International News

1:31 AM on Saturday, March 21

Authorities in nearly a dozen regions across Russian have refused to authorize protests in recent weeks over internet censorship and the blocking of Telegram, a popular messaging app

1:18 AM on Saturday, March 21

President Donald Trump says he is considering “winding down” military operations in the Middle East

12:08 AM on Saturday, March 21

President Donald Trump says his administration is considering “winding down” military operations in the Middle East even as the United States announces it is sending more warships and Marines to the region and Iran threatens to attack tourist sites worldwide

12:05 AM on Saturday, March 21

An Israeli strike has hit a Hezbollah-run health center in southern Lebanon and killed 12 medical workers, as Israel widens its campaign beyond fighters

7:00 PM on Friday, March 20

Costa Rican authorities say a U.S. strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat off the country's coast has left at least two people dead and one critically injured

4:25 PM on Friday, March 20

War is rippling through their ancestral land — waged against the country where they live

3:37 PM on Friday, March 20

U.S. defense officials have told The Associated Press that a sizable number of Patriot air defense interceptor missiles have moved from Europe towards the Middle East

12:58 PM on Friday, March 20

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been designated a “priority target” by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as federal prosecutors in New York probe his alleged ties to drug traffickers, according to people familiar with the matter and records seen by The Associated Press

11:20 AM on Friday, March 20

The U.S. military says it attacked an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers

7:41 AM on Friday, March 20

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian officials are helping five countries in the Middle East and Gulf region counter attacks on their territory by Iranian drones

7:10 AM on Friday, March 20

Norway’s crown princess says she was manipulated and deceived by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and felt unsafe during a 2013 encounter with the American financier at his Palm Beach, Florida, mansion

5:23 AM on Friday, March 20

Iranians abroad and in Tehran are approaching Persian new year with grief and fear as war and a crackdown cut them off from loved ones

2:00 AM on Friday, March 20

South Korean rescue workers on Saturday recovered the remains of 10 people from the charred wreckage of an auto parts factory in the central city of Daejeon, where a blaze likely triggered by an explosion injured at least 59 others and left four missing

1:34 AM on Friday, March 20

Iran is threatening recreational and tourist sites worldwide and insisting it is still building missiles three weeks into an escalating war in the Middle East

1:25 AM on Friday, March 20

With U.S.-brokered Ukraine peace talks on hold due to the war in the Middle East, Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to try to expand his military gains via new offensives against his southern neighbor that will put even more pressure on Kyiv

1:11 AM on Friday, March 20

Residents in the Mexican central state of Guerrero are setting up self-defense patrols to keep a powerful cartel out of their mountain towns

12:33 AM on Friday, March 20

The U.S. military is deploying three more warships and roughly 2,500 more marines to the Middle East as Iran fires on Israel and energy sites in neighboring Gulf Arab states, sending oil and gas prices soaring

12:09 AM on Friday, March 20

The Iran war is exposing how much the global economy still depends on fragile fossil fuel supplies

1:26 AM on Thursday, March 19

Israel has pounded Tehran with airstrikes as Iranians mark Nowruz, or the Persian New Year

12:07 AM on Thursday, March 19

There appeared to be some tension as President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi answered questions from White House reporters about Japan’s support for the Iran war