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A gigantic, roiling cloud of black smoke swirled up from a parking lot of burning cars, as residents milled about on a sidewalk in distress, and police and fire vehicles careened past. Then the scene became more chaotic.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said in the Oval Office on Monday he has no intention of returning a Maryland man mistakenly deported to his country by the Trump administration and being held in a mega prison.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday invited President Donald Trump to visit Ukraine, “to come and to see” for himself the destruction and violence that Russia’s war in the country has wrought.

Canadian tourist Jacqueline Robert smiles and clutches her shoulders in a warm embrace in the courtyard of Richard’s Motel in Hollywood. She looks a visitor in the eye and exclaims, “The sun!”

In Austin, a Venezuelan exile sensed a familiar knot in his stomach after a newly inaugurated President Donald Trump suggested he has unfettered authority. In Chicago, an Iranian émigré was rattled by Trump’s sudden takeover of an arts center he derided as culturally “woke.” In San Francisco, a Hungarian immigrant listened with trepidation to the president’s speeches: how the country’s greatness had been lost and that he was saved by God to fix it.

China retaliated against Donald Trump’s latest tariffs by hiking duties on all U.S. goods, while calling the administration’s actions a “joke” and saying it no longer considers them worth matching.

Russian and U.S. officials held a fresh round of talks in Turkey, after a prisoner swap in which Moscow released detained American Ksenia Karelina.

Israel controls more of Gaza than at any point during the war, part of a plan that officials increasingly describe as leading to a full military occupation.

At least 124 people were killed and more than 155 injured when a nightclub’s roof collapsed in the Dominican Republic’s capital city early Tuesday, local officials said, including a prominent local singer, a governor and two former Major League Baseball players.

For 15 straight years, Veronica Clarke has made a “sacred pilgrimage” to honor the King - at Graceland. But not this year. The London-based writer canceled her annual August trip to mark Elvis Presley’s death in Memphis because, honestly, she just doesn’t feel so great about the United States right now. The usually pro-American Elvis superfan says the onslaught of upheaval flowing from Washington - the tariffs, the mass deportations - is taking a toll.

Russian and U.S. officials will hold fresh talks in Turkey’s Istanbul on April 10, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday.

The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block an order to bring back a Maryland man who immigration officials conceded was wrongly deported to a notorious prison in his native El Salvador.

Hundreds of people gathered at the mosque in this small village Monday as they bid farewell to Amer Rabee, a 14-year-old Palestinian American shot dead by Israeli forces a day earlier.

A video, discovered on the cellphone of a paramedic who was found along with 14 other aid workers in a mass grave in the Gaza Strip in late March, shows that the ambulances and firetruck that they were traveling in were clearly marked and had their emergency signal lights on when Israeli troops hit them with a barrage of gunfire.

CAIRO – In a rare and perilous public show of anger against Hamas, hundreds of Palestinians marched through Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip this week, demanding that the militant group relinquish control of the territory and end the war with Israel, according to four witnesses.

When Yoon Suk Yeol was running for president, he had the word “king” written on his palm. South Koreans dismissed – and ridiculed – it as a shamanistic ritual that reflected his desire for top government office.