Forces from Iraq walk to a gathering thanking them for their resistance efforts during the conflict with the U.S. and Israel in Tehran, Iran, on Thursday, April 23, 2026. As Iraq’s newly designated prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi faces the daunting task of cobbling together the next coalition government of a country caught in the middle of the war between the United States and Iran. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By ERIKA SOLOMON and FALIH HASSAN Ali al-Zaidi has no politi

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, in the National Palace in Mexico City, Feb. 5, 2025. Sheinbaum is under pressure to end one of her country’s most painful tragedies: the disappearance of more than 133,000 people. (Luis Antonio Rojas/The New York Times) By PAULINA VILLEGAS Mexico was shocked last year when volunteer search teams discovered an abandoned ranch filled with piles of shoes— too many to be left behind by the owners. To many observers, it was an unmistakable si

By JIN YU YOUNG The U.S. military said it attacked another boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Sunday, killing three people and raising the death toll to at least 185 in the campaign against people the Trump administration accuses of smuggling drugs at sea. The strike was ordered by Gen. Francis Donovan of the Marine Corps, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, the command said on social media. An accomp

Speaker of Parliament Gen. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf of Iran during a news conference in Tehran, Dec. 2, 2025. Ghalibaf leads Iran’s negotiating team. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By FARNAZ FASSIHI Iran has offered the United States a new proposal for negotiations that focuses on opening the Strait of Hormuz and lifting the U.S. sea blockade on Iran as a way of ending the war and then tackling nuclear negotiations later, according to three Iranian officials. Iran’s for

A memorial for victims from the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, which was struck by an American Tomahawk missile, in Tehran, Iran, on Monday, April 6, 2026. The families of more than a hundred children killed when a missile struck an elementary school in Iran have penned a letter of grief and gratitude to Pope Leo XIV, who has repeatedly criticized the loss of innocent lives in the war with Iran. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By ASHLEY AHN The families of

By JAMES WAGNER The two U.S. officials killed in a car crash earlier this month in northern Mexico while returning from a counter-cartel operation did not have formal authorization for such activities in the country, the Mexican government announced. In a statement released Saturday, the Mexican federal security Cabinet said that, according to immigration records, one of the two officials entered the country as a visitor — “without permission to engage in paid work” — and the

Women pass a mural of Iranian missiles striking a U.S. Navy ship in Tehran, April 16, 2026. With plans for U.S.-Iran peace talks derailed, at least for now, Tehran and Washington are sinking into an awkward limbo of neither peace, nor war, each hoping to outlast the other in a standoff with drastic stakes for the global economy. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By ERIKA SOLOMON With plans for U.S.-Iran peace talks derailed, at least for now, Tehran and Washington are sink

Gabriel Lower at the Derecha Fest, a large right-wing gathering, in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Jan. 27, 2026. Argentina’s right-wing president, Javier Milei, has tamed the country’s runaway inflation. Now he wants to transform its values. (Sarah Pabst/The New York Times) By EMMA BUBOLA Draped in a yellow cape and black mask, Javier Milei stepped onto a Buenos Aires stage as a makeshift superhero. Brandishing a salvaged scepter and wearing kitchen gloves, he announced his missi

By AMELIA NIERENBERG The International Criminal Court ruled on Thursday that the trial of Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, on charges of crimes against humanity could proceed. The case would be a milestone for the country, where there has been little legal reckoning for Duterte’s deadly crackdown against drug dealers and users. Rights groups say that roughly 30,000 people were killed during the crackdown, many of them gunned down by police officers, h

People pass near a mural of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s late supreme leader, in Tehran, Iran, on Thursday, April 23, 2026. President Trump said Thursday that he had ordered the U.S. Navy to “shoot and kill any boat” that is laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, as the Pentagon announced that U.S. forces had boarded another sanctioned tanker that was carrying oil from Iran. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By LUKE BROADWATER, ERIC SCHMITT, EUAN WARD and MAX BEARAK Presi