International News

9:27 PM on Sunday, March 8

The U.S. military says it has killed six men in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers

8:59 PM on Sunday, March 8

The United States has begun a large military exercise with South Korea involving thousands of troops while also waging an escalating war in the Middle East

6:26 PM on Sunday, March 8

Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was named as his successor, had long been considered a contender to the post even before an Israeli strike killed his father and despite the fact he had never been elected or appointed to a government position

6:19 PM on Sunday, March 8

Oil prices have jumped past $100 a barrel as the Iran war disrupts oil production and shipping in the Middle East

3:28 PM on Sunday, March 8

Guinea’s main opposition leader says the government is crushing political competition after it dissolved dozens of parties including the biggest ones

3:24 PM on Sunday, March 8

Authorities in Peru tell The Associated Press that they arrested three people following the deadly bombing of a nightclub as the number of those injured rose to 44

12:24 PM on Sunday, March 8

A retired Lebanese security officer has gone missing and his family says Israeli operatives kidnapped him to get information about a long-missing Israeli airman

12:16 PM on Sunday, March 8

Thousands of civilians have fled the opposition-held town of Akobo in eastern South Sudan following an evacuation order issued by the army to pave the way for an operation

10:24 AM on Sunday, March 8

Women across the world called for equal pay, reproductive rights, education, justice and decision-making jobs during demonstrations Sunday marking International Women’s Day

9:50 AM on Sunday, March 8

Three Palestinians have died in a clash with Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, as violence has spiked during new war in the Middle East

7:32 AM on Sunday, March 8

Iran’s national soccer team has finished the Women's Asian Cup group stage in Australia and now faces a return home to a country embroiled in war

6:23 AM on Sunday, March 8

Iranians are using a border crossing into Turkey as one of the only ways out during the war in Iran, with the country's airspace closed

4:38 AM on Sunday, March 8

Norwegian police are investigating an explosion outside the U.S. Embassy in Oslo

3:21 AM on Sunday, March 8

Malaysian authorities say a renewed deep-sea search in the southern Indian Ocean has failed so far to find Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, twelve years after it disappeared

1:56 AM on Sunday, March 8

Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late supreme leader, has been named his successor

1:12 AM on Sunday, March 8

Iranian state TV says Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the country’s late supreme leader, has been named his successor

12:37 AM on Sunday, March 8

Nepal’s new Rastriya Swatantra party is heading for a landslide win in the country’s first parliamentary election since youth protests toppled the old leadership last year

12:11 AM on Sunday, March 8

China says it hopes this year will be a “landmark year” in relations with the United States, as the two sides prepare for an expected leaders’ summit later this month

12:04 AM on Sunday, March 8

As U.S. and Israeli missiles and bombs rain on Iran, Russia has responded with words of indignation — but no action to support its ally

1:09 AM on Saturday, March 7

Israel is renewing its assault on southern Lebanon, including targeting commanders of the Lebanese branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force in Beirut