A U.S. oil blockade imposed by the Trump administration has set off an increasingly agonizing energy crisis that has brought transportation largely to a standstill. In an effort to save energy resources, the government ended the school year early.

Peter Murrell, the husband of the former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon, was sentenced on Tuesday after he admitted to buying a bizarre range of items with the Scottish National Party’s money.

Most of the victims were young people swimming in unsupervised areas, officials said.

The likely successor to Prime Minister Keir Starmer will inherit the same challenges of economic stagnation and ascendant populism. Will a divided nation be prepared to give him time?

Parastoo Ahmadi and her band will also be barred from leaving the country or performing for two years, dampening hopes for a more moderate postwar regime in Iran.

The hike, from around $18 to $93 for a single trip, will apply to visitors from countries including China, India and Vietnam, but not most Western travelers.

Ten years after Brexit, most seasonal workers in Britain are from countries such as Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Without them, agricultural chiefs say, many farms would fail.

Secretary General Mark Rutte is headed to Washington. His style has at times frustrated the very European leaders who need him to hold the alliance together.

French politicians, including those on the far right, are embracing a Jewish Resistance fighter murdered by the Gestapo in 1944.

Contact tracing is improving. Treatments may be months away. Here’s what could determine whether a fast-expanding outbreak can be slowed down.

A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world’s fastest. It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units.

After Iran weaponized the waterway by making it too dangerous for businesses, experts say, the country is now looking to charge fees to vessels seeking to transit the vital water.

President Trump says Venezuela, under U.S. oversight, has “never made the money” it is making now. But new oil revenue isn’t helping ordinary Venezuelans, and anger seems to be mounting.

Jordan’s first qualification for the World Cup also means a World Cup berth for Palestinians, millions of whom live in the country.

In Pakistan, only 12 percent of women and girls use safe, commercially-made menstrual products. Activists hailed a government plan to cut a “period tax.”

On Monday, a police officer was killed during a shootout. A civilian was killed and another police officer was wounded, the police said.

A police officer and a civilian also died in a gun battle that prompted a citywide shelter-in-place alert.

After Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that he is resigning from his position, Britons shared their thoughts about a change of leadership.

After fighting Belgium to a draw for one of Iran’s best World Cup results, the Iranians had a note for their fans and the world.

His departure in the coming weeks clears a path for Andy Burnham, a popular Labour Party mayor, to become the country’s seventh prime minister in a decade.

While Kyiv’s fortunes have brightened in other ways in the war, Moscow’s forces are raining bombs and drones on “fortress belt” cities like Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

The country’s already-struggling schools are ending the academic year early because of a crippling fuel shortage caused by the U.S. oil blockade.

The blast happened at a key site for natural gas production. The authorities blamed a technical malfunction while operations were being restarted after the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.

President Trump said the United States would resume bombing Iran if he did not like the preliminary agreement, hours after leaders from the Group of 7 nations called the deal a “breakthrough.”

Group of 7 leaders will discuss Artificial Intelligence and global imbalances on Wednesday, even as questions over Iran linger.

Executives from Anthropic, OpenAI and Mistral will be among those attending a lunch meeting with leaders from many of the world’s richest nations.

Britain’s Ministry of Defense said that the Russian vessel appeared to be trying to avoid a collision in the English Channel.

The 66-year-old gave few details of his diagnosis but said the disease was “aggressive.”

The Fair Trade Commission said that it suspected six leading ice cream manufacturers fixed the prices of popular frozen treats.

The distinctive language used in Ecuador’s Andes, including its capital Quito, blends Spanish with Kichwa, an indigenous language spoken since the Inca settlement of the region.

Princess Mette-Marit was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis eight years ago and was placed on a waiting list for organ donation this month.

The soccer stars’ sharp black suits with leopard-print details are a nod to a long history of “sapeur” fashion.

Scores of targeted attacks against supply routes, part of what Kyiv calls a “logistics lockdown,” has caused gasoline shortages.

Amid the war with Iran, Bahrain has stripped 69 people of their citizenship, including children, accusing them of disloyalty and rendering them stateless.

