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A worker picks roses at a flower farm in Chia, Cundinamarca department, Colombia, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025
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The Truth Behind Your Valentine’s Day Flowers
Community leader, Digna Benite, calls her village of Limon de Chagres, a land made of love.
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In Panama economic needs threaten to erase a way of life
Vice President JD Vance speaks during a plenary session at the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in Paris, on Feb. 11.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (center) speaks with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (right) and Finland’s defense minister, Antti Hakkanen, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday.
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Relatives and supporters of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip hold photos depicting their faces during a protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Thursday. They’re demanding the release of the hostages from Hamas captivity.
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein (L) in the Oval Office. The meeting comes as Trump has proposed that the United States take an ownership position of Gaza.
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Trump says the U.S. will ‘own’ Gaza — what that could mean for the Middle East
An infrared image of Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto, revealing another portrait underneath.
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People demonstrate against political persecution in front of a Belarusian embassy on Jan. 26, 2025.
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A view of the city center of the Greenlandic capital Nuuk. Trump’s renewed interest in acquiring the island hasn’t gone over well with Greenland or Denmark.
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A woman sunbathes on a summer day in Montevideo, Uruguay, in January of 2025. This January was the hottest ever recorded on Earth.
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A Ukrainian tank passes by a burning car near the Russian-Ukrainian border, Sumy region, Ukraine, on Aug. 14, 2024.
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HEGSETH PLEDGES US SUPPORT TO NATO AND UKRAINE
President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embrace after giving a joint statement in New Delhi, India, Feb. 25, 2020.
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President Trump greets Jordan’s King Abdullah at the White House on Tuesday. Trump has proposed that the U.S. take control of Gaza and transfer its population to neighboring countries, possibly Jordan. However, Abdullah said he and other Arab states strongly opposed relocating Palestinians.
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Ellen Keelan, center, and other family members rally outside the White House for the release of Marc Fogel, detained in Russia since August 2021, on July 15, 2023.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the press at the U.S. Capitol, Feb. 7.
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Pope Francis wrote a letter to U.S. Catholic bishops refuting Vice President Vance’s theology and taking to task the Trump administration’s stance on migrants.
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Pope Francis calls Trump’s mass deportations a ‘major crisis’ in letter
President Trump speaks with Jordanian King Abdullah II in the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday.
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Jordan’s King Abdullah to meet with President Trump today at White House
The ‘Crypto Wizard’ vs. Nigeria
Former national security adviser John Bolton sees Greenland as an issue of “critical importance” to U.S. security.
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Former Ambassador on US Greenland ambitions – Mix KZ
Jordan’s King Abdullah II (L) speaks to U.S. President Donald Trump before a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House June 25, 2018 in Washington, DC.
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Jordan’s King In Washington, New Tariffs, NYC Mayor’s Corruption Charges
United States Vice-President JD Vance arrives for a dinner at the Elysee Palace, during an event on the sidelines of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris on Monday.
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A firefighter works inside a bus that fell from a bridge, at the site of the fatal bus crash on the outskirts of Guatemala City, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025.
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Haitians deported from the Dominican Republic get out of trucks in Carrizal, Dominican Republic, on the border with Haiti on Jan. 30.
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A London city worker clears up a fatberg in 2014. A fatberg in Australia caused the cancellation of a concert over the potential for wastewater overflow.
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