Beulah Cooper, who was a volunteer at the Royal Canadian Legion where some of the stranded airline passengers found refuge, in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, Aug. 16, 2026. The Newfoundland town welcomed thousands of frightened airline passengers on Sept. 11, but 25 years later, mixed emotions run through anniversary plans amid a breakdown in U.S.-Canada relations. (Renaud Philippe/The New York Times) By NORIMITSU ONISHI If any small town ever embodied Canada’s tr

A puppet with the face of Donald Trump is paraded and beaten during celebrations in the streets during the anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 15, 2026. (Tomas Munita/The New York Times) By ELIAN PELTIER Twenty five years ago, Osama bin Laden led the planning of al-Qaida’s attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, from a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan, where he lived as their guest. Now, the Taliban rule over Afghanistan once again, trying to present

Patients are relocated from Patan Hospital to a tented field hospital run by International Medical Corps due to fears of aftershocks a day after another large earthquake struck in Kathmandu, Nepal, May 13, 2015. Nepal’s flood relief workers feel the pain of President Donald Trump’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D., which played an important role in responding to earlier disasters like the 2015 earthquake. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times) By ANUPREETA DAS, SAJAL PRADHAN and BINOD GHIMI

Soldiers carry a flag-draped case at Dover Air Force Base during the dignified transfer of U.S. Army 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan and three other soldiers killed overseas, in Delaware, on July 22, 2026. Iran’s leaders are taking a more aggressive approach as the country faces mounting economic pressure and they worry that their grip on the Strait of Hormuz is slipping. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By ERIKA SOLOMON Iran has signaled that it is willing to escalate its fight

Cynthia Sanborn, a China scholar at Universidad del Pacífico, in Lima, Peru, April 6, 2026. U.S. officials criticize China’s investment in Peru, “but they can’t make it stick,” and offer no comparable alternative, said Sanborn. (Sara Wayra/The New York Times) By GENEVIEVE GLATSKY Peru’s ambassador in Washington, Luis Miguel Castilla, received a stern phone call in 2015 from the State Department, after U.S. officials learned that a Chinese firm would finance a sprawling new Pa

By JOHN ISMAY U.S. forces operating near Ecuador on Saturday intercepted and destroyed several commercial vessels believed to be used for refueling boats smuggling drugs to the United States. It was the fourth interdiction of vessels used as floating refueling platforms in the eastern Pacific, according to a U.S. official, who said no one on either side was hurt or killed. The mission was carried out as part of U.S. Southern Command’s efforts to hinder narcotics smugglers in

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a meeting of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, at Camp David in Maryland, on Friday, July 31, 2026. New measures to target narcotics traffickers will be at the top of the agenda as Rubio visits Colombia this week, according to people familiar with his plans. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first stop on a three-country trip this week is Colombia. There, he plans to deliver a stro

Deported Haitians held overnight at a police station in Cap Haitien, 125 miles from Port-au-Prince, the original home for most of them, in Haiti on Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go. (Frances Robles/The New York Times) By FRANCES ROBLES Dozens of deportees are arriving in the Haitian city of Cap Haitien weekly as the Trump administration pushe

Santiago Abascal, leader of Spain’s far-right Vox political party, at a news conference in Ceuta, Spain, Aug. 2, 2026. A vote in eastern Germany has given fresh momentum to hard-right parties hoping to win elections across Europe next year, analysts said. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times) By MARK LANDLER When a far-right party won a landslide victory Sunday in a small state in eastern Germany, its reverberations could be felt from Downing Street in London to the Élysée Pa

A rescue team at a house where a woman was found in Betrawati, Nepal, Sept. 5, 2026. Rescue workers recovered two flood survivors on Saturday in separate operations, 10 days after a catastrophic deluge tore through the country’s northern river systems. (Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times) By MUJIB MASHAL, ANUPREETA DAS, LAURA CHUNG and THOMAS FULLER The rescuers heard voices. They crawled through a sludge-filled tunnel deep underground where employees of a hydroelectric plant in