A woman carrying her newborn daughter buys fruit from a street vendor in Havana on March 13, 2026. Amid a U.S. oil blockade causing daily blackouts, the soaring price of fuel has raised the cost of nearly everything in Cuba, including food. (Jorge Luis Baños/The New York Times) By JACK NICAS and ERIC SCHMITT The U.S. Coast Guard is allowing a Russian tanker full of crude oil to reach Cuba, delivering a critical supply of energy to the island nation after months of an effectiv

By ERIKA SOLOMON and SANAM MAHOOZI Iranian officials have condemned a string of U.S. military attacks on several universities across the country and warned of possible retaliation against U.S. universities in the region. The attacks on Iranian academic institutions come as the country’s critical infrastructure increasingly becomes a target in the U.S.-Israeli air war against Iran. Strikes on energy installations have plunged parts of the capital into darkness and enveloped it

A woman cries while speaking on her phone after her apartment was damaged in an airstrike in Tehran, Iran, on Monday, March 30, 2026. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By DAVID E. SANGER, AARON BOXERMAN, ERIKA SOLOMON and SANAM MAHOOZI President Donald Trump zigzagged from claims of diplomatic progress to renewed threats of destruction Monday as he sought to pressure Iran to make a deal to end the monthlong war. Trump said in a Truth Social post that there had been “great

People look on as the remains of Cuban leader Fidel Castro are driven along The Malecon, Havana’s seaside promenade, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times) By SIMON ROMERO and DAVID C. ADAMS When President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba acknowledged this month that his government was engaged in secret talks with the Trump administration, he revealed that the person guiding the negotiations was the “historical leader of the revolution.” That honorific is re

By HELENE COOPER The arrival of 2,500 Marines and another 2,500 sailors is keeping the number of U.S. troops in the Mideast region at more than 50,000 — roughly 10,000 more than usual — as President Donald Trump decides on his next step in his month-old war in Iran. While it is still unclear just what the Marines, from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, will be charged with, U.S. officials say the president is weighing whether to try a larger attack, like venturing to seize

Mourners at the funeral of the journalists Ali Choeib, Fatima Ftouni, and Mohammad Ftouni, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, in Beirut, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By AARON BOXERMAN and SANAM MAHOOZI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he had ordered his forces to increase the territory they control in southern Lebanon, as 2,500 U.S. Marines arrived in the Middle East, the latest sign that the monthlong war in the region

Internally displaced people and fishermen gather by the seaside in the evening at the Beirut International Exhibition and Leisure Center in Beirut, March 22, 2026. Lebanon ordered the expulsion of Iran’s newly appointed ambassador on Tuesday, a rare rebuke of Tehran over its backing of Hezbollah. (Diego Ibarra Sánchez/The New York Times) By ERICA L. GREEN, ADAM RASGON, NATAN ODENHEIMER and RONEN BERGMAN President Donald Trump on Thursday ratcheted up pressure on Iran to accep

Dr. Roxana Martínez Rodríguez, right, who said her caseload had doubled because so many health workers had quit or left Cuba, sees a woman and her newborn daughter at a clinic in Havana on March 13, 2026. As gas shortages cause food prices to soar, Martínez Rodríguez said her patients aren’t receiving milk or supplements like folic acid, which the state once provided regularly. “It’s a luxury to buy a cabbage,” she said. (Jorge Luis Baños/The New York Times) By ED AUGUSTIN an

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark greets constituents during a campaign event in her hometown of Aalborg on March 17, 2026. Amid a complicated political landscape of coalition-building among more than 10 political parties, Frederiksen appeared to be the front-runner to serve a third term after Denmark held national elections on Tuesday. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times) By MAYA TEKELI and JEFFREY GETTLEMAN The center-left party of Mette Frederiksen, Denmark’s prime

Part of a missile on the grounds of a school in Pedeul in the West Bank, following an Iranian barrage on Monday, March 23, 2026. When the strike came overnight Monday, families were trying to sleep while sheltering at the school. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv/The New York Times) By AVISHAG SHAAR-YASHUV Meitar Cohen, 32, works as a teaching assistant at a school in the Peduel settlement, about 15 miles east of Tel Aviv, Israel. She has four children; Maayan, a third grader, is the onl