The contest to replace António Guterres as U.N. secretary general has been jolted by last-minute entrants and deep divisions among members of the Security Council.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine meeting with President Trump at the United Nations in September. Mr. Trump has blown hot and at times very cold on Kyiv.
The commanding victory of the Democrats has brought private relief to some Europeans but no official glee, with Ukraine, Iran and NATO all hanging in the balance.
From Miami, Flávio Bolsonaro is making unfounded claims of a stolen election and plotting to sway his nation’s politics from afar, even though his party is not challenging the results.
Both Moscow and Kyiv say Mrs. Trump’s team was the driving force behind an evacuation of a besieged city. It was also in their interest to deliver her a humanitarian win.
The New York Post used a Hokusai work to depict Donald Trump being swept away by Democrats’ midterm election win. Some in Japan were bothered by the imagery.
Israel once had bipartisan support in the United States, but a strong showing for Democrats, some of whom are deeply critical of the war in Gaza, has left the country with fewer friends in Congress.
President Trump walking offstage after a rally in Salina, Kan., on Sunday. The election results mean the Democrats will take control of the House and Senate.
The attack on a drug-trafficking group killed about two dozen people, a rights group said. It comes as the United States is militarizing the fight against “narcoterrorism” in Latin America.
The two countries have long been adversaries, and the United States attacked Venezuela this year, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio is starting talks on a legal agreement.
Caracas, Venezuela, earlier this year. Venezuela’s Caribbean coastline and land borders with Colombia, Brazil and Guyana make it an attractive location for potential U.S. troop deployments.