International News

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

10:01 AM on Friday, January 9

Environmental experts warn that U.S. plans under President Donald Trump to restart and control Venezuelan oil exports could intensify pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and ecological damage in a country already burdened by decades of oil-related degradation

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

8:48 AM on Friday, January 9

President Donald Trump says American intervention in Venezuela will bring billions of dollars of investment in the country's infrastructure, a revival of its once-thriving oil industry and a new age of prosperity for the Latin American country

7:55 AM on Friday, January 9

Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships have launched a week of naval drills with host South African off the coast of Cape Town as geopolitical tensions run high over the United States’ intervention in Venezuela

7:41 AM on Friday, January 9

Russia has used its latest missile against Ukraine for a second time in the nearly 4-year-old war, a forceful signal to Kyiv and its Western allies as peace talks are in a crucial stage

6:42 AM on Friday, January 9

The United States will be providing significant aid to Thailand and Cambodia to ensure regional stability in the wake of the two nations fighting last year

5:45 AM on Friday, January 9

David Bowie’s childhood home could soon become a tourist attraction

5:43 AM on Friday, January 9

Yemen's main separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council, is set to dismantle its institutions effective Friday

5:35 AM on Friday, January 9

Thousands of homes and businesses across northern France and southern England are without power and residents faced widespread travel delays after a storm swept in off the Atlantic

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

2:48 AM on Friday, January 9

Demonstrations broke out in Iran on Dec. 28 and have spread nationwide as protesters vent their increasing discontent over the Islamic Republic’s faltering economy and the collapse of its currency

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