Part of a crowd of thousands gather in Lviv, Ukraine, on July 23, 2025, to protest President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s move to overhaul anticorruption institutions. He reversed his push after the protests. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times) By KIM BARKER The main anti-corruption agencies in Ukraine announced earlier this week that they had uncovered a major corruption scheme in which contractors of the state-owned nuclear energy company had been forced to pay hefty kickbacks.

The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), sails in the Ionian Sea, July 29, 2025. The carrier arrived in the Caribbean on Tuesday. By ERIC SCHMITT The Navy’s largest and most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, moved into the Caribbean region on Tuesday, adding to the capability of the United States to strike boats suspected of carrying drugs or targets on land in Venezuela as the Trump administration weighs further military steps a

People walk by the Hangar Convention Center in Belém, Brazil on June 25, 2025, venue of the COP30 global climate summit this month. World leaders shared vivid stories about the increasingly severe effects of a warming planet last Friday, the second day of the summit. (María Magdalena Arrellaga/The New York Times) By DAVID GELLES and BRAD PLUMER In Spain, intense heat waves and floods have claimed thousands of lives in recent years. In Namibia, higher temperatures have resulte

Typhoon Fung-wong in Borongan, Eastern Samar, Philippines. Categorized as a super typhoon by the state weather bureau, Fung-wong made landfall Sunday evening in Aurora province, on the country’s main island of Luzon. (Wikipedia/TheNuggeteer) By JASON GUTIÉRREZ High waves whipped up by Typhoon Fung-wong swamped Sinbanali, a seaside village near the Philippine capital of Manila, forcing residents to flee their homes amid torrential rain. Ivy Villamor said the storm’s menacing h

Residences damaged by Hurricane Melissa, one with rooftop solar panels, at Treasure Beach in Jamaica, Nov., 2025. Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. (Abbie Townsend/The New York Times) By HIROKO TABUCHI The morning after Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica, Jennifer Hue, a retired tax auditor living close to hard-hit Treasure Beach, woke up to devastation. Her mango, breadfruit and papaya trees were l

Secretary of State Marco Rubio flies with President Donald Trump to a NATO summit in the Netherlands, on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By LISA FRIEDMAN, MAX BEARAK and JEANNA SMIALEK More than 100 nations were poised last month to approve a historic deal to slash pollution from cargo ships. That’s when the United States launched a pressure campaign that officials around the world have called extraordinary, even by the standards of the Trump adminis

President Claudia Sheinbaum leads Mexico’s annual cry of independence from a balcony of the National Palace in Mexico City on Sept. 15, 2025. Anger over corruption helped deliver Morena, Sheinbaum’s party, the presidency in 2018; now the disconnect between officials’ public statements and the lifestyles of certain politicians has created a firestorm. (Luis Antonio Rojas/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL and EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA A day after a man groped Mexico’s presiden

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 3, 2025. Some foes of the Trump administration see America’s absence from the COP30 climate summit in Brazil as a blessing in disguise. “If we’re going to be at the table and turn it over, then I think it’s best if we don’t show up,” Schatz said. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By LISA FRIEDMAN For the first time since countries began gathering 30 years ago to wrestle with global warming, the United States will n