A government billboard with a photograph of President Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, his wife and co-president, in the Peñas Blancas region of Nicaragua, on Dec. 20, 2018. Ortega said on Sunday that he would abolish his nation’s elections, a blatant move to further strengthen his and his wife’s authoritarian grip on the nation of 7 million. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times) By JACK NICAS and JAMES WAGNER President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua said on Sunday that he would

By MARC SANTORA Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy removed his top general on Tuesday amid swelling public protests and growing concerns that the national unity that had helped the country survive nearly five years of war was in danger of fracturing. The dismissal of Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi was a major reversal for Zelenskyy, who just days earlier sided with the general and fired Ukraine’s defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov. Thousands of people had joined mass demonstrati

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, right, speaks alongside Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent as President Donald Trump meets with President Joseph Aoun of Lebanon in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. The Lebanese army deployed on Tuesday in a village in southern Lebanon after Israeli forces withdrew from it, marking the first step in a phased U.S.-backed plan to end the conflict. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By GENEVIEVE

People watch Spain’s World Cup semifinal soccer match against France on a giant screen, which shows Spain’s Lamine Yamal (19), at Parc Central near the Rocafonda neighborhood of Mataró, Spain, on July 14, 2026. As he prepared for the World Cup final, Yamal, 19, was at the heart of a national debate about what it means to be Spanish in an increasingly multicultural society. (María Contreras Coll/The New York Times) By JASON HOROWITZ Shortly before Spain’s soccer team won a pla

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Friday, July 17, 2026. Trump is broadly unpopular among Britain’s public, which gives Prime Minister Andy Burnham the space to potentially stand up to the American leader if he wants to. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By MICHAEL D. SHEAR Andy Burnham, who became Britain’s prime minister Monday, has shrugged off the challenge of dealing with President Donald Trump. “It’s about being yourself, isn’t i

By LEILY NIKOUNAZAR U.S. airstrikes targeting parts of southern Iran rattled Iranians’ nerves last week, they said in interviews, and destroyed key links between one province and the rest of the country. Marzieh, a resident of the port city of Bandar Abbas, said that she had heard from friends that the roads around the city had been “devastated.” Marzieh and other Iranians interviewed gave only their first names for fear of government reprisal. Overnight strikes damaged a tun

Premier Doug Ford of Ontario after a news conference in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, on Saturday, July 18, 2026. Out-of-control wildfires in Ontario continued to force evacuations and affect major cities in Canada and the United States on Saturday as the province’s leader made his first visit near the devastated area. (Cole Burston/The New York Times) By THE NEW YORK TIMES Wildfires in Canada have cast smoke across a swath of the country and the United States, polluting the

By MITRA TAJ Six people were killed and at least 20 were injured by an earthquake that hit the central highland region of Peru, authorities said Sunday. The quake struck in the Junín region, near the rural district of Chongos Bajos, at 9:24 p.m. Saturday, damaging or destroying dozens of houses and forcing about 300 people to take refuge in a sports stadium because of aftershocks, according to Peru’s National Institute of Civil Defense. The quake also damaged the town’s 16th-

People inspect the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike, which killed five, including three children, that targeted a residential apartment building in Gaza City, on July 18, 2026. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times) By AARON BOXERMAN, YAN ZHUAN, HARI RAJ and ERIC SCHMITT The U.S. military announced Sunday that another service member had been killed in action, bringing the number of American military personnel who have died in the conflict with Iran to 17, as the two sides edged

Lazaro Figueroa Tamayo, left, and Luis Silva Aldana, Adrián Silva Guerra’s father, at the Silva Guerra family home in Santiago de Cuba on May 8, 2026. (Lisette Poole González/The New York Times) By ED AUGUSTIN Adrián Silva Guerra saw the streetlight flicker back to life. It was 2:08 a.m. on a Thursday. An electric repairman, Silva Guerra quickly got up from his concrete stoop and went inside, leaving the front door ajar so the night air would drift over his 7-year-old son sle