An avocado packing plant in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, Sept. 4, 2025. Drug cartels extort avocado growers in the state, in addition to fighting over drug trafficking routes. (César Rodríguez/The New York Times) By JACK NICAS and EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA Carlos Manzo, a mayor in western Mexico, gained national fame this year with a simple but aggressive demand: that Mexican authorities should summarily kill the armed cartel members who terrorize the country. That militant stan

President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela in Caracas, Sept. 15, 2025. Trump administration officials seeking to remove Maduro as the leader of Venezuela have been citing a federal indictment returned half a decade ago in Manhattan as one justification. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS President Donald Trump said he doubted the United States would go to war with Venezuela in an interview aired Sunday, even as he warned that the days were number

Khalil Ur Rahman Babakhil, left, clears rubble in the village of Shamraz in Kunar Province, Afghanistan on Sept. 2, 2025. Another powerful earthquake struck northern Afghanistan just before 1 a.m. local time Monday, killing at least 20 people, injuring more than 520 others and damaging countless buildings, according to Afghan authorities. (Safiullah Padshah/The New York Times) By SAFIULLAH PADSHAH, YAQOOB AKBARY, ELIAN PELTIER and MIKE IVES Ghulam Mahmoodi was sleeping with h

President Vladimir Putin of Russia gestures that he can’t hear reporters as President Donald Trump looks on after both leaders left their aircraft to meet at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. By touting new weapons tests, Moscow is signaling to Washington that it must contend with the Kremlin’s power and negotiate — like it or not. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By PAUL SONNE First came President Donald Trump’s scrapping of a pro

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth participates in a roundtable talk regarding the Trump administration’s efforts to thwart drug cartels and human trafficking, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Oct, 23, 2025. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By CAROL ROSENBERG The U.S. military killed at least three people in another strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday, in the latest attack on vessels that the Trump administration has clai

A medical student helps an injured man following Hurricane Melissa in Black River, Jamaica, on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. Hurricane Melissa’s destructive path across Jamaica has rendered parts of the island unrecognizable to residents, leaving behind towns littered with rubble, twisted cellphone towers and a nation working to count the dead. (Abbie Townsend/The New York Times) By FRANCES ROBLES The death toll in Jamaica from Hurricane Melissa rose to 28 Saturday, even as author

President Donald Trump, left, meets with Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. The two leaders reached an agreement on fentanyl, some tariffs and rare earths, at least for a year. But even as the global trade picture cleared a little, Trump spurred new worries about nuclear proliferation. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By KATIE ROGERS and ERICA L. GREEN Before the high-stakes meeting between President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping

A damaged building amid floodwaters following Hurricane Melissa in the Treasure Beach area of Jamaica, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. As Melissa was on course to hit Bermuda by Thursday night, Jamaica worked through the day to assess the damage from the powerful storm. It faced a long and daunting road to recovery, particularly in the western part of the country, the hardest-hit region. (Abbie Townsend/The New York Times) By EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA, ANNIE CORREAL, FRANCES ROBLE

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, center, attends President Donald Trump’s speech at Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. The Trump administration launched another round of deadly strikes on vessel it accused of smuggling drugs, killing 14 people in four boats on Monday Hegseth said Tuesday. At left is Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan; center left is Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan’s defense minister. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By HELENE COOPER and

By LIAM STACK and BILAL SHBAIR Israeli strikes killed at least 100 people across the Gaza Strip overnight, local health officials said, in what appeared to be the deadliest day since Israel and Hamas agreed on a ceasefire three weeks ago. The strikes began late Tuesday after Israel’s government accused Hamas of violating the truce by failing to return the bodies of dead captives and by attacking Israeli forces in Rafah in southern Gaza. The Israeli military said one of its so