Before the Senate impeachment trial began in earnest Tuesday, President Trump was more than 4,000 miles away from Washington, in this glitzy Alpine village, driving a competing narrative—one that had nothing to do with pressure on Ukraine, abuse of power or obstruction of Congress.

From the earliest days of the revolution, Cuba has been sending doctors to treat the poor people of the developing world—a key source of income and influence for the communist island long isolated by a U.S. embargo. Now the Trump administration is targeting the government’s signature medical brigades, urging U.S. allies to cancel their health cooperation agreements and send their Cuban doctors packing.

Italy and Britain will face U.S. tariffs if they proceed with a tax on digital companies such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc., U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned.

A large problem remains: Washington does not know what it is trying to achieve.

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The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that.

Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman and the daughter of Angola’s former president, is under scrutiny by her bank and the Angolan government after a leak of more than 700,000 documents showed how she exploited the country’s wealth to enrich herself.

Comoros President Azali Assoumani’s party has swept to victory in a parliamentary election boycotted by the opposition, according to official results.

Nine civilians died in western Chad after a female suicide bomber detonated explosives in an area targeted in the past by the Boko Haram armed group, officials said Monday.

The trial of seven Cameroonian soldiers accused of participating in the killing of two women and two children has begun behind closed doors, two judicial sources said Tuesday, after a video of the incident sparked an international outcry.

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“African corruption” is only African as regards its victims. Its perpetrators are institutions and individuals from across the globe who are willing to loot without conscience as they watch their offshore accounts grow.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised more action to help Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido after the two met Monday on the sidelines of a counterterrorism conference in Bogota.

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Central American migrants, traveling in a caravan from Honduras, tried to force their way through the Mexico-Guatemala border Monday after the Mexican government rejected their request to transit toward the United States.

At least 75 members of a powerful Brazilian drug cartel escaped from a prison in northern Paraguay through a tunnel Sunday, pulling off an escape plan that officials had known about for more than a month but were unable to stop.

Colombian Sen. Antonio Sanguino moves around town in a bullet-proof vehicle, with three pistol-packing bodyguards watching over him as he attends meetings and political rallies. But the leftist senator says that while the bodyguards protect him from assassination attempts, they have been unable to neutralize another type of threat: Sanguino believes Colombia’s intelligence services have been intercepting his phone calls, looking at his emails and tracking his WhatsApp chats since early last year, and sending that information to the nation’s governing party.

Former President Evo Morales announced Sunday that ex-Economy Minister Luis Arce Catacora will be his party’s presidential candidate in Bolivia’s May 3 elections.

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A widespread sentiment of dissatisfaction and lack of fairness is driving protests across the region.

Australian officials said Tuesday that the country would begin screening passengers on flights from Wuhan, the Chinese city where a new coronavirus has infected more than 250 people and killed at least six, as global concern has grown about the spread of the disease.

North Korea has sacked its foreign minister and replaced him with a former military officer with a reputation for being a hard-line, cantankerous negotiator, underlining a harsher attitude toward the United States, experts and media reports said.

A Chinese executive wanted by the U.S. may be passing her days in a Vancouver mansion, but friends say she is “trapped” in a gilded cage.

A senior Thai official met an envoy of the main insurgent group fighting in the country’s largely Muslim south in what both sides described as a positive step toward a peace process, the Thai government said Tuesday.

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A former senior Chinese police official who also served as president of Interpol was sentenced Tuesday to 13 and a half years in prison for bribery, in a case that his wife has denounced as stemming from a political vendetta.

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How an all-controlling state silences dissent by claiming to protect free speech.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday he had a “great discussion” with U.S. President Donald Trump over a digital tax planned by Paris and said the two countries would work together to avoid a rise in tariffs.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia submitted constitutional amendments Monday that empower a previously toothless advisory council as a powerful policy arbiter, setting up what could be a future role for himself as Russia’s long-term paramount leader.

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The Norwegian prime minister lost her parliamentary majority Monday after the right-wing Progress Party withdrew its ministers from the government coalition. The right-wing protest move came in response to the controversial repatriation of a suspected Islamic State member and her children from a Syrian camp.

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Serbia and Kosovo agreed Monday to restore flights between their capitals for the first time in more than two decades, in a step toward reconciliation brokered by the United States at a time when the European Union is urging the two Balkan countries to resume talks.

The longest transport strike in French history is petering out, as cash-strapped employees have gone back to work rather than press the fight against pension overhauls sought by President Emmanuel Macron.

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The death toll in a drone and missile attack on a government military training base in central Yemen rose to at least 76 on Sunday, representing an escalation bound to complicate international efforts to end the country’s prolonged war.

Western and Arab powers signed a wide-ranging agreement Sunday to respect a U.N. arms embargo and stop providing military support to Libya's warring factions. But the gathering failed to persuade the rival sides to agree to a lasting cease-fire, as many had hoped.

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An American journalist has been detained in Lebanon on suspicion of sending footage of anti-government protests to an Israeli news outlet—a potentially serious crime under Lebanese law—authorities here said Monday.

Iran acknowledged Tuesday that its forces had fired two surface-to-air missiles at a Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed this month near Tehran, confirming for the first time that more than one missile was launched at the jet.

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The Arab Middle East is far too weakened and divided to support a Trump administration strategy for containing the Islamic republic’s ambitions.

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