International News

5:00 PM on Saturday, January 10

Nicaragua’s Interior Ministry has announced the release of dozens of prisoners

4:36 PM on Saturday, January 10

The U.S. has launched another round of strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria

12:02 PM on Saturday, January 10

Iran has disconnected its internet and phone lines to cut off its 85 million people from the rest of the world

9:01 AM on Saturday, January 10

Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation

7:10 AM on Saturday, January 10

A Ukrainian drone strike has sparked a fire at an oil depot in Russia's Volgograd region

5:39 AM on Saturday, January 10

Masked men armed with sticks have attacked a Palestinian man in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

4:56 AM on Saturday, January 10

Greenland’s party leaders have rejected President Donald Trump’s calls for the U.S. to take control of the island

3:48 AM on Saturday, January 10

Activists say the death toll in nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy has reached at least 116 people killed

1:29 AM on Saturday, January 10

A Philippine official says rescuers have detected signs of life in an avalanche of garbage that killed at least four workers and left more than 30 others missing

3:31 PM on Friday, January 9

Officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands say a shark has attacked and killed an American woman along a beach in St. Croix

1:09 PM on Friday, January 9

The United States and Venezuela are exploring the possibility of restoring diplomatic relations

9:39 AM on Friday, January 9

President Donald Trump is calling on oil executives to rush to invest in Venezuela as the White House looks to quickly secure $100 billion in private funding to revive the country's ability to fully tap into its expansive reserves of petroleum

9:16 AM on Friday, January 9

Nearly 50 years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution overthrew his father, exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has spurred demonstrators onto the streets in a massive escalation of the protests sweeping Iran

4:21 AM on Friday, January 9

Switzerland is holding a national day of mourning for the 40 people who died in an Alpine bar fire during a New Year’s Eve celebration

3:16 AM on Friday, January 9

A week in which longtime tensions between neighbors China and Japan ratcheted up economically and politically is drawing to a close with no sign of improvements

2:57 AM on Friday, January 9

Health officials say at least 13 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza as U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce his Board of Peace to oversee the fragile ceasefire

1:57 AM on Friday, January 9

Nickolay Mladenov, the man chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza, is a Bulgarian politician and former U.N. envoy to the Middle East who frequently has worked to ease tensions between Israel and Hamas

1:19 AM on Friday, January 9

Syria's Defense Ministry has announced a ceasefire after three days of clashes in Aleppo between government forces and Kurdish fighters

12:03 AM on Friday, January 9

Protests in Iran have continued despite threats from the government to crack down

10:58 PM on Thursday, January 8

Russia has launched a massive overnight attack on Ukraine, using hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles