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Icebreakers are corny, corporate get-to-know-you exercises. But there’s something thrilling in dispensing with small talk.

Without advance notice to Canada, the U.S. president put the auto industry into turmoil with a 25 percent tariff.

The authorities said that thousands of buildings had been damaged, including about 150 mosques and pagodas.

Hamas said it had accepted a proposal for a new cease-fire, which would see some hostages released from captivity in Gaza. But details were elusive.

After a series of suspicious cable cuttings feared to be Russian sabotage, NATO began a new mission called Baltic Sentry to patrol the Baltic Sea. Michael Schwirtz, an investigative reporter with the International desk at The New York Times, takes us aboard one of these patrol flights.

Quakers in Britain said the raid, in which six youth activists unaffiliated with the religious group were arrested, “clearly shows what happens when a society criminalizes protest.”

An earthquake’s devastation in Myanmar.

Each new crisis, whether over Ukraine or tariffs, has made the Italian prime minister’s balancing act that much harder.

A verdict Monday in an embezzlement trial is seen as a test of the country’s democracy — and the rule of law.

Plus, skateboarders in the sky.

While China, Russia and other nations have rushed emergency response teams to the devastated country, the U.S., once a leader in foreign aid, has been slow to act.

Federal authorities in several countries have recently nabbed several caches of weapons headed to Haiti, but armed violence continues to rise there, with gangs increasingly obtaining high-caliber firearms and ammunition.

President Trump and a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan shared a video of a woman identified as Faye Hall thanking the president for her release from Afghanistan.

Buildings are rising all over the city, emblems of economic growth. But an earthquake that sent one crashing to the ground has stirred fears about building safety.

Supporters of the political opposition are finding ways to fight back after the government jailed the top political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

President Trump has turned a central precept of American diplomacy on its head, embracing fellow leaders who abandon democratic principles.

The list of ministers appears to be a compromise between calls for a diverse cabinet to unite the divided country while keeping allies of the interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, in powerful roles.

The U.S. defense secretary sought to reassure its ally over security ties and vowed to speed up the creation of a joint “war-fighting headquarters” to deter China.

New tremors rattled survivors of Friday’s earthquake, which killed more than 1,600 people, while the government continued its bombing campaign elsewhere in the country.

Students at the American University of Afghanistan in Qatar fear having to return to their Taliban-ruled homeland after aid and visa cutoffs by the Trump administration.