Two hippopotamuses at the Hacienda Nápoles theme park, in Doradal, Colombia, April 25, 2026. Colombia plans to cull a population of wild hippos, the offspring of the drug lord Pablo Escobar’s pets, dividing a town where the semiaquatic mammals are the main draw. (Esteban Vanegas/The New York Times) By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ When night falls in the small Colombian village of Doradal, the quiet is broken by the wet, heavy thuds of the town’s 3,000-pound unofficial mascots trudging

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at a news conference at the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, on Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By STEVEN ERLANGER Europeans and the larger world greeted the memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States with relief, if only because it seemed to halt a war that had badly damaged global trade, increased inflation and reduced already paltry economic growth. But the memo produced little

A guerrilla fighter inside an underground bunker in the Catatumbo region of Colombia on March 28, 2026. Ten years after a landmark peace deal, armed groups in Colombia are wreaking deadly violence in new ways. (Federico Ríos Escobar/The New York Times) By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ The police officers barricaded themselves inside sandbagged stations. When they left on sporadic patrols, they rode in packs of six, clutching rifles, their faces hidden behind masks. They do not venture d

President Donald Trump is welcomed to the Palace of Versailles by President Emmanuel Macon of France and first lady Brigitte Macron in Versailles, France, on Wednesday evening, June 17, 2026. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By LEO SANDS, ERICA L. GREEN, ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS and JEANNA SMIALEK The terms of the preliminary agreement between the United States and Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, outline a $300 billon plan for Iran’s reconstruction and lift restrictions on

President Xi Jinping of China, left, greets President Donald Trump outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing during their two-day summit, May 14, 2026. President Trump’s warming with Xi Jinping of China, a leader he admires, has ignited anxieties in Washington and across Asia. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By EDWARD WONG After meeting with China’s top diplomat in Malaysia last summer, Secretary of State Marco Rubio uttered a line that made few waves at the time but

President Donald Trump, center, joins other world leaders for a group photo they attend a cultural performance amid the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, June 16, 2026. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By MARK LANDLER When Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany presented President Donald Trump with a soccer jersey emblazoned with the number 47 on Tuesday morning, it was the kind of gesture that a foreign leader might have made during his first term: flattering, emollient a

A view of verdant hills and farmland in Corban, Switzerland, on Oct. 28, 2025. Swiss voters have defeated a nationwide ballot initiative to limit the population to 10 million people, rejecting what would have been one of the most drastic measures taken by a European country to stem the arrival of new immigrants. (Lea Meienberg/The New York Times) By JIM TANKERSLEY Swiss voters defeated a nationwide ballot initiative Sunday to limit the population to 10 million people. The vot

In an image from Vantor, the Natanz nuclear complex in Iran, March 7, 2026. President Donald Trump said Iran had promised to suspend enriching uranium in the agreement he reached to end the war he started, but it is unclear for how long. (Satellite image ©2026 Vantor Technologies via The New York Times) By LEO SANDS The United States and Iran have reached a preliminary agreement to cease hostilities for 60 days and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, paving the way to future talks t

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Thursday, June 11, 2026. A joint strike by the United States and Venezuela killed a leader of the Tren de Aragua transnational gang, President Trump and officials in both countries said on Friday, dealing a blow to a syndicate the Trump administration has blamed for an influx of violent crime and illicit drugs. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By JOHN YOON A joint strike by the United States an

An Israeli air strike lands in front of Beaufort Castle as seen from Nabatieh, Lebanon, June 4, 2026. Russia and the United States projected their own centralized views onto Ukraine and Iran, analysts said. As a result, the smaller countries trapped larger ones in a costly confrontation. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times) By NEIL MacFARQUHAR President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, both resist the idea that ostensibly weaker powers fought them to