Police activity near a house in Bonnyrigg, a suburb west of Sydney, Australia, on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, following a deadly shooting on Bondi Beach in Sydney. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Austrailia called the shooting a terrorist attack targeting the Jewish community during a Hannukah celebration. (Matthew Abbott/The New York Times) By YAN ZHUANG and VICTORIA KIM The death toll in the mass shooting at a Jewish holiday celebration in Australia rose to 15, officials said

President Donald Trump conducts a business leaders roundtable in the Roosevelt Room at The White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. The United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Trump announced on Wednesday, an escalation in his administration’s pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By TYLER PAGER, ERIC SCHMITT and NICHOLAS NEHAMAS The United States seized an oil tanker

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado greets supporters during a rally in Guanare, Venezuela, July 17, 2024. Machado is being honored for her push for democracy even as she backs President Trump’s military buildup and aggressive campaign against Venezuela. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By ANATOLY KURMANAEV and HENRIK PRYSER LIBELL María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, said she was able to leave the country after spending more than a year i

By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE and DECLAN WALSH Repeated strikes on a kindergarten and hospital in Sudan killed 114 people, including 63 children, and targeted the responders who were trying to get the wounded to safety, the World Health Organization said earlier this week. The attack was the kind of mass atrocity that has marked Sudan’s 2 1/2-year civil war, in which civilians and civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, have faced relentless attack. The massacre also shows the

Young passengers use their smartphones on a train near Central Station in Sydney, Australia, Nov. 19, 2025. Australia’s online regulator reported earlier this year that 95 percent of teens ages 13 to 15 used social media in 2024. (Matthew Abbott/The New York Times) By VICTORIA KIM A new law in Australia that bars anyone younger than 16 from having social media accounts went into effect Wednesday, in the start of a sweeping governmental effort to shelter children from the harm

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at her office in Caracas, July 26, 2024. Machado is being honored with the Nobel Peace Prize for her push for democracy even as she backs Trump’s military buildup and aggressive campaign against Venezuela. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By SIMON ROMERO and HENRIK PRYSER LIBELL María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, said Wednesday that she was on her way to

President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras addresses the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 26, 2018. President Donald Trump formally pardoned Hernández on Dec. 1, 2025. Hernández was accused of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL The Honduran attorney general announced Monday night that he had issued an international arrest warrant for the country’s former president, Ju

By CHRISTINE HAUSER, HISAKO UENO and JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ A powerful earthquake off the coast of northern Japan on Monday night prompted a tsunami warning and left more than 30 people injured, authorities said. The earthquake, which had a magnitude of 7.6, caused buildings to sway and bridges to shake, according to local news outlets. There were no reports of deaths or major damage, and by Tuesday morning, the Japanese government had lifted the tsunami warning. “We are continu