Sleek social media posts and a shift rightward on immigration helped a center-left party win last week’s election. But can its leader, Mr. Jetten, form a government?
Officials have accused the United States of foreign interference and called on Washington to support the country’s democracy instead of fomenting division.
Days after a powerful hurricane made landfall in Jamaica, thousands of residents are now homeless and trying to make sense of how they narrowly survived. The New York Times traveled to the storm’s center in Black River, and found a community destroyed — without food or clean water — where families are desperate and still traumatized after being cut off from the outside world.
Brent McDonald, Singeli Agnew, Ben Laffin and Bethlehem Feleke
The murder of Mexico’s most vocal anti-crime mayor shows that, despite President Claudia Sheinbaum’s crackdown on drug cartels, the battle is just beginning.
Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in safeguarding the planet. Its record tells a more complicated story.
Rescuers at the tower near the Colosseum worked for 11 hours before removing the man who had been pinned under rubble and debris. He later died in the hospital.
The police are examining whether the suspect in the stabbing spree on a London-bound train on Saturday was connected to three other incidents involving a knife.
The Russian authorities canceled a festival in St. Petersburg, branding it “Satanist,” as part of a larger assault on anything viewed as a Western influence.
Thousands of people who witnessed atrocities have tried to escape El Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region since paramilitary fighters seized that city in late October.
Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death.