International News

10:42 AM on Thursday, January 8

The U.S. has seized a Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the North Atlantic, backed by British support

9:18 AM on Thursday, January 8

France's president says a political scholar from the country who was serving a three-year sentence in Russia and facing new charges of espionage has been freed in a prisoner swap with France

7:55 AM on Thursday, January 8

Prosecutors in the United States say Chen Zhi boasted of pulling in $30 million a day

6:44 AM on Thursday, January 8

Britain is bracing for potentially life-threatening winds, rains and snowfall as a severe storm headed in from the southwest of England during what already has been one of the country’s worst cold snaps in years

4:16 AM on Thursday, January 8

Dozens of angry farmers have demonstrated in France and Greece, halting traffic and blocking roads with tractors to protest European Union plans to move forward with a free trade deal with five South American nations

3:34 AM on Thursday, January 8

They’re at it again

2:38 AM on Thursday, January 8

Lebanon's military says it has ended the first phase of its plan to deploy across southern Lebanon and disarm non-state groups, including Hezbollah

1:37 AM on Thursday, January 8

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a royal commission into antisemitism, weeks after a deadly attack at a Jewish holiday event in Bondi Beach

12:40 AM on Thursday, January 8

Saudi Arabia says the United Arab Emirates has smuggled a wanted separatist leader out of Yemen

10:07 PM on Wednesday, January 7

Mogadishu’s first line of defense against the next militant attack on Somalia’s capital ranges from machine gunners in pick-up trucks to young men in plainclothes manning checkpoints

7:13 PM on Wednesday, January 7

President Donald Trump has abruptly changed his tone about his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro

5:11 PM on Wednesday, January 7

The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.’s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations

4:05 PM on Wednesday, January 7

The State Department says it has suspended all U.S. assistance to Somalia’s federal government over allegations that Somali officials destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program and seized 76 metric tons of food aid intended for impoverished civilians

2:26 PM on Wednesday, January 7

Venezuela's military has held a funeral for some of the soldiers killed during the U.S. operation that captured former President Nicolás Maduro

12:23 PM on Wednesday, January 7

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s actions against Venezuela

8:43 AM on Wednesday, January 7

President Donald Trump's administration is seeking to assert its control over Venezuelan oil, seizing two sanctioned tankers transporting petroleum and announcing plans to relax some sanctions so the U.S. can oversee the sale of Venezuela’s petroleum worldwide

7:41 AM on Wednesday, January 7

Snow and ice are hampering travel in parts of Europe as flights have been grounded and roads clogged

4:48 AM on Wednesday, January 7

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm after a bus driver ran over and killed a 14-year-old boy during a protest

4:45 AM on Wednesday, January 7

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he plans to meet with Danish officials next week after the Trump administration reiterated its intention to take over the strategic Arctic island

11:01 PM on Tuesday, January 6

Frustration and anger are brewing among young protesters in Nepal who helped topple the government