Paul Sonne, Cassandra Vinograd and Milana Mazaeva    The Russian military has yet to solve a fundamental problem: how to make big advances in eastern Ukraine when drones are everywhere.

Carlos Barragán, Amelia Nierenberg and Lynsey Chutel    Small groups of passengers and crew disembarked from the ship after it anchored off Spain’s Canary Islands on Sunday. People were expected to fly to...

Emma Bubola, Patricia Sulbarán and Anita Pouchard Serra    Dire conditions in Venezuela prompted an exodus. In the wake of the attack that ousted its top leader, the question is whether things have changed...

Amelia Nierenberg    The British military took critical medical supplies to Tristan da Cunha, a tiny British archipelago where authorities have identified a suspected...

Jason Horowitz    Spaniards line up at weddings, tennis tournaments and galas to eat ham prepared by Ernesto Soriano, one of the world’s best slicers of jamón ibérico.

Leily Nikounazar and Arash Khamooshi    Iran was already struggling economically before 2026 brought widespread instability. A government-imposed internet shutdown has crippled an entire...

Emma Bubola, Edward Wong and Sarah Pabst    The U.S. has pressed Argentina and Chile to review two Chinese telescope projects in the Andean deserts. Astronomers are worried about setbacks to...

Muktita Suhartono and Lauren DeCicca    The draft, which is mandatory for men, is a deeply divisive issue in the country. But volunteer enlistments have soared amid a surge in nationalism...

Chris Buckley    Xi Jinping spent 13 years building a military to rival that of the United States. But the stronger the Chinese forces grew, the less he trusted the...

Paul Sonne    The number raises the prospect that about half a million soldiers in total have died on the Russian and Ukrainian sides.

Javier C. Hernández, Hisako Ueno and Kentaro Takahashi    The macaque, now 9 months old, has been attracting tens of thousands of visitors to a small Japanese zoo. He ignores the attention.

Michael D. Shear    Insurgent parties like Reform U.K. surged at the polls this week. But the British electoral system wasn’t built for multiparty democracy.

Ivan Nechepurenko    The event, shrunken because of security fears, adds to a sense that Moscow and other Russian cities can no longer be insulated from the war.

Stephen Castle    Rhun ap Iorwerth, a former journalist, led his party to the most seats in the Welsh Parliament, ousting the Labour Party, which had long held sway,...

Emma Bubola, Rebecca Suner, Leila Medina, Sutton Raphael, Sarah Pabst and Joey Sendaydiego    Our reporter Emma Bubola visits the foothills of the Argentine Andes to find out why a giant Chinese-sponsored telescope is sitting dismembered.

Pranav Baskar and Devon Lum    The U.S. Navy’s blockade continued to intercept ships trying to leave or enter Iranian ports, while fear of Iranian attacks kept other ships from...

John S.W. MacDonald and Carlos Barragán    The cruise ship will arrive on the island of Tenerife, part of the Canary Islands of Spain, officials said. All of the passengers will then be...

Euan Ward and Abdi Latif Dahir    Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has shown little sign of abating, with Hezbollah also continuing to attack Israeli troops, and both sides...

Kiuko Notoya and John Yoon    Demonstrators are opposed to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s efforts to build up military power and move the country away from its pacifist identity.

Victoria Kim   

Melissa Kirsch    One Nation, an anti-immigration party with Trumpian policies that has risen in popularity, won a seat in Parliament’s lower house for the first time.

Matina Stevis-Gridneff    Why does it feel worse to be early than to rush and stress and arrive a little late?

Dustin Volz    A rapid trip with the prime minister to Armenia highlighted the new era of amity between Canada and the European Union. We examine what that can and...

Nicholas Kulish, Neil MacFarquhar and Julian E. Barnes    A staff member on the House China Committee was promised 10,000 for U.S. policy insights, on issues like Venezuela and rare-earth minerals.

John Eligon, Christina Thornell, Sutton Raphael, Thomas Vollkommer and Brian Otieno    The landlocked body of water has taken on new significance, with Russia shipping military and commercial goods to bolster Tehran’s ability to...

Keith Bradsher    Our reporter John Eligon runs in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya to experience why it’s the mecca of distance running in the world.

Lili Rutai    The country’s exports surged and its trade surplus with the United States widened ahead of President Trump’s scheduled visit next week to Beijing.

Lily Kuo    The former opposition leader, who won a landslide election, now faces the formidable job of dismantling what his predecessor called an illiberal...

Andrew Higgins and Lili Rutai    The war in Iran, trade, artificial intelligence and Taiwan are expected to be on the agenda. But expectations are modest.

John S.W. MacDonald    Peter Magyar, the incoming prime minister, has promised to push out puppets of the old regime. Many are jumping first.

Jeffrey Gettleman and Maya Tekeli    More than 100 passengers and 13 crew members on the Caribbean Princess reported being ill, according to the Centers for Disease Control and...

Michael Levenson    King Frederik X has appointed a right-leaning politician to try to form the next government.

Jeffrey Gettleman and Maya Tekeli    The Pentagon on Friday released online what it called new, never-before-seen files, dating back decades, related to unidentified flying objects.

Stephen Castle    The police in Greenland are investigating the case of a lone man from Las Vegas who goes by Cliff. Locals said he had offered money to Greenlanders...

Sopan Deb    Results from municipal and regional elections signaled major gains for the right-wing populist Reform U.K. and steep losses for Labour.

Adam Nossiter    A hospital in Manitoba had to postpone a limited number of elective surgeries after ants appeared there for the third time since 2024.

Megan Specia    Wild Swans, a best-selling 1991 memoir, told the story of a stoic mother holding her family together amid torture and imprisonment under Mao’s regime.

Lynsey Chutel, Claire Moses and Amelia Nierenberg   

Yvonne Mooka and John Eligon    Former passengers on the MV Hondius say that the ship was made for wildlife expeditions and that the crew took safety very seriously.

Sanam Mahoozi, Mira Rojanasakul and Hiroko Tabuchi    He led the southern African nation for a decade and embraced a flagship American aid program credited with helping to eradicate the country’s AIDS...

Karen Zraick    The slick, captured in satellite images near Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, has raised concerns about the condition of Iran’s oil infrastructure.

Stephen Castle    In an unusual move, a North Dakota court said Greenpeace International shouldn’t be allowed to pursue a lawsuit in Europe, where it is based, against...

David C. Adams and Frances Robles    A voting system created when two parties dominated is being tested by the rise of newer competitors.

Michael D. Shear    President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti was shot in his bedroom in July 2021, but the convictions for conspiracy have not revealed who ordered his...

Michael D. Shear    The unpopularity of Keir Starmer’s party since he became Britain’s prime minister has helped boost the Scottish National Party.

Stephen Castle   

Megan Specia    Opinion polls before the election suggested that the right-wing anti-immigration Reform U.K. party and the center-left Plaid Cymru would battle for...

Megan Specia   

Stephen Castle    The men were arrested in 2024, accused of surveilling dissidents from Hong Kong in Britain. The case sent a chill through pro-democracy protesters...

Michael D. Shear    The voting in England, Scotland and Wales is the biggest electoral test for Keir Starmer since he became prime minister in 2024.