A funeral for victims of a Russian missile attack that killed at least 39 people in Ternopil, Ukraine, Nov. 23, 2025. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times) By MARIA VARENIKOVA and AURELIEN BREEDEN Russia launched a deadly barrage of missiles and drones on the Ukrainian capital Tuesday, as Kremlin officials signaled they would resist changes negotiated by Ukraine to President Donald Trump’s peace plan. The attack on Kyiv, the capital, killed at least seven people and injured 20 o

By MARIA ABI-HABIB Russia’s disinformation efforts across Latin America have intensified over the past two years, partly aimed at sowing discord between the United States and its allies in the region, according to an American diplomatic cable and new report by watchdog groups. The campaign is spearheaded by Kremlin-owned media outlets such as Sputnik and RT, officials say, describing an effort to stoke anti-American sentiment, especially in Mexico, the world’s largest Spanish

By EUAN WARD The grisly killings of a husband and wife set off a new wave of sectarian unrest over the weekend in Homs, one of Syria’s largest and most diverse cities. The bodies of the couple, members of a prominent Bedouin tribe, were found Sunday in their home just south of Homs, Syria’s third-largest city. The wife’s body showed signs of burning and sectarian slogans were also found at the crime scene, according to the Syrian state news agency, SANA. After a wave of repri

Local residents who survived a Russian strike the week before return to inspect the damage to their apartment building in Ternopil, Ukraine, on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. Ukrainian and American officials were expected on Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, to continue negotiating a U.S.-backed proposal to end the war with Russia, after what both sides described as “highly productive” talks over the weekend to revise a plan that many Ukrainians had deemed overly favorable to Moscow. (Mauricio

By NEIL MACFARQUHAR, MILANA MAZAEVA and ANNA LUKINOVA Oleksandra Stolyar was living near Kyiv, Ukraine, when she learned that her apartment in the occupied Ukrainian port city of Mariupol would be confiscated by the Russian-installed government. The problem was that she, like tens of thousands of others, had fled war-torn Mariupol several years ago, and hadn’t reregistered her property because she didn’t become a Russian citizen. She considered the idea of taking a Russian pa

From left: European Council President António Costa, South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after speaking at a news conference for the South Africa-European Union Trilateral Leaders’ Meeting amid the Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nov. 20, 2025. Leaders of some of the world’s most powerful countries pushed back on demands that Ukraine cede territory and limit the size of its army included in President

President Donald Trump berates President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Feb. 28, 2025. Ukrainian and American officials sat down for talks in Switzerland on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, as part of President Trump’s push to get Kyiv to accept a peace plan to end its war with Russia. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD Ukrainian and U.S. officials said they had made good progress Sunday in talks about a controvers

A member of the Ukrainian artillery unit fires a howitzer at Russian targets in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, Oct. 17, 2025. A plan to end the war in Ukraine, negotiated between the Trump administration and Russia, would require Kyiv to surrender territory, significantly reduce the size of its army and relinquish some types of weaponry, according to officials familiar with the proposal. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) By ANDREW E. KRAMER and LARA JAKES In its diploma