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Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary gambled heavily and publicly on a Trump victory.

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Ukrainians gathered at the site of a Russian strike on a residential area of Lviv, in western Ukraine, in September. The yellow apartment building in the background is where the reporter and his family live.

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Feminist-themed paintings in the small town of Oran, Province of Salta, Argentina.

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Simon Harris, the prime minister of Ireland, in Washington last month.

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An apartment building in Kyiv, Ukraine, was damaged by debris last week. Attacks in the city by explosive-laden drones have become a near-nightly occurrence.

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The challenge of policing abuses of Interpol’s systems will fall to the organization’s new secretary general, Valdecy Urquiza of Brazil.

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Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany fired his finance minister, who leads one of the three parties in the governing coalition.

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Australia has proposed a ban on teenagers from social media.

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New York after the election. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has welcomed Donald J. Trump’s win, but how Mr. Trump might rearrange the regional chessboard is unclear.

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A passer-by in Beijing on Wednesday watching a state news broadcast of Donald J. Trump declaring victory in the U.S. presidential election.

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Presidents Donald J. Trump and Vladimir V. Putin in Helsinki in 2018.

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European officials at the Defense Ministers’ Council at NATO Headquarters in Brussels last month.

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During his first term as President, Donald J. Trump made his first overseas trip to Saudi Arabia, signaling the importance he placed on the relationship.

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Salman Rushdie in Frankfurt, Germany, last year.

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Elon Musk is expected to have a direct line to the White House in the coming months.

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President-elect Donald Trump proposed an assortment of loosely defined tax cuts during his campaign, but lawmakers and his advisers are undecided about how much they will lower taxes again.

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Prince William was greeted by crowds in South Africa during a visit to Kalk Bay Harbour in Cape Town on Thursday.

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President Biden yesterday at the White House.

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A session at the European Political Community in Budapest on Thursday. The meeting comes on the heels of recent political events in the United States and Germany.

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From ice to sand: The penguin who found its way Down Under.

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Keir Starmer and his wife, Victoria Starmer, outside their north London home in 2020.

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Diplomats and heads of state from nearly 200 countries are gathering in Azerbaijan to update their plans to address climate change.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, center right, has defended the appointment of Kevin Rudd, center left, as envoy to the United States. They toured the U.S. Capitol last year.

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Carrying supplies through a flooded area of Feni, Bangladesh, in August.

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Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, shown in 2019, spoke by phone on Wednesday.

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Shinzo Abe, then the prime minister of Japan, with Donald J. Trump at the White House in 2018.

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Villagers wade in floodwater in the town of Aparri in the Philippines on Friday.

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Donald Trump on election night in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Heavy smog in Lahore, Pakistan, on Wednesday.

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The dry bed of the Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon, in northwestern Brazil in September.

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Donald Trump on election night in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Olaf Scholz, head of Germany’s three-party center-left government.

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Geoff Capes in 1983, when he established a world record in truck pulling by hauling a Mercedes-Benz tractor-trailer to the finish line in 54.3 seconds.

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A TV in a Hong Kong restaurant showed U.S. election returns Wednesday.

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President Biden speaking at a news conference during the NATO Summit in Washington in July. Mr. Biden is one in a long line of presidents who have largely viewed America’s allies as a force multiplier.

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Gideon Saar, Israel’s newest foreign minister.

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Donald J. Trump talking about border security and migrant crime during a campaign stop in Austin, last month.

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A billboard congratulating Donald J. Trump in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.

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Supporters of Donald J. Trump gathering at a bar in Jerusalem to watch the reporting of U.S. election results on Wednesday.

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Siversk, eastern Ukraine. The city has been under heavy shelling from Russian-occupied territory.

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Watching news of the U.S. presidential election in Tokyo, on Wednesday.

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Yoav Gallant saluting as a sign of respect to Israel’s security forces at the end of a news conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.

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A sign with a photo of Mount Fuji, with the snowless mountain in the distance, last week.

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People holding photographs of the Supreme Court justices during a protest against a judicial reform law in Mexico City, on Tuesday.

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Yoav Gallant at Israel’s Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, after being fired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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The North Korean Embassy in Moscow in October.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, left, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at a news conference at Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 28, 2023, three weeks after the war with Hamas began.

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Israel Katz addressing the United Nations General Assembly in 2019, during an earlier stint as Israel’s foreign minister. He was named defense minister on Tuesday.

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Voters outside a museum in Michigan.

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A screengrab from a local broadcast in Peru on Sunday, when a soccer player died and four others were hospitalized after a lightning strike during a soccer game.

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People run away from tear gas during a protest on the street in Kano, Nigeria, in August.

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Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defense minister fired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a news conference on Tuesday.

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Morgan Boone, a volunteer with Crop Swap LA, harvested lettuce at the La Salle Microfarm in the view View Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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A DHL airplane at the Leipzig/Halle Airport, Germany, in October. Incendiary devices were planted this summer at DHL shipping hubs in Leipzig and Birmingham, England, Western officials said.

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China-made vehicles ready for export in Shandong Province of China.

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