International News

7:44 PM on Thursday, May 28

An annual United Nations report documenting sexual violence in conflicts worldwide has included Israeli forces for the first time since the review began more than 15 years ago for their treatment of Palestinian detainees

6:06 PM on Thursday, May 28

The U.S. State Department says it will designate Brazil’s two biggest criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations early next month, a move that the South American nation’s government has repeatedly said it will interpret as undue interference in its politics

1:20 PM on Thursday, May 28

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling for a new partnership with the United States

11:28 AM on Thursday, May 28

The Trump administration's review of Mexico's 53 U.S. consulates has stoked worries among Mexicans in the U.S. that some could be shuttered, making it harder for them to access important services

9:49 AM on Thursday, May 28

Yemen's former President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has died at 80

7:15 AM on Thursday, May 28

Italian authorities have seized over $232 million in assets linked to the late mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro’s drug trafficking network

5:53 AM on Thursday, May 28

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is pressing the United States for more Patriot air defense missiles to counter Russian attacks

4:53 AM on Thursday, May 28

A Chinese human rights activist is in South Korean custody after a perilous escape from his country by a rubber boat

3:43 AM on Thursday, May 28

Israel's military says that the air force has carried out an airstrike on a southern suburb of Lebanon's capital

1:06 AM on Thursday, May 28

Under an opaque $7.5 million deal with the Trump administration, Equatorial Guinea’s all-powerful president has turned a hotel owned by his family into a prison for asylum seekers deported from the United States

1:03 AM on Thursday, May 28

An Austrian court has convicted a man of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna nearly two years ago

12:03 AM on Thursday, May 28

An international stabilization force promised for Gaza has yet to materialize three months after it was announced at an event hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump

12:01 AM on Thursday, May 28

Brazil was set to join other Latin American countries that have shortened working hours as the lower house approved a constitutional amendment establishing a 40-hour, five-day workweek

9:02 PM on Wednesday, May 27

The Trump administration has placed additional sanctions on Iran as part of a sprawling economic pressure campaign during the war, this time targeting the country’s newly created agency that is trying to control shipping through the Strait of Hormuz

1:13 PM on Wednesday, May 27

Iranians have begun to regain internet access after authorities ended a monthslong shutdown

9:40 AM on Wednesday, May 27

Canada plans to buy early warning radar planes from Sweden’s Saab and Canada’s Bombardier, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Wednesday

6:21 AM on Wednesday, May 27

Five villagers trapped in a flooded cave in central Laos for over a week have been found alive

4:09 AM on Wednesday, May 27

Spanish police have mounted a search of the headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party as part of an ongoing investigation into possible financial wrongdoing

3:42 AM on Wednesday, May 27

Penpa Tsering has been sworn in for a second term as the president of Tibet’s government-in-exile based in India

12:02 AM on Wednesday, May 27

U.S. forces have carried out new defensive strikes on an Iran military facility after downing Iranian attack drones