President Donald Trump with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Sept. 25, 2025. Turkey will seek to leverage the warm relationship between Erdogan and President Trump to bridge differences inside NATO during the military alliance’s upcoming summit in Turkey, the country’s foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, said in a recent interview with The New York Times. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By BEN HUBBARD Turkey will seek

By SIMON ROMERO When a giant earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, the United States mounted an enormous relief effort involving more than $3 billion in aid, 7,000 U.S. troops on the ground and a halt to deportations of Haitians to their devastated country. That response dwarfs what the United States has promised for earthquake-ravaged Venezuela, a country the Trump administration says it is now running after seizing its leader this year. So far, the U.S. has put forward $300 mill

By CARLOTTA GALL, STANISLAV KOZLIUK and CASSANDRA VINOGRAD Explosions rocked the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early Monday, the eve of a NATO summit, as Russia mounted its second major attack on the city in days. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, who is expected to attend the NATO summit in Turkey, said in a social media post that 12 people had been killed in the attack and 64 others wounded, including two children. The war in Ukraine will be front and foremost at the NAT

Mourners gather at the Grand Mosalla for the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, July 4, 2026. Four months after he was killed in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes, foreign dignitaries paid their respects to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as days of funeral ceremonies got underway. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times) By ABDI LATIF DAHIR Huge crowds of Iranians gathered Saturday to view the casket of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at an elaborate state funeral for the former supreme leader, who d

People search for earthquake survivors in the collapsed OPPE 26 public housing complex in Caraballeda, Venezuela, on June 28, 2026. Residents, construction experts, and seismologists said for years that Venezuela’s public housing would be vulnerable in a natural disaster. (Adriana Loureiro Fernandez/The New York Times) By JULIE TURKEWITZ, MARÍA VICTORIA FERMÍN and LOURERIO FERNÁNDEZ The soaring high-rises between the mountain and the sea were a deliberate statement, built by

The headlamps of rescuers working after dark light the scene amid a group of collapsed residential buildings in La Guaira, Venezuela, June 30, 2026. After devastating twin earthquakes flattened entire residential neighborhoods last week, experts fear the official death toll of 1,719 could be a serious undercount. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By TIBISAY ROMERO, ISAYEN HERRERA, LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNI and GENEVIEVE GLATSKY In the first days after the calamitous ea

By GABE CASTRO-ROOT A crocodile attacked and killed a 28-year-old man on a heavily trafficked beach in the popular resort city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on Friday evening, according to state government officials. The man was “engaging in recreational activities” on the Marina Vallarta Beach, in front of the Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort and Spa, when he was attacked and dragged out to sea by the crocodile, said Izaías Patlán Núñez, a spokesperson for the state police in J

Ukrainian soldiers prepare to launch drones at a target in Russia earlier this year. The Russian military blasted Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, with waves of ballistic missiles and drones in a deadly show of force that lasted into Thursday morning. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times) By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD and MARC SANTORA The Russian military blasted Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, with waves of ballistic missiles and drones that lasted into Thursday morning, a deadly show of force afte

Rescue workers and volunteers search at sunset at a building that collapsed in last week’s earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela, on Sunday, June 28, 2026. The fate of Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration the same day the earthquake struck has thrust their relatives into an agonizing search for answers. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ and PATRICIA SULBARÁN The plane carrying 146 Venezuelans deported from the United States arrive

Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 2, 2026. Rubio has said America’s response to the earthquakes in Venezuela would be fast and effective. (Demetrius Freeman/The New York Times) By MICHAEL CROWLEY and EDWARD WONG The Trump administration has mobilized money, personnel and military equipment in response to the earthquakes in Venezuela, in what aid experts say is a major U.S. disaster r