By EUAN WARD The grisly killings of a husband and wife set off a new wave of sectarian unrest over the weekend in Homs, one of Syria’s largest and most diverse cities. The bodies of the couple, members of a prominent Bedouin tribe, were found Sunday in their home just south of Homs, Syria’s third-largest city. The wife’s body showed signs of burning and sectarian slogans were also found at the crime scene, according to the Syrian state news agency, SANA. After a wave of repri

Local residents who survived a Russian strike the week before return to inspect the damage to their apartment building in Ternopil, Ukraine, on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. Ukrainian and American officials were expected on Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, to continue negotiating a U.S.-backed proposal to end the war with Russia, after what both sides described as “highly productive” talks over the weekend to revise a plan that many Ukrainians had deemed overly favorable to Moscow. (Mauricio

By NEIL MACFARQUHAR, MILANA MAZAEVA and ANNA LUKINOVA Oleksandra Stolyar was living near Kyiv, Ukraine, when she learned that her apartment in the occupied Ukrainian port city of Mariupol would be confiscated by the Russian-installed government. The problem was that she, like tens of thousands of others, had fled war-torn Mariupol several years ago, and hadn’t reregistered her property because she didn’t become a Russian citizen. She considered the idea of taking a Russian pa

From left: European Council President António Costa, South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after speaking at a news conference for the South Africa-European Union Trilateral Leaders’ Meeting amid the Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nov. 20, 2025. Leaders of some of the world’s most powerful countries pushed back on demands that Ukraine cede territory and limit the size of its army included in President

President Donald Trump berates President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Feb. 28, 2025. Ukrainian and American officials sat down for talks in Switzerland on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, as part of President Trump’s push to get Kyiv to accept a peace plan to end its war with Russia. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD Ukrainian and U.S. officials said they had made good progress Sunday in talks about a controvers

A member of the Ukrainian artillery unit fires a howitzer at Russian targets in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, Oct. 17, 2025. A plan to end the war in Ukraine, negotiated between the Trump administration and Russia, would require Kyiv to surrender territory, significantly reduce the size of its army and relinquish some types of weaponry, according to officials familiar with the proposal. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) By ANDREW E. KRAMER and LARA JAKES In its diploma

A distant view of anchored cruise ships that are serving as temporary hotels for some of the thousands of attendees at this year’s United Nation climate change conference, COP30, in Belém, Brazil, Nov. 16, 2025. Hundreds of millions across the world still lack access to electrical power​, and in the Western Hemisphere alone some 17 million go entirely without while 60 million more rely on small generators using diesel — one of the dirtiest and most expensive forms of fuel. (A

Destruction in Gaza City on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. The United Nations Security Council’s backing of President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza offers a scaffolding of international legitimacy that will be needed to persuade countries to help see the plans through. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times) By DAVID M. HALBFINGER The U.N. Security Council’s vote to adopt President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Gaza Strip bought Washington time. Time to assemble the members of a