The Trump administration wants President Claudia Sheinbaum to arrest a Mexican governor. She is faced with few good options in response.

Dozens of countries met this week to discuss how to end the world’s dependence on fossil fuels, a goal that the Trump administration doesn’t share.

Despite the fragile cease-fire in the Middle East, many Africans say they are bracing for tougher times ahead and making difficult decisions about the future.

If President Trump flies to China as planned in May, the primary topic will clearly be the rippling economic effects of a war that Beijing has made clear it viewed as unnecessary.

Germany has hugely increased its military spending, aiming to be less dependent on Washington. Its support for U.S. attacks on Iran may also give it leverage.

More than a year of similar conversations have failed to bring the country any closer to peace, so Ukrainians have stopped hoping they will.

The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which the president vows to top in Washington, offers a lesson in the complicated history of monuments.

After months of tensions and pressure from both the U.S. and Iran, Ali al-Zaidi, a businessman, was named as prime minister-designate.

President Trump ripped up a pact designed to prevent Iran from building a bomb. Getting a better agreement now could prove difficult.

In just eight weeks, much of the global economy has been knocked sideways. America has mostly been spared from the tumult.

In its latest offer delivered on Sunday, Iran proposed opening the key waterway to shipping traffic and lifting the U.S. blockade, while postponing the thornier nuclear issue until later.

United’s chief acknowledged for the first time that he had broached the idea of a merger with American, which was unwilling to consider it.

Not since his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, traveled to Washington after the Suez Crisis has a visit by the British monarch come at such a fraught point in Anglo-American relations.

An Iranian negotiator returned to Pakistan on Sunday, despite the United States’ abruptly calling off a trip there by its two top negotiators.

President Isaac Herzog of Israel has decided not to issue a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his corruption case at this time, and instead will seek mediation, officials say.

Each side is betting it can last longer than the other, analysts say. But there are risks in a stalemate without a deal.

The British royals are set to arrive on Monday for a visit hosted by President Trump, with a garden party, an address to Congress and a banquet on the schedule.

Officials had locked the city down, anticipating talks between U.S. and Iranian delegations. But they didn’t happen. “What did I close my business for?” one business owner asked.

The last-minute scuttling of the trip to Pakistan was the latest sign of how far apart the two sides are on reaching a deal to end the Iran war.

Pope Leo said he has seen the letter from the parents of more than 100 children killed in the strike, which a preliminary inquiry found resulted from a mistake by the U.S. military.

The two Americans were killed on Sunday when their vehicle crashed while returning from an antidrug operation led by Mexico’s armed forces in the state of Chihuahua.

The fragile truce in Lebanon was extended after talks in Washington this week but has come under threat as Israel and Hezbollah have traded attacks.

An international trade economist in Washington warns that negotiations will take place in an “incredibly difficult” environment.

With American dealmakers wrapped up with Iran, neither Russia nor Ukraine has a clear path to victory — or toward a negotiated peace.

President Trump withdrew from the Obama-era nuclear accord in 2018, saying it was the worst deal ever. But Iran responded with an enrichment spree that haunts the negotiations to this day.

In guidance to immigration officers, the administration describes participating in pro-Palestinian protests and criticizing Israel as “overwhelmingly negative” factors.

President Trump has outsourced much of his diplomacy to others, while Mr. Rubio focuses on his second job as national security adviser.

Iran’s foreign minister has already arrived in the country, state media reported. He was believed to be carrying a written response to a U.S. proposal to end the war.

An internal Pentagon email, reported by the Reuters news agency, suggested Washington was reviewing options to penalize the two nations for insufficiently supporting the war in Iran.

European Union nations have a little-known obligation to protect one another. Experts caution it is no replacement for NATO.

Once promised a move to the United States, Afghan refugees who helped U.S. forces say they face ‘bad or worse’ options: resettlement to Congo or returning home to live under the Taliban.

