A Roma family walks back home from school in Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 25, 2026. Drastic changes to Hungary’s education system have widened the divide between Roma and other students in Hungary. (Tamas Paczai/The New York Times) By LARA JAKES and MATE HALMOS The party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary is facing parliamentary elections on Sunday that are expected to be exceptionally close. And the marginalized Roma ethnic minority may prove to be an unexpected swing vote

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR In the face of threats by President Donald Trump to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages,” the British government on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Keir Starmer remained opposed to American use of British bases for anything other than defensive purposes. During a media briefing with journalists, the prime minister’s spokesperson declined to say whether British officials had explicitly told the United States not to launch attacks from their territory on civi

Textbooks and papers amid the rubble of a building at Sharif University in Tehran, Iran after it was targeted by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes, on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By TYLER PAGER, FARNAZ FASSIHI, JULIAN E. BARNES, RONEN BERGMAN and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to wipe out a “whole civilization” and the United States hit military targets on Iran’s main oil export hub, as he ramped up pressure on Iran to f

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers updates on Iran at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, March 31, 2026. Hegseth asked the American people to pray for a military victory in the Middle East “in the name of Jesus Christ.” In recent weeks, Pope Leo has been more outspoken about the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO With war in the Middle East casting a shadow over the celebrations of the most important date on the Christian

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House in Washington, on Monday, April 6, 2026. President Trump presented new details of the rescue of an American airman over the weekend in cinematic terms at a news conference on Monday. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times) By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS, ERIKA SOLOMON and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA President Donald Trump on Monday escalated his threats to devastate Iran if it does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, even as he ag

People walk in front of a billboard depicting captured U.S. aircraft in a net in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 5, 2026. After Iran shot down a U.S. plane and U.S. forces pulled off a risky ground operation to extricate a stranded airman, both sides claimed victory. That confidence could fuel further escalation. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By ERIKA SOLOMON Iran’s downing of an American fighter plane and the dramatic U.S. mission that followed to rescue a stranded airman

Members of the Kenya MSS patrol the National Port Authority in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 25, 2024. Gangs tore through several rural communities last weekend, underscoring the challenges that will face the new, U.N.-backed Gang Suppression Force starting to enter the country. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times) By ANDRÉ PAULTRE and FRANCES ROBLES Ilres Théophile, a farmer living north of Haiti’s capital, said he woke in the middle of the night last Sunday to the unmist

By ERIKA SOLOMON, FALIH HASSAN and PRANAV BASKAR A U.S. journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad by “unknown individuals” Tuesday evening, and government security forces have begun operations to find her and track down the abductors, according to Iraq’s Interior Ministry. The freelance journalist was identified as Shelly Kittleson by two Iraqi security officials. She has worked for various news organizations, and one of them, Al-Monitor news outlet, for which Kittleson is a contri

A drag performance in an underground parking garage that is used as a public bomb shelter in Jerusalem on Tuesday night, March 31, 2026. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times) By ABDI LATIF DAHIR, MEGAN SPECIA and ERIKA SOLOMON President Donald Trump said he was considering pulling the United States out of NATO over the war with Iran, as he heaps pressure on allies to manage the fallout of a conflict he signaled he would wind down in two or three weeks. In an interview with Britai

By IVAN NECHEPURENKO A Russian military transport plane crashed in Crimea, killing all 29 people on board, Russian investigators said Wednesday. The cause was most likely a technical malfunction, they said. The plane, an Antonov An-26, a Soviet-designed aircraft used by the Russian army to carry cargo and personnel, went down Tuesday near a village in the southern part of Crimea, about 15 miles from the Black Sea coast, the Russian investigators said in a statement. Twenty-tw