A priest and nuns bless the rubble of a collapsed building in Catia La Mar, Venezuela, on Tuesday, July 7, 2026. Fearful that officials would tear down damaged buildings without accounting for any remaining bodies, Venezuelans are desperately digging for their relatives’ remains. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By EMMA BUBOLA Two weeks after twin earthquakes struck Venezuela, people are still clawing with their bare hands at the massive concrete columns that c

The coffin of the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is carried into a shrine during a funeral procession in Najaf, Iraq, on Wednesday, July 8, 2026. The procession is a mass outpouring of grief for another nation’s ruler — one who, as a pre-eminent Shiite Muslim cleric and political strategist, spent decades extending Iran’s influence deep into Iraq, and across the Middle East. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times) By ABDI LATIF DAHIR and LEO SANDS The final stage of the funeral process

By MAX BEARAK, YEGANEH TORBATI, ISMAEEL NAAR and ERIC SCHMITT The United States and Iran exchanged fire for a second consecutive day Thursday, extending a pattern of hostilities that had all but shattered their fragile truce and left the Middle East suspended between war and peace. Both countries appeared to intensify their attacks in this latest round, expanding the scope or number of targets. The U.S. military said overnight that it had struck more than 170 targets in Iran

President Donald Trump during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday, July 8, 2026. Trump brought his combative side to the meeting of world leaders in Turkey, kicking off a day of diplomacy with a panoply of complaints and insults against U.S. allies. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By TYLER PAGER and SHAWN McCREESH President Donald Trump’s head-spinning appearance at the NATO summit in Ankara on Wednesday began wi

President Donald Trump during a meeting at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday, July 8, 2026. While at the summit, Trump declared the cease-fire with Iran “over” after less than a month. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By DAVID E. SANGER Just two weeks ago, opening the Great American State Fair, President Donald Trump triumphantly declared: “For the first time in 3,000 years, we are going to have peace in the Middle East.” It was typical bravado for Trump. But the

Nigel Farage, then-leader of the Independence Party, speaks in London after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union on June 24, 2016. (Adam Ferguson/The New York Times) By STEPHEN CASTLE Nigel Farage, the leader of the populist right-wing Reform UK party, on Tuesday said he would resign his seat in Parliament and run for reelection in his Clacton seat to answer criticism of his financial affairs. The unexpected move comes after recent revelations about gifts and

Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, in Paris on July 7, 2024. Le Pen, whose far-right party leads polls in France, was convicted in 2025 of embezzlement. The outcome of her appeal will determine if she can run for president. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times) By MARK LANDLER and SÉGOLÉNE LE STRADIC Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader and a front-runner to win next year’s presidential election, on Tuesday lost her appeal of an embezzlement conviction, prolonging

Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, speaks alongside a chart while meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Wednesday, June 24, 2026. A year ago, President Trump told fellow NATO allies to more than double their defense spending as the United States looked to draw down American military forces in Europe. (Alex Kent/The New York Times) By LARA JAKES A year ago, President Donald Trump told fellow NATO allies to more than

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