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Lara Jakes

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Foreign Correspondent at The New York Times

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Articles

  • 1 week ago | nytimes.com | Steven Erlanger |Jeanna Smialek |Lara Jakes |Mark Landler |Aurelien Breeden

    Despite Europe's size, economic might and longstanding alliances with Washington, Trump officials have made clear it is not a priority, European officials say. For European allies of the United States, President Trump's White House is structured like a court: the gilded Oval Office a place for advisers, pals and courtiers, all awaiting the decrees of the president. Mr. Trump is the ultimate decision maker, and far from a predictable one.

  • 2 weeks ago | straitstimes.com | Josh Holder |Lara Jakes |Bill Marsh

    For years, the threat of a Russia intent on expansion has loomed over much of Europe. It is not just the war in Ukraine. Moscow has also stationed military forces in friendly countries and fanned the flames of destabilising political movements across the Continent.

  • 3 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Rawan Ahmad |Lara Jakes

    HAIFA, Israel -- Bilal Mohammad Ramadan AbuKresh has lost his home, his job, his wife and seven other relatives during the war in the Gaza Strip. Now, as the United Nations closes 25 bakeries across the territory, he is also losing his only reliable source of food. Before Wednesday, AbuKresh, 40, said he would leave his tent in a camp for displaced people in northern Gaza at dawn and stand in line for hours at one of the bakeries, waiting for bread for his four children.

  • 3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Rawan Ahmad |Lara Jakes

    Bilal Mohammad Ramadan AbuKresh has lost his home, his job, his wife and seven other relatives during the war in Gaza. Now, as the United Nations closes 25 bakeries across the territory, he is also losing his only reliable source of food. Before Wednesday, Mr. AbuKresh, 40, said he would leave his tent in a camp for displaced people in northern Gaza at dawn and stand in line for hours at one of the bakeries, waiting for bread for his four children.

  • 3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Josh Holder |Lara Jakes |Bill Marsh

    For years, the threat of a Russia intent on expansion has loomed over much of Europe. It is not just the war in Ukraine. Moscow has also stationed military forces in friendly countries and fanned the flames of destabilizing political movements across the continent.