International News

9:50 AM on Saturday, April 18

Pope Leo XIV says it is “not in my interest at all” to debate U.S. President Donald Trump about the war in Iran but that he will continue preaching the Gospel message of peace

8:44 AM on Saturday, April 18

French President Emmanuel Macron says a French soldier was killed and three others wounded in an attack on U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon

8:03 AM on Saturday, April 18

The Lyrid meteor shower is expected to bring fiery streaks to the night sky

5:59 AM on Saturday, April 18

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is hosting two events to rally progressive leaders from around the world who fear for the liberal order

5:24 AM on Saturday, April 18

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Angola and hopes to bring a message of joy and encouragement to its long-suffering people

4:28 AM on Saturday, April 18

The standoff over the Strait of Hormuz has quickly escalated again as Iran reversed its reopening of the crucial waterway and fired on ships attempting to pass, in retaliation after the United States pressed ahead with its blockade choking off Iranian ports

12:56 AM on Saturday, April 18

Iran has reversed course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and fired on a tanker attempting to pass the waterway

5:30 PM on Friday, April 17

Oil prices plunged and the stock market rallied after U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister said that the Strait of Hormuz is fully open

9:34 AM on Friday, April 17

Two male runners in South Africa who were discovered fraudulently competing on behalf of female colleagues in a top marathon have been disqualified

6:08 AM on Friday, April 17

The small Balkan nation of Kosovo says it wants to commit dozens of its security troops to an international force for Gaza because it appreciates what NATO-led peacekeepers have done for its own security since the 1998-99 war with Serbia

5:40 AM on Friday, April 17

A fragile calm has settled over parts of Lebanon as a 10-day ceasefire brokered by the United States takes hold between Israel and Hezbollah

4:24 AM on Friday, April 17

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has no plans to resign over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as U.K. ambassador to Washington, despite Mandelson failing security checks

3:32 AM on Friday, April 17

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has started a two-day visit to Spain on Friday when he and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez met a day before they will gather with other leaders who are concerned with the fate of the democratic order and the rise of the populist far right

1:53 AM on Friday, April 17

Pope Leo XIV is encouraging young people in Cameroon to resist the temptation to migrate and to stay at home and fight corruption

1:45 AM on Friday, April 17

U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister say the Strait of Hormuz is now fully open to commercial vessels

1:19 AM on Friday, April 17

Iran says it fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels

12:26 AM on Friday, April 17

Myanmar's former President Win Myint has been freed as part of a broad prisoner amnesty by newly inaugurated President Min Aung Hlaing

12:08 AM on Friday, April 17

France and the U.K. have welcomed the announcement by Iran and the U.S. that the Strait of Hormuz is open

10:23 PM on Thursday, April 16

The government-owned corporation that delivers mail in Canada is taking steps to stop home delivery

3:52 PM on Thursday, April 16

A looming jet fuel shortage in Europe and Asia could compound the Iran war's impact on world travel if a fragile agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz collapses and Persian Gulf oil shipments stay blocked