On his recent trip abroad, Leo XIV made some of his most forthright comments since becoming pope last year, but grew uncomfortable at how that criticism was interpreted.

Unlike previous European assistance packages, this one is heavily weighted toward military spending, meant to put Ukraine on solid footing for a long fight.

The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ushered in a new form of collective leadership in the country, with more power for the Revolutionary Guards.

The president’s apocalyptic rhetoric clashes with the responsibility of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to protect the military’s honor.

A “whole civilization will die tonight,” the president said as he turned up the pressure on Iran’s leaders to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

U.S., Iranian, Israeli and other officials offered varying accounts about the state of negotiations between Washington and Tehran.

Senator Ron Johnson said he hoped President Trump was making empty threats, but most in the G.O.P. cheered his warning that Iran’s “whole civilization” would be wiped out.

U.S. and Israeli forces hit targets in Iran as President Trump threatened to wipe out a “whole civilization.”

Members in both chambers of Congress said the president was threatening war crimes, and a growing number, questioning his mental fitness, called for his removal.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson and Senator Ron Johnson were among those pushing back against President Trump’s threats toward Iran.

The American leaders slathered on the praise for the nationalist standard-bearer just days before an election he could lose.

President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s eagerness to recount details of the rescue of a downed airman followed weeks of silence on the deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian school.

As the Persian Gulf conflict boosts the oil revenue that finances Moscow’s war against Ukraine, Kyiv’s forces are striking at Russia’s ability to refine and ship its crude.

The demand reflects both the U.S. administration’s eagerness to secure a lasting cease-fire in Gaza and its growing impatience with the Palestinian militant group.

Global leaders are struggling in their efforts to find a way to end the American-Israeli war on Iran, and they are spooked about what President Trump might do next.

For a second time, President Trump extended the deadline for Iran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The secretary of state said the United States and Iran were passing messages to each other as he headed to France for a diplomatic meeting of the Group of 7 nations.

Just after stocks ended another bruising day, the president took to social media to promote progress in talks with Iran.

A jumble of emissaries — a friend, a family member, a dove and a hawk — on the Iran crisis reflects President Trump’s improvisational approach.

The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has pursued an intensifying campaign against critics in a tough race before April elections.

Trump and other American presidents have criticized Canada for failing to meet the alliance’s military spending minimum of 2 percent of gross domestic product.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that President Trump “still chooses a strategy of putting more pressure on the Ukrainian side.”

Cuban health care was once the pride of the island. Now the U.S. oil blockade is upending even basic medical care.

Hours before a call between President Trump and India’s prime minister, American officials urged India to focus on shared goals and ignore differences.

European politicians risk angering their voters if they join America’s war. Yet they could also face domestic upheaval if they take no action to reopen shipping routes that Iran has blocked and ease an energy crisis.

The Trump administration had options for offloading contraceptives once destined for Africa, a newly obtained memo shows. Instead, it has let them collect dust and go bad.

From India to Southeast Asia to South Korea, currencies are crumbling as governments race to secure fuel that is priced in American money.

The fighting continued while conditions for a possible cease-fire were debated.

The 2,000 paratroopers heading to the region may give President Trump more leverage in negotiations, but they also leave him with the option of doubling down on military force.

The United Nations resolution was led by the president of Ghana. Israel and Argentina also voted against it.

The president has domestic and international political motivations for touting negotiations to end the war. Iran has similar ones to deny discussions.

Syed Asim Munir’s role demonstrates Islamabad’s acute exposure to regional instability and newly found geopolitical relevance.

The United States is discussing ways to end hostilities with Iran, even as the Pentagon dispatches more troops.

In Denmark’s election, it was local issues, not Greenland or foreign policy, that counted. That hurt the prime minister, Mette Frederiksen.

Matt Brittin, the former president of Google in Europe, will become the new director general. Among the items on his to-do list: handling a lawsuit from President Trump.

