International News

8:10 PM on Sunday, August 17

South Korea and the United States began their annual large-scale joint military exercise on Monday to better cope with threats by nuclear-armed North Korea

12:33 PM on Sunday, August 17

Cloudbursts are causing chaos in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, with tremendous amounts of rain falling in a short period of time over a concentrated area

11:46 AM on Sunday, August 17

Iraqi officials have begun excavating a suspected mass grave left by the Islamic State extremist group

10:32 AM on Sunday, August 17

Conservative activist Laura Loomer complained on social media about children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. for medical treatment and questioned how they got visas

6:50 AM on Sunday, August 17

Spain is deploying 500 more soldiers to help battle wildfires that have ravaged parched woodlands during a prolonged heat wave, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said

6:40 AM on Sunday, August 17

A U.S. official says Russian leader Vladimir Putin has agreed that the United States and European allies could offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the war

6:08 AM on Sunday, August 17

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic has announced tough measures against anti-government protesters following days of riots challenging his rule

2:38 AM on Sunday, August 17

Hurricane Erin has been downgraded to a Category 3 hurricane but is gaining in size and raising the risk of life-threatening surf later this week along the U.S. Eastern seaboard

12:15 AM on Sunday, August 17

The Bayeux Tapestry, a medieval masterpiece depicting the 1066 Norman conquest of England, is set for a new chapter

11:27 PM on Saturday, August 16

Officials say rescuers have recovered dozens more bodies from the rubble of collapsed homes in a northwestern district of Pakistan, bringing the death toll to at least 274, as authorities defended their response to the flooding and said they did not need any foreign help at this point

9:05 PM on Saturday, August 16

Bolivians have headed to the polls for a pivotal election that could end the long reign of the leftist Movement Toward Socialism party

9:05 PM on Saturday, August 16

The future of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has split the United States and its European allies with implications for security in the Middle East

9:01 PM on Saturday, August 16

President Donald Trump walked into a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin pressing for a ceasefire deal and threatening “severe consequences” and tough new sanctions if the Kremlin leader failed to agree to halt the fighting in Ukraine

3:35 PM on Saturday, August 16

Melania Trump took the unique step of crafting a letter that calls for peace in Ukraine, having her husband President Donald Trump hand-deliver it to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their Friday meeting in Alaska

2:15 PM on Saturday, August 16

Angry protesters have set fire to the offices of Serbia’s governing populist party in a western town and clashed with police in the capital Belgrade in another evening of violent protests shaking the Balkan country

11:58 AM on Saturday, August 16

Former President Jair Bolsonaro temporarily left house arrest Saturday for medical exams in Brasilia

2:00 AM on Saturday, August 16

Forecasters say Erin has exploded into a major hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean just north of the Caribbean

11:48 PM on Friday, August 15

President Donald Trump reversed course in the wake of his meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin and now says an overall peace agreement is the next step in ending the war in Ukraine, rather than the ceasefire the American has long championed

10:15 PM on Friday, August 15

Canada’s government has forced Air Canada and the union representing flight attendants into arbitration after a work stoppage stranded more than 100,000 travelers around the world during the peak summer travel season

9:49 PM on Friday, August 15

Pakistan officials said rain-related incidents have killed at least 220 people in a northwest district