International News

6:43 AM on Friday, September 5

The U.N. human rights office says Congo’s armed forces and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have committed gang rape, sexual slavery, torture, killings of civilians and other “horrific” atrocities in eastern Congo this year

12:36 AM on Friday, September 5

A police spokesman says a passenger bus veered off a road and plunged into a precipice in a mountainous region in Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and injuring 16 others

12:15 AM on Friday, September 5

Pope Leo XIV will preside over his first canonization ceremony Sunday to create the first millennial saint

12:12 AM on Friday, September 5

The Ukrainian government has declared that a branch of the Orthodox Church has failed to sever all ties with Moscow — and could soon be banned

5:30 PM on Thursday, September 4

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's strategy of managing a tumultuous relationship with President Donald Trump may be running up against wider regional tensions and a lack of willingness by the Trump administration to make concessions

5:06 PM on Thursday, September 4

Argentina’s senate has dealt a blow to President Javier Milei’s libertarian agenda overriding his veto on raising disability benefits

4:35 PM on Thursday, September 4

The Trump administration has already denied visas for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and his large delegation to attend the U.N. General Assembly later this month

3:19 PM on Thursday, September 4

Prosecutors in Argentina have charged the daughter of a fugitive Nazi official with trying to hide an 18th-century painting from authorities following revelations that it had been stolen from a Jewish art dealer during World War II

1:00 PM on Thursday, September 4

The Trump administration must release billions of dollars in foreign aid approved by Congress, including money that President Donald Trump said last week he won't spend

11:28 AM on Thursday, September 4

Sudanese authorities have recovered and buried hundreds of bodies after a landslide in Darfur

10:10 AM on Thursday, September 4

Congo's health minister says a new Ebola outbreak is suspected of causing 15 deaths among 28 people with symptoms

9:56 AM on Thursday, September 4

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the United States is designating two Ecuadorian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations

8:47 AM on Thursday, September 4

Health officials in the Gaza Strip say that more than 64,000 have been killed in the nearly two-year war

8:23 AM on Thursday, September 4

The iconic Italian designer Giorgio Armani has died at 91

6:23 AM on Thursday, September 4

A Taliban government spokesman says the death toll from a major earthquake in Afghanistan has risen to 2,205

5:30 AM on Thursday, September 4

Lorena has weakened to a tropical storm, but forecasters warn of life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides in parts of Mexico's Baja California peninsula

5:23 AM on Thursday, September 4

French President Emmanuel Macron says that 26 of Ukraine’s allies have pledged to deploy troops as a “reassurance force” for the war-torn country once fighting ends in the conflict with Russia

3:18 AM on Thursday, September 4

Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have pledged mutual support and enhanced cooperation during talks in Beijing

2:09 AM on Thursday, September 4

Portuguese officials are sifting through the wreckage of a streetcar in downtown Lisbon, trying to determine why the popular tourist attraction derailed during the busy summer season

2:06 AM on Thursday, September 4

The eastern Mediterranean and Middle East are in the grips of one of their worst droughts in decades, which is drying rivers and lakes, shriveling crops and even leading to water cutoffs in major cities