A member of the Ukrainian artillery unit fires a howitzer at Russian targets in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, Oct. 17, 2025. A plan to end the war in Ukraine, negotiated between the Trump administration and Russia, would require Kyiv to surrender territory, significantly reduce the size of its army and relinquish some types of weaponry, according to officials familiar with the proposal. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) By ANDREW E. KRAMER and LARA JAKES In its diploma

A distant view of anchored cruise ships that are serving as temporary hotels for some of the thousands of attendees at this year’s United Nation climate change conference, COP30, in Belém, Brazil, Nov. 16, 2025. Hundreds of millions across the world still lack access to electrical power​, and in the Western Hemisphere alone some 17 million go entirely without while 60 million more rely on small generators using diesel — one of the dirtiest and most expensive forms of fuel. (A

Destruction in Gaza City on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. The United Nations Security Council’s backing of President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza offers a scaffolding of international legitimacy that will be needed to persuade countries to help see the plans through. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times) By DAVID M. HALBFINGER The U.N. Security Council’s vote to adopt President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Gaza Strip bought Washington time. Time to assemble the members of a

A statue of a hand holding a drilling rig near Venezuela’s state oil company in Caracas, Oct. 9, 2025. President Donald Trump has signed off on CIA plans for covert measures inside Venezuela, operations that could be meant to prepare a battlefield for further action, according to multiple people briefed on the matter. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By TYLER PAGER, JULIAN E. BARNES and ERIC SCHMITT With the largest U.S. aircraft carrier now positioned in the C

By GENEVIEVE GLATSKY and JOSÉ MARÍA LEÓN CABRERA President Daniel Noboa of Ecuador has spent months courting Washington. He has met with President Donald Trump at his Florida estate; formed an alliance with Blackwater founder Erik Prince, a Trump supporter; and pressed to allow U.S. military bases in Ecuador. But voters at home delivered Noboa a sharp rebuke. They soundly rejected a national referendum Sunday that he had backed, aimed at authorizing a foreign military presenc

President Donald Trump during a press conference in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Nov. 17, 2025. (Allison Robbert/The New York Times) By TYLER PAGER President Donald Trump said earlier this week that he would not rule out deploying U.S. troops on the ground in Venezuela, but he also said he was leaving open the possibility of talking to Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader and the target of the Trump administration’s intensifying pressure cam

By MARIA VARENIKOVA and IVAN NECHEPURENKO President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said he planned to go Turkey on Wednesday to try to revive peace talks with Russia that have been stalled since the summer. Ukrainian and Russian officials have not held direct negotiations for months, and efforts to end the war have reached a stalemate since the last round of talks between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia in August. Last month, Trump canceled a mee

President Donald Trump meets with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By KATIE ROGERS and VIVIAN NEREIM President Donald Trump brushed aside a reporter’s question about the role Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, played in the death and dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist in 2018, praising the kingdom’s de facto ruler in a jo