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For years, Russia used Brazil as a launchpad for its most elite intelligence officers, known as illegals. They started businesses, made friends and had love affairs — events that, over many years, became the building blocks of entirely new identities. Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz, investigative reporters for The New York Times, discuss one case.
Russian forces have been beefing up bases and building military infrastructure near the Finnish border, according to recent satellite imagery, in moves that could reveal their strategy for what happens after the Ukraine war. The imagery, confirmed by NATO officials, shows row after row of new tents; new warehouses that can store military vehicles; renovations…
When President Trump shook hands with Syria’s new leader and promised to lift sanctions on his country at the Saudi royal palace this week, it was a vivid demonstration of how the president’s Middle East diplomacy has all but sidelined Israel. “Tough guy, very strong past,” Mr. Trump said about President Ahmed al-Shara, who once…
It takes at least two countries to make a deportation happen: one to send deportees and one to receive them. Typically, the receiving country agrees to take back its own citizens, but the Trump administration is developing other options. The U.S. has sent hundreds of deportees, most of whom appear to be Venezuelans, to El…
As Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, hosts President Trump in Doha on Wednesday, it will be the culmination of a successful charm offensive by the Gulf emirate that now appears likely to include the promise of a luxury jetliner to Mr. Trump — with no strings attached. The president, who has…
American presidents have been visiting Saudi Arabia for decades, and the trips have often produced memorable moments — some dramatic, others downright odd. As President Trump returns to Saudi Arabia, here is a look back at four moments from past presidential trips to visit leaders of the oil-rich Gulf state. 2022: The Biden Fist Bump…
President Trump arrived on Tuesday morning in Saudi Arabia, his first stop on a four-day tour through the Gulf, the first major overseas trip of his second term. He stepped off Air Force One at the Royal Terminal, a special section for V.I.P.s at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. Mr. Trump…
Ukraine and its allies on Monday sought to pile pressure on Russia to agree to an unconditional truce, with European leaders threatening to immediately impose a new round of sanctions and President Volodymyr Zelensky challenging President Vladimir V. Putin to meet him in Turkey on Thursday. President Trump raised the stakes, suggesting he might take…
Indian and Pakistani military leaders held talks on Monday intended to extend a tenuous cease-fire that has halted the most expansive fighting in decades between the two nuclear-armed states. A sense of normalcy began to return on both sides of their border, two days after a U.S.-mediated truce ended their rapidly escalating military conflict. Stock…
India and Pakistan both claimed victory on Sunday after agreeing to a truce in a rapidly escalating conflict that was sparked by a deadly terrorist attack on the Indian side of Kashmir last month, raising concerns that the two nuclear powers could end up in all-out war. India, blaming the April 22 attack on Pakistan’s…
