By CARLOS BARRAGÁN The Spanish Supreme Court has canceled an arrest warrant for Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan separatist leader who fled the country in 2017 and had been living in Belgium, allowing him to return to Catalonia. The decision, which the court announced Tuesday afternoon, paves the way for Puigdemont to benefit from an amnesty law passed by parliament in 2024. The decision came hours after Spain’s Constitutional Court ruled that the Supreme Court must apply the a

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences called the discoveries of Kagan and Soai “decisive for chemists who design reactions for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.” (X via Ursula von der Leyen) By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for solving a long-standing mystery about mirror images in molecules. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences called their discoveries “decisive for chemists who design reactions for the

An MQ9 remotely piloted aircraft at the 174th Fighter Wing at Hancock Field Air National Guard base in Syracuse, N.Y., July 19, 2012. In a sign of the Trump administration’s new focus on combating Latin American cartels, the U.S. military has moved a number of MQ-9 Reaper drones from Africa to Colombia and Ecuador, U.S. officials said. (Heather Ainsworth/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL and ERIC SCHMIDT In a sign of the Trump administration’s new focus on combating Latin

By ERIC SCHMITT and JULIAN E. BARNES The United States abruptly withdrew all 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from an air base in southern England based on new information that commanders received about a potential drone attack ordered by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, according to U.S. and British officials. The suspected attack was part of a complex, multipronged Iranian plot to strike aircraft and kill some of the several hundred American personnel stationed at the base, RAF Fairford

Francis Halzen is a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (wipac.wisc.edu) By AURELIEN BREEDEN Francis Halzen was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his work on a project at the South Pole that has helped discover high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Who is the winner? Halzen is a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was born in 1944 in Tienen, Belgium. Why did the co

Presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro gestures onstage during the official launch of his campaign at the Liberal Party’s National Convention in São Paulo, July 25, 2026. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the leftist incumbent, and Flávio Bolsonaro, the right-wing challenger, face off in a race that could define the future of Latin America. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times) By ANA IONOVA and ADAM B. ELLICK A surprise victory for a right-wing populist embroiled in scandal. Crushi

Migrants wait on a beach for humanitarian assistance in Ceuta, Spain, Aug. 1, 2026. The decision by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain on Monday, Oct. 5, to call an early election came after months of escalating crises that have made it hard for him to govern. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times) By LARA JAKES The decision by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain on Monday to call an early election came after months of escalating crises that have made it hard for him to g

By LEO SANDS Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday for their discoveries in neuroscience. The three scientists researched light-gated ion channels, a type of proteins, to establish the field of optogenetics, a pioneering technique that uses tiny lights to activate discrete groups of neurons in the brain, said Abdel El Manira, a member of the Nobel Committee that awarded the prize. The discovery has illumi

Attendees at the launch event for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s presidential reelection campaign in São Paulo, Aug. 2, 2026. Lula, the leftist incumbent, and Flávio Bolsonaro, the right-wing challenger, face off in a race that could define the future of Latin America. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times) By ANA IONOVA and ADAM B. ELLICK Brazil’s heated presidential election was forced into a runoff on Sunday, according to election officials, with the right-wing challe

The detention facility at Guantanamo Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Oct. 4, 2007. In a new setback to prosecutors in the Sept. 11 case, a military judge on Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, excluded the confessions of another prisoner accused of helping the hijackers who carried out the attacks. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times) By CAROL ROSENBERG In a new setback to prosecutors in the Sept. 11 case, a military judge last Friday excluded the confessions of another prisoner accuse