International News

10:20 PM on Tuesday, September 9

The Polish military says that it has downed drones that violated its airspace as Russia launched aerial attacks on Ukraine

9:09 PM on Tuesday, September 9

Nepalese soldiers are guarding the streets of the country's capital and ordering people to stay at home as they try to restore order after protesters stormed and set fire to government buildings and attacked politicians

7:11 PM on Tuesday, September 9

South Korean media reports a charter plane has left for the U.S. to bring back Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in Georgia

2:17 PM on Tuesday, September 9

The United Nations chief is warning that soaring global military expenditures are reducing essential investments in health, education and job creation and don’t guarantee peace

2:03 PM on Tuesday, September 9

Israel has killed multiple senior officials with Hamas and its regional allies since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas-led militants in southern Israel that triggered the war in Gaza

11:36 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency have signed an agreement in Cairo to open the way for resuming cooperation, including on ways of resuming inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities

11:00 AM on Tuesday, September 9

French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu as France’s new prime minister

9:01 AM on Tuesday, September 9

More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities in cases that date to the 1960s

6:26 AM on Tuesday, September 9

The United Nations is issuing an emergency appeal for nearly $140 million in desperately needed funding to help nearly half a million people affected by the devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan

6:12 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Israel launched a strike targeting Hamas’ leadership in Qatar as they considered a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip

5:23 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Ethiopia has inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam to produce more than 5,000 megawatts and boost the electric vehicle industry in a country that has banned the importation of gasoline-powered vehicles

4:31 AM on Tuesday, September 9

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is set to deliver a major state of the union speech on the challenges facing the world’s biggest trading bloc and laying out her vision for tackling them

2:51 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Officials say a Russian glide bomb has struck a village in eastern Ukraine as people stood in line in the open air to collect their monthly pension

2:30 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Rebels in eastern Congo affiliated with the Islamic State group have killed at least 60 people in an attack

12:39 AM on Tuesday, September 9

An international activist group aiming to deliver aid to Gaza says one of its boats was hit by a drone while docked in Tunisia

10:47 PM on Monday, September 8

Israel’s military warned Gaza City residents to evacuate ahead of its plans to take control of what it portrays as Hamas’ last remaining stronghold and where hundreds of thousands of people remain under conditions of famine

9:24 PM on Monday, September 8

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is in Bangkok’s Klong Prem Central Prison after the Supreme court said he must serve a one-year prison term for previous convictions

9:13 PM on Monday, September 8

International Criminal Court prosecutors has begun presenting evidence to back up charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony at the global court’s first in absentia hearing

9:04 PM on Monday, September 8

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro is one step away from being convicted for attempting a coup, after two Supreme Court justices voted to find the right-wing leader guilty of trying to illegally hang onto power

7:00 PM on Monday, September 8

Protests against Nepal’s short-lived ban on social media grew increasingly violent as demonstrators set government buildings and politicians’ homes on fire and attacked some leaders