U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, center, attends President Donald Trump’s speech at Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. The Trump administration launched another round of deadly strikes on vessel it accused of smuggling drugs, killing 14 people in four boats on Monday Hegseth said Tuesday. At left is Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan; center left is Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan’s defense minister. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By HELENE COOPER and

By LIAM STACK and BILAL SHBAIR Israeli strikes killed at least 100 people across the Gaza Strip overnight, local health officials said, in what appeared to be the deadliest day since Israel and Hamas agreed on a ceasefire three weeks ago. The strikes began late Tuesday after Israel’s government accused Hamas of violating the truce by failing to return the bodies of dead captives and by attacking Israeli forces in Rafah in southern Gaza. The Israeli military said one of its so

A fisherman lugs his cooler filled with fish through floodwaters in the Treasure Beach area of Jamaica, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (Abbie Townsend/The New York Times) By NAZANEEN GHAFFAR, ALAN YUHAS, ANDRÉ PAULTRE and JOVAN JOHNSON Hurricane Melissa ground forward toward the Bahamas as it carved a deadly path through the Caribbean on Wednesday. Officials in Haiti announced the deaths of about 20 people killed in overnight flooding, and three bodies were recovered in Jamaica

Supporters of President Javier Milei of Argentina during a campaign event in Rosario, Argentina, Oct. 23, 2025. This past Sunday, Argentina held a legislative election that marked a momentous tipping point for Milei’s presidency, and gained a bigger spotlight after President Donald Trump tied a U.S. financial lifeline for Argentina to Milei’s electoral success. (Anita Pouchard Serra/The New York Times) By EMMA BUBOLA The decisive victory of President Javier Milei of Argentina

President Donald Trump addresses business CEOs of companies SoftBank, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, and other companies announcing business investments in Yokosuka, Japan on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By KATIE ROGERS, ERICA L. GREEN and JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ Inside a gold-drenched palace in Tokyo on Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump heaped praise on Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s new prime minister, telling her that their countries were “allies at the str

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel speaks to reporters while visiting the Capitol in Washington on July 8, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By LIAM STACK, ARIC TOLER and ARIJETA LAJKA Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to conduct strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as the government accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire agreement by firing on Israeli forces and failing to return the bodies of dead hostages. The decision “to

By JUDSON JONES, NAZANEEN GHAFFAR, EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA and JOVAN JOHNSON Hurricane Melissa was cutting a slow, soaking path across western Jamaica on Tuesday after making landfall near New Hope on the country’s southwestern coast as a Category 5 storm. Boasting wind speeds of 185 mph after gaining in strength, Melissa made landfall around midday, tearing off roofs, pouring down rain and bringing significant risks for storm surge, flash flooding and devastating landslides

By EMMA BUBOLA The party of Argentina’s budget-slashing president, Javier Milei, won a resounding victory in legislative elections Sunday, a crucial test for his administration that President Donald Trump had said would decide whether the United States extended a financial lifeline to the country. It was an emphatic win for Milei, a self-described anarcho-capitalist who has significantly curbed Argentina’s crippling inflation, but whose tenure was recently hit by financial an

A Ukrainian soldier scans the sky for Russian drones near the southern city of Kherson, May 11, 2023. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times) By ANDREW E. KRAMER A United Nations human rights commission has documented hundreds of instances of Russian drone pilots targeting civilians in the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, and concluded that they amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes. For more than a year, Russian operators have routinely flown drones into Kherson

By JUDSON JONES, NAZANEEN GHAFFAR, FRANCES ROBLES, CAMILLE WILLIAMS and JOVAN JOHNSON Prime Minister Andrew Holness of Jamaica ordered mandatory evacuations in the island nation’s southern parishes as Hurricane Melissa, channeling 175 mph winds and life-threatening rains, began a painstakingly slow turn toward its coast on Monday. Catastrophic winds, widespread flooding and a potentially devastating storm surge were expected in Jamaica as soon as Monday night, long before the