New York Times - World

Sometimes, our preference for certitude, our need to define things with conviction, closes us off from possibility.

The menu offerings at Kuugaq Café, owned by immigrants from the Philippines, speaks to the increasing diversity of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.The Inuit hamlet of Cambridge Bay on Victoria Island, Nunavut, in the middle of February during a week temperatures reached minus 60 degrees Celsius with the wind chill. It’s much warmer this time of year.

Expectations are now rising over the role the United States will play in helping Venezuela, which had already been laid low by decades of misrule.A residential building that collapsed during back-to-back earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela, on Thursday.

Criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza, anger over the Iran war and election results in New York all suggest Israel’s solid support from Washington may be on borrowed time.Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, center, in Manhattan on Tuesday. Three pro-Palestinian candidates backed by Mr. Mamdani, an ardent critic of Israel, defeated moderates in Democratic congressional primaries this w...