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By plane and boat, on foot and in an electric popemobile, Pope Francis traveled year after year of his papacy, reaching dozens of countries on five continents. His first official trip outside Rome was in 2013 to Lampedusa, a tiny Mediterranean island that had became a gateway for migrants. Not long afterward, he flew into […]

PUBLISHED April 27, 2025 KARACHI: It’s the year 2018. India prepares to head to poll next year. “Narendra Modi is facing an unexpected image problem: he’s starting to look weak,” writes Nikhil Kumar in an analysis for CNN. Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party lost a number of key state-level elections in December 2018, with

The Trump administration on Friday abruptly moved to restore thousands of international students’ ability to study in the United States legally, but immigration officials insisted they could still try to terminate that legal status despite a wave of legal challenges. The decision, which came during a court hearing in Washington, was a dramatic shift by

President Trump has ordered the U.S. government to take a major step toward mining vast tracts of the ocean floor, a move that nearly every other nation in the world considers off limits to this kind of industrial activity. The executive order, signed Thursday, would circumvent a decades-old international treaty that every major coastal nation

The U.S. pressured Ukraine to accept a peace proposal President Trump lashed out yesterday at President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine after he rejected a U.S. plan to end the war with Russia. “He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country,” Trump wrote on social media. Vice

Pope Francis’ critics represent a minority of the American church but a powerful one. Ruth Graham, a reporter covering religion, faith and values for The New York Times, describes how his papacy galvanized a tide of conservative resistance in the American church hierarchy, in Washington and in the pews. Source link

After Meta blocked news from its platforms in Canada, hyperpartisan and misleading content from popular right-wing Facebook pages such as Canada Proud have filled the gap. Our Canada bureau chief explains the effect on voters. Source link

Massacres have spread across once-quiet towns on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, in the deadliest outbreak of sectarian violence since rebels toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad. Christina Goldbaum, The New York Times’s bureau chief in Syria, traveled to the area to get a sense of who was responsible. Source link

Ana Swanson, who covers trade and international economics for The New York Times, talks to Jeanna Smialek, The Times’s Brussels bureau chief, and Keith Bradsher, The Times’s Beijing bureau chief, about how Trump’s tariffs are playing out in Europe and China. Source link

Mark Zuckerberg has appeared before Congress more times than any other tech leader. He will testify again soon — as a witness in a federal antitrust trial. Cecilia Kang, a technology reporter for The New York Times, recalls some of Zuckerberg’s past congressional hearings and explains why the stakes are even higher this time. Source