By JULIAN E. BARNES and TYLER PAGER The CIA conducted a drone strike on a port facility in Venezuela last week, according to people briefed on the operation, a development that suggests an aggressive new phase of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against the Maduro government has begun. The strike was on a dock where U.S. officials believe Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang, was storing narcotics and potentially preparing to move the drugs onto boats, the people sai

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine with President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Dec. 28, 2025. Though discussions with President Donald Trump produced little tangible progress, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine at least avoided the type of setbacks that have blighted earlier meetings. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By CONSTANT MÉHEUT As President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine traveled back from Florida on Monday, he could breathe a sigh

Colombian President Gustavo Petro during a rally in Bogotá, Colombia, Oct. 24, 2025. Petro has mounted vigorous criticism of U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. (Nathalia Angarita/The New York Times) By GENEVIEVE GLATSKY Colombia is locked in an escalating dispute with the United States over a series of boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific — initially aimed at Venezuela — that Washington claims are targeting drug smugglers. As the feud has int

By ANNIE CORREAL A passenger train derailed in the Mexican state of Oaxaca on Sunday, killing at least 13 people, according to Mexican authorities. Nearly 250 passengers and crew members were on board when the front engine derailed near the village of Nizanda, causing the train to partially plummet down an embankment, according to local media reports. As of Sunday evening, officials had not determined a cause. Authorities, including the federal prosecutor’s office, said an in

Ukrainian soldiers at an anti-aircraft defense unit in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, Dec. 22, 2025. With talks on ending the Ukraine war making little progress on the toughest issues, Russia issued a dramatic threat on Monday, Dec. 29, to harden its stance, linking the potential change to what the Kremlin called a failed Ukrainian drone attack overnight targeting a rural residence of President Vladimir Putin. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) By NEIL MacFARQUHAR and IVAN NECH

The wreckage of Jeju Air Flight 2216 late last year at the Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea. Chang W. Lee/The New York Times By JIN YU and JOHN YOON A year after the worst plane crash on South Korean soil killed 179 people, the families of some of the victims are still camped out in tents on the second floor of Muan International Airport, desperately seeking answers despite multiple continuing investigations. “I wonder why we keep facing the same questions, fee

Armed police stand guard at an intersection in Yangon, Myanmar, Dec. 26, 2025. The military junta in the long impoverished Southeast Asian country, now even poorer in the wake of the 2021 coup and subsequent brutal civil war, is seeking a veneer of legitimacy by holding elections. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times) By SURI-LEE WEE As voters went to the polls Sunday for the first round of a heavily stage-managed election in Myanmar, the outcome was all but assured. The mili

Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela, during a pro-government march in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. Oil exports, the country’s financial lifeblood, have plummeted after the United States took action against three ships that have been used to carry its crude. (Alejandro Cegarra/The New York Times) By ANATOLY KURMANAEV and REBECCA F. ELLIOTT The United States’ aggressive campaign against tankers carrying Venezuelan crude has thrown the country’s oil indus

Mexico’s top security official, Omar García Harfuch, who is overseeing one of the most aggressive offensives in years against the country’s powerful criminal groups, at his office in Mexico City, Dec. 1, 2025. Mexico’s government says it is making arrests and destroying drug labs at nearly four times the rate of the previous administration, but history says the smart money is on the cartels, whose criminal empires have outlasted everything past governments have thrown at them

Housing in Nuuk, Greenland, May 21, 2025. Officials in Denmark and Greenland on Monday reacted with anger to President Donald Trump’s decision to appoint a special envoy to Greenland, as he intensifies his efforts to take over the semiautonomous Danish territory. (Sigga Ella/The New York Times) By AMELIA NIERENBERG, JEFFREY GETTLMAN and MAYA TEKELI Officials in Denmark and Greenland were furious earlier this week that President Donald Trump had appointed a special envoy to Gr