International News

1:05 PM on Friday, October 10

Tens of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza have started moving north toward their homes, or what remains of them, after a ceasefire agreement came into effect

11:17 AM on Friday, October 10

Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace efforts, despite not winning a Nobel prize, and voiced hope for securing an agreement to extend a pivotal nuclear arms pact with Washington for another year

10:38 AM on Friday, October 10

Dutch far right politician Geert Wilders says he’s suspending campaigning for national elections later this month amid reports that he was a possible target of a suspected plot in Belgium to kill politicians using a drone carrying explosives

8:06 AM on Friday, October 10

China has hit American-owned vessels docking in the country with tit-for-tat port fees

7:48 AM on Friday, October 10

The Taliban government accuses Pakistan of bombing Kabul and a market in eastern Afghanistan

7:17 AM on Friday, October 10

A ceasefire has taken effect in Gaza under a breakthrough deal

7:06 AM on Friday, October 10

Statistically, attending a weekly worship service is a remarkably safe thing to do

6:43 AM on Friday, October 10

Burkina Faso said it has refused a proposal from the Trump administration to accept deportees from the United States

6:36 AM on Friday, October 10

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are starting to walk north to return to their homes after the Israeli military said the ceasefire agreement with Hamas came into effect at noon local time and that troops were withdrawing to the agreed-upon deployment lines

6:14 AM on Friday, October 10

NATO has announced that its major annual nuclear exercise, "Steadfast Noon," is starting next week

5:59 AM on Friday, October 10

Syria's foreign minister has arrived in Lebanon's capital, marking a potential breakthrough in relations between the two countries

4:55 AM on Friday, October 10

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction and more than half of bird species around the world are declining

3:34 AM on Friday, October 10

The head of Japan’s Komeito says it is leaving the ruling coalition headed by the Liberal Democratic Party due to concerns over corruption

2:47 AM on Friday, October 10

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday re-appointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, to try again to form a government in a bid to end the country’s political deadlock

1:59 AM on Friday, October 10

King Mohammed VI has urged Moroccan officials to address social injustices, framing issues raised by Morocco’s youth-led protesters as a question of poor governance, rather than of the country’s broader vision

1:17 AM on Friday, October 10

Ukrainian authorities say that Russian drone and missile strikes wounded at least 20 people in Kyiv and damaged residential buildings and caused blackouts across swathes of Ukraine

1:01 AM on Friday, October 10

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize

9:55 PM on Thursday, October 9

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has lauded what he called his country’s fight against a U_S_-led military threat and vowed to turn North Korea into “the best socialist paradise in the world."

9:54 PM on Thursday, October 9

India is upgrading its technical mission in Kabul to a full embassy, according to India's foreign minister

11:21 AM on Wednesday, October 8

This year’s Nobel Prize science winners got the good news from early morning phone calls and door knocks