International News

4:31 AM on Tuesday, September 9

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is set to deliver a major state of the union speech on the challenges facing the world’s biggest trading bloc and laying out her vision for tackling them

2:51 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Ukraine's president and a regional official say at least 21 people have been killed when a Russian glide bomb has struck a village in eastern Ukraine as pensions were being distributed to older people

2:30 AM on Tuesday, September 9

At least 60 people have been killed in an attack by an Islamic-State-affiliated rebel group in eastern Congo

12:56 AM on Tuesday, September 9

New Zealand's police say they will investigate how a father vanished into forest with his three children for years without detection, even as law enforcement expanded a search for them

12:39 AM on Tuesday, September 9

An international activist group says a boat in its flotilla was hit by a drone while docked in Tunisia

12:29 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Officials in Slovakia say they have evacuated parts of Bratislava after a World War II bomb was found during construction work

10:47 PM on Monday, September 8

The Israeli military has urged a full evacuation of Gaza City ahead of its planned expanded military operation in the city in northern Gaza

9:24 PM on Monday, September 8

Thailand’s Supreme Court says former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra must serve a one-year prison term for previous convictions, adding Tuesday that the enforcement of Thaksin’s penalty was not done properly, and therefore his detention in a police hospital did not count as serving prison time

9:22 PM on Monday, September 8

Nepal’s crackdown on social media companies, which led to protests and police killing at least 19 people Monday, is part of a yearslong decline of internet freedoms around the world as even democracies seek to curtail online speech

9:14 PM on Monday, September 8

Authorities in Mexico say a train has collided with a double-decker bus northwest of Mexico City, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 50

9:13 PM on Monday, September 8

International Criminal Court prosecutors has begun presenting evidence to back up charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony at the global court’s first in absentia hearing

9:04 PM on Monday, September 8

A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices is expected to decide this week whether former President Jair Bolsonaro is guilty or not of plotting to stay in power illegally after his 2022 election defeat

7:29 PM on Monday, September 8

An initial United Nations assessment of the impact of Afghanistan’s recent deadly earthquake has found that 5,230 homes were destroyed and 672 were damaged in 49 villages — but the U.N. hasn’t been able to get to the vast majority of the remote villages

7:16 PM on Monday, September 8

Experts say a ship likely cut cables in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Africa, Asia and the Middle East

7:05 PM on Monday, September 8

Hong Kong lawmakers are set to debate a government-proposed framework to recognize same-sex partnerships

7:00 PM on Monday, September 8

Nepal’s prime minister has resigned as protests against a short-lived ban on social media grew increasingly violent and expanded into broader criticism of his government and accusations of corruption among the Himalayan country’s political elite

4:37 PM on Monday, September 8

North Korea says it conducted the final ground test of a solid-fuel rocket engine for a long-range ballistic missile in its latest advancement toward having an arsenal that could viably threaten the continental United States

10:00 AM on Monday, September 8

The Czech Republic’s counterintelligence agency says it has broken up a spy network being built by Belarus

3:01 AM on Monday, September 8

Indonesia’s president has replaced key economic and security ministers in a Cabinet reshuffle after deadly protests erupted over lawmakers' perks

1:26 AM on Monday, September 8

Pakistani officials say rescuers backed by troops have evacuated more than 25,000 people from a city in eastern Pakistan as rising rivers threatened to flood the region