A man walks to the site of a missile attack on farmland in Jabo, Nigeria, Jan. 1, 2026. At least 167 people have been killed by gunmen in attacks on two villages in a rural part of Nigeria, according to the Nigerian branch of the Red Cross. (Taibat Ajiboye/The New York Times) By RUTH MacLEAN, ISMAIL AUWAL and SAIKOU JAMMEH At least 167 people have been killed by gunmen in attacks on two villages in a rural part of Nigeria, according to the Nigerian branch of the Red Cross. Th

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia at his official residence in Bogota on Jan. 8, 2026, the day after his telephone call with President Donald Trump. Colombians — from the embassy in Washington to the streets of Bogotá, the capital — seemed to breathe a collective sigh of relief after Tuesday’s White House meeting between the two leaders seemed to go well. (Nathalia Angarita/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL, MAX BEARAK and MINHO KIM Many feared the worst from Tuesday’s m

Smoke rises from a pair of drone strikes in Sloviansk, Ukraine, June 1, 2025. More Ukrainians are willing to relinquish the remaining portion of the Donbas region still controlled by Ukraine if it would mean an end to the war. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) By MARIA VARENIKOVA Khrystyna Yurchenko worked hard to build a life in the eastern Ukrainian region known as the Donbas, where she pours her energy into the popular dance studio she owns. But she would give it all up, sh

A minibus departs for the Rafah border crossing to Egypt from Khan Younis, Gaza, with five patients, each accompanied by two caregivers, on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. The first groups of Palestinians started passing through the crossing on Monday morning in both directions, according to Israeli officials, who said they would have final numbers of how many crossed by the end of the day. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times) By ISABEL KERSHNER and BILAL SHBAIR The sole border crossing

By MARIA VARENIKOVA A day before scheduled peace talks with Ukraine, Russia resumed attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure Tuesday, striking power plants with missiles in several regions as temperatures plunged to minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit in the capital, Kyiv. The attacks ended an informal, short-lived “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine that officials had called a confidence-building gesture for peace negotiations. The talks have entered a new phase as Russi

A billboard in Tehran, Iran, showing Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reads “We recognize the American president as a criminal,” Jan. 27, 2026. Senior U.S. and Iranian officials are expected to meet in Istanbul on Friday for talks aimed at de-escalating the crisis between their countries, according to two current regional officials and a former one who were familiar with the planning. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By SANAM MAHOOZI The president of Iran, M

Laura Fernández, the presidential candidate of the Pueblo Soberano Party, greets attendees at her closing campaign rally in San Antonio, Costa Rica, Jan. 29, 2026. (César Rodríguez/The New York Times) By EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA and DAVID BOLAÑOS Laura Fernández, a candidate handpicked by the departing president as his successor, won Costa Rica’s presidential election on Sunday after running on a tough-on-crime platform, according to a preliminary count of the votes. The 39-ye

President Gustavo Petro wears a guayabera as he addresses the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 23, 2025. Petro tends to disdain the pomp that Presidend Donald Trump relishes, preferring guayaberas and traditional Colombian woolen “mochila” bags to suits and briefcases. (Vincent Alban/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL and MAX BEARAK As he prepared for his first face-to-face visit with President Donald Trump, President Gustavo Petro o