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Ukraine Braces for Trump’s Return, Eager for Peace, but Wary of the Terms

As President Trump prepares to return to the White House on Monday, he is promising peace in Ukraine, but publicly offering no strategy for how to achieve it — so Ukrainians can only guess at what the coming months will bring.

Fighting Has Halted in Gaza, but the War Is Not Over

Sunday’s delayed start to the truce was a minor problem compared with the difficult choices and American leverage needed to get both parties to the second phase, which could end the war.

The Last Migrant Caravans Before Trump’s Inauguration

In the weeks before Donald Trump was to take office as president, promising a crackdown on illegal immigrants, groups of migrants were still setting out on foot from Mexico, hoping to somehow reach the northern border by inauguration day.

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