NYT

During the first major foreign trip of his second term, President Trump has told audiences in the Middle East that he’s willing to set the past aside in the interests of peace and profit.

As Pakistan declares victory, confidence in the troubled country’s state institutions is re-emerging, at least for now.

After years of gradual progress toward stability, a succession battle is pushing the country to the precipice of another full-blown civil war.

President Trump’s trip to the Middle East.

Saou Ichikawa is the country’s first severely disabled author to win a top literary prize. Her novel “Hunchback” is an angry cry against “ableist machismo.”

After the shooting in the West Bank, doctors were able to save the baby, a boy, who was taken to a neonatal intensive care unit.

Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300.

Plus, peace and love at the Eurovision.

One of the blazes took place outside the doorway of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s family home in Kentish Town, in north London, which is currently being rented out.

The meeting came days after President Trump announced he would end sanctions against Syria and met with the country’s president, a former jihadist.

The first peace talks in three years were supposed to begin on Thursday but amid posturing and accusations, they were pushed back at least until Friday.

Two people were trapped and killed by a wildfire in a small town in Manitoba, where the provincial capital, Winnipeg, is wilting under a record-breaking heat wave.

Israel intensified its military campaign against Hamas, despite a U.S.-backed push for the two sides to agree a new cease-fire.

Since the overthrow of the dictator Bashar al-Assad, business owners have been waiting for Washington to ease sanctions and pave the way for an economic renewal.

Three countries on President Trump’s Middle East tour this week are also the sites of recent investments in Trump businesses that benefit the president. Eric Lipton, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, describes those investments, and what those countries — Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — are, at the same time, seeking from Mr. Trump and the United States.

In Saudi Arabia, the president denounced Western intervention and nation-building, garnering both praise and eye rolls.

It pays to be spectacular, inspiring and just weird enough. But, please: no key changes.

Serbian authorities say an official admitted to forging a document allowing a protected site in Belgrade to be demolished and replaced with a Trump hotel.

The death of Valeria Márquez, 23, was the latest reminder of the rise in violence against women in the country.

The competition is run by an opaque Swiss organization that wants to sidestep controversies that could spoil the fun.