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Pieces of gum arabic, a natural emulsifier, displayed in a warehouse of an exporting company, in Port Sudan, Sudan.

WORLD / Politics

Mar 22, 2025

A genocidal militia in Sudan controls a key ingredient in Coke and Pepsi

By Simon Marks

Gum arabic acts as an organic emulsifier in consumer goods around the world — in candy, medicine, soda and cosmetics.

Palestinians look on during the handover by Hamas of deceased Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on Feb. 20

WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS

Mar 22, 2025

Hamas remains potent threat to Israel despite muted response to strikes

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose

Israel has inflicted serious damage on Hamas, but sources say the group has shown it can absorb major losses and still fight and govern.

Protesters outside a Tesla showroom in West Bloomfield, Michigan, on March 20.

WORLD / Politics

Mar 22, 2025

Tesla vandalism sparked by fury against Musk draws GOP ire

By Kara Carlson, Myles Miller and Alicia Clanton

Caught in the middle are millions of customers whose electric vehicles increasingly are viewed as political symbols.

U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, at the White House in Washington on Friday.

WORLD / Politics

Mar 22, 2025

Trump rejects idea that Musk should have access to top-secret China war plans

By Maggie Haberman and Eric Schmitt

The U.S. president also denied a report that such a briefing had been planned to be held at the Pentagon on Friday.

Hamas gunmen stand guard at a funeral for a deputy military commander in the central Gaza Strip in February.

WORLD / Politics

Mar 22, 2025

Hamas studies U.S. 'bridge' proposal for truce as Israel escalates return to war

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jana Choukeir

Israel has intensified a military onslaught to press the Palestinian militant group to free the remaining Israeli hostages.

U.S. President Donald Trump with Elon Musk and his son at the White House this month. The Pentagon is scheduled on Friday to brief Musk on the U.S. military’s plan for any war that might break out with China, two U.S. officials said Thursday.

WORLD / Politics

Mar 21, 2025

Musk set to get access to top-secret U.S. plan for potential war with China

By Eric Schmitt, Eric Lipton, Julian E. Barnes, Ryan Mac and Maggie Haberman

Providing Musk with access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets would bring into sharp relief questions about his conflicts of interest.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces and seen from across the Dnipro River, in Ukraine.

WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS

Mar 21, 2025

Financial folly or pressure tactic? Trump eyes Ukraine's occupied nuclear plant

By Pavel Polityuk and Tom Balmforth

The vast plant is beset with problems and it would be years before there is even a hope of it making a return on investment.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Passengers that were on a morning train attacked by members of the Aum Shinrikyo group wait for medical assistance outside Kasumigaseki Station on March 20,1995.

The day a religious cult brought terror to Tokyo

By Alex K.T. Martin

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