International News

8:38 AM on Monday, October 20

Iraq’s prime minister says a small group of U.S. military advisers will stay in the country to coordinate with U.S. forces in neighboring Syria against the Islamic State group

8:15 AM on Monday, October 20

Pope Leo XIV has met with an organization of clergy abuse survivors and advocates for the first time

2:43 AM on Monday, October 20

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has delivered a speech on the opening day of a major Communist Party meeting

11:21 PM on Sunday, October 19

Sanae Takaichi is on track to become Japan's first female prime minister after her party secured a crucial coalition partner

8:01 PM on Sunday, October 19

China has expanded its export rules on rare earths, requiring foreign firms to get approval for exporting products containing even small amounts of China-originated materials

7:49 PM on Sunday, October 19

A cargo plane has skidded off a Hong Kong runway and collided with a security vehicle, killing two people in the car

10:44 AM on Sunday, October 19

Thieves reportedly stole nine pieces from the jewelry collection of Napoleon and the Empress in the Louvre, using a basket lift to reach the museum

9:51 AM on Sunday, October 19

Iran's official judiciary news agency has reported that the country has executed a person convicted of spying for Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad in the city of Qom

9:01 AM on Sunday, October 19

It's a war of words between President Donald Trump and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro over illegal drugs, with hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid hanging in the balance

8:29 AM on Sunday, October 19

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have detained two dozen U.N. employees in Yemen

6:47 AM on Sunday, October 19

A North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea across the rivals’ heavily fortified border

5:46 AM on Sunday, October 19

Thieves have pulled off a daring heist at the Louvre, stealing priceless Napoleonic jewels

5:45 AM on Sunday, October 19

President Donald Trump has suggested that the Donbas region of Ukraine should be divided, leaving most of it under Russian control, to end the ongoing war

5:29 AM on Sunday, October 19

Hopes for a resumption of long-stalled talks to heal Cyprus’ decades-old ethnic rift have been buoyed after Turkish Cypriots elected a leader who campaigned on getting back to negotiating a two-zone federation with rival Greek Cypriots after an eight-year stalemate

4:17 AM on Sunday, October 19

Kenyan former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has been buried at his rural home amid political uncertainty over the future of opposition in a country that has previously been marred by post election violence and anti-government protests

3:53 AM on Sunday, October 19

China has accused the U.S. National Security Agency of cyberattacks on its national time center

2:42 AM on Sunday, October 19

Gaza's fragile ceasefire is facing its first major test

1:34 AM on Sunday, October 19

Afghanistan and Pakistan say they will respect a ceasefire mediated by Qatar and Turkey

12:20 AM on Sunday, October 19

Preliminary results show that Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator who was never a nationally prominent figure until now, has won Bolivia’s presidential election, galvanizing voters outraged by the country’s economic crisis and frustrated with 20 years of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism party

12:03 AM on Sunday, October 19

A large mushroom farm near Nairobi is producing mycelium for building materials that end up as fungi-based panels, which are more sustainable and affordable than traditional bricks