International News

2:38 PM on Tuesday, April 21

The head of Peru’s national election agency has resigned over logistical problems that affected the nation’s bitterly disputed presidential election, a contest for which officials still have not named the winners

1:34 PM on Tuesday, April 21

Nearly 500 alleged gang leaders are on a collective, mass trial in El Salvador, a practice criticized by human rights groups

10:45 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Ukraine has completed repairs on a damaged oil pipeline and is preparing to resume flows

10:41 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Two U.S. officials killed in a vehicle crash as they returned from destroying a clandestine drug lab in northern Mexico over the weekend were working for the CIA

8:43 AM on Tuesday, April 21

The gunman who opened fire on tourists at Mexico’s iconic Teotihuacan pyramids carried materials that were apparently related to the deadly 1999 shooting at Columbine High School

6:57 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Authorities say an Israeli army reservist has shot and killed two Palestinians near a school in a village east of Ramallah

5:53 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Europe's top diplomats are meeting in Luxembourg to address multiple crises, including the ongoing war in Ukraine and economic instability due to the conflict in Iran

5:36 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Rachel Goldberg-Polin has written a book about her son, Hersh, who was kidnapped during Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack and killed in a Gaza tunnel

5:24 AM on Tuesday, April 21

U.S. forces have boarded an oil tanker previously sanctioned for smuggling Iranian crude oil in Asia

4:24 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Taiwan’s president has postponed a planned visit to Africa after three countries withdrew permission for his flight over their territories

3:40 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Pope Leo XIV has paid tribute to Pope Francis on Tuesday on the first anniversary of his death

3:21 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Nigerian authorities say they have charged six people with terrorism and treason over an alleged plot to overthrow President Bola Tinubu, including a retired major general and a serving police inspector, according to charge sheet seen by The Associated Press on Tuesday

1:17 AM on Tuesday, April 21

The former civil servant behind the decision to approve Peter Mandelson’s appointment as U.K. ambassador to Washington says he felt pressure from the prime minister's office to rush through the appointment despite security concerns

1:11 AM on Tuesday, April 21

President Donald Trump says the United States is indefinitely extending its ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan’s request as he waits for a unified proposal from the Islamic Republic

10:13 PM on Monday, April 20

Pope Leo XIV has denounced the “colonization” of minerals and the “lust for power” in Equatorial Guinea at the end of his four-nation African trip

9:41 PM on Monday, April 20

U.S. President Donald Trump says he is extending the ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan’s request while awaiting a “unified proposal” from Tehran, even as the U.S. military maintains its blockade of Iranian ports

9:10 PM on Monday, April 20

When she died in 2022, Queen Elizabeth II was the only monarch most Britons had ever known

8:38 PM on Monday, April 20

South Korean police are seeking to arrest music mogul Bang Si-Hyuk, chairman of the agency behind K-pop supergroup BTS, as they expand an investment fraud investigation

6:31 PM on Monday, April 20

Japan is scrapping a ban on lethal weapons exports, a major change of its postwar pacifist policy as the country seeks to build up its arms industry and deepen cooperation with defense partners

10:37 AM on Monday, April 20

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she was unaware of any collaboration between the U.S. and local authorities in Chihuahua after four officials died in an accident over the weekend