International News

6:04 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened retaliation against Western seizures of Russian commercial vessels, calling them "piracy."

12:07 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Erblin Ademi has long lost hope that his father, who went missing nearly 30 years ago, could still be alive

12:03 AM on Wednesday, August 12

One Somali family's long trek to escape drought conditions is an example of a deepening humanitarian emergency in Somalia, where years of drought, conflict and economic pressures are pushing more families from rural communities into displacement camps as hunger rises and humanitarian funding shrinks

8:40 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Business in the Tokyo area was almost back to normal after a tropical storm weakened to a depression and left Japan

5:36 PM on Tuesday, August 11

South Korea says North Korea has launched a ballistic missile toward the sea, the second such weapons testing activity by North Korea in less than a week

4:48 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Authorities in Zimbabwe say at least 15 people have died and another 27 are missing after a ferry capsized on Lake Kariba

12:44 PM on Tuesday, August 11

A U.N. agency reports that five years after the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, around 2.4 million girls remain excluded from secondary education

12:22 PM on Tuesday, August 11

The United Nations estimates that more than 16,000 civilians detained by Russia during its war in Ukraine are still being held

12:18 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Turkey's parliament has approved a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants, aiming to advance peace efforts with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK

10:59 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Russia has released an American military veteran, allowing his return to the U.S. after four years of what his family and U.S. officials allege was wrongful incarceration and abusive treatment that left him near death

10:41 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Human Rights Watch and three other advocacy groups have sued the Trump administration to challenge its campaign against the International Criminal Court

9:40 AM on Tuesday, August 11

A wildfire in western Canada that has forced about 20,000 people to flee grew overnight

5:05 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Authorities in Yemen say at least six people were killed when Iran-backed Houthi rebels fired missiles on a vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb strait

5:04 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Firefighters in western Libya are battling to extinguish a massive fire caused by a drone strike on an oil facility after their town came under a wave of drone attacks targeting key oil installations

4:43 AM on Tuesday, August 11

A Syrian court has sentenced ousted President Bashar Assad and his brother to death in absentia for crimes against humanity during Syria's 14-year conflict

4:41 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Officials in Ukraine say Russian aerial attacks killed at least 10 civilians

4:03 AM on Tuesday, August 11

U.S. President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last year that he had “no cards" in the fight against Russia

3:18 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Congo's Ebola outbreak has claimed at least 2,000 lives as it has become the fastest-growing on record

12:24 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Crews searched through rubble in Colombia after a powerful earthquake left thousands missing

9:10 AM on Tuesday, August 4

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not withdraw from its current lines in Gaza until Hamas has completely disarmed