Smoke rises from a pair of drone strikes in Sloviansk, Ukraine, June 1, 2025. More Ukrainians are willing to relinquish the remaining portion of the Donbas region still controlled by Ukraine if it would mean an end to the war. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) By MARIA VARENIKOVA Khrystyna Yurchenko worked hard to build a life in the eastern Ukrainian region known as the Donbas, where she pours her energy into the popular dance studio she owns. But she would give it all up, sh

A minibus departs for the Rafah border crossing to Egypt from Khan Younis, Gaza, with five patients, each accompanied by two caregivers, on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. The first groups of Palestinians started passing through the crossing on Monday morning in both directions, according to Israeli officials, who said they would have final numbers of how many crossed by the end of the day. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times) By ISABEL KERSHNER and BILAL SHBAIR The sole border crossing

By MARIA VARENIKOVA A day before scheduled peace talks with Ukraine, Russia resumed attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure Tuesday, striking power plants with missiles in several regions as temperatures plunged to minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit in the capital, Kyiv. The attacks ended an informal, short-lived “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine that officials had called a confidence-building gesture for peace negotiations. The talks have entered a new phase as Russi

A billboard in Tehran, Iran, showing Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reads “We recognize the American president as a criminal,” Jan. 27, 2026. Senior U.S. and Iranian officials are expected to meet in Istanbul on Friday for talks aimed at de-escalating the crisis between their countries, according to two current regional officials and a former one who were familiar with the planning. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By SANAM MAHOOZI The president of Iran, M

Laura Fernández, the presidential candidate of the Pueblo Soberano Party, greets attendees at her closing campaign rally in San Antonio, Costa Rica, Jan. 29, 2026. (César Rodríguez/The New York Times) By EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA and DAVID BOLAÑOS Laura Fernández, a candidate handpicked by the departing president as his successor, won Costa Rica’s presidential election on Sunday after running on a tough-on-crime platform, according to a preliminary count of the votes. The 39-ye

President Gustavo Petro wears a guayabera as he addresses the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 23, 2025. Petro tends to disdain the pomp that Presidend Donald Trump relishes, preferring guayaberas and traditional Colombian woolen “mochila” bags to suits and briefcases. (Vincent Alban/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL and MAX BEARAK As he prepared for his first face-to-face visit with President Donald Trump, President Gustavo Petro o

By JEANNA SMIALEK, LARA JAKES, STEVEN ERLANGER and JIM TANKERSLEY After President Donald Trump shocked the world in January by threatening Europe with economic pain, humiliating its politicians and excoriating their values, leaders from across the Continent wrestled with the fallout the next day at an emergency dinner meeting in Brussels. The dishes were neat and traditional — chicken supreme, a classic French comfort food, with vanilla roast parsnips — but the question on th

Thousands of Danish citizens protest President Donald Trump’s talk of purchasing or taking Greenland at City Hall in Copenhagen, Jan. 17, 2026. A Danish soldier who fought alongside U.S. troops in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq marched in subzero temperatures through the streets of Copenhagen on Saturday, driven by outrage against President Donald Trump. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times) By MAYA TEKELI and LYNSEY CHUTEL A Danish soldier who fought alongside U.S. troops in t

Protests in Iran erupted amid a communications blackout. But as video and witness accounts trickle out, the brutality of the regime’s crackdown is becoming clear. By FARNAZ FASSIHI, SANJANA VARGHESE, MALACHY BROWNE and PARIN BEHROOZ In Tehran, the capital of Iran, security forces opened fire at protesters from the roof of a police station. In Karaj, they fired live rounds into a march, shooting one person in the head. In Isfahan, young men barricaded themselves in an alley as

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. Greenland’s impression of the United States has taken a turn for the worse, most recently since the violence in Minneapolis. One unexpected result is a closer relationship to its former colonizer, Denmark. (Juliette Pavy/The New York Times) By MAYA TEKELI and JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Not long ago, Aviaja Sinkbaek, an office manager in