By JOHN ISMAY U.S. forces operating near Ecuador on Saturday intercepted and destroyed several commercial vessels believed to be used for refueling boats smuggling drugs to the United States. It was the fourth interdiction of vessels used as floating refueling platforms in the eastern Pacific, according to a U.S. official, who said no one on either side was hurt or killed. The mission was carried out as part of U.S. Southern Command’s efforts to hinder narcotics smugglers in

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a meeting of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, at Camp David in Maryland, on Friday, July 31, 2026. New measures to target narcotics traffickers will be at the top of the agenda as Rubio visits Colombia this week, according to people familiar with his plans. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first stop on a three-country trip this week is Colombia. There, he plans to deliver a stro

Deported Haitians held overnight at a police station in Cap Haitien, 125 miles from Port-au-Prince, the original home for most of them, in Haiti on Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go. (Frances Robles/The New York Times) By FRANCES ROBLES Dozens of deportees are arriving in the Haitian city of Cap Haitien weekly as the Trump administration pushe

Santiago Abascal, leader of Spain’s far-right Vox political party, at a news conference in Ceuta, Spain, Aug. 2, 2026. A vote in eastern Germany has given fresh momentum to hard-right parties hoping to win elections across Europe next year, analysts said. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times) By MARK LANDLER When a far-right party won a landslide victory Sunday in a small state in eastern Germany, its reverberations could be felt from Downing Street in London to the Élysée Pa

A rescue team at a house where a woman was found in Betrawati, Nepal, Sept. 5, 2026. Rescue workers recovered two flood survivors on Saturday in separate operations, 10 days after a catastrophic deluge tore through the country’s northern river systems. (Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times) By MUJIB MASHAL, ANUPREETA DAS, LAURA CHUNG and THOMAS FULLER The rescuers heard voices. They crawled through a sludge-filled tunnel deep underground where employees of a hydroelectric plant in

A mural of President Jovenel Moïse near the home where he was killed by assassins in Haiti, July 13, 2021. Haitian election officials have set elections for Dec. 13, but many experts say extreme violence is likely to cause a postponement. Again. (Federico Ríos/The New York Times) By ANDRÉ PAULTRE and FRANCES ROBLES Gang violence in Haiti is so bad that Antoine Rodon Bien-Aimé, a candidate for the Haitian Senate, has been campaigning via speakerphone and video calls to communi

Diners enjoy a restaurant in Madrid, July 10, 2026. Data indicates that 9 p.m. remains the most popular reservation time in Spain but there are signs that Spaniards are eating earlier in the evening. Experts say it could make for a healthier country, but not everyone is ready to part with the custom. (Emilio Parra Doiztua/The New York Times) By JONATHAN WOLFE For generations, dinnertime for the Terrazas family, as in many households in Spain, was late. It usually began after

A man clears debris from the wreckage of his home after a Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Aug. 2, 2026. Each side is using missiles and drones to try to pound the other into giving up, breeding ceaseless human suffering. But there is no sign that either country’s determination will weaken. (Nicole Tung/The New York Times) By KIM BARKER, OLEKSANDRA MYKOLYSHYN and IVAN NECHEPURENKO They are both torching warehouses filled with food or online-shopping orders near maj

Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 5, 2026. A week before Canada is set to impose retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of American imports, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, that the Trump administration must stop insulting his country if there was to be any hope of renewing trade talks. (Ian Austen/The New York Times) By IAN AUSTEN A week before Canada is set to impose retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of U.S. i

By ERICA L. GREEN As the on-again, off-again war in Iran flares up again, President Donald Trump seems bogged down in a conflict that he cannot control or move past, despite his declarations of total victory. On Tuesday night, after the latest exchange of fire over control of the Strait of Hormuz, Trump called on the Iranian people to rise up — something he did at the outset of the war six months ago, before he backed off and acknowledged that his command was easier said than