International News

2:52 AM on Monday, August 25

Indonesia and the United States began annual joint military exercises on Monday together with forces from a dozen other countries, as the U.S. pushes its allies to take threats from China more seriously

8:08 PM on Sunday, August 24

Venezuelan opposition leaders and civil society groups said that the government released 13 people jailed in a crackdown by the government of President Nicolás Maduro following last year’s disputed elections

10:22 AM on Sunday, August 24

Nigeria's military has freed at least 76 hostages, including children, after precision airstrikes targeted militants in the northwest

8:00 AM on Sunday, August 24

A German nonprofit organization says three young Sudanese sisters have died after an overcrowded rubber dinghy took on water in bad weather in the Mediterranean Sea

6:40 AM on Sunday, August 24

Typhoon Kajiki has brought strong winds and heavy rain to southern China's Hainan island and parts of Guangdong province

5:51 AM on Sunday, August 24

Witnesses say Israeli forces shot dead four Palestinian aid-seekers traveling through a military zone south of Gaza City that is regularly used to reach a food distribution point

5:17 AM on Sunday, August 24

Russia has accused Ukraine of drone strikes that sparked a fire at a nuclear power plant in the Kursk region Sunday as Ukraine marked its Independence Day

1:00 AM on Sunday, August 24

Ukraine is marking 34 years of independence, and the country’s first generation of lawmakers and activists are reflecting on how early decisions shaped its struggle today

5:06 PM on Saturday, August 23

Tropical Storm Fernand has formed in the Atlantic Ocean, but it is far from land and forecast to remain over the open ocean

10:00 AM on Saturday, August 23

Soon after arriving at a Gaza City hospital, Texas surgeon Mohammed Adeel Khaleel examined a 17-year-old with gunshot wounds sustained when he went to an aid site

7:29 AM on Saturday, August 23

Hospital officials in Gaza say Israeli strikes and gunfire have killed at least 33 Palestinians sheltering in tents or seeking scarce food aid

4:41 AM on Saturday, August 23

A railway bridge under construction in China has collapsed, killing at least 12 workers and leaving four missing

1:01 AM on Saturday, August 23

Human rights activists say female political prisoners in Belarus are often singled out for abuse and humiliation, threatened with losing their children, and having medical problems ignored

12:14 AM on Saturday, August 23

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has held his first full summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Tokyo

6:44 PM on Friday, August 22

Principals in El Salvador have started greeting students at school gates to inspect haircuts and uniforms

5:54 AM on Friday, August 22

President Donald Trump started the week declaring a diplomatic breakthrough in his bid to get Russia and Ukraine closer to making peace, announcing he had begun arranging for direct talks between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy

5:02 AM on Friday, August 22

The world's leading authority on food crises says the Gaza Strip’s largest city is gripped by famine, and that it is likely to spread without an immediate ceasefire and an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid

2:37 AM on Friday, August 22

Iran's foreign minister has spoken with his French, German, and British counterparts, trying to stop the reimposition of U.N. sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program

2:28 AM on Friday, August 22

The Israeli defense minister is warning that Gaza’s largest city could be destroyed unless Hamas yields to his country’s terms

4:16 PM on Thursday, August 21

The World Food Program says a drone attack on a 16-truck U.N. convoy carrying food aid to Sudan’s famine-hit North Darfur region destroyed three vehicles that had caught fire