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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s London Visit Will Bring More of the Same
Queen Elizabeth II invited Trump to London for an official state visit in June. It’s no surprise that people are already planning protests.
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Jeff J. Mitchell / Getty The Center Isn’t Holding in Northern Ireland
More than 20 years after the Good Friday Agreement was signed, the moderates who championed the peace deal no longer have any significant political power.
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Dinuka Liyanawatte / Reuters What’s Different About the Attacks in Sri Lanka
Investigators have to determine how the militants went from defacing places of worship to launching a devastating attack.
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How a River Was Granted Personhood
The government of New Zealand worked with the indigenous Maori people to legally confer the rights of an individual on a river.
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Chamila Karunarathne / Anadolu Agency / Getty Photos: Mourning and Anguish After the Devastating Attacks in Sri Lanka
After the horrific Easter Sunday bombings, loved ones mourn in Sri Lanka, and supporters offer prayers from around the world.
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Kemal Aslan / Reuters Cracks Are Deepening in Erdoğan’s Ruling Party
“If we lose Istanbul, we lose Turkey,” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reportedly said in 2017—and his party recently lost Istanbul’s mayoral election.
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Olivier Matthys / AP The European Press Corps Cannot Cover the EU
Brussels-based journalists struggle to reconcile the reality of complex pan-European decision making with national-news agendas. It’s an uphill battle.
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Stringer / Reuters A Horrific Flashback in Sri Lanka
The Easter Sunday bombings, which killed more than 200 people, are a reminder of the tensions that linger from the brutal civil war that ended a decade ago.
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Thomas Samson / AFP / Getty A Motto for a World-Weary Paris
The Notre-Dame fire brought Parisians together, for just a moment, in a way that even the November 13 terrorist attacks could not.
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Vadim Ghirda / AP Photos of the Week: Water Festival, Candy Candidate, Uruguayan Gaucho
Fashion in Pakistan, Ivanka Trump in Ethiopia, Holy Week celebrations in Spain, an aircraft with the world’s longest wingspan, Notre-Dame cathedral ablaze in Paris, spring skiing in Siberia, and much more
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Kate Warren The French Ambassador Is Retiring Today. Here’s What He Really Thinks About Washington.
Gérard Araud says that Trump is right about trade. Kushner is “extremely smart” but has “no guts.” And John Bolton’s not so bad, actually.
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Mariana Bazo / Reuters The Real Illegal Immigration Crisis Isn’t on the Southern Border
Focusing on asylum seekers who cross land borders ignores the real problem: people who overstay their visas.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Trump Still Hasn’t Condemned Russia for Meddling in the 2016 Election
The president has denied wrongdoing, played the victim, and refrained from criticizing Russia’s role in the election.
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Desmond Boylan / AP Trump’s Venezuela Policy: Slow Suffocation
The administration is pressuring other countries to tighten the noose on Nicolás Maduro. But his backers have the upper hand.
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Wang Zhao / AFP / Getty Mars in the Gobi Desert
Photographers were on hand as some of the first student groups arrived to tour this vision of Mars in China’s Gobi Desert.
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Willy Kurniawan / Reuters Indonesia’s Democracy Is Becoming More Conservative
Incumbent President Joko Widodo won reelection with a Muslim-cleric running mate and five years of economic growth on his side.
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Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters Ukraine’s Election Is an All-Out Disinformation Battle
Ahead of the presidential election, the campaigns themselves have become combatants in the information war. That’s exactly what Russia wants.
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Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt / AFP / Getty France’s Paradoxes, Embodied in a Cathedral
France is a secular republic, dedicated to the principle of laïcité, or the absence of religion in public life. But it has as its national symbol the Notre-Dame cathedral.
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Ludovic Marin / AFP / Getty After the Fire: Photos From Inside Notre-Dame Cathedral
Investigators and photographers were able to get a first look at the damaged interior.
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Yves Herman Reuters Notre-Dame Isn’t Lost
The history of sacred structures is defined by ruin and repair.
