International News

11:43 PM on Sunday, October 19

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has delivered a speech on the opening day of a major Communist Party meeting

5:01 PM on Sunday, October 19

China has expanded its export rules on rare earths, requiring foreign firms to get approval for exporting products containing even small amounts of China-originated materials

4:49 PM on Sunday, October 19

A cargo plane has skidded off a Hong Kong runway and collided with a security vehicle, killing two people in the car

7:44 AM on Sunday, October 19

Thieves reportedly stole nine pieces from the jewelry collection of Napoleon and the Empress in the Louvre, using a basket lift to reach the museum

6:51 AM on Sunday, October 19

Iran's official judiciary news agency has reported that the country has executed a person convicted of spying for Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad in the city of Qom

6:01 AM on Sunday, October 19

It's a war of words between President Donald Trump and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro over illegal drugs, with hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid hanging in the balance

5:29 AM on Sunday, October 19

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have detained two dozen U.N. employees in Yemen

3:47 AM on Sunday, October 19

A North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea across the rivals’ heavily fortified border

2:46 AM on Sunday, October 19

Thieves have pulled off a daring heist at the Louvre, stealing priceless Napoleonic jewels

2:45 AM on Sunday, October 19

President Donald Trump has suggested that the Donbas region of Ukraine should be divided, leaving most of it under Russian control, to end the ongoing war

2:29 AM on Sunday, October 19

Hopes for a resumption of long-stalled talks to heal Cyprus’ decades-old ethnic rift have been buoyed after Turkish Cypriots elected a leader who campaigned on getting back to negotiating a two-zone federation with rival Greek Cypriots after an eight-year stalemate

1:17 AM on Sunday, October 19

Kenyan former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has been buried at his rural home amid political uncertainty over the future of opposition in a country that has previously been marred by post election violence and anti-government protests

12:53 AM on Sunday, October 19

China has accused the U.S. National Security Agency of cyberattacks on its national time center

11:42 PM on Saturday, October 18

Gaza's fragile ceasefire is facing its first major test

10:34 PM on Saturday, October 18

Afghanistan and Pakistan say they will respect a ceasefire mediated by Qatar and Turkey

9:20 PM on Saturday, October 18

Preliminary results show that Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator who was never a nationally prominent figure until now, has won Bolivia’s presidential election, galvanizing voters outraged by the country’s economic crisis and frustrated with 20 years of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism party

9:03 PM on Saturday, October 18

A large mushroom farm near Nairobi is producing mycelium for building materials that end up as fungi-based panels, which are more sustainable and affordable than traditional bricks

9:55 AM on Saturday, October 18

The U.S. Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago is cautioning Americans to stay away from U.S. government facilities on the twin-island nation

11:58 PM on Friday, October 17

Qatar says Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire

11:38 PM on Friday, October 17

Israel says Hamas has handed over “two coffins of deceased hostages” from Gaza