Visitors in the afternoon sun at a beach in Albufeira, Faro district, Portugal, on March 19, 2024. Portugal on Sunday elected a former leader of the country’s Socialist Party with wide establishment support in a landslide victory over his nationalist opponent. (Gonçalo Fonseca/The New York Times) By JASON HOROWITZ Portugal on Sunday elected António José Seguro, a former leader of Portugal’s Socialist Party with wide establishment support, in a landslide victory over his natio

Juan Pablo Guanipa, a centrist opposition party leader, waves the flag of Venezuela as a caravan of supporters transport him following his release from prison in Caracas on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. Hours after releasing Guanipa, the Venezuelan interim government took him back into custody after it said he breached the terms of his release conditions. (The New York Times) By GENEVIEVE GLATSKY Venezuela on Sunday freed a group of prominent opposition leaders, according to statemen

President Donald Trump and Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. In a snap election held Sunday, voters offered a resounding mandate for Takaichi’s economic policies and tough stance on immigration and China. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ, RIVER AKIRA DAVIS, KIUKO NOTOYA and HISAKO UENO Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan made a big gamble on Sunday, holding a snap election only 110 d

Supporters of the Move Forward Party in Nonthaburi, Thailand, May 18, 2023. In a surprising outcome that analysts say reflected in part the growing unpredictability in global affairs, it was the nationalist vision that prevailed in Sunday’s election in Thailand. (Lauren DeCicca/The New York Times) By SUI-LEE WEE It boiled down to a choice between two starkly different visions of Thailand’s future: one dominated by nationalism, respect for the monarchy and defense of the statu

View of Coral Bay and East End in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, Nov. 19, 2024. In 1917, the United States bought Caribbean islands from Denmark and agreed to respect Denmark’s hold over Greenland. The deal resurfaced with President Trump’s recent threats to seize Greenland. (Erika P. Rodríguez/The New York Times) By AMELIA NIERENBERG President Donald Trump’s recent fixation with Greenland has brought attention to a little-known snag. More than a century ago, the United State

By ANATOLY KURMANAEV and ANNIE CORREAL Venezuelan security agents have questioned two prominent businessmen who have faced money laundering charges in the United States, according to five Venezuelans and a U.S. official. The move against the men, with ties to the deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, signaled a deepening cooperation between the two countries. The politically connected businessmen, Raúl Gorrín and Alex Saab, were detained in the capital, Caracas, overnight

A man walks to the site of a missile attack on farmland in Jabo, Nigeria, Jan. 1, 2026. At least 167 people have been killed by gunmen in attacks on two villages in a rural part of Nigeria, according to the Nigerian branch of the Red Cross. (Taibat Ajiboye/The New York Times) By RUTH MacLEAN, ISMAIL AUWAL and SAIKOU JAMMEH At least 167 people have been killed by gunmen in attacks on two villages in a rural part of Nigeria, according to the Nigerian branch of the Red Cross. Th

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia at his official residence in Bogota on Jan. 8, 2026, the day after his telephone call with President Donald Trump. Colombians — from the embassy in Washington to the streets of Bogotá, the capital — seemed to breathe a collective sigh of relief after Tuesday’s White House meeting between the two leaders seemed to go well. (Nathalia Angarita/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL, MAX BEARAK and MINHO KIM Many feared the worst from Tuesday’s m

Smoke rises from a pair of drone strikes in Sloviansk, Ukraine, June 1, 2025. More Ukrainians are willing to relinquish the remaining portion of the Donbas region still controlled by Ukraine if it would mean an end to the war. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) By MARIA VARENIKOVA Khrystyna Yurchenko worked hard to build a life in the eastern Ukrainian region known as the Donbas, where she pours her energy into the popular dance studio she owns. But she would give it all up, sh

A minibus departs for the Rafah border crossing to Egypt from Khan Younis, Gaza, with five patients, each accompanied by two caregivers, on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. The first groups of Palestinians started passing through the crossing on Monday morning in both directions, according to Israeli officials, who said they would have final numbers of how many crossed by the end of the day. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times) By ISABEL KERSHNER and BILAL SHBAIR The sole border crossing