By EPHRAT LIVNI The Supreme Court of Israel ruled earlier this week that a government policy banning visits to Palestinian prisoners by representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross violated Israeli and international law. The policy, which prohibited the visits to those deemed “security” prisoners in the Israeli system and considered threats to national security, as opposed to “criminal” prisoners, was enacted after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack that ig

An Israeli air strike lands in front of Beaufort Castle as seen from Nabatieh, Lebanon, Thursday, June 04, 2026. Fighting across southern Lebanon has intensified this week, even after President Donald Trump on Monday announced that Israel and Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed armed group, had renewed their truce. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times) By EUAN WARD, EPHRAT LIVNI and MAX BEARAK Hezbollah on Thursday flatly rejected a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel

Abelardo De La Espriella, a far-right candidate for president of Colombia, during his last rally in the city of Medellín, Colombia, on May 24, 2026. President Donald Trump is energetically endorsing De La Espriella in what has been a pattern of putting his finger on the scale of foreign elections during his second term. (Federico Ríos Escobar/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL President Donald Trump inserted himself into Colombia’s presidential election on Tuesday night, en

By ALEX TRAVELLI and HARI KUMAR Flames coursed through a six-story hotel Wednesday in a dense neighborhood in New Delhi, killing at least 21 people and injuring dozens more, according to the city’s fire department. The blaze appears to be the deadliest in the city in at least four years. The Delhi fire department reported that eight crews had responded to a call received at 8:48 a.m. local time regarding the hotel, the Flourish Stay B&B, near Malviya Nagar, in the southern pa

Rescue workers use an excavator as they search for people under the rubble of a building that was hit in an Israeli strike in the southern port city of Tyre, June 2, 2026. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times) By MAX BEARAK, VIVIAN NEREIM and SHIRIN HAKIM Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday repeated the Trump administration’s claim that the war with Iran “has concluded” even as U.S. allies Kuwait and Bahrain were reeling from a barrage of Iranian missiles and drones f

A man carries coca leaves in the Putumayo department, southern Colombia, Jan. 31, 2026. Abelardo de la Espriella, a hard-liner on the right now in the runoff for president against Iván Cepeda, a left-wing candidate, has pledged to crush drug traffickers. (Federico Ríos/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL and LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ President Donald Trump made plain what he wanted when he gathered conservative Latin American leaders in Florida in March. Promising that, together, t

A street in Pokrovske, a small rural town in the Dnipropetrovsk region of eastern Ukraine, Jan. 3, 2026. More than a week after Russia warned of an attack on Kyiv that would be so big that diplomats and other foreigners should flee, Moscow finally struck early Tuesday. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) By MARIA VARENIKOVA and KIM BARKER More than a week after Russia warned of an attack on Kyiv that would be so big that diplomats and other foreigners should flee, Moscow finally

Leftist Iván Cepeda, presidential candidate from the Pacto Historico party, speaks at an election-night gathering after the first round of Colombia’s presidential election in Bogotá, Colombia, on Sunday, May 31, 2026. (Nathalia Angarita/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL, GENEVIEVE GLATSKY and LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ Colombia’s heated presidential election headed to a runoff Sunday, preliminary official results showed, as a far-right candidate advanced in what could herald anoth

By DAVID PIERSON A spokesperson for Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, criticized Beijing for expelling a New York Times reporter from China in response to Lai’s appearance by video at a Times DealBook summit in New York in December. The reporter, Vivian Wang, who was based in Beijing, was expelled in February. She was not involved in the DealBook conference, an annual event that features prominent executives and politicians. Chinese officials had complained for months about W

Local residents flee the suburbs south of Beirut, Lebanon, after Israel warned the area would be targeted with attacks on Monday morning, June 1, 2026. For many, urgently leaving the area, known as the Dahiyeh, has become a well-worn routine. (Daniel Berehulak /The New York Times) By AARON BOXERMAN, CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM and JOE RENNISON Halting efforts at diplomacy in the Middle East came under new strain Monday, as Israel and Iran threatened to escalate military action in the