By CLAIRE MOSES At least 40 people have drowned in France over the last five days as the country endured a scorching heat wave, Sébastien Lecornu, the country’s prime minister, said at an emergency Cabinet meeting Tuesday. Most of the drowning victims were young, many of them teenagers, and swimming in unsupervised areas. Lecornu called the drownings a “tragic scourge.” Marina Ferrari, a minister whose responsibilities include young people, said in an interview on French radi

People pass by the central market area of Nabatieh, Lebanon, June 21, 2026. Israeli soldiers fatally shot two people in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, according to Lebanon’s health ministry, renewing fears that enduring fighting there could disrupt efforts to reach a peace deal between the United States and Iran. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By LARA JAKES, LEO SANDS and NICK CUMMING-BRUCE President Donald Trump and Iranian officials sharply disagreed Tuesday about wh

Supporters of Abelardo De La Espriella during Colombia’s presidential runoff election in Barranquilla, Colombia, on Sunday, June 21, 2026. (Federico Ríos/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL A belardo de la Espriella, a criminal defense lawyer with no previous political experience, appeared headed for a razor-thin victory on Sunday in Colombia’s presidential election, in a potential win for his fervent supporters and for President Donald Trump, who had endorsed him. De la Esp

Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom speaks to reporters during a meeting with President Donald Trump in Turnberry, Scotland, on July 28, 2025. Starmer announced his resignation on Monday, June 22, 2026, bowing to a mutiny inside his Labour Party and paving the way for Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester, to likely become the country’s next leader. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By MICHAEL D. SHEAR For months, he tried desperately to avoid

Supporters of Abelardo De La Espriella, the far-right candidate for president of Colombia, during a rally in Medellín on May 24, 2026. President Donald Trump endorsed Abelardo De La Espriella, the conservative presidential candidate in Sunday’s election who has strong U.S. ties. (Federico Rios/The New York Times) By ANNIE COIRREAL, PATRICIA MAZZEI and JORGE VALENCIA Popping up in a bulletproof booth wearing Colombia’s yellow soccer jersey, fist pumping the air, Abelardo de la

A family gathers near their destroyed home in Kfar Roummane, Lebanon, on Sunday, June 21, 2026. Vice President JD Vance opened a crucial new round of peace negotiations with Iran on Sunday, aiming for a positive note, but the uphill nature of the talks was dramatized by the fact that the two sides faced immediate hurdles over the unresolved conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By MARK LANDLER Vice President JD Vance opened

Two hippopotamuses at the Hacienda Nápoles theme park, in Doradal, Colombia, April 25, 2026. Colombia plans to cull a population of wild hippos, the offspring of the drug lord Pablo Escobar’s pets, dividing a town where the semiaquatic mammals are the main draw. (Esteban Vanegas/The New York Times) By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ When night falls in the small Colombian village of Doradal, the quiet is broken by the wet, heavy thuds of the town’s 3,000-pound unofficial mascots trudging

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at a news conference at the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, on Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By STEVEN ERLANGER Europeans and the larger world greeted the memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States with relief, if only because it seemed to halt a war that had badly damaged global trade, increased inflation and reduced already paltry economic growth. But the memo produced little

A guerrilla fighter inside an underground bunker in the Catatumbo region of Colombia on March 28, 2026. Ten years after a landmark peace deal, armed groups in Colombia are wreaking deadly violence in new ways. (Federico Ríos Escobar/The New York Times) By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ The police officers barricaded themselves inside sandbagged stations. When they left on sporadic patrols, they rode in packs of six, clutching rifles, their faces hidden behind masks. They do not venture d

President Donald Trump is welcomed to the Palace of Versailles by President Emmanuel Macon of France and first lady Brigitte Macron in Versailles, France, on Wednesday evening, June 17, 2026. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By LEO SANDS, ERICA L. GREEN, ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS and JEANNA SMIALEK The terms of the preliminary agreement between the United States and Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, outline a $300 billon plan for Iran’s reconstruction and lift restrictions on