International News

2:43 PM on Wednesday, September 10

A judge has ruled that the man accused of killing 11 people by driving his SUV into a crowd during a Filipino heritage festival is mentally fit to stand trial

11:02 AM on Wednesday, September 10

A new study has determined that 55 heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change

10:05 AM on Wednesday, September 10

A court in Johannesburg has sentenced seven Chinese nationals to terms of 20 years in prison each for trafficking people from Malawi and forcing them to work at a factory in South Africa

10:03 AM on Wednesday, September 10

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has “confidence” in the country’s ambassador to the United States following mounting criticism of his links to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

8:25 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Indonesian rescuers have recovered the bodies of at least 15 people while authorities say 10 people are missing after flash floods struck two provinces of the archipelago nation

8:18 AM on Wednesday, September 10

The deadly protests in Nepal that forced the country's prime minister to resign on Tuesday were a result of long-simmering discontent ignited by the government’s ban on major social media platforms

7:17 AM on Wednesday, September 10

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says that Europe must stake claim to its independence in the face of challenges from Russia, new and hostile trade realities and other major powers

6:06 AM on Wednesday, September 10

A German court has convicted the suspect in last year’s knife attack at a festival in Solingen of murder and membership in the Islamic State group and sentenced him to life in prison

5:44 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Hong Kong lawmakers have voted down a bill that would have recognized same-sex partnerships, dealing a major setback to the LGBTQ+ movement

5:37 AM on Wednesday, September 10

An agreement between Tehran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog provides for U.N. inspectors to access all of Iran’s nuclear facilities

5:28 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Congolese authorities say the death toll from two attacks on civilians in eastern Congo by an Islamic State-affiliated rebel group has risen to 89

5:13 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Lithuanian authorities say powerful explosions have been heard in the suburbs of the capital, Vilnius, after several rail cars loaded with liquefied gas caught fire

4:09 AM on Wednesday, September 10

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has met with Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever in Antwerp to discuss increasing intelligence sharing efforts to combat transnational drug smuggling

4:03 AM on Wednesday, September 10

An international activist flotilla seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza says it was attacked for the second night in a row

3:34 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Protesters blocked roads and set fires in Paris and across France as part of a nationwide “Block Everything” campaign

2:50 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Qatari security forces and emergency fire personnel have surrounded the site of an Israeli attack on Hamas’ political leaders who had gathered in the capital of the energy-rich Middle East country to consider a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip

1:20 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland in what European officials described as a deliberate provocation, causing NATO to send fighter jets to shoot them down

10:11 PM on Tuesday, September 9

South Korea says a charter plane that is planned to carry South Korean workers who were detained in an immigration raid in Georgia will depart Thursday at noon to return home

12:13 AM on Tuesday, September 9

International Criminal Court prosecutors has begun presenting evidence to back up charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony at the global court’s first in absentia hearing

10:05 PM on Monday, September 8

Hong Kong lawmakers are set to debate a government-proposed framework to recognize same-sex partnerships