International News

5:41 AM on Sunday, April 19

Senior Cabinet ministers are rallying around U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose leadership is under threat

3:32 AM on Sunday, April 19

Iran has doubled down on its pledge to restrict ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz as long as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remains in place

12:47 AM on Sunday, April 19

Iran has reversed its decision to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and has warned that it would continue to block transit through the strait as long as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remained in effect

Sunday, April 19

A humanoid robot has won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing, running faster than the human record

2:53 PM on Saturday, April 18

As the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran squeezes global oil supplies, travelers have valid reasons to worry about the cost and availability of flights as they plan their late spring and summer trips

2:35 PM on Saturday, April 18

Venezuela's exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado has drawn several thousand supporters to a rally in Madrid

11:20 AM on Saturday, April 18

A gunman armed with an automatic weapon has killed six people and injured at least 14 in a mass shooting in Ukraine's capital before he was shot and killed by police

10:42 AM on Saturday, April 18

British counterterrorism police are investigating an attempted arson attack in London

9:50 AM on Saturday, April 18

Pope Leo XIV says it is “not in my interest at all” to debate U.S. President Donald Trump about the war in Iran but that he will continue preaching the Gospel message of peace

8:44 AM on Saturday, April 18

French President Emmanuel Macron says a French soldier was killed and three others wounded in an attack on U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon

8:03 AM on Saturday, April 18

The Lyrid meteor shower is expected to bring fiery streaks to the night sky

5:59 AM on Saturday, April 18

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has hosted two events in Barcelona to rally progressive leaders from around the world who fear for a rules-based world order

5:24 AM on Saturday, April 18

Pope Leo XIV has challenged Angola's leaders to “break the cycles of interests” that have plundered and exploited Africa for centuries

4:28 AM on Saturday, April 18

Iran now says the Strait of Hormuz is fully closed until the end of the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports

12:56 AM on Saturday, April 18

Iran has reversed course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and fired on a tanker attempting to pass the waterway

12:26 AM on Saturday, April 18

The lawyer for a Canadian man facing murder charges for allegedly selling lethal substances online to people at risk of self-harm says that he has agreed to plead guilty to counseling or aiding suicide

5:30 PM on Friday, April 17

Oil prices plunged and the stock market rallied after U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister said that the Strait of Hormuz is fully open

1:45 AM on Friday, April 17

U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister say the Strait of Hormuz is now fully open to commercial vessels

1:19 AM on Friday, April 17

Iran says it fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels

3:52 PM on Thursday, April 16

A looming jet fuel shortage in Europe and Asia could compound the Iran war's impact on world travel if a fragile agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz collapses and Persian Gulf oil shipments stay blocked