International News

9:25 AM on Wednesday, December 17

The British government says it has given Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich a final chance to hand over 2.5 billion pounds or $3.25 billion to the victims of Russia's war in Ukraine

8:01 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Russian President Vladimir Putin is warning that Moscow will extend its gains in Ukraine if Kyiv and its Western allies reject the Kremlin's demands in peace talks

6:53 AM on Wednesday, December 17

European Union leaders are about to attempt something unprecedented

6:19 AM on Wednesday, December 17

A congressional report says China exploits partnerships with U.S. researchers to give the Chinese military access to nuclear technology and other innovations with economic and national security applications

4:54 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Spanish police have evicted orders to clear an abandoned school building where around 400 migrants were living in a squat north of Barcelona

4:41 AM on Wednesday, December 17

South African immigration authorities have raided a United States refugee processing center in Johannesburg and seven Kenyans working there illegally were arrested and given deportation orders

4:19 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Employees at the Louvre Museum have voted to extend a strike that has disrupted operations at the world’s most visited museum

1:12 AM on Wednesday, December 17

In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ideal model for St. Peter if he ever needed to paint the first pope

9:41 PM on Tuesday, December 16

An accused gunman in Sydney’s Bondi Beach massacre has been charged with 59 offenses including 15 charges of murder as hundreds of mourners gathered in Sydney to begin funerals for the victims

6:56 PM on Tuesday, December 16

President Donald Trump says he is ordering a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro

4:49 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Ahmed al Ahmed, a Syrian-Australian tobacco shop owner, has become a national hero in Australia, with an online fundraiser for him raising millions of dollars

3:04 PM on Tuesday, December 16

The Trump administration has announced an expansion of travel restrictions to include 20 more countries

1:52 PM on Tuesday, December 16

The European Union is moving to dial back its total ban on cars with gas or diesel engines by 2035

1:50 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to recover from torrential rains that have battered the enclave for days, flooding camps for the displaced, collapsing buildings already badly damaged in the two-year war and leaving at least 12 dead, including a two-week-old baby

12:41 PM on Tuesday, December 16

The family of Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says she was taken to a hospital emergency room twice after her arrest last week by Iranian security forces

8:21 AM on Tuesday, December 16

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have announced they will withdrawal from Uvira, a strategic city in eastern Congo following U.S. pressure

8:13 AM on Tuesday, December 16

A driver who injured more than 130 people when he plowed his car into a crowd of soccer fans celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League championship has been sentenced to over 21 years in prison

4:37 AM on Tuesday, December 16

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says peace proposals for U.S. officials to present to Russia could be finalized within days

1:49 AM on Tuesday, December 16

The victims of a mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach range from a 10-year-old girl with a gentle soul to an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor

10:01 PM on Monday, December 15

Australia is preparing for the funerals of some of the victims of an antisemitic mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach