijuana, Mexico, on Friday.

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Funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development has been essential in transporting lifesaving treatments worldwide.

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A meeting of foreign ministers from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on Saturday.

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Medical workers loaded a young Palestinian into an ambulance to cross from Gaza into Egypt via the Rafah border crossing on Saturday.

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Keith Siegel, center, a dual American-Israeli citizen, is flanked by Hamas fighters during his release in Gaza City on Saturday.

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Trucks passing through a toll on the World Trade Bridge in Laredo, Texas, home to America’s busiest port.

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Drew Dilkens, the mayor of Windsor, Ontario, says cities will need help their residents deal with the effects of U.S. tariffs.

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A solar project in the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona that was partly funded by the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act.

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A neighborhood burns at the onset of January’s catastrophic Los Angeles-area fires.

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The family of Ofer Kalderon in Israel celebrating his release on Saturday.

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Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s former minister of national security, said in October 2023 that he would give arms to settlements and create civilian militias for the protection of settlers.

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Friedrich Merz, German opposition leader and chairman of the Christian Democrats, speaking during a session of the German Parliament in Berlin, on Friday.

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Photos of Yarden Bibas and his wife, Shiri, and their two children, Ariel, top, and Kfir.

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President Trump has promised to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China beginning on Saturday.

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Hundreds of Egyptians gathered in front of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on Friday.

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Crew members on a French Navy plane patrolling over the Baltic Sea last week as part of a NATO mission to protect undersea cables and pipelines.

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Aviva Siegel, a former hostage, with a photograph of her husband, Keith Siegel, who is set to be released by Hamas this weekend.

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Brazilian migrants deported from the U.S. board a Brazilian Air Force flight in Manaus, Brazil, on Saturday.

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A U.S. Air Force plane used to deport migrants on the tarmac this week in Guatemala City.

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Emergency personnel at the wreckage of American Airlines Flight 5342 on the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport.

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YouTube has been at the heart of the Russian internet for years and a staple of daily life for many Russians, streaming everything from old Soviet movies to anti-Kremlin political shows.

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Ukrainian military vehicles near the border of Russia’s Kursk region in January.

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The helmet of Cotofenesti, an elaborately decorated solid-gold headpiece from the fifth century B.C., was among the items stolen from the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands, over the weekend.

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Palestinian militants escorting one of the freed Israeli hostages, Arbel Yehud, to Red Cross officials in Gaza on Thursday.

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Freed Palestinian prisoners in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Thursday.

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Search crews on the Potomac River near Washington, yesterday.

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People celebrating in the streets of the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Wednesday after rebel leader Ahmed al-Shara was named president.

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A protest against honor killings in Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2016.

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Yevgeniya Shishkova and Vadim Naumov skating in Paris in 1996. They won a world championship and competed in the Winter Olympics.

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Zakaria Zubeidi, at center right, arrived in city of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday.

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Al Hol detention camp in Syria in 2019. It houses some 39,000 Islamic State members, their families and refugees.

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Mayor Vitali Klitschko of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, in front of the city administration building last year. He has engaged in a low-boil feud with the president for several years.

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Wiwwaeo Sriaoun, the mother of Watchara Sriaoun, who was released after 15 months of captivity in Gaza, at her house with another relative in Thailand’s Udon Thani Province on Thursday.

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Ahmed al-Shara, center, in Damascus in December. Under his stewardship, Syria’s interim government will now face a delicate political balancing act.

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Israelis gathered to watch the release of the hostages from what is known as “Hostage Square” in Tel Aviv on Thursday.

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A woman standing among the debris from the stampede.

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A sinkhole that swallowed a truck near Tokyo has grown in size as rescuers try to reach the trapped driver buried inside.

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An UNRWA training center.

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Salwan Momika protesting outside a mosque in Stockholm in 2023.

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The Engage Men’s Health clinic in Johannesburg has been temporarily closed after the Trump administration ordered health organizations to stop distributing H.I.V. medications purchased through a U.S. funding program.

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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police displaying seized firearms and illicit drugs.

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For weeks, immigrants have taken refuge in the Gaîté Lyrique, a Paris theater. In France, experts say, unaccompanied young immigrants who cannot prove they are minors often end up on the street.

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