International News

7:20 PM on Saturday, January 10

Myanmar has resumed voting in the second round of its first general election in five years, expanding polling to additional townships, including some areas affected by the current civil war between the military government and its armed opponents

5:38 PM on Saturday, January 10

Venezuelan detainee Diógenes Angulo has been released from prison after a year and five months

4:36 PM on Saturday, January 10

The U.S. has launched another round of strikes against the Islamic State 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Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation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

2:48 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

1:19 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