International News

1:55 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The United Nations chief is calling on Yemen’s Houthi rebels not to prosecute detained U.N. personnel and to work “in good faith” to immediately release all detained staff from the U.N. and foreign agencies and missions

9:48 AM on Tuesday, December 9

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on four people and four firms for allegedly recruiting former Colombian military members to train soldiers for Sudan's Rapid Support Forces

9:11 AM on Tuesday, December 9

European Union leaders have committed to funding Ukraine's economic and military needs for the next two years

7:54 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Slovakia’s parliament has approved a plan to dismantle an independent office that protects whistleblowers

7:02 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Israel’s military took journalists into Rafah this week

6:33 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Microsoft has announced its largest-ever Asia investment of $17.5 billion in India to enhance cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure over the next four years

4:59 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A Hamas leader is calling for international pressure on Israel before the Palestinian militant group moves forward with the next phase of the ceasefire in the territory

4:22 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A new study says that more than two-thirds of women journalists, rights defenders and activists report online violence and over 40% of them have faced real-world attacks linked to digital abuse

2:39 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Australia has introduced a world-first social media ban for children under 16, starting Wednesday

1:31 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Judges at the International Criminal Court have sentenced a leader of the feared Sudanese Janjaweed militia to 20 years imprisonment for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the catastrophic conflict in Darfur more than 20 years ago

1:07 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Indonesian police say at least 22 people have been killed when a fire ripped through an office building in the capital

1:03 AM on Tuesday, December 9

The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most pressing environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity loss that threaten over 1 million plant and animal species with extinction

12:53 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš has been sworn in as the Czech Republic’s new prime minister following October’s parliamentary election

8:40 PM on Monday, December 8

Honduras Attorney General Johel Zelaya has ordered authorities and asked Interpol to execute a 2023 arrest order for ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández

7:46 PM on Monday, December 8

A Beijing court has ruled Malaysia Airlines must pay $410,000 each to the families of eight passengers who went missing in the disappearance of Flight 370 more than a decade ago

7:45 PM on Monday, December 8

Japan is assessing damage and cautioning people of potential aftershocks after a late-night 7.5 magnitude earthquake caused injuries, light damage and a tsunami in Pacific coastal communities

8:28 AM on Monday, December 8

Pope Leo XIV embraces a Roman tradition by praying for peace at a statue of the Madonna near the Spanish Steps

6:36 AM on Monday, December 8

A powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake has struck off northern Japan, injuring 23 people and triggering a tsunami

5:59 AM on Monday, December 8

Angry farmers protesting delays in the payment of subsidies have swarmed onto an airport tarmac on the southern Greek island of Crete

5:31 AM on Monday, December 8

A total of 100 of the schoolchildren abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school and released over the weekend have been hosted at a government-organized ceremony