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President Trump unveiled across-the-board tariffs on every trading partner, calling it Liberation Day and triggering the biggest disruption to world trade since the 1930s.
President Trump and Vice President Vance berated Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, ending a minerals deal signing and threatening the US-Ukraine alliance.
Germany’s Christian Democrats led by Friedrich Merz won the federal election, with the far-right AfD finishing second and the SPD suffering a historic collapse.
Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term, the first convicted felon to assume the US presidency, and began with executive orders on immigration, energy and trade.
A US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began in Gaza, halting 15 months of devastating war and setting the stage for a phased release of hostages.
Fanned by hurricane-force winds, wildfires tore through Pacific Palisades, Altadena and other parts of Los Angeles, killing at least 28 people and destroying thousands of homes.
A man drove a truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, killing 14 people in an attack the FBI said bore the hallmarks of Islamic State.
In less than two weeks, Syrian rebels overran the government and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, ending his family’s five-decade grip on Syria.
Five years after a devastating fire, Notre-Dame Cathedral reopened its doors in a ceremony attended by dozens of world leaders, restored to the French capital.
President Yoon Suk-yeol stunned South Korea by declaring martial law, only to lift it hours later after parliament defied him and crowds took to the streets.
Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris to win a second, non-consecutive term as US president, sweeping all seven battleground states and gaining control of the Senate.
A year’s worth of rain fell in hours across eastern Spain, unleashing deadly flash floods that overwhelmed towns near Valencia and killed more than 200 people.
