Ukrainian soldiers prepare to fire their 122 mm howitzer at Russian forces near Marinka, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, Feb. 20, 2024. The European Union has a proposal for how to turn Russian frozen assets into a giant loan for Ukraine. If it fails, it could further weaken Europe’s global image. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) By JEANNA SMIALEK European leaders had hoped to flex their collective muscles with a huge pot of money to fund Ukraine’s war effort, one s

Severe damage at Jake’s Hotel in Treasure Beach, Jamaica, on the country’s southwestern shore, Nov. 4, 2025. In the wake of damage wrought by the category 5 Hurricane Melissa at the end of October, officials in Jamaica — a country where tourism accounts for nearly a third of economy — are rushing to reopen dozens of hotels in time to salvage the vital winter travel season. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times) By FRANCES ROBLES With power still out nine days after Hurricane Meliss

President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, at a speech in Caracas on Nov. 25, 2025. Venezuela’s government said on Dec. 2 that it had approved a request from the United States for a migrant repatriation flight, days after President Donald Trump declared Venezuelan airspace “closed in its entirety” — an act the United States government does not have the legal authority to make. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By SIMON ROMERO Venezuela’s government said Tuesday that

Salvador Nasralla, a sportscaster who split with his former ally, the Libre Party, and joined the right-wing Liberal Party to make his fourth bid for the presidency, participates in a campaign rally in Comayaguela, Honduras, Nov. 17, 2025. (Daniele Volpe/The New York Times) By JACK NICAS and JEFF ERNST Hondurans were heading to bed Monday with two candidates in a virtual tie for the presidency and election officials urging calm and patience as they finished counting tallies b

A train filled with coal passes through Wyco, W.Va., Oct. 12, 2025. 1,600 fossil fuel representatives, including diplomats from countries with state-run oil companies, participated in COP30, according to a review by the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition. (Jared Hamilton/The New York Times) By LISA FRIEDMAN and STEVEN LEE MYERS When nearly 200 nations signed the 2015 Paris agreement, acknowledging the threat of rising global temperatures and vowing action, many hoped that the e

A billboard for National Party presidential candidate Nasry Asfura, a former mayor who has been endorsed by U.S. President Donald Trump, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Nov. 17, 2025. Election authorities in Honduras said early Monday that Asfura and a sportscaster rival were virtually tied in a presidential election that many predicted would be volatile even before Trump weighed in on the race. The banner reads “Honduras: We will be fine!” (Daniele Volpe/The New York Times) By ANN

By PAMODI WARAVITA and MUJIB MASHAL Sri Lanka’s recent history has been riddled with serious setbacks. But President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has declared that the cyclone that hit the country last week is the “largest and most challenging natural disaster in our history.” In 2004, as the island nation of 22 million was trying to wind down a decades-long civil war, the Indian Ocean tsunami killed tens of thousands and caused billions of dollars in damage. In recent years, Sri

By AARON BOXERMAN and RAWAN SHEIKH AHMAD Israeli forces killed two children in the Gaza Strip in a strike Saturday, according to the family and a Palestinian health official, amid persistent violence in the territory despite an ongoing ceasefire. Ahmed al-Farra, an official at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which received their bodies, said the two children had been killed in Bani Suheila, an eastern neighborhood of the city that is close to the so-called yellow line to whic