International News

8:01 PM on Friday, April 10

The messaging from China’s Communist government may once have been rigid, but not anymore

12:05 PM on Friday, April 10

Tensions have escalated between Israel and Hezbollah, with intensified attacks on Friday

3:03 AM on Friday, April 10

Friday marks six months since the ceasefire in Gaza took effect, but progress remains limited

1:45 AM on Friday, April 10

South Korean Justice Minister Jung Sung-ho vowed to expand access to judicial remedies for victims of state-led abuses, including foreign adoptees whose adoptions were marred by widespread fraud under previous military governments

1:12 AM on Friday, April 10

With the ceasefire in Iran still shaky, U.S. and Iranian negotiators are heading to Pakistan for high-level talks with Iranian officials

1:10 AM on Friday, April 10

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian military personnel shot down Iranian-designed Shahed drones in multiple Middle Eastern countries during the Iran war, describing the operations as part of a broader effort to help partners counter the same weapons used by Russia in Ukraine

12:45 AM on Friday, April 10

Taiwan's opposition leader has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, marking the first such encounter in over a decade

12:03 AM on Friday, April 10

Pope Leo XIV is making a long and ambitious odyssey across four African countries -- Algeria, Angola, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea

11:31 PM on Thursday, April 9

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is heading to Pakistan for high-level talks with Iranian officials, as Israel and Hezbollah traded fire and Tehran maintained its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz

8:07 PM on Thursday, April 9

BTS is back after a three-and-a-half year break, but their world tour is skipping China

4:53 PM on Thursday, April 9

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has told NBC News’ Meet the Press that he would not step down in his first interview with a U.S. network

4:39 PM on Thursday, April 9

Israel’s intense barrage of airstrikes on Wednesday hit without warning deep inside the Lebanese capital of Beirut, blowing buildings open to the elements and reducing apartment blocks to rubble in parts of the city that have traditionally escaped attack

4:11 PM on Thursday, April 9

Venezuelan lawmakers have approved a bill to regulate mining as the country seeks to attract leery foreign investors to a once-private industry that has long been exploited by criminal groups with ties to the government

3:30 PM on Thursday, April 9

An AP reporter describes how Israel's massive bombardment of Beirut stunned the city

2:37 PM on Thursday, April 9

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has declared a ceasefire in Ukraine over the Orthodox Easter

11:47 AM on Thursday, April 9

Nigeria's officials say that an army general and several soldiers have been killed during an attempt to raid a military base in the northeast

8:18 AM on Thursday, April 9

Lebanon is reeling after the deadliest day of renewed conflict between Israel and Hezbollah

2:29 AM on Thursday, April 9

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus is actually a nautilus relative

11:58 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the neighbors

11:17 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the neighbors