President Trump speaks on Air Force One before arriving in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. President Trump said on Saturday that he would increase tariffs on Canadian goods by 10 percent to punish America’s second-largest trading partner over an ad, paid for by the province of Ontario, that used original audio of Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF President Donald Trump doubled down Saturday in his

Leroy Martin listens to the news as he takes shelter inside the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica in preparation for Hurricane Dean on Sunday, August 19, 2007. Jamaica could face one of the strongest landfall storms in its recorded history as Hurricane Melissa moves through the Caribbean. (Barbara P. Fernandez/The New York Times) By NAZANEEN GHAFFAR Jamaica could face one of the strongest landfall storms in its recorded history as Hurricane Melissa moves through the Carib

WKS coffee farm in Vila Valerio, northern Espírito Santo, July, 22, 2025 Brazil. In an ecological and agricultural irony, the more forests are destroyed to grow coffee, the more the crop’s long-term prospects are jeopardized by changing rains, according to a new report by Coffee Watch, a nonprofit industry watchdog. (Dado Galdieri/The New York Times) By EPHRAT LIVNI Every day, we drink more than 2 billion cups of coffee worldwide, by some estimates, and demand keeps rising. T

For the second time in two days, the Trump administration launched deadly strikes on a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific, expanding its campaign beyond the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said late Wednesday. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By ERIC SCHMITT, CHARLIE SAVAGE and CHRIS CAMERON For the second time in two days, the Trump administration launched deadly strikes on a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific, e

The 148th Artillery Brigade fires at Russian targets in the Zaporizhzhia region of eastern Ukraine, Oct. 14, 2025. While oil markets reacted strongly to sanctions, analysts said the measures were unlikely to significantly change President Vladimir V. Putin’s war calculations. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) By IVAN NECHEPURENKO and ANTON TROIANOVSKI A day after President Donald Trump’s first major punitive action against Russia over its war in Ukraine, President Vladimir Put

President Donald Trump, second from right, speaks during a luncheon with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, second from left, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, on Friday, Oct. 17, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By MARIA VARENIKOVA Russia on Wednesday unleashed a broad attack that hit Ukrainian power plants, a kindergarten and other sites, killing six people. The barrage came hours after President Donald Trump said he was putting off a p

Aysén Etcheverry in Santiago, Chile, July 11, 2025. “The moment you lose the capability to understand how your machine is working, or the ability to even build your own machine, that’s the moment you lose,” said Etcheverry, Chile’s former minister of science, technology, knowledge and innovation. (Marcos Zegers/The New York Times) By PAUL MOZUR In a concrete lab in Santiago, Chile’s capital, researchers are scrambling to join the artificial intelligence boom before it passes

By JUDSON JONES Tropical Storm Melissa formed Tuesday, the 13th named storm of the Atlantic season. It is expected to bring heavy rain to Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica by the end of the week, but forecasters with the National Hurricane Center said its path and intensity beyond the next few days are “quite uncertain.” With the storm currently spinning close to the islands of the Caribbean, some tropical storm and hurricane watches have already been issued. The watc

President Donald Trump, left, with President Vladimir Putin of Russia at the two leaders’ summit meeting in Anchorage, Alaska on Aug. 15, 2025. European democracy and rule of law are at risk, a top German general says, so Europe must give Ukraine whatever it can to pressure Moscow, even if Trump does not. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By STEVEN ERLANGER After a contentious White House meeting Friday between President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine

By SIMON ROMERO, GENEVIEVE GLATSKY and ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS President Gustavo Petro of Colombia accused the United States of murdering an innocent fisherman in an attack on a boat that American authorities claimed was carrying illicit drugs, prompting President Donald Trump to declare Sunday that he would slash assistance to Colombia, one of Washington’s top aid recipients in Latin America, and impose new tariffs on the country’s goods. The feuding between the two leaders refle