Houses damaged and partially submerged in thick mud and debris from the flood, in Devighat, Nepal, on Friday, Aug. 28, 2026. A massive landslide and glacial collapse may have caused catastrophic flooding even without heavy rainfall. More than 4,200 people remained missing on Monday. (Atul Loke/The New York Times) By ZANE IRWIN and LYNSEY CHUTEL The tally of people missing after catastrophic Himalayan floods jumped Monday as disaster authorities said more than 4,200 people wer

Delcy Rodriguez, the interim president of Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela on April 30, 2026. Venezuela nationalized its oil resources in the 1970s. Rodríguez’s decision to turn over much of that oil to the U.S. government represents an astounding about-face, one that few Venezuelans could have imagined before the January attack. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times) By JULIE TURKEWITZ Many Venezuelans suspected that there was going to be a price to pay for President Donald Trump’

Steel plates marked with identification numbers at a mass burial site in the Devghat forest area of Bharatpur, Nepal, on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. Five days after an angry deluge tore through the mountain passes of Nepal, family members arriving after long journeys looked for something — anything — that could identify their loved ones amid the hundreds of mangled bodies. (Atul Loke/The New York Times) By SAJAL PRADHAN and MUJIB MASHAL Five days after an angry deluge tore through

Olga Mabel Campo, a Mapuche community leader whose son was injured while working in the oil industry, in Añelo, Argentina, on June 19, 2026. Members of the Mapuche Indigenous community have been among the most vocal critics of the oil and gas industry’s development. (Sarah Pabst/The New York Times) By EMMA BUBOLA Much of the sun-bleached desert in northwest Patagonia looks like it did 100 million years ago: a vast, prehistoric expanse where the world’s biggest dinosaurs once

Children are carried to a rescue helicopter by military personnel in the disaster-stricken Rasuwa district near Nepal’s border with Tibet, on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. Emergency workers and helicopters scoured steep Himalayan valleys on Thursday in a desperate search for survivors after a torrent of water, mud and ice killed hundreds — and perhaps many more — as it swept through a river valley that runs through Tibet and Nepal. More than 1,400 people are still missing. (Atul L

The Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Canada, that connects with Detroit, on Feb. 1, 2025. Canadians won’t be dropping elbows anytime soon, as new and threatened tariffs endanger jobs and the existence of companies both large and small. (Ian Willms/The New York Times) By VJOSA ISAI Canadians responded to President Donald Trump’s first round of tariffs a year and a half ago with a grassroots effort to bruise the United States, boycotting alcohol, vegetables and cross-border travel

By BINOD GHIMIRE, LEO SANDS and LILY KUO An enormous flood that began high in the Himalayas tore a devastating path through a mountain valley on the border between Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday, smashing buildings and sweeping away fleeing people in a giant torrent of mud, water and ice. At least 160 people were killed and hundreds more were missing in the wake of the flood, which snapped bridges into pieces and engulfed people who tried to run but were overtaken by its speed

A Ukrainian investigator with a recovered Russian Molniya drone in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on July 24, 2026. An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans. (Nicole Tung/The New York Times) By ANDREW E. KRAMER The young woman ran for her life, but it was too late. A small Russian drone resembling a model airplane swooped down from the sky last month in the city of Zaporizhzhia in s

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during an event to launch Trump Accounts at the White House in Washington, July 6, 2026. President Trump’s “Economic D-Day” is intended to break the stalemate with Iran. But decades of sanctions have done little to change the country’s behavior. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By MICHAEL CROWLEY Soon after taking office last year, President Donald Trump issued a directive laying out his “maximum economic pressure” policy against I

By ERIC SCHMITT The U.S. military killed two men in a strike against a boat in the eastern Pacific that it said was transporting narcotics, U.S. Southern Command announced early Monday. It was the first such strike by the military since June 21. The United States began a campaign of boat strikes last year in the run-up to the military operation that seized Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela. The military has continued the operations in the Caribbean and the eastern Pa