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William Booth is an International Correspondent for The Washington Post based in London. Booth served as bureau chief in London, Jerusalem, Mexico City, Los Angeles and Miami, as pop culture correspondent for the Style section, and science reporter on the National desk. He has covered upheaval and transformation in Catalonia, Ukraine, Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Haiti, Honduras and the Balkans. In Mexico, his work focused on migration, drug trafficking and the state response. In the Middle East, he covered the Israel-Palestinian conflict, including the 2014 and 2023-24 Gaza wars. In the UK, he chron

Education: University of Texas at Austin, literature ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vannevar Bush Fellow

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Romanian presidential candidate Nicusor Dan greets supporters Sunday after exit poll results showed him with a lead over opponent George Simion.

Posters for the two candidates running in Romania's election, George Simion, left, and Nicusor Dan, on a billboard in Bucharest, Romania, on Friday.

A rare Magna Carta, long known as HLS MS 172 and recently dated to 1300, is displayed at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 15.

Wye Angus cattle eat at the University of Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station in Queenstown, Maryland, on April 25, 2022.

Transgender advocates demonstrate outside the British Parliament in April.

People hold a copy of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, with a front page picture of newly elected pope Leo XIV, on Friday in Vatican City.

A letter fragment that a new study theorizes was addressed to Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare, indicating that Shakespeare had taken Hathaway with him to London for some time. (Hereford Cathedral and Hereford Mappa Mundi Trust)

Francis tours St. Peter's Square in the popemobile after Easter Mass on Sunday.

The cellars of the Taittinger Champagne house in Reims, France. President Donald Trump has threatened to place a 200 percent tariff on all wine and spirits coming from the European Union.

Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland, in 2023.