International News

3:20 PM on Thursday, August 14

The U.N. says sexual violence in conflicts worldwide increased by 25% last year, with the highest number of cases in the Central African Republic, Congo, Haiti, Somalia and South Sudan

3:04 PM on Thursday, August 14

Japan on Friday is marking the surrender announcement by then-Emperor Hirohito 80 years ago at the end of World War II

1:56 PM on Thursday, August 14

Orthodox Christians across Alaska are taking part in three days of prayer for peace, ahead of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin

10:18 AM on Thursday, August 14

Air Canada has started canceling flights ahead of a possible work stoppage by flight attendants that could impact hundreds of thousands of travelers

8:38 AM on Thursday, August 14

Humanoid robots have showcased their talents at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing

7:56 AM on Thursday, August 14

Justice Department indictments have been unsealed against three leaders and two high-ranking enforcers of Mexico's United Cartels

5:52 AM on Thursday, August 14

South Africans is starting a “national dialogue” hat is meant to bring all sectors of society together to discuss the country's pressing issues and find solutions

5:43 AM on Thursday, August 14

The Taliban say helicopters will shower Kabul with flowers to celebrate the fourth anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan

5:30 AM on Thursday, August 14

European leaders have praised President Donald Trump for agreeing to allow U.S. military support for a force they are mustering to police any future peace in Ukraine

5:19 AM on Thursday, August 14

Negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution will draw to a close Friday

3:21 AM on Thursday, August 14

The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $346 million weapons sale to Nigeria to help improve security in the sub-Saharan country

3:15 AM on Thursday, August 14

Officials say a team of mountaineers has set out to recover the body of a Chinese climber from the world's second-highest peak after bad weather grounded helicopter flights

2:34 AM on Thursday, August 14

Israel’s far-right finance minister says a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is going ahead, a project that Palestinians and rights groups worry will scuttle plans for a future Palestinian state by effectively cutting the West Bank into two separate parts

2:20 AM on Thursday, August 14

Over 100 nonprofit groups have warned that Israel's rules for aid organizations in Gaza and the West Bank will block crucial relief efforts

10:19 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Japan and China are marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with major events on different dates

9:12 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A Rhode Island man accused of faking his death and fleeing the United States to evade rape charges has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a former girlfriend

9:05 PM on Wednesday, August 13

President Donald Trump’s meeting in Alaska with Vladimir Putin could be a decisive moment in the war in Ukraine and in the U.S. leader’s anomalous relationship with his Russian counterpart

3:21 PM on Wednesday, August 13

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has dismissed South Korean claims that North Korea is removing loudspeakers along the inter-Korean border

2:28 PM on Wednesday, August 13

The leader of the small Baha’i community in Qatar has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges alleging that posts on Baha’i social media accounts “cast doubt on the foundations of the Islamic religion."

1:41 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Clashes have erupted for a second day at protests in Serbia between opponents and supporters of the government