By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE and DECLAN WALSH Repeated strikes on a kindergarten and hospital in Sudan killed 114 people, including 63 children, and targeted the responders who were trying to get the wounded to safety, the World Health Organization said earlier this week. The attack was the kind of mass atrocity that has marked Sudan’s 2 1/2-year civil war, in which civilians and civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, have faced relentless attack. The massacre also shows the

Young passengers use their smartphones on a train near Central Station in Sydney, Australia, Nov. 19, 2025. Australia’s online regulator reported earlier this year that 95 percent of teens ages 13 to 15 used social media in 2024. (Matthew Abbott/The New York Times) By VICTORIA KIM A new law in Australia that bars anyone younger than 16 from having social media accounts went into effect Wednesday, in the start of a sweeping governmental effort to shelter children from the harm

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at her office in Caracas, July 26, 2024. Machado is being honored with the Nobel Peace Prize for her push for democracy even as she backs Trump’s military buildup and aggressive campaign against Venezuela. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By SIMON ROMERO and HENRIK PRYSER LIBELL María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, said Wednesday that she was on her way to

President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras addresses the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 26, 2018. President Donald Trump formally pardoned Hernández on Dec. 1, 2025. Hernández was accused of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL The Honduran attorney general announced Monday night that he had issued an international arrest warrant for the country’s former president, Ju

By CHRISTINE HAUSER, HISAKO UENO and JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ A powerful earthquake off the coast of northern Japan on Monday night prompted a tsunami warning and left more than 30 people injured, authorities said. The earthquake, which had a magnitude of 7.6, caused buildings to sway and bridges to shake, according to local news outlets. There were no reports of deaths or major damage, and by Tuesday morning, the Japanese government had lifted the tsunami warning. “We are continu

President Donald Trump walks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine at the White House in Washington, on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. Trump said in an interview published on Dec. 9 that Europe was weak and its nations were “decaying,” days after his administration issued a strategy paper that indicated that the United States should no longer guarantee the continent’s security. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By AMELIA NIERENBERG President Donald Trump said in an interview pu

President Donald Trump, a frequent critic of the United Nations, speaks at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Huge reductions in foreign aid by the United States and Europe have led the U.N.’s emergency relief coordinator to slash its fund-raising targets for next year. (Vincent Alban/The New York Times) By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE The United Nations plans to reduce by half the amount of money it requests from donor countries in 2026 to help people affect

Vice President Delcy Rodriguez of Venezuela in Caracas on Sept. 26, 2025. Rodriguez oversees the country’s economic policies. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By ANATOLY KURMANAEV President Donald Trump has been increasing pressure on Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, labeling him the head of a terrorist organization, amassing warships in the Caribbean, claiming to close Venezuelan airspace and suggesting imminent strikes on the country. The Trump administrat