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FILE– Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy delivers remarks at the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018. On Aug. 20, 2019, Conte announced his resignation, choosing to quit before a confidence vote promoted by the hard-line and increasingly popular interior minister, Matteo Salvini. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times) XNYT18 XNYT18

August 20, 2019 at 9:16 am

Why Italian governments so often end in collapse — like this one just did

The level of political turnover in Italy is unusual for an advanced economy. Among Italy's Western European neighbors, Germany has had three chancellors, France has...

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Sarah, Duchess of York and The Duke of York during day four of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse on June 21, 2019. (Adam Davy/PA Wire/Zuma Press/TNS) 1387588 1387588

August 13, 2019 at 5:40 am

Britain’s Prince Andrew faces new scrutiny for ties to Jeffrey Epstein

LONDON - Buckingham Palace has never attempted to explain the photograph. It shows a middle-aged Prince Andrew, Duke of York, smiling with his arm around...

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Protesters mass in the streets of Hong Kong on Monday, July 1, 2019. A few hundred protesters stormed into Hong Kong’s legislative complex on Monday, pumping their fists in the air, after riot police appeared to back away from a confrontation, leaving the compound hours after the core group of demonstrators started bashing their way in. (Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times) XNYT4 XNYT4

July 1, 2019 at 1:04 pm

Why Hong Kong has grown increasingly fearful of Chinese control

The public storming of the legislature presents the strongest challenge yet to Chinese control of Hong Kong, and many argue it's a culmination of more...

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Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain and President Donald Trump at No. 10 Downing Street in London on Tuesday, June 4, 2019. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) NYT3 NYT3

June 4, 2019 at 11:58 am

Britain is fiercely protective of its health-care system. Trump suggested he wants it included in trade talks.

President Donald Trump may have inadvertently played into some of Britons' worst fears about their post-Brexit future when he suggested that Britain's National Health Service...

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March 14, 2019 at 4:08 am

Ireland’s prime minister talks Brexit and Trump

Leo Varadkar, prime minister of Ireland, cuts a sharp contrast to President Donald Trump. Three decades younger, openly gay and the biracial son of an...

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March 4, 2019 at 9:30 am

What is the Monroe Doctrine? John Bolton’s justification for Trump’s push against Maduro.

White House national security adviser John Bolton was detailing the U.S. government's hard line against the government of "dictator" Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela on Sunday...

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February 26, 2019 at 4:36 pm

Kim Jong Un under rare media scrutiny in Vietnam

Since a nationwide antismoking campaign began in North Korea in 2016, Kim Jong Un has less frequently been seen with a cigarette in his hand....

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January 10, 2019 at 4:34 am

Is North Korea a player in the U.S.-China trade war? | Adam Taylor / Syndicated columnist

Kim could play China against the United States, turning to one for relief whenever the pressure from the other got to be too much.

December 26, 2018 at 10:24 am

3 ways the U.S. government shutdown affects the world

Few other nations experience anything like a government shutdown during domestic funding disputes. But even if the shutdown is a distinctly American phenomenon, it will...

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FILE – In this June 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island, in Singapore. Asia is paying more attention than usual to the U.S. midterm elections, thanks to Trump. Anxiety hangs over the region on whether a Democratic victory would significantly alter the Trump administration’s major initiatives in foreign policy and trade. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) NYCD403 NYCD403

November 12, 2018 at 10:54 am

Newly revealed N. Korean missile bases cast doubt on value of Trump’s summit with Kim

The report released today is the latest evidence that while North Korea has indeed stopped its missile testing, it is far from dismantling its weapons...

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