International News

6:29 AM on Thursday, September 4

Germany is leading a major military exercise that focuses on moving troops and equipment to Lithuania as tensions with Russia on the eastern fringe of NATO simmer

4:23 AM on Thursday, September 4

A Taliban government spokesman says the death toll from a major earthquake in Afghanistan has risen to 2,205

2:58 AM on Thursday, September 4

The man accused of ramming his car into a parade of Liverpool soccer fans in May as the team was celebrating its Premier League triumph has pleaded not guilty to the 31 charges he is facing

2:54 AM on Thursday, September 4

Heavy rains have led to some of the worst flooding and landslides in decades in large parts of Northern India

2:52 AM on Thursday, September 4

Officials say rivers are swelling to dangerous levels in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, forcing more than half a million people to flee their homes in the past 24 hours

2:45 AM on Thursday, September 4

Yemen's Houthi rebels likely have targeted a ship in the Red Sea

2:11 AM on Thursday, September 4

An earthquake that killed more than 3,800 people in Myanmar in March unfolded as the country was already mired in a civil war, in which armed militias and pro-democracy forces are fighting the military-led government that seized power from a democratically elected government

10:20 PM on Wednesday, September 3

European countries are facing tough choices as they meet in Paris to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine

9:25 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A new study says climate change has made extreme weather conditions, like those fueling wildfires in the Iberian Peninsula, 40 times more likely

5:02 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The United States and Panama are urging the U.N. Security Council to authorize a 5,550-member force with the power to detain gang members in Haiti to help stop the escalating violence

11:33 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Portuguese emergency services say an electric streetcar that is one of Lisbon’s big tourist attractions has derailed, killing 15 people and injuring 18 others

11:05 AM on Wednesday, September 3

President Donald Trump is justifying the lethal military strike that his administration said was carried out a day earlier against a Venezuelan gang as a necessary effort by the United States to send an unmistakable message to Latin American cartels

9:45 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Aid agencies say the international community must increase funding to Afghanistan

8:14 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Indonesian authorities say a rescue team has reached the site of a helicopter crash on Borneo and recovered one body

5:56 AM on Wednesday, September 3

The pictures from this week’s military parade in Beijing commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the earlier economic gathering would seem to offer a striking, maybe even defiant, message to the United States and its allies — evidence of a possible new reconfiguration of rising power in Eurasia, an “Axis of Upheaval,” as one U.S. analyst has called it

5:48 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness has secured a third term following a tight race on an island shaken by corruption, inequity and economic concerns

5:03 AM on Wednesday, September 3

The United Arab Emirates has warned that any Israeli move to annex the occupied West Bank would be a “red line,” without specifying its possible impact on the landmark normalization accord between the two countries

2:40 AM on Wednesday, September 3

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Kiko is now a Category 4 storm in the Pacific

2:33 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Russia has launched over 500 drones and two dozen missiles at Ukraine, targeting civilian infrastructure, especially energy facilities

2:15 AM on Wednesday, September 3

With Israel promising a punishing new offensive, Palestinians in Gaza's largest city are paralyzed with fear