International News

5:48 PM on Monday, March 23

The European Union and Australia have agreed on the final text of a free trade agreement some two years after negotiations broke down over Australian demands for more red meat market access and complaints about Australian products labeled with traditionally European names such as prosecco

5:11 PM on Monday, March 23

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to irreversibly cement his country’s status as a nuclear power while maintaining a hard-line stance toward South Korea, which he called the “most hostile” state

4:31 PM on Monday, March 23

Mexican authorities found 229 migrants packed in the back of a truck traveling through the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz

10:01 AM on Monday, March 23

European far-right leaders are rallying around Hungary’s Viktor Orbán as his grip on power looks shakier than it has in years

9:38 AM on Monday, March 23

The head of Colombia’s armed forces says the death toll from a military plane crash has reached 66

8:54 AM on Monday, March 23

Italian voters have rejected a judicial reform backed by conservative Premier Giorgia Meloni in a referendum, handing the right-wing government a major political setback

8:10 AM on Monday, March 23

Hungary’s top opposition leader says the government may have fed Russia inside details from EU meetings, and called it “treason” which should be investigated

5:45 AM on Monday, March 23

Zimbabwe has released the key opponent of planned constitutional changes that could extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule and have the post elected by Parliament, not the people

12:44 AM on Monday, March 23

A criminal trial has opened in Greece over a train collision that killed 57 people, many of them students, in a disaster that horrified the country and revealed long-neglected safety failures

11:15 PM on Sunday, March 22

The head of the International Energy Agency says the global economy faces a “major, major threat” because of the Iran war

10:18 PM on Sunday, March 22

Nearly 50 years after Argentina's 1976 coup that led to a repressive dictatorship, families are still searching for and burying the disappeared

9:55 PM on Sunday, March 22

U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S. is talking with an Iranian leader and claims the Islamic Republic is eager for a deal to end the war

9:48 PM on Sunday, March 22

Police in London are investigating a suspected antisemitic hate crime attack after four vehicles belonging to a Jewish ambulance service were set on fire

9:08 PM on Sunday, March 22

President Donald Trump has paused military pressure on Iran by extending his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and delaying strikes on Iranian power plants for another five days

12:20 AM on Sunday, March 22

Socialist candidate Emmanuel Grégoire has won the Paris mayoral race, succeeding fellow party member Anne Hidalgo as the French capital’s mayor

10:30 PM on Saturday, March 21

Banksy’s mystique is taking a hit after a report about his real name

9:53 PM on Saturday, March 21

The United States and Iran are threatening to target critical infrastructure as the war in the Middle East puts lives and livelihoods at risk

9:24 PM on Saturday, March 21

President Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. will “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, prompting Tehran to say it would respond to any such strike with attacks on U.S. and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets

9:08 PM on Saturday, March 21

Early results of Slovenia’s highly contested parliamentary election show governing liberals and opposition right-wing populists neck and neck, heralding a period of political uncertainty in the small European Union country

6:45 PM on Saturday, March 21

Japan says one of two detained Japanese nationals in Iran has returned home in good health after being released