By MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada on Monday drew on his experience with Brexit to warn that a referendum the province of Alberta is planning for October on a possible separation from Canada could turn out to be a “dangerous bluff.” Carney was governor of the Bank of England during the vote by Britain to leave the European Union in 2016. He now leads a country that could see its Western oil-rich province break away after Premier Danielle Smith of A

A memorial ceremony in Tehran, Iran, for those killed in the war with the U.S. and Israel on Sunday, May 24, 2026. (Arash Khamooshi/Polaris for The New York Times) By AARON BOXERMAN, TYLER PAGER, SANAM MAHOOZI, FARNAZ FASSIHI and ADAM RASGON With Iranian officials in Qatar for talks on ending the war in Iran, President Donald Trump issued conflicting signals Monday over how much progress had been made in the negotiations, vowing that any deal would be “great and meaningful” o

By CATIE EDMONDSON China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, called Saturday for a redoubled rescue mission in northern China after a gas explosion in a mine there killed at least 82 people, the Chinese state news agency said, in what appeared to be one of the deadliest Chinese mining disasters in years. Xi “stressed the need to make every effort to treat the injured, organize search-and-rescue operations scientifically and properly handle the aftermath,” the agency, Xinhua, reported.

Kinshasa residents continue to pack bars, markets and public transportation, despite growing international concern about the spread of the virus in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 22, 2026. Nations around the world are imposing strict entry restrictions on people who have been to the Democratic Republic of Congo recently because of a deadly Ebola outbreak in the country’s northeast. (Justin Makangara/The New York Times) By JUSTIN MAKANGARA and JOHN ELIGON Nations

People wave flags at a government-organized march in support of Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, April 29, 2026. Iran projects victory in the potential deal with Washington; Iran’s leaders argue that the possible preliminary agreement has not extracted any major concessions. (Arash Khamooshi/Polaris for The New York Times) By ERIKA SOLOMON As President Donald Trump and regional diplomats began to herald the possibility of a deal with Iran that cou

By AMELIA NIERENBERG An Air France flight bound for Detroit was diverted to Montreal on Wednesday after it was denied permission to land in the United States because a passenger was from Congo, where an Ebola outbreak is underway. Flight 378, which took off from Paris, was diverted after the Congolese national “was denied entry into the United States,” the airline said in a statement Thursday. “There was no medical emergency on board,” it added. The Trump administration Monda

A port official provides hand soap to passengers arriving on a boat, which traveled on Lake Kivu from Bukavu, at the port, where sanitary measures had been taken in response to the Ebola outbreak, in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Thursday, May 21, 2026. (Arlette Bashizi/The New York Times) By LYNSEY CHUTEL and MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG Uganda will tightly restrict travel to and from Congo because of an Ebola outbreak, Ugandan officials announced Thursday, as health workers

By ERIC SCHMITT The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its escort warships entered the southern Caribbean Sea on Wednesday and will remain in the region for at least a few days as part of the Trump administration’s campaign to pressure the Cuban government, according to the military’s Southern Command and a U.S. official. Right now, the administration intends to use the Nimitz, and its wing of fighter jets, as a show of force, not as a platform for major military operations, as

A woman walks into a furniture workshop with images of, from left, Fidel Castro, the Cuban flag, Raúl Castro, and Che Guevara, right, in Havana, on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (Lisette Poole/The New York Times) By EMMA BUBOLA As the news of the U.S. indictment of Raúl Castro, the former president of Cuba on charges of murder, spread across the world, many Cubans were kept in the dark. Widespread blackouts on the fuel-starved island and spotty phone signals meant word of the new,

In a photo from the World Health Organization, Health supplies from the World Health Organization are unloaded at the airport in Bunia city in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Tuesday, May 18, 2026. Health officials have reported more than 130 suspected deaths and 513 cases, a sharp rise since the outbreak was first identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. (World Health Organization via The New York Times) By LYNSEY CHUTEL, YAN