President Barack Obama addresses the United Nations climate change conference in Paris, Nov. 30, 2015. As global temperature increase shoots past 1.5 degrees Celsius, the vulnerable countries that fought for that Paris Agreement target face a brutal new reality. (Stephen Crowley/The New York Times) By CHICO HARLAN The most ambitious part of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, only came about because of a campaign by some of the wo

President Donald Trump, right, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia at the White House in Washington, Nov. 18, 2025. The Saudi leader and his government have courted the president and his family for years. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By VIVIAN NEREIM Saudi Arabia has increasingly found itself caught in the middle of the war between the United States and Iran. Now, the kingdom’s leadership is assessing dwindling options on how to respond. In recent weeks

The remnants of a school bag in Betrawati, Nepal, where some 200 students of one school lost their lives in the flooding disaster, Sept. 4, 2026. (Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times) By MUJIB MASHAL and BINOD GHIMIRE Taking a break from the noisy work of leading a school of more than 500 students, Madhav Lamichhane would ride his motorbike down to the riverside Betrawati Bazaar every week. The principal skipped the busy shops around the town’s clock tower, preferring a quiet mome

Beulah Cooper, who was a volunteer at the Royal Canadian Legion where some of the stranded airline passengers found refuge, in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, Aug. 16, 2026. The Newfoundland town welcomed thousands of frightened airline passengers on Sept. 11, but 25 years later, mixed emotions run through anniversary plans amid a breakdown in U.S.-Canada relations. (Renaud Philippe/The New York Times) By NORIMITSU ONISHI If any small town ever embodied Canada’s tr

A puppet with the face of Donald Trump is paraded and beaten during celebrations in the streets during the anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 15, 2026. (Tomas Munita/The New York Times) By ELIAN PELTIER Twenty five years ago, Osama bin Laden led the planning of al-Qaida’s attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, from a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan, where he lived as their guest. Now, the Taliban rule over Afghanistan once again, trying to present

Patients are relocated from Patan Hospital to a tented field hospital run by International Medical Corps due to fears of aftershocks a day after another large earthquake struck in Kathmandu, Nepal, May 13, 2015. Nepal’s flood relief workers feel the pain of President Donald Trump’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D., which played an important role in responding to earlier disasters like the 2015 earthquake. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times) By ANUPREETA DAS, SAJAL PRADHAN and BINOD GHIMI

Soldiers carry a flag-draped case at Dover Air Force Base during the dignified transfer of U.S. Army 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan and three other soldiers killed overseas, in Delaware, on July 22, 2026. Iran’s leaders are taking a more aggressive approach as the country faces mounting economic pressure and they worry that their grip on the Strait of Hormuz is slipping. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By ERIKA SOLOMON Iran has signaled that it is willing to escalate its fight

Cynthia Sanborn, a China scholar at Universidad del Pacífico, in Lima, Peru, April 6, 2026. U.S. officials criticize China’s investment in Peru, “but they can’t make it stick,” and offer no comparable alternative, said Sanborn. (Sara Wayra/The New York Times) By GENEVIEVE GLATSKY Peru’s ambassador in Washington, Luis Miguel Castilla, received a stern phone call in 2015 from the State Department, after U.S. officials learned that a Chinese firm would finance a sprawling new Pa

By JOHN ISMAY U.S. forces operating near Ecuador on Saturday intercepted and destroyed several commercial vessels believed to be used for refueling boats smuggling drugs to the United States. It was the fourth interdiction of vessels used as floating refueling platforms in the eastern Pacific, according to a U.S. official, who said no one on either side was hurt or killed. The mission was carried out as part of U.S. Southern Command’s efforts to hinder narcotics smugglers in

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a meeting of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, at Camp David in Maryland, on Friday, July 31, 2026. New measures to target narcotics traffickers will be at the top of the agenda as Rubio visits Colombia this week, according to people familiar with his plans. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first stop on a three-country trip this week is Colombia. There, he plans to deliver a stro