By ERIC SCHMITT The Defense Department said Sunday that it had blown up a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean earlier in the day, killing six people. The strike raised the death toll in the campaign by the United States against people it accuses of smuggling drugs at sea to at least 156. The U.S. Southern Command announced the strike on social media with an 11-second video clip that showed a stationary boat, with two or three outboard engines, floating in the water and then sud

Damaged oil trucks in an oil storage facility after overnight strikes by U.S. and Israeli forces in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 8, 2026. The Israeli military struck several Iranian fuel sites, including oil storage depots, over the weekend, which appeared to be the first attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By RAJA ABDULRAHIM The Israeli military struck several Iranian fuel sites, includi

A portrait of Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the recently killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as a crowd celebrates his appointment as his father’s successor at Enghelab Square in Tehran, Iran, on Monday, March 9, 2026. Iran projected defiance in the face of expanding U.S.-Israeli attacks on Monday by naming a son of its slain supreme leader as his successor, disregarding warnings from the Trump administration, while a surge in oil prices signaled growing alarm over t

President Rodrigo Paz of Bolivia; President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador; President Javier Milei of Argentina; President Donald Trump; President José Raúl Mulino of Panama; President Mohamed Irfaan Ali of Guyana; and President Nasry Asfura of Honduras stand for a group photo at the Shield of the Americas Summit, held at Trump’s golf resort in Miami on Saturday, March 7, 2026. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL and SHAWN McCREESH At the first Shield of the A

By MARK WALKER Two Toronto-area synagogues were damaged by gunfire late Friday and early Saturday, the third such shooting in the area in less than a week, according to Canadian authorities. Shortly before midnight Friday, officers with the York Regional Police responded to a call of gunfire at Clark Avenue and York Hill Boulevard in the Greater Toronto Area, the police said in a statement. A synagogue building was damaged, the police said. No one was hurt. The police did not

Attendees at a Mass for migrant domestic workers in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday, March 8, 2026. (Diego Ibarra Sanchez/The New York Times) By AARON BOXERMAN, ERIKA SOLOMON, VIVIAN NEREIM, ERIC SCHMITT and FARNAZ FASSIHI The U.S. and Israeli militaries bombarded Iranian military targets and vital energy infrastructure Sunday, as Iran tried to project stability by announcing that top clerics were finalizing their selection of a new supreme leader. There was no sign of an off-ramp

Luis Manuel Pérez waiting for tourists to hire him for a ride around Havana, Cuba in 2024. The Trump administration, which has tightened the U.S. chokehold on Cuba by cutting off foreign oil, is betting that this is the Cuban communist revolution’s last year. (Jorge Luis Baños/The New York Times) By FRANCES ROBLES and VJOSA ISAI By the second week of Debbie Sutherland’s vacation to Cuba last month, there were ominous signs of trouble. Gasoline was being rationed, excursions w

By DAVID E. SANGER President Donald Trump on Thursday said he should have a role in choosing Iran’s new leader, and that Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of the former leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who appeared to be the leading candidate to succeed his father, was an “unacceptable” choice. Trump’s comments, in interviews with Reuters and Axios, were the most explicit he has been yet about his vision of an American role in creating a new government in Tehran. They made clear that Trum

People walk past a damaged building after U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in Tehran, March 3, 2026. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has offered to share his country’s expertise in defending against Iranian-designed drones. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD The crisis in the Middle East has started to reverberate in Ukraine, putting peace talks with Russia on hold and raising fears in Kyiv of diminished military support. After the United States and Is

Members of the Ecuadorean Navy during a raid on a suspected drug gang in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Oct. 18, 2025. As Washington made combating fentanyl a priority, cocaine trafficking has surged. Nowhere have the ripples been felt like in Ecuador, where criminal groups have run rampant. (Daniele Volpe/The New York Times) By ERIC SCHMITT and LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ The United States and Ecuador have launched joint military operations against “designated terrorist organizations” in the