International News

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

9:04 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Brazil's Supreme Court is set to decide cases that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous communities

7:13 AM on Tuesday, August 11

A gunbattle between rebels and Nigerian security forces has left 10 police officers dead

6:46 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Police say two former Chinese military servicemembers have been arrested in South Korea on espionage charges

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

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

12:02 AM on Tuesday, August 11

President Donald Trump likes to say he started his war with Iran after 50 years of economic pressure failed to stop its nuclear weapons ambitions

4:36 PM on Monday, August 10

Canada has put its military on standby to help battle wildfires in British Columbia, where one person has died and thousands have been forced to flee their homes as fast-moving blazes wreak destruction

1:42 PM on Monday, August 10

Russia’s highest court has ordered the only party opposing the Kremlin’s military action in Ukraine to be removed from the ballot in next month’s parliamentary election

1:10 PM on Monday, August 10

A Pentagon official has urged Asian allies to invest more in their defense to deter regional aggression

9:23 AM on Monday, August 10

The World Health Organization says the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak started in February, months before it was officially declared in May

9:09 AM on Monday, August 10

A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake has struck western Colombia, killing at least 111 people and damaging hundreds of buildings

6:48 AM on Monday, August 10

U.S. President Donald Trump is scoffing at Iran's demands that the U.S. pay for devastation caused by five months of war

5:06 AM on Monday, August 10

Soccer powerbrokers in Europe, North America and Asia believe FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s recent plan to sell an interest in the World Cup was a “fundamental breach of trust” with the institutions that the sport’s global governing body serves

4:52 AM on Monday, August 10

Turkey’s parliament has approved a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants

3:14 AM on Monday, August 10

Authorities in Russia's Tatarstan region say a Ukrainian drone strike on the petroleum hub of Nizhnekamsk killed 13 people and wounded 78 others in one of the deadliest attacks of the 4-year-old war

2:31 AM on Monday, August 10

Tropical Storm Dolphin has dumped heavy rain in eastern China, causing flooding after making landfall as a typhoon