By MARIA VARENIKOVA A day before scheduled peace talks with Ukraine, Russia resumed attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure Tuesday, striking power plants with missiles in several regions as temperatures plunged to minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit in the capital, Kyiv. The attacks ended an informal, short-lived “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine that officials had called a confidence-building gesture for peace negotiations. The talks have entered a new phase as Russi

A billboard in Tehran, Iran, showing Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reads “We recognize the American president as a criminal,” Jan. 27, 2026. Senior U.S. and Iranian officials are expected to meet in Istanbul on Friday for talks aimed at de-escalating the crisis between their countries, according to two current regional officials and a former one who were familiar with the planning. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By SANAM MAHOOZI The president of Iran, M

Laura Fernández, the presidential candidate of the Pueblo Soberano Party, greets attendees at her closing campaign rally in San Antonio, Costa Rica, Jan. 29, 2026. (César Rodríguez/The New York Times) By EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA and DAVID BOLAÑOS Laura Fernández, a candidate handpicked by the departing president as his successor, won Costa Rica’s presidential election on Sunday after running on a tough-on-crime platform, according to a preliminary count of the votes. The 39-ye

President Gustavo Petro wears a guayabera as he addresses the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 23, 2025. Petro tends to disdain the pomp that Presidend Donald Trump relishes, preferring guayaberas and traditional Colombian woolen “mochila” bags to suits and briefcases. (Vincent Alban/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL and MAX BEARAK As he prepared for his first face-to-face visit with President Donald Trump, President Gustavo Petro o

By JEANNA SMIALEK, LARA JAKES, STEVEN ERLANGER and JIM TANKERSLEY After President Donald Trump shocked the world in January by threatening Europe with economic pain, humiliating its politicians and excoriating their values, leaders from across the Continent wrestled with the fallout the next day at an emergency dinner meeting in Brussels. The dishes were neat and traditional — chicken supreme, a classic French comfort food, with vanilla roast parsnips — but the question on th

Thousands of Danish citizens protest President Donald Trump’s talk of purchasing or taking Greenland at City Hall in Copenhagen, Jan. 17, 2026. A Danish soldier who fought alongside U.S. troops in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq marched in subzero temperatures through the streets of Copenhagen on Saturday, driven by outrage against President Donald Trump. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times) By MAYA TEKELI and LYNSEY CHUTEL A Danish soldier who fought alongside U.S. troops in t

Protests in Iran erupted amid a communications blackout. But as video and witness accounts trickle out, the brutality of the regime’s crackdown is becoming clear. By FARNAZ FASSIHI, SANJANA VARGHESE, MALACHY BROWNE and PARIN BEHROOZ In Tehran, the capital of Iran, security forces opened fire at protesters from the roof of a police station. In Karaj, they fired live rounds into a march, shooting one person in the head. In Isfahan, young men barricaded themselves in an alley as

A protest to denounce President Donald Trump’s threat to take over Greenland on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, in Nuuk, the capital of the Danish territory. Greenland’s impression of the United States has taken a turn for the worse, most recently since the violence in Minneapolis. One unexpected result is a closer relationship to its former colonizer, Denmark. (Juliette Pavy/The New York Times) By MAYA TEKELI and JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Not long ago, Aviaja Sinkbaek, an office manager in

Patrons dine at a Venezuelan food stall in Madrid, Spain, Jan. 10, 2026. The Spanish government on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026, unexpectedly issued a decree that gives hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants a path out of legal limbo, putting Spain at odds with many countries around the world that have grown increasingly tough on illegal immigration. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times) By JOSÉ BAUTISTA The Spanish government earlier this week unexpectedly issued a decree

Visitors at the Grand Bazaar in Tehran, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. As U.S. warplanes and aircraft carriers approach the Persian Gulf, Tehran and its regional allies are warning they will respond aggressively to a potential strike. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By DAVID E. SANGER, TYLER PAGER and FARNAZ FASSIHI President Donald Trump sharply intensified his threats against Iran on Wednesday, suggesting that if it did not agree to a set of demands the administration had