By ZANE IRWIN Seven people were killed and 40 were wounded in an apparent drone explosion on a beach in southwestern Russia, the local authorities said Monday. Videos on social media, and verified by The New York Times, showed a winged aircraft nose-diving onto the crowded Black Sea beach, exploding on impact and sending some bathers rushing back to shore. Three children were among those killed, and 21 people were hospitalized, the regional emergency response team said in a s

Ships near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from a plane near the United Arab Emirates, July 20, 2026. Negotiations to reopen the strait were making progress, Qatari and U.S. officials said Tuesday. (Tomas Munita/The New York Times) By AARON BOXERMAN and ISMAEEL NAAR Negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz are making progress, Qatari and U.S. officials said Tuesday, but a deal with Iran has yet to be announced that could pave the way to reviving a broader ceasefire with the

A view of the border fence separating Morocco and Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa, from Fnideq, Morocco, Aug. 2, 2026. Moroccan migrants described their despair at their economic future, explaining what propelled them across the border with Spain. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times) By BEN HUBBARD and AIDA ALAMI When King Mohammed VI of Morocco addressed his people Wednesday to commemorate his 27th year on the throne, he spoke hopefully of his North African natio

President Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One in Morristown, N.J., July 31, 2026. By expanding the arena of fighting in the region, experts say, Tehran sent a warning about the dangers of a widening war. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times) By ERIKA SOLOMON When President Donald Trump appeared to back down once again from a threatened military escalation against Tehran, he offered fresh fodder to the narrative Iranian officials are eager to promote: They are not the ones

President Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., on Friday, July 31, 2026. Trump said late Saturday that he had canceled a potentially massive U.S. military assault on Iran, opting to pull back from the brink of renewed war in the Middle East for the second time in two weeks. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times) By AARON BOXERMAN, VIVIAN NEREIM, ADAM RASGON and FRANCESCA REGALADO President Donald Trump said late Saturday

Far-right Spanish politician, Alvise Pérez (fist in air), a member of the European Parliament and leader of the Spanish Se Acabó la Fiesta political party, who had traveled to the territory of Ceuta to call for the expulsion of migrants — is escorted by police in Ceuta’s downtown shopping district, in Spain, Aug. 1, 2026. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times). By JASON HOROWITZ Like so many others in Morocco, Mohammed Ahmidho saw on his social media feeds early Thursday that

Kozo Okamoto, left, and Fusako Shigenobu, leader of the Japanese Red Army, at a press conference, as seen in an undated screenshot photo. Okamoto, a Japanese militant involved in an attack that killed more than two dozen people, including 17 Puerto Ricans, at an airport in Israel in 1972, died near the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on July 23 at 78. (Wikipedia) ] By EPHRAT LIVNI Kozo Okamoto, a Japanese militant involved in an attack that killed more than two dozen people at an a

By VIVIAN NEREIM, MAX BEARAK and CAROLINE HOUCK Saudi Arabia said Thursday it was forming a military coalition to protect shipping, as attacks in the Red Sea and the renewed hostilities between the United States and Iran further rattle the global economy. Fourteen countries affirmed their support for the new maritime coalition, the Saudi Defense Ministry said in a statement. It remains unclear how the coalition will operate, and which ships or aircraft participating countries

People take shelter in a metro station in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, during Russian air strikes in the early hours of Thursday, July 30, 2026. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said that a family of five had been killed at home in the latest in a series of large-scale aerial assaults by Moscow. (Jedrzej Nowicki/The New York Times) By CONSTANT MÉHEUT Russia pounded Ukrainian cities overnight with a barrage of missiles and drones that killed at least eight people and wound

By JOHNNY DÍAZ and FRANCESCA REGALADO A powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Japan on Tuesday afternoon, killing 13 people and injuring dozens of others, damaging buildings and homes, igniting fires and prompting a search for people who may have been trapped in rubble. Here’s what to know. Where did the earthquake happen? The earthquake hit around 4:30 p.m. local time in Kumamoto prefecture on Kyushu island, the southernmost of Japan’s main islands. The earth