In Cameroon, the Trump administration found a partner it could pressure into accepting covertly deported migrants.

The agreement is part of President Trump’s efforts to find governments willing to accept people who have been detained in the United States.

The Times visited a village where the United States and Ecuador said they destroyed an armed group’s training camp. Residents said it was actually a dairy farm.

Our national security correspondent David E. Sanger looks at President Trump’s trouble handling retaliatory attacks by Iran that have largely choked off the Strait of Hormuz.

Moscow may be challenging President Trump’s effort to choke Cuba’s economy. China also has suspected listening posts on the island.

Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, suggested that Israeli troops might remain in parts of Lebanon even after the fighting there winds down.

President Trump once called Prime Minister Keir Starmer a friend. But Britain’s decision not to join the attacks on Iran has led to merciless mocking by the president.

President Trump’s threats to take Greenland away from Denmark have lifted Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who appeared the front-runner as polls opened.

He delivered a lengthy speech at his country’s rubber-stamp Parliament, declaring that his nuclear power will shield his country from American hostility.

With President Trump threatening to strike Iranian power plants, some war-weary civilians are panicking over a possible new debacle.

The new war has led to panic buying and a surge in food prices for Gazans as they try to recover from Israel’s two-year offensive against Hamas.

For the past seven decades, Canada has been the junior partner in a military agreement with the United States to protect the Canadian Arctic.

Canadian soldiers transported M777 howitzers to the High Arctic to show their ability to fight in an increasingly contested part of the world. It did not go as planned.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is the biggest force this country has seen in decades. The crisis in Greenland has energized her, but are voters itching for change?

Tehran “will not hesitate in defending its people and its land,” a senior official said, after President Trump threatened to destroy Iranian power plants.

Molenbeek was branded a hotbed of radicalization after terrorists hit Brussels and Paris a decade ago, but new challenges show that reinvention doesn’t come easy.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s latest global tour emphasized military cooperation rather than developing trade ties.

The Ukrainian president has said he has a “very bad feeling” about the effects of the Iran conflict on Ukraine’s own war.

Sandro Castro has drawn scrutiny for his Instagram posts in which he flaunts a life of luxury while using satire to point out the very deterioration his family’s leadership helped create.

In the first days of the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran, Mr. Trump pressed for a popular uprising against Tehran’s government.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent estimated that the move would add about 140 million barrels of crude to the oil market.

There are several ways the United States could attempt to reopen the waterway, all of which carry substantial risks.

The Israeli military said it had killed the spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and Iran warned that it could target American and Israeli military personnel.

The Persian new year and the end of the holy month of Ramadan were marked by continuing strikes in the region as the war reached the end of its third week.

The United States views Iran through a prism of global responsibilities and strategic goals. Israel has a more regional approach. After nearly three weeks of war, their paths are diverging.

Sri Lanka did not agree to the request, officials said, and has tried to remain neutral in the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.

Maria Kalesnikava is campaigning for the West to engage with the regime in Belarus that imprisoned her for more than five years.

The president’s company is eyeing a site for a golf course and luxury apartments. Will a huge landfill and a troubled project history stand in the way?

Some people criticized President Trump’s decision to invoke a painful chapter of history. Others worried it might harm U.S.-Japan relations.

During her first visit to the White House, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi drew praise from President Trump. But the war in the Middle East will test their relationship.

President Trump said on Monday that he believed he would have “the honor of taking Cuba.” His comments came during a nationwide blackout and energy crisis on the island.

President Trump’s words came amid a nationwide blackout and as a top Cuban official said his country would move to open the economy to foreign investors.

Canada’s prime minister chooses pragmatism in a turbulent world, which means doing business with countries that do not share Canada’s democratic values. Some critics see this as weakness.

Barraged by Iranian attacks and questioning the value of security ties with the United States, nations in the Gulf have turned to Ukraine, Australia and Italy for help.