Victory for Democrats could alter the course of peace negotiations and a war nearing its fifth year.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine meeting with President Trump at the United Nations in September. Mr. Trump has blown hot and at times very cold on Kyiv.
From Miami, Flรกvio Bolsonaro is making unfounded claims of a stolen election and plotting to sway his nationโs politics from afar, even though his party is not challenging the results.
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Flรกvio Bolsonaro, the right-wing Brazilian senator who lost last monthโs presidential election, in Aventura, Fla., on Wednesday after fleeing Brazil.
Both Moscow and Kyiv say Mrs. Trumpโs team was the driving force behind an evacuation of a besieged city. It was also in their interest to deliver her a humanitarian win.
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Melania Trump receiving a humanitarian award from Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian human rights ombudsman, at the White House on Thursday.
Israel once had bipartisan support in the United States, but a strong showing for Democrats, some of whom are deeply critical of the war in Gaza, has left the country with fewer friends in Congress.
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The Detroit election night party of the Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan. Mr. El-Sayed won his race.
Commentators abroad wondered what President Trumpโs electoral losses might mean for oil prices, the war on Iran and the future of American politics.
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President Trump walking offstage after a rally in Salina, Kan., on Sunday. The election results mean the Democrats will take control of the House and Senate.
The long-running comedy show โThis Hour Has 22 Minutesโ is having a heyday playing with the fraught relationship between President Trump and Canada.
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Mark Critch, a veteran cast member of โThis Hour Has 22 Minutes,โ plays President Trump on the show.
In a memo, the department told lawmakers it was redirecting up to $125 million in foreign aid, including nearly $49 million that Congress appropriated for family planning programs in low-income countries.
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A sex worker sorting through condoms at her home in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2024.
The Treasury Department accused Rwanda of undermining a U.S.-brokered peace agreement by supporting a rebel group in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Soldiers from the M23 rebel group in Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, in January. The United States has accused Rwanda of continuing to support the group.
In his letter, the vice president suggested an immediate resumption of comprehensive talks, including about Iranโs nuclear program.
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Vice President JD Vance is said to have made the outreach in a letter sent last week via Qatari meditators and delivered Sunday to an Iranian official, Gen. Mohsen Rezaei.
A Russian official said potential relief for a state investment fund was part of talks. Russia has sought to wring economic benefits from the negotiations on ending the war with Ukraine.
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Mr. Putinโs foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said that โsuch a conversationโ had been โgoing on for some time, though I do not know what the outcome will be.โ
The move would be the latest U.S. concession to Moscow as President Trump pursues economic incentives he hopes will secure an end to war in Ukraine.
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Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Trumpโs envoys, with Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, in Moscow last month.
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