In Ecuador’s highlands, a seamless mix of Kichwa and Spanish creates a language that bends grammar, adds melody and goes unnoticed by many who speak it every day.

Despite mutual praise between the two leaders, there has been a series of setbacks to U.S. relations with India since they last met more than a year ago.

There’s an initial deal between the U.S. and Iran. But bringing the global economy back online after months at reduced speed isn’t going to be quick or easy.

A Labour Party deputy who spent years in opposition, he criticized Conservatives and members of his own party, and was at the heart of major political moments.

Two Belarusian men were in custody as part of an investigation into the killing of the exiled painter Robert Kuzovkov.

The longtime over-the-air telecast will no longer be free after the national broadcaster, and Rogers Sportsnet, the N.H.L. rights-holder, could not agree on a sub-licensing deal.

Health workers have warned that the outbreak, already one of the worst in decades, could take as long as a year to contain if infection rates do not flatten.

A peace framework with Iran, and hope for cooperation with Ukraine, softened the tone on Tuesday at a Group of 7 gathering in France.

The feathered pet has waddled his way into the pantheon of famous animals associated with the soccer tournament.

At its first game in Los Angeles, the men’s national team drew spectators who weren’t coming for the soccer, but rather to protest the regime in Tehran.

The U.S. Navy will be deploying a new generation of drone-based countermeasures to search the sea floor and surface for any mines Iran laid.

Despite military setbacks during the war, Tehran is presenting a narrative of victory before negotiations with Washington.

In a country where the housing market is squeezed, decommissioned electrical substations are in demand as refurbished residences.

Group of 7 meetings once embodied the effort to sustain the global diplomatic order. This year’s gathering, starting on Monday, symbolizes its fragmentation.

President Trump said it would be signed on Sunday, but Iran’s Foreign Ministry cautioned that the timeline could be slower.

Britain’s defense ministry said it was the first time that British forces had acted alone to stop a ship in the fleet, a collection of vessels that Russia uses to move fuel and evade sanctions.

Russia and the United States projected their own centralized views onto Ukraine and Iran, analysts said. As a result, the smaller countries trapped larger ones in a costly confrontation.

John Sorochan, a turf scientist at the University of Tennessee, has led the yearslong, multimillion-dollar effort to develop perfect playing fields for the 2026 World Cup.

Competing for the first time, Curaçao is brimming with joy. Most of the Caribbean nation’s team was born and raised in the Netherlands, but residents say the players represent them.

Over the past year, policies restricting people from 39 countries — including Afghanistan — from entering or living in the U.S. have cast countless lives into limbo. For one family, the consequences have been devastating.

Though electric machines are now standard, the Venezuelan weaver Margarita Mora has clung to a mix of ancestral Indigenous and Spanish practices to create surprisingly modern work.

Japan’s legislature is drafting a plan to allow the imperial family to adopt distant male relatives. But some in Japan would prefer a female emperor.

After becoming allies to disastrous effect in the 1940s, Berlin and Tokyo are finding new reasons to team up — including rebuilding their militaries.

A security expert who had recently become chief of staff to the new defense minister was abducted, the latest example of violence gripping the country.

The children — four girls and one boy — were among 10 people in the van at the time of the crash. An infant was seriously injured, the police said.

Iran’s new, more militaristic leaders have already survived the worst that America and Israel can deliver, and seem readier to take risks.

No longer content with being just “Hollywood North,” the Canadian screen industry is asserting itself and telling its own stories.

A strike this week in Venezuela killed a gang leader known as Niño Guerrero who was wanted in the United States, officials in both countries said.

We like it when projects are completed, but what if we could abide comfortably in the toiling and striving it takes to get them there?

Our Times colleague Susanne Craig was back home in Canada to be honored for her extraordinary career, which began in Calgary, Alberta, her hometown.

After years of dampened enthusiasm about the World Cup, Brazilians are excited about their national team again — and they’re showing it by painting the streets.

Ukraine is running out of American-made Patriot air-defense interceptors, and is pleading for more.

