An Israeli air strike lands in front of Beaufort Castle as seen from Nabatieh, Lebanon, on Thursday, June 4, 2026. For Tehran, retaliating for strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon shows that it will stand by its regional allies and block attempts to shift the regional balance of power. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times) By ERIKA SOLOMON At first glance, Iran’s retaliation for Israeli attacks in Lebanon might seem like a reckless act that risks rekindling a devastating regi

A health worker, deployed in response to an Ebola outbreak, checks the temperature a motorcyclist passing through the Kanyaruchinya checkpoint at the northern end of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Thursday, May 21, 2026. The response to the Ebola outbreak in East Africa, as troubled as it has been, offers signs that the world has learned key lessons from the last massive outbreak of the disease and from the COVID-19 pandemic, public health experts say. (Arlette Bashiz

The throne room of the Royal Palace in Madrid, Feb. 10, 2023. Speaking in the Royal Palace on Saturday, Pope Leo called for “a deeper reconciliation and collaboration” in Spain, but expressed gratitude for its “faithful adherence to international law and multilateralism, which is reflected in an active commitment to peace.” (Emilio Parra Doiztua/The New York Times) By JASON HOROWITZ Pope Francis never made a papal visit to Spain, one of the capitals of European Catholicism, p

A woman waves an Iranian flag near a new billboard in Enghelab Square in Tehran, May 24, 2026. After devastating strikes and amid a teetering ceasefire, hopes entertained by some Iranian opponents of the Islamic Republic that the war would bring an end to decades of theocratic rule have been snuffed out. (Arash Khamooshi/Polaris for The New York Times) By FARNAZ FASSIHI When Israel and the United States attacked Iran in late February, some Iranian opponents of the Islamic Rep

Jair Bolsonaro, then a congressman, and his son, Flávio, who filmed an interview in Rio de Janeiro on March 14, 2016, in which Bolsonaro said he would “eat an Indian.” Flávio Bolsonaro plans to challenge Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s leftist president, at the polls in October. (Mauricio Lima for The New York Times) By ANA IONOVA The meeting between President Donald Trump and a son of his jailed Brazilian ally, former president Jair Bolsonaro, lasted just a few minutes.

By EPHRAT LIVNI The Supreme Court of Israel ruled earlier this week that a government policy banning visits to Palestinian prisoners by representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross violated Israeli and international law. The policy, which prohibited the visits to those deemed “security” prisoners in the Israeli system and considered threats to national security, as opposed to “criminal” prisoners, was enacted after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack that ig

An Israeli air strike lands in front of Beaufort Castle as seen from Nabatieh, Lebanon, Thursday, June 04, 2026. Fighting across southern Lebanon has intensified this week, even after President Donald Trump on Monday announced that Israel and Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed armed group, had renewed their truce. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times) By EUAN WARD, EPHRAT LIVNI and MAX BEARAK Hezbollah on Thursday flatly rejected a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel

Abelardo De La Espriella, a far-right candidate for president of Colombia, during his last rally in the city of Medellín, Colombia, on May 24, 2026. President Donald Trump is energetically endorsing De La Espriella in what has been a pattern of putting his finger on the scale of foreign elections during his second term. (Federico Ríos Escobar/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL President Donald Trump inserted himself into Colombia’s presidential election on Tuesday night, en

By ALEX TRAVELLI and HARI KUMAR Flames coursed through a six-story hotel Wednesday in a dense neighborhood in New Delhi, killing at least 21 people and injuring dozens more, according to the city’s fire department. The blaze appears to be the deadliest in the city in at least four years. The Delhi fire department reported that eight crews had responded to a call received at 8:48 a.m. local time regarding the hotel, the Flourish Stay B&B, near Malviya Nagar, in the southern pa

Rescue workers use an excavator as they search for people under the rubble of a building that was hit in an Israeli strike in the southern port city of Tyre, June 2, 2026. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times) By MAX BEARAK, VIVIAN NEREIM and SHIRIN HAKIM Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday repeated the Trump administration’s claim that the war with Iran “has concluded” even as U.S. allies Kuwait and Bahrain were reeling from a barrage of Iranian missiles and drones f