International News

1:17 AM on Wednesday, May 6

A deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that visited Antarctica has highlighted a growing tourism trend

12:52 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Tehran's emergency service department says a fire in a shopping center near the Iranian capital has killed eight people and injured 40

11:29 PM on Tuesday, May 5

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo has appointed a new attorney general to the national prosecutor’s office, putting an end to a fierce, years-long struggle between the anti-corruption progressive and former top prosecutor Consuelo Porras

8:52 PM on Tuesday, May 5

Antigua and Barbuda swore in a new Cabinet on Tuesday after Prime Minister Gaston Browne's party won a fourth consecutive election

2:09 PM on Tuesday, May 5

President Donald Trump is renewing his criticism of Pope Leo XIV

1:00 PM on Tuesday, May 5

The Venice Biennale has begun previewing its 61st edition, just days after the contemporary art show's jury resigned over the participation of Israel and Russia

12:59 PM on Tuesday, May 5

The United States and its Gulf allies have proposed a U.N. resolution threatening with sanctions or other measures if it doesn’t halt attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, stop imposing “illegal tolls” and disclose the placement of all mines to allow freedom of navigation

12:36 PM on Tuesday, May 5

One of the top art museums in Paris has opened a new gallery dedicated to orphaned masterpieces plundered by the Nazis

12:30 PM on Tuesday, May 5

Prime Minister Mark Carney has named retired Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour as Canada’s next governor general

10:50 AM on Tuesday, May 5

French President Emmanuel Macron has stolen some of the spotlight from other world leaders in Armenia’s capital this week when he crooned classic ballads including “La Bohème” at a glitzy state dinner

9:57 AM on Tuesday, May 5

German investigators say the suspect in a car-ramming in the city of Leipzig that left two people dead doesn’t appear to have had any political or religious motive but had spent time recently at a psychiatric hospital

8:49 AM on Tuesday, May 5

President Donald Trump says he has paused the U.S. effort to guide stranded commercial vessels from the Strait of Hormuz to finalize a deal with Iran to end the war

8:39 AM on Tuesday, May 5

Zambia accuses the U.S. of linking a $2 billion health assistance deal to access to its rich mineral resources

7:53 AM on Tuesday, May 5

Footage obtained by The Associated Press of a cruise ship in a rare-virus outbreak shows deserted decks and medical teams in protective gear as the vessel and its nearly 150 passengers and crew waited another day for help off West Africa

7:13 AM on Tuesday, May 5

Counterterror police are investigating an arson attack at a former London synagogue as Prime Minister Keir Starmer addresses a wave of antisemitic attacks causing fear in the Jewish community

6:45 AM on Tuesday, May 5

Romania’s pro-European coalition has collapsed after lawmakers voted in favor of a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan

6:10 AM on Tuesday, May 5

President Donald Trump says he is pausing the U.S. effort to guide stranded vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz to allow time for a deal to end the Iran war, but that the American forces’ blockade of Iranian ports would remain in place

6:08 AM on Tuesday, May 5

Ukrainian authorities say Russian drone and missile strikes during the night and into daylight hours have killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 80 others

1:03 AM on Tuesday, May 5

Armenia is hosting the first European Union summit in Yerevan

9:33 PM on Monday, May 4

Authorities in China say an explosion at a fireworks plant in a central Chinese province has killed at least 26 people and injured 61 others