International News

4:44 PM on Thursday, May 28

An annual United Nations report documenting sexual violence in conflicts worldwide has included Israeli forces for the first time since the review began more than 15 years ago for their treatment of Palestinian detainees

3:06 PM on Thursday, May 28

The U.S. State Department says it will designate Brazil’s two biggest criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations early next month, a move that the South American nation’s government has repeatedly said it will interpret as undue interference in its politics

2:55 PM on Thursday, May 28

Nearly 3 million Cubans are experiencing water shortages every day because of a severe oil shortage that government officials blame on a U.S. energy blockade

10:33 AM on Thursday, May 28

Dozens of Palestinians in Gaza City gathered for funeral prayers for 10 people killed in Israeli strikes

10:20 AM on Thursday, May 28

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling for a new partnership with the United States

8:28 AM on Thursday, May 28

The Trump administration's review of Mexico's 53 U.S. consulates has stoked worries among Mexicans in the U.S. that some could be shuttered, making it harder for them to access important services

6:49 AM on Thursday, May 28

Yemen's former President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has died at 80

4:15 AM on Thursday, May 28

Italian authorities have seized over $232 million in assets linked to the late mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro’s drug trafficking network

2:53 AM on Thursday, May 28

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is pressing the United States for more Patriot air defense missiles to counter Russian attacks

2:18 AM on Thursday, May 28

A man has stabbed and wounded three people at the train station in the Swiss city of Winterthur before being arrested

1:53 AM on Thursday, May 28

A Chinese human rights activist is in South Korean custody after a perilous escape from his country by a rubber boat

12:43 AM on Thursday, May 28

Israel's military says that the air force has carried out an airstrike on a southern suburb of Lebanon's capital

10:10 PM on Wednesday, May 27

French lawmakers have voted to repeal a 17th-century law that governed enslaved people in France's colonies

10:06 PM on Wednesday, May 27

Under an opaque $7.5 million deal with the Trump administration, Equatorial Guinea’s all-powerful president has turned a hotel owned by his family into a prison for asylum seekers deported from the United States

10:03 PM on Wednesday, May 27

An Austrian court has convicted a man of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna nearly two years ago

9:03 PM on Wednesday, May 27

An international stabilization force promised for Gaza has yet to materialize three months after it was announced at an event hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump

9:01 PM on Wednesday, May 27

Brazil was set to join other Latin American countries that have shortened working hours as the lower house approved a constitutional amendment establishing a 40-hour, five-day workweek

6:02 PM on Wednesday, May 27

The Trump administration has placed additional sanctions on Iran as part of a sprawling economic pressure campaign during the war, this time targeting the country’s newly created agency that is trying to control shipping through the Strait of Hormuz

3:21 AM on Wednesday, May 27

Five villagers trapped in a flooded cave in central Laos for over a week have been found alive

9:02 PM on Tuesday, May 26

U.S. forces have carried out new defensive strikes on an Iran military facility after downing Iranian attack drones