International News

6:01 AM on Thursday, March 26

The Iran war is unleashing a toxic mix of chemicals, heavy metals and other pollutants that threaten everything from agriculture to drinking water to people’s health

4:58 AM on Thursday, March 26

An engineer-turned-rapper who later became Kathmandu’s mayor is poised to lead Nepal as prime minister after his party won a landslide election

4:18 AM on Thursday, March 26

Hungary’s government is filing criminal charges against an investigative journalist, claiming he is spying for a foreign state

5:14 PM on Wednesday, March 25

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says that former President Raúl Castro is involved in talks between the island and the United States

11:24 AM on Wednesday, March 25

Melania Trump often commands the attention of any room she enters, but on Wednesday, she shared the spotlight with a robot

11:05 AM on Wednesday, March 25

A bill introduced by two high-profile progressive lawmakers would pause new data centers in the United States until national safeguards are in place to protect workers and consumers and ensure the technologies don’t harm the environment

10:27 AM on Wednesday, March 25

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro will be discharged from hospital on Friday to return home and continue serving his 27-year sentence for a coup attempt

10:16 AM on Wednesday, March 25

The U_N_ General Assembly has adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs.”

10:01 AM on Wednesday, March 25

Authorities in northern Nigeria say armed militants ambushed security forces who were responding to a distress call in the northwestern state of Kebbi, fatally shooting nine soldiers, a police officer and one resident

8:57 AM on Wednesday, March 25

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says that the Air Canada CEO’s English-only message of condolence after Sunday’s deadly crash in New York showed a lack of compassion and judgment

3:10 AM on Wednesday, March 25

South Africa’s top police officer has been served with a warrant and is facing charges in relation to a widening corruption scandal that saw 12 other senior officers arrested by anti-graft investigators

1:58 AM on Wednesday, March 25

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko arrived in North Korea’s capital on Wednesday, where he is to hold talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

1:47 AM on Wednesday, March 25

British police have arrested two men over an arson attack that destroyed four ambulances from a Jewish charity

1:44 AM on Wednesday, March 25

Russia is reporting that it has shot down hundreds of Ukrainian drones in a massive overnight attack across its regions and Crimea

10:21 PM on Tuesday, March 24

Sarah Mullally, a one-time cancer nurse who became a priest, was installed as archbishop of Canterbury

10:16 PM on Tuesday, March 24

A lawyer for a Cambodian man deported by the United States to the African kingdom of Eswatini says he has been released from a prison to be repatriated

9:42 PM on Tuesday, March 24

Iran has dismissed an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East, issuing its own counterproposal instead, as it launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries

12:03 AM on Tuesday, March 24

Denmark’s election Tuesday ended in an inconclusive result that left the prime minister’s future unclear, after a campaign that focused on bread-and-butter issues rather than her handling of the crisis over U.S. President Donald Trump’s ambitions toward Greenland

10:11 PM on Monday, March 23

The Trump administration has offered a 15-point ceasefire plan to Iran

9:41 PM on Monday, March 23

The Trump administration offered a 15-point ceasefire plan to Iran, according to a person briefed on the contours of the plan but who was not authorized to speak publicly about it, even as it’s sending more troops to the Middle East