International News

5:24 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Syria’s state-run news agency says the country’s foreign minister has held a rare meeting with an Israeli delegation in Paris

3:13 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Major cuts in humanitarian aid have left victims of sexual violence in conflicts around the world without lifesaving help as clinics and shelters close

12:06 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Mexico’s president says there’s been no agreement with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

11:35 AM on Tuesday, August 19

The remote Amazon island of Santa Rosa is at the center of a territorial dispute between Peru and Colombia

9:18 AM on Tuesday, August 19

The second Oval Office meeting in six months between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went off smoothly, in sharp contrast to their disastrous encounter in February

9:15 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gushed with gratitude toward President Donald Trump during an Oval Office meeting

6:37 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Britain has dropped its demand for Apple to provide backdoor access to encrypted user data stored in the cloud

5:57 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Air Canada has reached an agreement with the union representing 10,000 flight attendants to end a strike

12:03 AM on Tuesday, August 19

The top U.N. human rights body has accused both the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces of detaining tens of thousands of people without charge since Sudan’s civil war began in 2023

12:03 AM on Tuesday, August 19

One of Sweden’s most beloved wooden churches is being moved as part of the relocation of the town of Kiruna

12:02 AM on Tuesday, August 19

The U.N. humanitarian office says a record 383 aid workers were killed in global hotspots in 2024, nearly half of them in Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas

7:36 PM on Monday, August 18

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has condemned South Korean-U.S. military drills and vowed to expand his nuclear forces rapidly

6:28 PM on Monday, August 18

Thousands of anti-government protesters have marched again in Serbia with baton-wielding police chasing them in downtown Belgrade, prompting Serbia’s president to renew a pledge to crack down on the demonstrators

5:25 PM on Monday, August 18

One candidate is Rodrigo Paz, a conservative centrist senator and son of a neoliberal ex-president who is pitching himself as a moderate reformer

9:36 AM on Monday, August 18

Air Canada and the union representing 10,000 flight attendants have resumed talks for the first time since their strike began three days ago

8:53 AM on Monday, August 18

With the last campaigns only one day in the rearview mirror, Bolivia’s political world has delved into preparations for an unprecedented runoff election that will reveal the extent of a centrist senator’s unexpected traction in the presidential vote

6:35 AM on Monday, August 18

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since the Cold War

4:55 AM on Monday, August 18

Anguished Pakistanis are searching remote areas for bodies swept away by weekend flash floods as the death toll has reached 277

12:42 AM on Monday, August 18

Hurricane Erin is forcing evacuations on North Carolina’s Outer Banks as it churns in the Atlantic where high winds and heavy rain are pelting the Turks and Caicos Islands and parts of the Bahamas

12:09 AM on Monday, August 18

President Donald Trump has started arranging a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine