Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela, during a pro-government march in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. Oil exports, the country’s financial lifeblood, have plummeted after the United States took action against three ships that have been used to carry its crude. (Alejandro Cegarra/The New York Times) By ANATOLY KURMANAEV and REBECCA F. ELLIOTT The United States’ aggressive campaign against tankers carrying Venezuelan crude has thrown the country’s oil indus

Mexico’s top security official, Omar García Harfuch, who is overseeing one of the most aggressive offensives in years against the country’s powerful criminal groups, at his office in Mexico City, Dec. 1, 2025. Mexico’s government says it is making arrests and destroying drug labs at nearly four times the rate of the previous administration, but history says the smart money is on the cartels, whose criminal empires have outlasted everything past governments have thrown at them

Housing in Nuuk, Greenland, May 21, 2025. Officials in Denmark and Greenland on Monday reacted with anger to President Donald Trump’s decision to appoint a special envoy to Greenland, as he intensifies his efforts to take over the semiautonomous Danish territory. (Sigga Ella/The New York Times) By AMELIA NIERENBERG, JEFFREY GETTLMAN and MAYA TEKELI Officials in Denmark and Greenland were furious earlier this week that President Donald Trump had appointed a special envoy to Gr

Customers shop at the opening of a Shein resale store in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 21, 2025. New policies have opened the door for clothing from Shein and Temu, the Chinese fast-fashion online retailers. (Sarah Pabst/The New York Times) By EMMA BUBOLA and LUCÍA CHOLAKIAN Some Argentines had taken buses from neighboring cities and camped outside overnight. Many others had come to a parking lot in Buenos Aires at dawn and stood in a line, a six-block stretch of baggy eyes a

Chris Minns, the premier of the state of New South Wales, speaks during a memorial for the victims of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach one week after the attack in Sydney, on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025. A week after gunmen killed 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration, hints of political divisions and anti-immigration rhetoric have emerged in Australia. (Matthew Abbott/The New York Times) By VICTORIA KIM and DAMIEN CAVE On the final night of Hanukkah, the candles began glowing, one b

In an image provided by the Department of Homeland Security, a U.S. military helicopter flies over the Panama-flagged Centuries, which was intercepted on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, east of Barbados in the Caribbean Sea. The U.S. Coast Guard on Saturday tried to intercept an oil tanker linked to Venezuela that is now fleeing away from the Caribbean Sea, according to three U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive operation, days after Presiden

By ABDI LATIF DAHIR and ERIC SCHMITT The barrage of airstrikes launched by the United States across Syria late Friday underscored the challenges facing the country’s president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, as he struggles to assert control over the nation and navigate a nascent relationship with President Donald Trump. U.S. fighter jets, attack helicopters and artillery struck more than 70 suspected Islamic State positions across central Syria, targeting the group’s infrastructure and we

A member of Venezuela’s security forces on the tarmac at Maiquetia International Airport in Caracas, Venezuela, on Dec. 3, 2025. An escalating standoff between the United States and Venezuela has led both countries’ militaries to jam satellite navigation signals in the Caribbean to guard against a potential attack, data show, putting air and sea traffic in the region at greater risk of a collision or accident. (Alejandro Cegarra/The New York Times) By RILEY MELLEN and ANATOLY