International News

5:21 AM on Thursday, April 16

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is receiving the prestigious International Four Freedoms Award

2:29 AM on Thursday, April 16

Australia's defense minster says the Iran war had greatly complicated the global strategic landscape and the country is significantly increasing its military spending

10:27 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has signed into law constitutional reforms to permit life prison sentences for people as young as 12

9:21 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Young Western social media users are embracing a “very Chinese time” of their lives, and China’s government is keen to use this moment to boost the country’s cultural influence worldwide

4:11 PM on Wednesday, April 15

The Trump administration is setting the stage to shift its war campaign toward a more economically focused effort aimed at choking Tehran into submission rather than relying on bombs alone

12:15 PM on Wednesday, April 15

The BBC plans to cut up to 2,000 jobs to save 10% of its annual budget

12:00 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Nearly 200 organizations are urging the Trump administration and Puerto Rico’s governor to restore $350 million in federal funding that was meant to finance the installation of rooftop solar and battery systems for 12,000 low-income families across the U.S. territory

11:40 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Palestinian schoolchildren trying to return to class this week for the first time since the Iran war started were blocked by an impromptu barbed wire fence erected overnight by Israeli settlers

11:26 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni's relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump appears strained

11:19 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The World Health Organization says vaccination programs across Africa have saved more than 50 million lives over the past five decades, but progress is slowing in some countries

10:02 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Pope Leo XIV is again emphasizing the need for peace and dialogue despite criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump

7:59 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Paramedic groups say the Israeli military has killed four Lebanese rescue workers and wounded six others in three consecutive, targeted strikes

7:16 AM on Wednesday, April 15

A student has opened fire on two classrooms at a middle school in Turkey, killing nine people and wounding 13 others

6:49 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar says the country's president has assured him that his new government could take power in the first week of May

6:14 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country's top priority is securing help to buy and build more air defense systems

2:38 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in the central African nation of Cameroon on the second leg of his Africa tour

1:32 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The leader of Iran’s joint military command has threatened to halt trade in the Gulf region if the U.S. does not lift its blockade of Iranian ports, while U.S. Central Command says no vessels have made it past U.S. naval forces during the first 48 hours of the blockade

12:45 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Pakistan’s army chief is meeting with Iranian officials for talks in Tehran in the latest diplomatic move to ease tensions in the region and arrange a second round of negotiations between the United States and Iran

12:38 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Chinese President Xi Jinping has praised the stability and certainty of China-Russia relations, calling them precious in the face of an international landscape intertwined with changes and chaos

12:30 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The United Nations says at least 250 people including Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals are either feared dead or missing after a boat capsized in the Andaman Sea recently