Bu Ri lost a leg to a mine in Myanmar decades ago. More recently, six other members of his family have suffered a similar fate or worse, in a sign of the devastation wreaked by civil war.

On Sunday, Switzerland will vote on whether to cap its population. The implications for Swiss society and its economy could be huge.

The exchange came after President Trump said Iranian forces had shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz.

Much of the discussion about artificial intelligence focuses on economic disruption. But it could reshape political life, too.

President Trump’s warming with Xi Jinping of China, a leader he admires, has ignited anxieties in Washington and across Asia.

The suspect, who the police said is 30 and Sudanese, was charged with having attacked another man in an assault in Belfast that was recorded and spread quickly online.

Families hope to recover their loved ones after the most powerful earthquake in 50 years to hit the Philippines.

It was the first U.S. rescue carried out by an autonomous surface vessel and remotely piloted by a human operator, according to a military spokesperson.

The pilot, who retired last year before the investigation, held some valid flight credentials, officials said, but not the one required to be a captain.

The retaliatory U.S. attacks came on Tuesday as Israeli forces pounded southern Lebanon while targeting Hezbollah.

“I had the right papers and everything,” Omar Abdulkadir Artan said in his first interview since he was turned back. He would have been the first Somali to referee a game in the tournament.

President Trump blamed Iran for shooting down a U.S. helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz and vowed to retaliate, while Israel launched a new wave of strikes on southern Lebanon on Tuesday.

The two crossed paths in Spain, where they have been on decidedly different tours. Sorry, no photos were released.

Tell us about your experience buying tickets, finding a place to stay, making travel arrangements and, if you’re coming to the U.S., dealing with entry requirements.

Northern Ireland’s police arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing in Belfast left another man in serious condition on Monday.

The measures aim to “disrupt the flows of finance” supporting attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, said the British government, which coordinated them with France and other nations.

Berlin pulled out of the Future Combat Air System, a project with Spain and France that had been seen as central to European efforts to face down Russia and reduce reliance on the United States.

Drones launched by both Russia and Ukraine are veering off course, menacing countries that are not at war and driving their citizens to seek shelter.

Pope Leo and Armando Jesús Lovera have known each other for decades. They have watched World Cup games together, gone on road trips and once searched for a teddy bear for Mr. Lovera’s future wife.

Gianni Infantino, the FIFA president, has unabashedly courted the president’s favor. Soccer officials privately ask, who really benefits?

Washington and Tehran would need to defend any potential deal as a win for their side. And each has a leader whose approach to talks is vexing mediators.

The city of Nabatieh once spoke to the changing fortunes of Lebanon. Now, amid unending war, it speaks to the country’s worst fears.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan overcame a pressure campaign by Moscow and was on track to win a mandate to move ahead on peace talks that President Trump helped broker.

As it braces for a possible U.S.-Iranian peace deal, Israel now knows that if it responds forcefully to attacks by Hezbollah, Iran may strike Israel with missiles.

Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, is running for a seat in Parliament. It’s a vital step in a campaign to oust his party colleague Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

He used the pandemic to ruthlessly tighten his grip on the country. Then he energized its economy by leveraging Russia’s war in Ukraine.

A federal judge has ruled that David Rush, the C.I.A. employee, must remain in detention. U.S. officials say Mr. Rush funneled millions in federal funds to himself.

Israel’s military said a soldier opened fire after Israeli troops “perceived a vehicle accelerating toward them.” The baby’s grandmother, who was in the car, disputed that account.

The Defense Department has increased the counterintelligence threat assessment to its highest level, and Israel is believed to have eavesdropped on American negotiations with Iran.

The vaccine development process and coordination between health organizations have improved since a devastating 2014-2016 outbreak.

Leo arrived in Spain on Saturday for a weeklong visit in which he will meet with migrants and may come under fire from Vox, Spain’s far-right party.

Israel invaded Lebanon and occupied parts of the country to fight Hezbollah, an Iran-backed armed group, but its military offensive has drawn in others.