By LAURA CHUNG Australia on Tuesday passed new laws that implement a national gun buyback, limit imports of firearms and tighten background checks, swiftly adopting tougher gun control measures after a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in December. The moves echoed Australia’s legislative response to a massacre decades ago, which made the country a model for gun control in the eyes of many. But critics said the new legislation, and another bill promising to crack down o

The scene near Adamuz, a town in southern Spain, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, after a deadly train crash over the weekend. Nearly two dozen autopsies have been completed, but the authorities are struggling to identify the victims. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times) By JASON HOROWITZ and JOSÉ BAUTISTA Spanish authorities were struggling Tuesday to identify those killed in a collision between two high-speed trains that left at least 41 people dead Sunday, as investigators focu

By IAN AUSTEN Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada did not mention the United States or President Donald Trump by name in a speech at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday, but it was clear where he placed the blame for what he called a “rupture” in the world order. “I will talk today about the breaking of the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a brutal reality where the geopolitics of the great powers is not subject to any constraint,” said Carney,

Housing in Nuuk, Greenland, May 21, 2025. The United States was “not likely” to use military force against Greenland but it cannot be completely ruled out, Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said on Jan. 20, 2026. (Sigga Ella/The New York Times) By AMELIA NIERENBERG and MAYA TEKELI The United States is “not likely” to use military force against Greenland but an attack cannot be completely ruled out, Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said Tuesd

By YAN ZHUANG The Guatemalan government declared a state of emergency Sunday to crack down on gang violence, in response to a surge of unrest in recent days that has included uprisings at prisons and the killing of eight police officers. The state of emergency will last for 30 days and will empower the country’s national police and army to act against gangs and organized crime, President Bernardo Arévalo said at a news conference Sunday afternoon. It will not impact the lives

A protest to denounce President Donald Trump’s threat to take over Greenland on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, in Nuuk, the capital of the Danish territory. To increase the pressure on Denmark and its European allies, Trump has reached for tariffs as a coercive tool. (Juliette Pavy/The New York Times) By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and HENRIK PRYSER LIBELL President Donald Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, ac

President Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. For Trump, the sheer size of Greenland’s territory holds part of the appeal; it is about three times the size of Texas, and bigger than Alaska. (Allison Robbert/The New York Times) By DAVID E. SANGER As the struggle for control of Greenland intensifies — and with it, the question of whether the Atlantic alliance will suffer a mortal wound — two raw geopolitical realities have come into focus. The first is t

By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s prime minister, said Monday that she would dissolve parliament and call a snap election, in a bid to strengthen her power and revive the sagging fortunes of her party. Takaichi, the first woman to lead the country, said she would dissolve the House of Representatives when it convenes for its regular session Friday and schedule an election on Feb. 8 — only about three months into her tenure. She said the move was necessary to make