International News

3:14 AM on Wednesday, October 15

Syria’s interim leader, who led a swift rebel offensive last year that ousted former Syrian President Bashar Assad despite years of Moscow’s support, made his first visit to Russia and held talks with President Vladimir Putin

12:56 AM on Wednesday, October 15

Dutch far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders has announced his return to the campaign trail

12:36 AM on Wednesday, October 15

Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has died of a heart attack in India

10:09 PM on Tuesday, October 14

Russia is intensifying drone strikes on Ukraine’s rail network, a critical lifeline for commercial freight, passenger traffic and military logistics

10:02 PM on Tuesday, October 14

Israel freed dozens of doctors, nurses and other medical workers as part of this week's release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees under the Gaza ceasefire deal

2:10 PM on Tuesday, October 14

A rights group in Ghana has filed a lawsuit against the government seeking to block its arrangement with Washington to accept West Africans deported from the United States

1:22 PM on Tuesday, October 14

The hit-style shooting of two Venezuelan activists in Colombia’s capital is fueling fears among Venezuela’s diaspora that a crackdown on dissent by the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is seeping beyond the South American nation’s borders

1:21 PM on Tuesday, October 14

Hamas has deployed hundreds of police and clashed with armed groups in Gaza in what the militant group says is an attempt to restore law and order in areas where Israeli troops have withdrawn for the U.S.-brokered ceasefire

1:21 PM on Tuesday, October 14

Pakistan's state-run media say clashes have erupted between Pakistani and Afghan forces in a remote border region

10:52 AM on Tuesday, October 14

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela

10:07 AM on Tuesday, October 14

A river in eastern Mexico turned into a crushing wall of water, nearly wiping out the village of Chapula

9:57 AM on Tuesday, October 14

A senior official says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made it clear he would not accept Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s presence at a high-level summit in Egypt

5:03 AM on Tuesday, October 14

Meta says teenagers on Instagram will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won’t be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission

3:58 AM on Tuesday, October 14

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu says he will suspend a much-debated plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64

3:24 AM on Tuesday, October 14

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office has confirmed that authorities received the remains of four more dead hostages

3:21 AM on Tuesday, October 14

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has been toppled in a military coup that capped weeks of youth-led protests over poverty, power outages and a lack of opportunity in the Indian Ocean island country

2:38 AM on Tuesday, October 14

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian forces have launched powerful glide bombs and drones against Kharkiv and hit a hospital

1:45 AM on Tuesday, October 14

Cameroon's opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma Bakary has claimed victory in the Oct. 12 presidential election ahead of the release of official results

12:37 AM on Tuesday, October 14

President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw assistance from Argentina if its internal politics don't align with his interests in upcoming elections

7:05 PM on Monday, October 13

Maritime nations have gathered in London to discuss regulations aimed at reducing shipping emissions