A mural of President Jovenel Moïse near the home where he was killed by assassins in Haiti, July 13, 2021. Haitian election officials have set elections for Dec. 13, but many experts say extreme violence is likely to cause a postponement. Again. (Federico Ríos/The New York Times) By ANDRÉ PAULTRE and FRANCES ROBLES Gang violence in Haiti is so bad that Antoine Rodon Bien-Aimé, a candidate for the Haitian Senate, has been campaigning via speakerphone and video calls to communi

Diners enjoy a restaurant in Madrid, July 10, 2026. Data indicates that 9 p.m. remains the most popular reservation time in Spain but there are signs that Spaniards are eating earlier in the evening. Experts say it could make for a healthier country, but not everyone is ready to part with the custom. (Emilio Parra Doiztua/The New York Times) By JONATHAN WOLFE For generations, dinnertime for the Terrazas family, as in many households in Spain, was late. It usually began after

A man clears debris from the wreckage of his home after a Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Aug. 2, 2026. Each side is using missiles and drones to try to pound the other into giving up, breeding ceaseless human suffering. But there is no sign that either country’s determination will weaken. (Nicole Tung/The New York Times) By KIM BARKER, OLEKSANDRA MYKOLYSHYN and IVAN NECHEPURENKO They are both torching warehouses filled with food or online-shopping orders near maj

Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 5, 2026. A week before Canada is set to impose retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of American imports, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, that the Trump administration must stop insulting his country if there was to be any hope of renewing trade talks. (Ian Austen/The New York Times) By IAN AUSTEN A week before Canada is set to impose retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of U.S. i

By ERICA L. GREEN As the on-again, off-again war in Iran flares up again, President Donald Trump seems bogged down in a conflict that he cannot control or move past, despite his declarations of total victory. On Tuesday night, after the latest exchange of fire over control of the Strait of Hormuz, Trump called on the Iranian people to rise up — something he did at the outset of the war six months ago, before he backed off and acknowledged that his command was easier said than

Farming equipment and buildings heavily damaged by Russian strikes and previous occupation in Ukraine’s southern region of Mykolvaiv, on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. Strikes by both Moscow and Kyiv on shipping in the Black Sea leave farmers facing ruin and could cause another worldwide food shock. (Jedrzej Nowicki/The New York Times) By CARLOTTA GALL and KAMILA HRABCHUK It was a bumper harvest this year and barns in southern Ukraine are filled with great golden mounds of grain. Ye

A swollen river near flood-damaged buildings in Devighat, Nepal, after floods caused by a glacier breaking in the Himalayas, Aug. 28, 2026. Putting the cost of recovery at $5 billion, a senior Nepali official said his country had requested urgent financial help from the United Nations’ special fund for climate-disaster recovery. (Atul Loke/The New York Times) By CHICO HARLAN Putting the cost of recovery at $5 billion, a senior Nepali official said his country had requested ur

President Donald Trump, left, attends a state banquet with President Xi Jinping of China in Beijing on May 14, 2026. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By DAVID PIERSON Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Central Asia this week with a message for a world increasingly unsettled by President Donald Trump: China has friends and influence, and is prepared to help shape what comes next. The scene unfolded at a security summit in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, where Xi gather

Claire Valdez, a democratic socialist assemblywomen, close ally of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a candidate for the U.S. House in the 13th Congressional District, during a break at the Panamerican Congress, an annual meeting of leftist political leaders from across the Americas, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Aug. 22, 2026. The success of progressive candidates in the United States is inspiring leftists abroad struggling under pressure from the Trump administration and its alli

By AARON BOXERMAN The United States and Iran exchanged attacks for the first time in a month overnight Monday, underscoring how a war that President Donald Trump had promised would be over quickly has repeatedly frustrated his attempts to end it. The U.S. military said Sunday that its forces had bombarded Iranian troops on Larak Island that were preparing to launch rockets armed with mines into the Strait of Hormuz, the vital shipping corridor for oil and gas that Iran has bl