International News

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 says it launched a strike targeting Hamas’ leadership in Qatar's capital

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

12:56 AM on Tuesday, September 9

New Zealand's police say they will investigate how a father vanished into forest with his three children for years without detection, even as law enforcement expanded a search for them

12:39 AM on Tuesday, September 9

An international activist group says a boat in its flotilla was hit by a drone while docked in Tunisia

12:29 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Officials in Slovakia say they have evacuated parts of Bratislava after a World War II bomb was found during construction work

10:47 PM on Monday, September 8

The Israeli military has urged a full evacuation of Gaza City ahead of its planned expanded military operation in the city in northern Gaza

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

9:22 PM on Monday, September 8

Nepal’s crackdown on social media companies, which led to protests and police killing at least 19 people Monday, is part of a yearslong decline of internet freedoms around the world as even democracies seek to curtail online speech

9:14 PM on Monday, September 8

Authorities in Mexico say a train has collided with a double-decker bus northwest of Mexico City, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 50

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

A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices is expected to decide this week whether former President Jair Bolsonaro is guilty or not of plotting to stay in power illegally after his 2022 election defeat

7:16 PM on Monday, September 8

Experts say a ship likely cut cables in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Africa, Asia and the Middle East

7:05 PM on Monday, September 8

Hong Kong lawmakers are set to debate a government-proposed framework to recognize same-sex partnerships

7:00 PM on Monday, September 8

Nepal’s prime minister has resigned as protests against a short-lived ban on social media grew increasingly violent and expanded into broader criticism of his government and accusations of corruption among the Himalayan country’s political elite

4:37 PM on Monday, September 8

North Korea says it conducted the final ground test of a solid-fuel rocket engine for a long-range ballistic missile in its latest advancement toward having an arsenal that could viably threaten the continental United States

10:00 AM on Monday, September 8

The Czech Republic’s counterintelligence agency says it has broken up a spy network being built by Belarus

1:26 AM on Monday, September 8

Pakistani officials say rescuers backed by troops have evacuated more than 25,000 people from a city in eastern Pakistan as rising rivers threatened to flood the region