Ecuador’s Leader Has Had a Year of Chaos. He Is Still Favored to Win Sunday’s Election.

Daniel Noboa was nowhere to be seen. And, yet, he was everywhere. On balconies. In the arms of various supporters. In the back of a truck. Cardboard cutouts of Mr.…

For Europe’s Right, Trump Stirs Caution Alongside Celebration

Standing in the rotunda, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy was a privileged guest at President Trump’s inauguration. The only European leader to attend the event last month, Ms. Meloni…

For Europe’s Right, Trump Stirs Caution Alongside Celebration

Standing in the rotunda, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy was a privileged guest at President Trump’s inauguration. The only European leader to attend the event last month, Ms. Meloni…

Mirroring Trump, Milei Pulls Argentina From W.H.O.

President Javier Milei of Argentina announced plans to withdraw his nation from the World Health Organization on Wednesday, the latest in a series of moves by Mr. Milei that mimic…

Why Elon Musk Is So Focused on the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, ‘America’s Checkbook’

The first weeks of President Trump’s second term have been dominated by a blizzard of executive orders aimed at reversing diversity policies, trade wars with major American trading partners and…

French Government Survives No-Confidence Vote

France’s government lived to see another day on Wednesday, after it survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament and gave the recently appointed prime minister a temporary reprieve from months of…

Tesla’s European Sales Drop in January After Elon Musk Disrupts Politics

Tesla’s sales in Germany plunged 59 percent in January, the month when Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive and a close adviser to President Trump, chided Germans for focusing too…

Greenland, Eyeing Trump, Bans Foreign Political Funding

Greenland’s Parliament banned foreign and anonymous political funding on Tuesday, in the semiautonomous island’s latest reaction to President Trump’s stated intentions to acquire it. Greenland’s lawmakers fast-tracked the law —…

Trump Wants to Know Why U.S. Cars Are Rare in Germany. Here Are a Few Reasons.

It is a question that vexed President Trump eight years ago and has re-emerged as a reason behind his threat to impose tariffs on the European Union: Why don’t Europeans…

How a Sale of TikTok Would Work and Who Might Buy It

There’s a new parlor game on Wall Street: guessing TikTok’s next owner. President Trump signed an executive order in January that delayed enforcement of a law that banned the popular…