By LILY KUO China’s leader, Xi Jinping, said Tuesday that the world cannot risk reverting “to the law of the jungle,” a thinly veiled criticism of the United States, in his most direct public comments on the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. “Maintaining the authority of international rule of law means not using it when it suits us and abandoning it when it doesn’t,” he said in a meeting with the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in Beijing. Xi’s remarks, in addition

A Lebanese man looks down from a destroyed building as workers and relatives continue the sixth day of searching for missing victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit a residential building in Beirut, April 14, 2026. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By MICHAEL CROWLEY, EUAN WARD, ANUSHKA PATIL, FRANCESCA REGALADO and JOHN YOON Israeli and Lebanese officials concluded more than two hours of direct talks Tuesday in Washington as Israel’s military campaign agai

President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba addresses the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters in Manhattan on Sept. 19, 2023. With oil running out and the nation increasingly plunging into chronic darkness, Díaz-Canel said on Sunday that his administration and the Cuban people were prepared to fight back against any potential U.S. military intervention. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times) By ADAM B. ELLICK and SIMON ROMERO President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba on Sunday

Cannonballs at the Citadelle Laferrière, once stacked to defend against a feared French invasion, near Milo, Haiti on July 25, 2021. Haitian officials said at least 30 people had died during a stampede at the site on Saturday and that the toll was expected to rise. (Federico Ríos/The New York Times) By ANDRÉ PAULTRE and EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA A tourist outing Saturday at Haiti’s most historic and famous fortress turned into chaos and then terror, after a stampeding crowd cru

A truck carries the coffin of Major Gen. Majid Khademi, head of intelligence for Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, during his funeral procession in Tehran, Iran, April 8, 2026. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By DAVID E. SANGER President Donald Trump’s decision to blockade all Iranian shipments out of or into the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday morning sets up the next great test in the Iran war: Which side can endure more economic pain, Iran’s new leadership or

A woman removes debris from her apartment in a neighborhood that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Tyre, Lebanon, March 26, 2026. In Tyre, a city on Lebanon’s coast, near-daily bombardments by Israel have killed and injured civilians, and left many searching for shelter. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM and HWAIDA SAAD The mother sat on the curb outside a hospital in southern Lebanon, holding her phone and pleading with a photo of her sons

By ANDREW HIGGINS and LILI RUTAI Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, a lodestar for MAGA culture warriors and right-wing populists in Europe, conceded defeat Sunday in a general election, breaking the momentum of a global nationalist revival promoted by President Donald Trump. Speaking to supporters Sunday evening in Budapest, Orban said the “election results, although not complete, are understandable and clear. They are painful for us but unequivocal.” He congratulated t

Pedestrians cross Enghelab Square, near a billboard showing Mojtaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader, in Tehran, April 11, 2026. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By KATIE ROGERS, TYLER PAGER, AARON BOXERMAN and ISABEL KERSHNER President Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States will blockade the Strait of Hormuz, stepping up pressure on Iran after marathon peace talks between top Iranian and American leaders in Pakistan ended without a breakthrough. The announcement

A poster for Canada’s Liberal party candidate, Prime Minister Mark Carney, in Blainville, Canada, April 15, 2025. Carney’s Liberal Party is expected to win two special elections that could give the government broader powers in Parliament. (Renaud Philippe/The New York Times) By NORIMITSU ONISHI Riding high in the polls, the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada came tantalizingly close to forming a parliamentary majority on Wednesday after another opposition lawm

By ANDREW E. KRAMER The ceasefire that Iran and the United States announced this week opens a window to resume talks on ending the war in Ukraine, but that window will soon close, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in comments made public by his office on Thursday. Talks on the fighting in Ukraine have been underway for more than a year with little to show for them, except for brief ceasefires last year. The negotiations stalled last month after their host, the United Arab Em