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