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The administration has asked Panama to take in hundreds of people who can’t easily be sent back to their countries. Many say they are in danger.

Heat, drought and floods are growing security risks, Western defense officials say, feeding instability and violence that could prove costly in the long term.

The American base on Okinawa has relocated 105 Marines. But an agreement to move 9,000 in total is colliding with the perceived threat from a rising China.

The two sides are meeting in Saudi Arabia for their most extensive discussions in years. In addition to Ukraine, business ties are on the table.

President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly faulted the American proposal because it did not include security guarantees.

Bitterness has greeted suggestions that occupied territory will have to be ceded to Russia: “It’s like ripping off a man’s arm or leg and then saying, ‘Let it be as it is.’”

The U.S.S. Harry S. Truman, which had launched airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, struck a commercial vessel near Port Said on Wednesday, Navy officials said.

The move could herald a new front in the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations, one that allows for more rapid removal of migrants whose home countries are reluctant to accept them.

A new directive puts further exemptions on hold. Aid workers also say the U.S. government has made it impossible to pay partners around the world.

The release is part of a swap with the Kremlin that freed an American schoolteacher being held in a Russian prison.