International News

9:56 AM on Thursday, December 4

Russian authorities say they have imposed restrictions on Apple's video calling service FaceTime, alleging it was being used for organizing what it called “terrorist activities.”

7:24 AM on Thursday, December 4

Britain has sanctioned Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency and summoned Moscow’s ambassador after an inquiry concluded that President Vladimir Putin was responsible for a nerve agent attack on British soil in 2018

6:27 AM on Thursday, December 4

A Lithuanian court has convicted the leader of one of the parties in the country’s coalition government for making antisemitic comments and fined him 5,000 euros or about $5,800

4:28 AM on Thursday, December 4

Britain and Norway have announced joint naval patrols to protect undersea cables from Russia

11:04 PM on Wednesday, December 3

American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia for 35 years, hoping conservationists never have to use them

10:41 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Honduras' former President Juan Orlando Hernández has thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for pardoning him in his first message after leaving prison

5:42 PM on Wednesday, December 3

The United States has inaugurated a massive new consulate compound in Irbil, the capital of northern Iraq’s Kurdish region

5:31 PM on Wednesday, December 3

The Pentagon knew there were survivors after a September attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea and the U.S. military still carried out a follow-up strike

5:28 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives

3:57 PM on Wednesday, December 3

A man alleged to be the founder and leader of a Haitian gang has been sentenced to life in prison for orchestrating the kidnapping of 17 people, including five children, who were on a missionary trip to the Caribbean country

2:03 PM on Wednesday, December 3

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on alleged affiliates of the Tren de Aragua gang

12:47 PM on Wednesday, December 3

Exclusive drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows a devastated Ukrainian town nearly encircled by Russian forces near the city that Moscow this week claimed to now control

11:39 AM on Wednesday, December 3

Lebanon’s prime minister says his country is “far from” diplomatic normalization or economic relations with Israel

4:24 AM on Wednesday, December 3

Ukraine and its European allies have accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of feigning interest in peace efforts after five hours of talks with U.S. envoys at the Kremlin produced no breakthrough

3:53 AM on Wednesday, December 3

The European Union has unveiled a plan to use frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine over the next two years

3:18 AM on Wednesday, December 3

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 remains a mystery more than a decade later

2:06 AM on Wednesday, December 3

Rescue teams are racing to reach communities isolated by last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand as over 900 people remained missing

1:29 AM on Wednesday, December 3

Israel says it launched an airstrike in southern Gaza in retaliation for an attack by militants earlier in the day that wounded five Israeli soldiers

12:06 AM on Wednesday, December 3

Britain’s King Charles III and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier put on a show of Anglo-Saxon unity Wednesday as their countries expand cooperation to fend off threats to European security, combat climate change and bolster economic growth

6:50 PM on Tuesday, December 2

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of the universe in this inhospitable desert along the Pacific coast