By SIMON ROMERO, GENEVIEVE GLATSKY and ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS President Gustavo Petro of Colombia accused the United States of murdering an innocent fisherman in an attack on a boat that American authorities claimed was carrying illicit drugs, prompting President Donald Trump to declare Sunday that he would slash assistance to Colombia, one of Washington’s top aid recipients in Latin America, and impose new tariffs on the country’s goods. The feuding between the two leaders refle

A man on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, carries the body of a child killed in an Israeli attack the day before outside the Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza. Sunday’s violence was short-lived, but analysts expect more clashes beween Israel and Palestinian militants to put the truce under strain. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times) By DAVID M. HALBFINGER Ten days into a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, relief is giving way to grim acknowledgments of the truce’s tenu

By CAROL ROSENBERG, CHARLIE SAVAGE and ERIC SCHMITT The U.S. military has killed three men and destroyed another boat it suspected of running drugs in the Caribbean Sea, this one alleged to have been affiliated with a Colombian insurgency group, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Sunday. It was the seventh boat known to have been attacked since early September as part of the Trump administration’s use of the military to kill people suspected of smuggling drugs as if the

Visitors line up to enter the Louvre in Paris on Sept. 14, 2023. Thieves made off with jewelry of “incalculable” value in a brazen daylight robbery on Sunday at the Louvre Museum in Paris, according to France’s interior minister. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times) By AURELIEN BREEDEN, CATHERINE PORTER and ALEX MARSHALL Thieves made off with jewelry of “incalculable” value in a brazen daylight robbery on Sunday at the Louvre Museum in Paris, according to France’s interior m

President Donald Trump greets President Javier Milei of Argentina outside of the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. When President Milei of Argentina faced an economic meltdown, President Trump vowed to come to his aid. But that lifeline is coming at a cost. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By ANA IONOVA and DANIEL POLITI As President Javier Milei of Argentina faced a deepening economic crisis, President Donald Trump rushed to the rescue of his political all

By ERIC SCHMITT The Trump administration is sharply increasing U.S. military pressure on the government of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian president, with a dramatic show of aerial threats in recent days as the Pentagon mounts a major troop buildup in the region. On Wednesday, at least two B-52 bombers from Louisiana flew for several hours off the Venezuelan coast in international air space in what one senior U.S. official on Thursday called “a show of force.” The B

A forest fire burns near Greenwood Lake in Hewitt, N.J., Nov. 12, 2024. The average level of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere climbed by the largest amount on record between 2023 and 2024, the World Meteorological Organization said on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times) By RAYMOND ZHONG and SACHI KITAJIMA MULKEY The average level of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere climbed by the largest amount on record between 2023 and 2024, the World Meteorol

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with President Javier Milei of Argentina at the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. Milei’s visit comes after the Trump administration agreed to provide Argentina a $20 billion lifeline. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS and ALAN RAPPEPORT President Donald Trump said earlier this week that Washington’s $20 billion bailout for Argentina comes with strings attached — namely, that the ruling par

A mural of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela, Oct. 9, 2025. Venezuela’s autocrat had proposed allocating his country’s oil wealth and other natural resources to the U.S. and ending deals with American adversaries to appease President Donald Trump. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By JULIAN E. BARNES and TYLER PAGER The Trump administration has secretly authorized the CIA to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. official

This 40-pound aluminum container, which was packed with brown guava pulp, was used to smuggle cocaine, and intercepted in Newark. Dominican investigators say that Colombian drug cartels have routinely shipped cocaine by high-speed motorboats to the Dominican Republic, where it is repackaged at a factory into cans of guava paste. (Ruby Washington/New York Times) By FRANCES ROBLES When the United States military launched an airstrike on a speedboat as it approached the southern