A field worker walks past a poster showing Haiti’s assassinated president Jovenel Moïse in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, Sept. 15, 2021. The Justice Department on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026, arrested an additional 30 suspects in the 2021 assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse, including 18 who had been transferred from Haiti to Miami aboard a U.S. military plane, according to the U.S. attorney for South Florida. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times) By DAVID C. ADAMS The U.S.

Two women take a selfie outside the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday, Sept. 21, 2026. (Angelina Katsanis/The New York Times) By FARNAZ FASSIHI World leaders will converge in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly with the Middle East in turmoil, war raging between Russia and Ukraine, old alliances in peril, energy prices rising and scientists warning that artificial intelligence could imperil humanity. “It would be hard to imagine a scenar

President Donald Trump speaks during a dinner in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. Trump’s threats to seize Greenland left its people on edge, and with details scarce, the news of an agreement didn’t seem to be putting minds at ease. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and MAYA TEKELI First, President Donald Trump wanted to buy their homeland. Then he threatened to seize it by force. On Friday, he announced that

By JIM TANKERSLEY Just two weeks after the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, scored a stunning victory in the small eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, German voters in two other regions voted Sunday and delivered a new gauge of the AfD’s national prospects. Voters in Berlin and in a lightly populated coastal corner of the former East Germany, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, elected new state parliaments. Exit polls released after voting ended showed the AfD was on tra

In a satellite image from Vantor, damage from a previous attack on the Saudi Arabia East-West pipeline, Sept. 13, 2026. Fierce ground fighting on Sunday was the latest sign of how the war between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis that resumed in July is escalating. (Satellite image ©2026 Vantor Technologies via The New York Times) By VIVIAN NEREIM The Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen was engaged in fierce battles against fighters backed by Saudi Arabia on Sunday, as the gro

President Donald Trump meets with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada at the White House in Washington on Oct. 7, 2025. The invitation by the European Union on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026, for Canada to become an “associate member” is a sign of the knock-on effects of President Donald Trump’s brand of diplomacy, which often involves threatening countries that once were considered America’s closest friends. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By LUKE BROADWATER and MICHAEL CROWLE

Neighbors play dominoes during a power cut in Havana on July 5, 2026. Shipping containers stranded in various Caribbean ports include humanitarian aid to Cuba ranging from solar panels to medication to colostomy bags. (Lisette Poole González/The New York Times) By ED AUGUSTIN and FRANCES ROBLES Thousands of containers filled with food, medicine and other goods bound for Cuba have been stranded throughout the Caribbean since two shipping giants stopped deliveries to avoid toug

By JEANNA SMIALEK and MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF The European Union has invited Canada to work toward becoming the bloc’s first “associate member,” a title meant to underscore Canada’s growing closeness to the 27-nation union as both face deteriorating relationships with the United States. President Donald Trump has waged a relentless trade war with Canada, challenging the nation’s economy. The United States has pulled back support for NATO and Ukraine, leaving the EU scrambling

By AMELIA NIERENBERG Hashim Thaci, the former leader of Kosovo who led its bloody independence fight against Serbia in the 1990s, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison for war crimes, including arbitrary detention, torture and murder. Thaci’s sentence concluded a trial that has deepened divisions in his Balkan homeland over whether he should be feted as a war hero or condemned as a leader of violent rebels. Thaci, 58, who has long denied wrongdoing, was sentenced alon

Tomeyo Ono, who at 100 still works as a storyteller, visits friends in Soma, Fukushima, Japan, on May 18, 2025. Japan’s health ministry released data on Sept. 15, 2026 showing that there were 107,677 residents of at least 100 years old. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times) By HISAKO UENO and TIFFANY MAY There are now more than 100,000 centenarians in Japan, a record for a country famous for its longevity. Japan’s Health Ministry released data Tuesday showing that there are now 1