By JUDSON JONES, NAZANEEN GHAFFAR, EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA and JOVAN JOHNSON Hurricane Melissa was cutting a slow, soaking path across western Jamaica on Tuesday after making landfall near New Hope on the country’s southwestern coast as a Category 5 storm. Boasting wind speeds of 185 mph after gaining in strength, Melissa made landfall around midday, tearing off roofs, pouring down rain and bringing significant risks for storm surge, flash flooding and devastating landslides

By EMMA BUBOLA The party of Argentina’s budget-slashing president, Javier Milei, won a resounding victory in legislative elections Sunday, a crucial test for his administration that President Donald Trump had said would decide whether the United States extended a financial lifeline to the country. It was an emphatic win for Milei, a self-described anarcho-capitalist who has significantly curbed Argentina’s crippling inflation, but whose tenure was recently hit by financial an

A Ukrainian soldier scans the sky for Russian drones near the southern city of Kherson, May 11, 2023. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times) By ANDREW E. KRAMER A United Nations human rights commission has documented hundreds of instances of Russian drone pilots targeting civilians in the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, and concluded that they amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes. For more than a year, Russian operators have routinely flown drones into Kherson

By JUDSON JONES, NAZANEEN GHAFFAR, FRANCES ROBLES, CAMILLE WILLIAMS and JOVAN JOHNSON Prime Minister Andrew Holness of Jamaica ordered mandatory evacuations in the island nation’s southern parishes as Hurricane Melissa, channeling 175 mph winds and life-threatening rains, began a painstakingly slow turn toward its coast on Monday. Catastrophic winds, widespread flooding and a potentially devastating storm surge were expected in Jamaica as soon as Monday night, long before the

President Trump speaks on Air Force One before arriving in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. President Trump said on Saturday that he would increase tariffs on Canadian goods by 10 percent to punish America’s second-largest trading partner over an ad, paid for by the province of Ontario, that used original audio of Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF President Donald Trump doubled down Saturday in his

Leroy Martin listens to the news as he takes shelter inside the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica in preparation for Hurricane Dean on Sunday, August 19, 2007. Jamaica could face one of the strongest landfall storms in its recorded history as Hurricane Melissa moves through the Caribbean. (Barbara P. Fernandez/The New York Times) By NAZANEEN GHAFFAR Jamaica could face one of the strongest landfall storms in its recorded history as Hurricane Melissa moves through the Carib

WKS coffee farm in Vila Valerio, northern Espírito Santo, July, 22, 2025 Brazil. In an ecological and agricultural irony, the more forests are destroyed to grow coffee, the more the crop’s long-term prospects are jeopardized by changing rains, according to a new report by Coffee Watch, a nonprofit industry watchdog. (Dado Galdieri/The New York Times) By EPHRAT LIVNI Every day, we drink more than 2 billion cups of coffee worldwide, by some estimates, and demand keeps rising. T

For the second time in two days, the Trump administration launched deadly strikes on a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific, expanding its campaign beyond the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said late Wednesday. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By ERIC SCHMITT, CHARLIE SAVAGE and CHRIS CAMERON For the second time in two days, the Trump administration launched deadly strikes on a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific, e