International News

9:02 AM on Thursday, July 30

George Clooney says his family has been forced to evacuate their home in southeastern France due to a nearby wildfire

6:09 AM on Thursday, July 30

Ebola has killed over 1,500 people in eastern Congo, marking a 50% increase in about a week

6:01 AM on Thursday, July 30

The European Union plans to invest 10 billion euros to build seven AI gigafactories, aiming to catch up with the U.S. and China

2:36 AM on Thursday, July 30

France has allowed 84,000 evacuees to return home after a massive wildfire, signaling progress in battling the flames

1:49 AM on Thursday, July 30

Australia’s online safety watchdog has taken legal action against Telegram for what the watchdog says is a failure to remove extremist content

12:04 AM on Thursday, July 30

Voters in Manchester are electing a new mayor Thursday to replace Andy Burnham, who left the job to become Britain’s prime minister

9:00 PM on Wednesday, July 29

Since former Macao pro-democracy lawmaker Au Kam San was arrested under a national security law in July 2025, little about his case has been made known

5:02 PM on Wednesday, July 29

The stop-start fighting between the United States and Iran appears to have entered a new phase as Saudi Arabia has publicly joined military escalations against Tehran-backed proxies

4:49 PM on Wednesday, July 29

Fifteen elephants in southern Kenya are suspected to have been poisoned by cyanide-contaminated tomatoes, according to wildlife authorities

11:57 AM on Wednesday, July 29

The head of the U.N. food agency is warning that the fastest growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is leaving thousands more people hungry in eastern Congo

11:53 AM on Wednesday, July 29

Courts in Myanmar have sentenced nine activists to up to 37 years in prison for a protest against last December's elections, according to an activist group

11:33 AM on Wednesday, July 29

Wildfires near Bordeaux are hurting the wine region's economy

5:03 AM on Wednesday, July 29

Dr. Anthony Fauci will face a contempt of Congress vote in a Senate committee next week after he invoked the Fifth Amendment in a hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic

4:38 AM on Wednesday, July 29

Firefighters in southwest France are battling a mega-fire four times the size of Paris

3:49 AM on Wednesday, July 29

Fire crews in southwest France are battling a massive blaze four times the size of Paris, while two firefighters were killed fighting a wind-driven blaze on the Greek island of Crete

2:40 AM on Wednesday, July 29

Russian authorities have charged Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram, with aiding terrorism and placed him on an international wanted list

1:16 AM on Wednesday, July 29

Right-wing Israeli activists are ramping up their fringe campaign to establish Jewish settlements inside Syria by staging frequent incursions across the border

1:09 AM on Wednesday, July 29

The U.S. military says it has completed what it describes as “a heavy wave of strikes against Iran” conducted in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack on a U.S. base in Jordan

1:01 AM on Wednesday, July 29

Several families have returned to their village in southern Lebanon, digging through the debris of their homes damaged in the latest Israel-Hezbollah war

9:17 PM on Tuesday, July 28

Soldiers and emergency workers are combing through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people in southwestern Japan