International News

3:21 AM on Thursday, August 14

The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $346 million weapons sale to Nigeria to help improve security in the sub-Saharan country

3:15 AM on Thursday, August 14

Officials say a team of mountaineers has set out to recover the body of a Chinese climber from the world's second-highest peak after bad weather grounded helicopter flights

10:19 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Japan and China are marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with major events on different dates

9:05 PM on Wednesday, August 13

President Donald Trump’s meeting in Alaska with Vladimir Putin could be a decisive moment in the war in Ukraine and in the U.S. leader’s anomalous relationship with his Russian counterpart

3:21 PM on Wednesday, August 13

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has dismissed South Korean claims that North Korea is removing loudspeakers along the inter-Korean border

2:28 PM on Wednesday, August 13

The leader of the small Baha’i community in Qatar has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges alleging that posts on Baha’i social media accounts “cast doubt on the foundations of the Islamic religion."

2:07 PM on Wednesday, August 13

U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly said during his successful election campaign he could end the war in Ukraine “in 24 hours” upon taking office

12:49 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A new study warns that rising sea levels could threaten Easter Island’s iconic moai statues by the end of the century

12:39 PM on Wednesday, August 13

The U.N. Security Council has rejected plans by Sudan’s paramilitary group to establish a rival government in areas it controls

12:26 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Peru’s president has signed an amnesty bill into law that prevents military personnel and police officers from being prosecuted over alleged human rights abuses during the country’s armed conflict decades ago

12:00 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has mocked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer to help with Iran’s water crisis

11:26 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Colombians have bid farewell to senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay, who died this week more than two months after being shot during a political rally

9:33 AM on Wednesday, August 13

A divided panel of appeals court judges says the Trump administration can suspend or terminate billions of dollars of congressionally appropriated funding for foreign aid

8:48 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Russian authorities have announced partial restrictions on calls in messaging apps Telegram and WhatsApp

5:33 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Health officials and witnesses say Israeli gunfire killed at least 25 people while seeking aid

5:24 AM on Wednesday, August 13

The top diplomats of Britain, France, and Germany are threatening to reimpose sanctions on Iran

2:03 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Wildfires are raging across southern Europe, killing at least three people in Spain, Turkey and Albania

1:41 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Clashes have erupted for a second day at protests in Serbia between opponents and supporters of the government

12:07 AM on Wednesday, August 13

President Donald Trump says there will be “very severe consequences” if Russian President Vladimir Putin does not agree to stop the war against Ukraine after the two leaders meet for a summit later this week in Alaska

11:06 AM on Monday, August 11

The U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska is happening at a site where East meets West in a place familiar to both countries as a Cold War front line of missile defense, radar outposts and intelligence gathering