International News

9:22 AM on Sunday, August 24

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

7:00 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

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

4:06 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

9:00 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

6:29 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

3:41 AM on Saturday, August 23

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

12:01 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

11:14 PM on Friday, August 22

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

5:44 PM on Friday, August 22

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

10:10 AM on Friday, August 22

A leisure park manager in southern France has been detained for alleged religious discrimination

6:20 AM on Friday, August 22

Berlin’s newest panda twins have celebrated their first birthday with frozen vegetable treats and a candle made out of bamboo shoots

5:41 AM on Friday, August 22

Authorities in Kenya have exhumed five bodies from shallow graves near a site where over 400 bodies were found two years ago

4:55 AM on Friday, August 22

Sri Lankan police have arrested former President Ranil Wickremesinghe over allegations of misusing public funds

4:54 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

4:02 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

1:37 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

1:28 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

10:32 PM on Thursday, August 21

The Philippine defense chief has condemned China’s deployment of a swarm of armed coast guard forces, backed by a helicopter and a drone, closer to the Philippines' military outpost in a fiercely disputed atoll in the South China Sea

3:16 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