By SANAM MAHOZI and ERIKA SOLOMON When Ali Rahbar disappeared as antigovernment protests swept across Iran last month, there were only two facts his family knew for certain. He was alive on Jan. 8 when security forces arrested him at demonstrations in the city of Mashhad. And he was dead two weeks later. Relatives say the only call the family received from authorities about Rahbar — a 33-year-old fitness coach who loved posting weightlifting videos and poetry online — was ins

President Donald Trump, center, is escorted by President Isaac Herzog of Israel, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, upon his arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct. 13, 2025. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By ISABEL KERSHNER President Donald Trump’s public excoriation of Israel’s president because he has not yet pardoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his long-running corruption trial has touched a ne

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico speaks at a news conference in Mexico City on Feb. 5, 2025. Amid the Trump administration’s threats toward Cuba, Sheinbaum now must juggle two competing priorities: honoring long‑standing ties to Havana while navigating an essential but increasingly strained relationship with Washington. (Luis Antonio Rojas/The New York Times) By JAMES WAGNER When President Donald Trump declared a “national emergency” last month, accusing Cuba of harborin

The Canadian flag flies at half staff at a fire station in Fort St. John the day after a shooting took place in nearby Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. The Canadian authorities on Wednesday identified the suspect in the mass shooting as an 18-year-old who killed her mother and stepbrother before fatally shooting several others at the school. (Alana Paterson/The New York Times) By MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF Kylie Smith, a 12-year-old girl who l

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Feb. 4, 2025. (Daniele Volpe/The New York Times) By JODY GARCÍA and JAMES WAGNER The Guatemalan government said earlier this week that it would begin phasing out its long-standing use of Cuban doctors, a nearly 30-year program that is a vital source of income for the Cuban government but one that has come under heavy strain from the Trump administration. Guatemala, with a population of more than 18 mill

An aerial view of the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., Oct. 31, 2025. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By ERIC SCHMITT The Pentagon is sending about 200 troops to Nigeria in the coming weeks to help train its military to fight Islamic militants, weeks after President Donald Trump criticized the country for failing to shield Christians from terrorist attacks, a U.S. official said earlier this week. The troops will augment a small team of U.S. forces who have been in the West Afri

By MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF and VJOSA ISAI Canadian authorities on Wednesday identified the suspect in a mass shooting in a remote community in British Columbia as an 18-year-old who killed her mother and stepbrother before fatally shooting several others at a local school. Dwayne McDonald, a deputy commissioner at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia, said most of the victims were 12- or 13-year-old students killed in their school library. In all, he said, the

Pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026, after his conviction on charges of of “conspiracy to collude with foreign forces,” at the Apple Daily newsroom in Hong Kong, Aug. 12, 2020. The sentence for the media mogul, along with long prison terms for his editors, shows how Hong Kong enforces Xi Jinping’s red lines with a new severity. (Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times) By DAVID PIERSON For decades, media mogul Jimmy Lai