A street in Pokrovske, a small rural town in the Dnipropetrovsk region of eastern Ukraine, Jan. 3, 2026. More than a week after Russia warned of an attack on Kyiv that would be so big that diplomats and other foreigners should flee, Moscow finally struck early Tuesday. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) By MARIA VARENIKOVA and KIM BARKER More than a week after Russia warned of an attack on Kyiv that would be so big that diplomats and other foreigners should flee, Moscow finally

Leftist Iván Cepeda, presidential candidate from the Pacto Historico party, speaks at an election-night gathering after the first round of Colombia’s presidential election in Bogotá, Colombia, on Sunday, May 31, 2026. (Nathalia Angarita/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL, GENEVIEVE GLATSKY and LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ Colombia’s heated presidential election headed to a runoff Sunday, preliminary official results showed, as a far-right candidate advanced in what could herald anoth

By DAVID PIERSON A spokesperson for Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, criticized Beijing for expelling a New York Times reporter from China in response to Lai’s appearance by video at a Times DealBook summit in New York in December. The reporter, Vivian Wang, who was based in Beijing, was expelled in February. She was not involved in the DealBook conference, an annual event that features prominent executives and politicians. Chinese officials had complained for months about W

Local residents flee the suburbs south of Beirut, Lebanon, after Israel warned the area would be targeted with attacks on Monday morning, June 1, 2026. For many, urgently leaving the area, known as the Dahiyeh, has become a well-worn routine. (Daniel Berehulak /The New York Times) By AARON BOXERMAN, CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM and JOE RENNISON Halting efforts at diplomacy in the Middle East came under new strain Monday, as Israel and Iran threatened to escalate military action in the

Health workers carry a coffin with the body of Rev. Sylvestre Atama, a popular and charismatic preacher who died of Ebola in the mining town of Mongbwalu, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 25, 2026. In a remote gold mining town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, medical workers struggle to beat back a surge of deaths and infections. (Arlette Bashizi/The New York Times) By DECLAN WALSH In the cramped, dilapidated Ebola ward, a 5-year-old boy languished on a bare mattress,

Aristótele Palmar García, a police inspector in Siapana, Colombia, Dec. 22, 2025. García said the area had become a ghost town. (Federico Ríos/The New York Times) By MAX BEARAK and JOSÉ MARÍA LEÓN CABRERA More than 200 people have now been killed in a bombing campaign by the U.S. military against people it has accused of smuggling drugs in the waters off South America, after a string of deadly attacks over the past week. The military said Saturday that three men had been kill

President Donald Trump hosts leaders of a dozen Latin American nations at the newly created Shield of the Americas Summit in Miami on Saturday, March 7, 2026. Trump met with conservative and right-wing Latin American leaders in Florida in March, promising that together they would “eradicate the criminal cartels plaguing our region.” (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By MARIA ABI-HABIB and ERIC SCHMITT Guatemala has agreed to carry out joint strikes with the United States

By JASON HOROWITZ Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain faced growing pressure Thursday to call early elections, a day after police officers spent about 12 hours at the headquarters of his Socialist Party investigating whether its members had surreptitiously funded a mudslinging campaign against judges involved in cases against the government and members of Sánchez’s family. Judge Santiago Pedraz of the National Court, who ordered the police operation, accused the party of ke

Workers retrieve a destroyed vehicle at the site of an apartment building that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in the neighborhood of Choueifat in southern Beirut, on Thursday, May 28, 2026. It was the first strike near Beirut in three weeks, as Israel ramps up its offensive against Hezbollah and fighting has intensified in Lebanon in recent days. It was not immediately clear who or what was targeted. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times) By LEO SANDS, EUAN WARD, QASIM NAUMAN

The vineyard at Celler Abadal, next to an area that got burned in 2017, in Santa Maria d’Horta d’Avinyó, Spain, on May 13, 2026. As fires worsen, European nations are adapting, focusing less on purely responding and more on preparing. (Samuel Aranda/The New York Times) By JEANNA SMIALEK Flames engulfed a forest in Catalonia, Spain, ripping across a wooded expanse and heading straight for hundreds of acres of pines and underbrush. But before it reached them, the inferno encoun