Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh addresses the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 23, 2022. Hasina was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death Monday, a triumph for the interim government that promised to deliver justice for the hundreds of unarmed protesters killed during a brutal crackdown last year. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By SAIF HASNAT and ANUPREETA DAS The former prime minister of Bangladesh,

Protesters walk along Avenida Paseo de la Reforma, passing by photographs of missing people, in Mexico City, Mexico, Nov. 15, 2025. Protesters gathered in cities across Mexico on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025, to vent their frustration at how the president has handled corruption and violent crime, with demonstrators ranging from pensioners to young people linking themselves with a global Gen Z movement. (Fred Ramos/The New York Times) By EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA and FRED RAMOS Prote

Kawthar Tamim with two of her daughters, Maymouna, 3, left, and Jowayria, in Afrin, Syria on Feb. 7, 2025. Under the Syrian dictator’s rule, the wives and children of rebels were seized as leverage. Tamim said she was taken to a secret underground prison after being stopped at a checkpoint in Yafour, near Damascus. (Lynsey Addario/The New York Times) By LYNSEY ADDARIO and LEEN RIHAWI When Syrian authorities stopped Kawthar Tamim and her four children at a checkpoint outside t

Mayor Gustavo Petro of Bogotá speaks to supporters from a balcony of his office, Jan. 22, 2014. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times) By GENEVIEVE GLATSKY Few leaders have dared take on President Donald Trump so openly as President Gustavo Petro of Colombia. While many have treaded carefully since Trump took office, Petro has infuriated him, blocking deportation flights, standing on the streets of Manhattan urging U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and accusing the United States o

Cheila Carranza, 14, in her grandmother’s home, where she lives in one room with her mother and two siblings in Santa Marta, Colombia, Nov. 12, 2025. Colombia was a top U.S. ally in Latin America until the Trump administration began deadly strikes in international waters. Now, one family wants justice. (Federico Rios Escobar/The New York Times) By SIMON ROMERO One day in mid-September, Alejandro Carranza, a Colombian fisherman who, his family said, had long plied the Caribbea

Panamanian military leader Manuel Noriega in a 1990 mugshot taken after his capture by U.S. forces. (Wikipedia) By MICHAEL CROWLEY It is a story Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro surely knows well. A Latin American strongman was in hiding, surrounded by U.S. troops, heavy metal blaring through the night. In December 1989, Gen. Manuel Noriega’s run as dictator of Panama was reaching a humiliating end. U.S. troops had invaded the country, with orders to capture Noriega and bring

A man in Kotmaira, India, inspects the wreckage of his home following a Pakistani shelling attack in the Indian-controlled part of the Jammu region on May 13, 2025. Bombings in the capital cities of India and Pakistan earlier this week came at a moment of simmering tensions between the South Asian rivals just months after their previous military conflict alarmed the world. (Atul Loke/The New York Times) By MUJIB MASHAL and ELIAN PELTIER The bombings in the capital cities of I

Part of a crowd of thousands gather in Lviv, Ukraine, on July 23, 2025, to protest President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s move to overhaul anticorruption institutions. He reversed his push after the protests. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times) By KIM BARKER The main anti-corruption agencies in Ukraine announced earlier this week that they had uncovered a major corruption scheme in which contractors of the state-owned nuclear energy company had been forced to pay hefty kickbacks.