Worldwide Pulse

President Trump last week. His phone was among the targets of a sweeping cyberattack last year, during the campaign.

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“It felt like women were invisible,” one volunteer said after witnessing rescue efforts in eastern Afghanistan.

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The Elevador da Glória is a well-known attraction in hilly Lisbon. There are two vehicles on the line, and each can carry about 40 people.

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President Emmanuel Macron of France, right, with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, at the Élysée Palace in Paris on Thursday.

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President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority speaking at the General Assembly last year. His visa to the U.S. this year has been blocked.

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A rally in Jerusalem on Wednesday to call for the release of hostages still held in Gaza.

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Farmers survey submerged paddy crops near Ramdas in Punjab, India, last week.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, with President Daniel Noboa of Ecuador at the presidential palace in Quito. The two countries discussed taking on criminal groups.

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Receiving a vaccination against Ebola in 2019 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A team, joined by World Health Organization personnel, has been deployed to monitor the latest outbreak.

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A soldier with Ukraine’s 42nd Separate Mechanized Brigade in the Kharkiv region, in May. Russia wants limits on the size and capabilities of the Ukrainian military.

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Travis Scott and Gigi Hadid walking the runway during the Vetements show at Paris Fashion Week last year.

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Palestinians fled Gaza City on Monday as the Israeli military intensified attacks in its neighborhoods.

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Angela Rayner in July. As deputy prime minister, she had come to be seen as a powerful ally of Keir Starmer and a bridge to the left of the Labour Party.

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One of the funicular cars involved in the accident on Wednesday in Lisbon. The two cars act as counterweights to ascend and descend the hill.

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Hamas fighters in southern Gaza stood guard as the group handed over the bodies of Israeli prisoners as part of an exchange deal in February.

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A grape picker in a vineyard during the Champagne harvest in Pierry, France, in 2024. The first rule of Champagne is that only producers using local grapes can claim that name.

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Some of the satellite technology at risk of being defunded is attached to the International Space Station.

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An image hanging from the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican of Carlo Acutis, a British-born Italian boy who will become the first millennial to be made a Catholic saint.

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President Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, had an erratic relationship. They met on Sentosa Island in Singapore in 2018.

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Anutin Charnvirakul arriving at Parliament in Bangkok on Friday.

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A photo released by Russian state media showing President Vladimir V. Putin, center, at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Friday.

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Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, leaving after meeting with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, in Beijing on Thursday. It was their sixth summit.

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Volodymyr Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron in Paris yesterday.

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After a Russian attack on the Kharkiv area of Ukraine in July. Russian forces continue to bombard Ukraine, including killing civilians.

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George Finch, left, leader of Warwickshire County Council, appearing at a news conference alongside Reform U.K.’s leader, Nigel Farage, last month.

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Thaksin Shinawatra in Bangkok last week. His political dynasty is in a diminished state.

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Volodymyr Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron in Paris yesterday.

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A cutaway illustration of the modern Martian interior. A meteor striking one side of the planet’s surface, left, creates seismic waves that are detected by NASA’s InSight lander, right.

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Hezbollah supporters marching during Ashoura, a Shiite Muslim holiday, near Beirut in July.

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A tour of an Orsted-operated wind farm off the coast of Block Island, R.I., in 2022.

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Edgar Feuchtwanger in 2016. A British historian, he wrote a book late in life about growing up in Munich across the street from Adolf Hitler.

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“Portrait of a Lady,” by Giuseppe Ghislandi, was stolen from a Jewish art dealer in the Netherlands during World War II.

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Flood damage in Vermont in 2023. The administration has sued the state over its climate superfund law.

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Emergency workers remove one of the funiculars in Lisbon on Friday.

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President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with President of Poland Karol Nawrocki in the Oval Office at the White House on Wednesday.

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Starting this month, gel nail polish containing the ingredient trimethylbenzoyl diphenylphosphine oxide is banned in the European Union’s 27 member countries.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio meeting with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico in Mexico City on Wednesday.

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Workers with the Federal Emergency Management Agency in October looking through the wreckage after Hurricane Helene in Swannanoa, N.C.

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Emergency teams working at the site where the Elevador da Glória funicular derailed in Lisbon on Wednesday, killing more than a dozen people.

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The U.S. Navy warship USS Sampson in Panama City on Tuesday.

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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia exiting his Aurus limousine in Beijing on Tuesday.

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Graham Linehan at a free-speech summit at Trinity College Dublin last year. He has become a vocal anti-transgender activist and was arrested on Monday over social media posts.

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Angela Rayner, Britain’s deputy prime minister, said she had relied on legal advice but has come under intense scrutiny in recent days for her tax affairs.

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Energy drinks advertised outside a store in Shrewsbury, England. The ban would apply to all retailers — those selling online and in shops — as well as to restaurants, cafes and vending machines.

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A wall separates the Arab village of Al Eizariya, in the West Bank, near where the Israeli government plans to build a new neighborhood.

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Bison grazing near the Roosevelt Arch of Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner, Mont. Yellowstone is home to the last migratory herd — migratory bison are otherwise functionally extinct in their former range.

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For months, Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, has tried to manage two complex relationships at the same time: Mexico’s with the United States and her own with her powerful party at home.

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