A statue of a hand holding a drilling rig near Venezuela’s state oil company in Caracas, Oct. 9, 2025. President Donald Trump has signed off on CIA plans for covert measures inside Venezuela, operations that could be meant to prepare a battlefield for further action, according to multiple people briefed on the matter. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By TYLER PAGER, JULIAN E. BARNES and ERIC SCHMITT With the largest U.S. aircraft carrier now positioned in the C

By GENEVIEVE GLATSKY and JOSÉ MARÍA LEÓN CABRERA President Daniel Noboa of Ecuador has spent months courting Washington. He has met with President Donald Trump at his Florida estate; formed an alliance with Blackwater founder Erik Prince, a Trump supporter; and pressed to allow U.S. military bases in Ecuador. But voters at home delivered Noboa a sharp rebuke. They soundly rejected a national referendum Sunday that he had backed, aimed at authorizing a foreign military presenc

President Donald Trump during a press conference in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Nov. 17, 2025. (Allison Robbert/The New York Times) By TYLER PAGER President Donald Trump said earlier this week that he would not rule out deploying U.S. troops on the ground in Venezuela, but he also said he was leaving open the possibility of talking to Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader and the target of the Trump administration’s intensifying pressure cam

By MARIA VARENIKOVA and IVAN NECHEPURENKO President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said he planned to go Turkey on Wednesday to try to revive peace talks with Russia that have been stalled since the summer. Ukrainian and Russian officials have not held direct negotiations for months, and efforts to end the war have reached a stalemate since the last round of talks between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia in August. Last month, Trump canceled a mee

President Donald Trump meets with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By KATIE ROGERS and VIVIAN NEREIM President Donald Trump brushed aside a reporter’s question about the role Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, played in the death and dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist in 2018, praising the kingdom’s de facto ruler in a jo

A grave in Copiapó, Chile, for those killed in 1973 under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, on Oct. 14, 2010. Polls show right-wing candidates drawing the most support, but a recent compulsory voting law could bring a surge of new voters, adding uncertainty. (Víctor Ruiz Caballero/The New York Times) By EMMA BUBOLA and JOHN BARTLETT José Antonio Kast, the main conservative contender in Chile’s presidential election and a candidate who has borrowed liberally from P

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh addresses the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 23, 2022. Hasina was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death Monday, a triumph for the interim government that promised to deliver justice for the hundreds of unarmed protesters killed during a brutal crackdown last year. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By SAIF HASNAT and ANUPREETA DAS The former prime minister of Bangladesh,

Protesters walk along Avenida Paseo de la Reforma, passing by photographs of missing people, in Mexico City, Mexico, Nov. 15, 2025. Protesters gathered in cities across Mexico on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025, to vent their frustration at how the president has handled corruption and violent crime, with demonstrators ranging from pensioners to young people linking themselves with a global Gen Z movement. (Fred Ramos/The New York Times) By EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA and FRED RAMOS Prote