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

A man on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, carries the body of a child killed in an Israeli attack the day before outside the Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza. Sunday’s violence was short-lived, but analysts expect more clashes beween Israel and Palestinian militants to put the truce under strain. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times) By DAVID M. HALBFINGER Ten days into a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, relief is giving way to grim acknowledgments of the truce’s tenu

By CAROL ROSENBERG, CHARLIE SAVAGE and ERIC SCHMITT The U.S. military has killed three men and destroyed another boat it suspected of running drugs in the Caribbean Sea, this one alleged to have been affiliated with a Colombian insurgency group, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Sunday. It was the seventh boat known to have been attacked since early September as part of the Trump administration’s use of the military to kill people suspected of smuggling drugs as if the

Visitors line up to enter the Louvre in Paris on Sept. 14, 2023. Thieves made off with jewelry of “incalculable” value in a brazen daylight robbery on Sunday at the Louvre Museum in Paris, according to France’s interior minister. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times) By AURELIEN BREEDEN, CATHERINE PORTER and ALEX MARSHALL Thieves made off with jewelry of “incalculable” value in a brazen daylight robbery on Sunday at the Louvre Museum in Paris, according to France’s interior m

President Donald Trump greets President Javier Milei of Argentina outside of the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. When President Milei of Argentina faced an economic meltdown, President Trump vowed to come to his aid. But that lifeline is coming at a cost. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By ANA IONOVA and DANIEL POLITI As President Javier Milei of Argentina faced a deepening economic crisis, President Donald Trump rushed to the rescue of his political all

By ERIC SCHMITT The Trump administration is sharply increasing U.S. military pressure on the government of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian president, with a dramatic show of aerial threats in recent days as the Pentagon mounts a major troop buildup in the region. On Wednesday, at least two B-52 bombers from Louisiana flew for several hours off the Venezuelan coast in international air space in what one senior U.S. official on Thursday called “a show of force.” The B

A forest fire burns near Greenwood Lake in Hewitt, N.J., Nov. 12, 2024. The average level of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere climbed by the largest amount on record between 2023 and 2024, the World Meteorological Organization said on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times) By RAYMOND ZHONG and SACHI KITAJIMA MULKEY The average level of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere climbed by the largest amount on record between 2023 and 2024, the World Meteorol

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with President Javier Milei of Argentina at the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. Milei’s visit comes after the Trump administration agreed to provide Argentina a $20 billion lifeline. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS and ALAN RAPPEPORT President Donald Trump said earlier this week that Washington’s $20 billion bailout for Argentina comes with strings attached — namely, that the ruling par