Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada speaks during the Liberal Party’s convention in Montreal, April 11, 2026. The results of three special elections on April 13 have given Carney a majority in the Canadian Parliament; he will now be able to more easily pass budgets and other measures to advance his ultimate goal of making Canada more independent from the United States. (Ian Austen/The New York Times) By MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF It’s Mark Carney’s Canada now. One year, almost t

By SIMON ROMERO The top U.S. diplomat in Venezuela announced Wednesday that she was leaving her post just months after arriving, a shake-up that comes as the Trump administration presses ahead with efforts to wield control over Venezuela’s government. Laura Dogu, who arrived in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, in late January and reopened the U.S. Embassy, said in a statement that she would be replaced by John Barrett, the current top U.S. diplomat in Guatemala. This leadership

A man crosses Enghelab Street near a bus stop in Tehran, April 5, 2026. Iran on Wednesday, April 15, threatened further retaliation over an American naval blockade of its ports in the critical Strait of Hormuz as the U.S. military said that it had “completely halted” trade in and out of Iran by sea. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By ALI WATKINS, PETER EAVIS, AARON BOXERMAN, ERIKA SOLOMON and TYLER PAGER Senior Pakistani mediators, including the army chief, Syed Asim Mun

The opposition leader Peter Magyar campaigns in Keszthely, Hungary, on March 29, 2026. Magyar’s Tisza party scored a crushing victory in Hungary’s general election on Sunday, April 12, 2026. (Akos Stiller/The New York Times) By AMELIA NIERENBERG and LILI RUTAI Some Hungarians had feared that Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party would try to block the results of Hungary’s national elections Sunday if returns did not favor him. But when news came that Orban had lost — decisively

By LILY KUO China’s leader, Xi Jinping, said Tuesday that the world cannot risk reverting “to the law of the jungle,” a thinly veiled criticism of the United States, in his most direct public comments on the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. “Maintaining the authority of international rule of law means not using it when it suits us and abandoning it when it doesn’t,” he said in a meeting with the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in Beijing. Xi’s remarks, in addition

A Lebanese man looks down from a destroyed building as workers and relatives continue the sixth day of searching for missing victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit a residential building in Beirut, April 14, 2026. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By MICHAEL CROWLEY, EUAN WARD, ANUSHKA PATIL, FRANCESCA REGALADO and JOHN YOON Israeli and Lebanese officials concluded more than two hours of direct talks Tuesday in Washington as Israel’s military campaign agai

President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba addresses the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters in Manhattan on Sept. 19, 2023. With oil running out and the nation increasingly plunging into chronic darkness, Díaz-Canel said on Sunday that his administration and the Cuban people were prepared to fight back against any potential U.S. military intervention. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times) By ADAM B. ELLICK and SIMON ROMERO President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba on Sunday

Cannonballs at the Citadelle Laferrière, once stacked to defend against a feared French invasion, near Milo, Haiti on July 25, 2021. Haitian officials said at least 30 people had died during a stampede at the site on Saturday and that the toll was expected to rise. (Federico Ríos/The New York Times) By ANDRÉ PAULTRE and EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA A tourist outing Saturday at Haiti’s most historic and famous fortress turned into chaos and then terror, after a stampeding crowd cru

A truck carries the coffin of Major Gen. Majid Khademi, head of intelligence for Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, during his funeral procession in Tehran, Iran, April 8, 2026. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By DAVID E. SANGER President Donald Trump’s decision to blockade all Iranian shipments out of or into the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday morning sets up the next great test in the Iran war: Which side can endure more economic pain, Iran’s new leadership or

A woman removes debris from her apartment in a neighborhood that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Tyre, Lebanon, March 26, 2026. In Tyre, a city on Lebanon’s coast, near-daily bombardments by Israel have killed and injured civilians, and left many searching for shelter. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM and HWAIDA SAAD The mother sat on the curb outside a hospital in southern Lebanon, holding her phone and pleading with a photo of her sons