President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping of China visit the Temple of Heaven in Beijing during their two-day summit, on Thursday, May 14, 2026. In contrast to his rhetoric about China at home, President Trump spoke in conciliatory terms with Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By DAVID E. SANGER For President Donald Trump, the first day of his visit to Beijing was all about the personal relationship between him and Xi Jinping, the Chinese

An Iranian military parade in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 10, 2025. Iran has regained access to roughly 90 percent of its underground missile storage and launch facilities nationwide, according to the U.S. assessments. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By ADAM ENTOUS, MAGGIE HABERMAN and JONATHAN SWAN The Trump administration’s public portrayal of a shattered Iranian military is sharply at odds with what U.S. intelligence agencies are telling policymakers behind closed doors, accor

President Xi Jinping of China and President Donald Trump with their wives during an opera in the Forbidden City in Beijing, Nov. 8, 2017. Beneath the public displays of warmth, Trump and Xi are at the center of the most consequential geopolitical rivalry of the 21st century, and their relationship is marked just as much by mistrust and confrontation as it is niceties. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By LUKE BROADWATER Just weeks ago, after the U.S. military seized a ship in t

President Donald Trump, left, meets with Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, in Busan, South Korea, Oct. 30, 2025. Beijing is signaling that it is ready for a trade showdown, and it is building up a legal arsenal in preparation.(Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON and MURPHY ZHAO Peace and stability will be the public message when President Donald Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, meet in Beijing this week. But behind the diplomatic platitudes, both govern

A billboard shows Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the late Iranian supreme leader, in Tehran, May 7, 2026. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. military could escalate the war “if necessary.” An Iranian official raised the prospect of increasing nuclear enrichment if it were attacked again. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By MAX BEARAK, KAROUN DEMIRJIAN and MEGAN MINEIRO As he departed for China on Tuesday, President Donald Trump sought to assuage concerns that the

Greces Vicuña at her home in Coquimbo, Chile, April 28, 2026. Has the situation improved enough since authoritarian president Nicolás Maduro’s ousting by the Trump administration to tempt Venezuelans who fled the country’s dire conditions to return to their homeland? (Anita Pouchard Serra/The New York Times) By EMMA BUBOLA and PATRICIA SULBARÁN On Jan. 3, in the middle of a Buenos Aires, Argentina, summer night, a Venezuelan immigrant shook his girlfriend awake to tell her th

Traffic of motorcycles and cars on a street in Tehran, Iran, May 9, 2026. Talks between the United States and Iran stumbled again over the weekend. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By AARON BOXERMAN and MAX BEARAK As President Donald Trump said Monday that the ceasefire in Iran was on “life support,” countries around the world were bracing for prolonged economic woes stemming from high energy prices. The average price of gasoline in the United States has climbed to more t

A billboard in Tehran shows a photo the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the beginning of the war, on May 7, 2026. The United States and Iran both say that a monthlong cease-fire is holding, despite exchanging fire in recent days, but no breakthrough had been reached in negotiations. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By AARON BOXERMAN and ADAM SELLA Iran has formally responded to the latest U.S. proposal to end the war, Iranian state media said Sunday, after

Peter Magyar, a former insider with Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling Fidesz party who is now challenging him, at a rally in Keszthely, Hungary, on March 29, 2026. Magyar, the former opposition leader, was sworn in on May 9 as prime minister of Hungary. (Akos Stiller/The New York Times) By LILI RUTAI Peter Magyar, the former opposition leader, was sworn in Saturday as prime minister of Hungary, after winning an uphill election campaign to unseat Viktor Orban, whose 16 year

By CARLOS BARRAGÁN, AMELIA NIERENBERG and LYNSEY CHUTEL Passengers and crew from a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak were evacuated Sunday after the vessel anchored off Spain’s Canary Islands. Global health officials have sought to calm fears about the passengers’ return to their home countries by vowing to closely monitor any signs of disease. The ship, the MV Hondius, arrived at the port of Granadilla de Abona in Tenerife, the largest of the islands, on Sunday