International News

1:24 PM on Wednesday, September 24

China, the world’s largest carbon polluting nation, has announced a new climate fighting goal to cut emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035

12:59 PM on Wednesday, September 24

An aid worker and a local group in Sudan say a drone strike by the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has killed at least 15 people at a market in el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur

12:22 PM on Wednesday, September 24

Turning the page on decades of distance, Syria’s President Ahmad al-Sharaa addressed the U.N. General Assembly, marking the first time any Syrian president has done so in almost 60 years

12:05 PM on Wednesday, September 24

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is skipping this week's U.N. General Assembly, with Premier Li Qiang speaking instead

10:43 AM on Wednesday, September 24

A drone launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels wounded 22 people in the southern Israeli city of Eilat on Wednesday, according to medics

9:38 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Brazilian authorities say a small plane has crashed in southwestern Brazil and killed four people including Chinese landscape architect and urban planner Yu Kongjian

9:30 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Authorities in Costa Rica say all flights entering and leaving the Central American country were suspended for several hours before resuming

8:58 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is telling world leaders that the world is in “the most destructive arms race in human history."

8:19 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Moldova’s Prime Minister Dorin Recean warns that Russia is spending heavily to influence an upcoming parliamentary election

7:36 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the stage at the U_N_ to blast Israeli and U_S_ attacks in June as inflicting “a grievous blow upon international trust and the very prospect of peace in the region.”

7:11 AM on Wednesday, September 24

The U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon says an Israeli drone has crashed into their headquarters near Israel's border, but didn't cause any casualties

6:12 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Pope Leo XIV has named a successor to the embattled archbishop of New Orleans two weeks after the archdiocese agreed to a $230 million settlement for survivors of clergy sexual abuse

5:59 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Ukrainians have reacted cautiously to U.S. President Donald Trump's unexpected shift in stance on their war with Russia

5:01 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Former Vice President Al Gore has announced an expansion of Climate TRACE to track soot pollution using satellite technology and artificial intelligence

2:38 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Activists participating in a flotilla seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza say that some of their boats were attacked by drones overnight while sailing south of Greece

11:57 PM on Tuesday, September 23

In France, the apparent use of artificial intelligence to clone an actor's voice for video game character Lara Croft has fans and actors up in arms

11:15 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Estonia is extending a fence along its border with Russia and building anti-tank ditches and bunkers in preparation for a potential conflict with Moscow

10:05 PM on Tuesday, September 23

World leaders and diplomats are tackling artificial intelligence at the United Nations' annual high-level meeting

7:58 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Typhoon Ragasa, one of the strongest storms to hit Asia in years, has caused massive destruction in Taiwan and the Philippines before slamming ashore in southern China

4:57 PM on Tuesday, September 23

In his address at the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump excoriated renewable energy, international climate diplomacy, the science of global warming and other environmental issues