International News

12:03 AM on Thursday, December 18

Bushfires are deadly, they can break out in the blink of an eye and last for days in the vast desert of Mauritania

11:51 PM on Wednesday, December 17

European Union leaders are gathering for a summit aimed at agreeing on a massive loan to cover Ukraine’s military and other financial needs for the next two years

10:55 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Hundreds of mourners have gathered in Sydney for the funeral of a 10-year-old girl killed in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration

9:14 PM on Wednesday, December 17

India’s air-quality crisis is deepened by unreliable data

9:05 PM on Wednesday, December 17

The U.S. military says it attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four people

5:52 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Africa has been the hardest hit by the Trump administration's expanded travel ban that includes 20 more countries

4:28 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Some oil vessels are diverting away from Venezuela after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened a “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving the South American country

1:32 PM on Wednesday, December 17

U.S. President Donald Trump's announced blockade on sanctioned Venezuelan oil could lead to shortages of food, fuel, and other basic goods in the Latin American nation

1:18 PM on Wednesday, December 17

A Second Amendment clash has erupted between the federal government and the U.S. Virgin Islands

1:18 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Israel’s military says troops fired a mortar shell into a Palestinian residential area in the Gaza Strip, in the latest incident to rock the tenuous ceasefire with Hamas

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 its 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

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