International News

1:19 AM on Thursday, April 9

A viral photo of snow-capped Mount Fuji, a red pagoda and cherry blossoms has brought many tourists to a peaceful Japanese town

12:32 AM on Thursday, April 9

Anger and frustration is growing in Russia over government restrictions on the internet that have disrupted daily life, hurt businesses and brought condemnation from both Kremlin critics and supporters alike

7:04 PM on Wednesday, April 8

North Korea says its weapons tests this week involved various new systems, including ballistic missiles armed with cluster-bomb warheads

5:48 PM on Wednesday, April 8

More than 1,000 humanitarian workers have been killed across the globe in the last three years, nearly triple the death count in the previous three years, the U.N. says

11:34 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Heavy rains in the Dominican Republic have killed one child, damaged more than 1,000 homes and are causing power and water outages, forcing officials to suspend classes at some public and private schools

10:50 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Police in the Bahamas say they have arrested the husband of a U.S. woman who was aboard a boat near the archipelago and vanished

10:50 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has attracted another opposition Conservative lawmaker to the Liberal Party

10:47 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Authorities in eastern Congo say at least 21 people are missing after a boat capsized on Lake Kivu

7:36 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Turkish authorities have detained nine people in connection with an attack on police outside the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul

6:18 AM on Wednesday, April 8

President Donald Trump repeated his complaint about NATO after a private meeting with the alliance's Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Wednesday

6:05 AM on Wednesday, April 8

China’s government says Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed not to escalate their conflict and to “explore a comprehensive solution” after several weeks of cross-border fighting that has killed hundreds of people

12:04 AM on Wednesday, April 8

A subsidiary of a Hong Kong-based conglomerate started arbitration proceedings against Danish logistics and port group Maersk, accusing the company of aligning with Panama and scheming to replace its port operation on the Central American country’s critical canal

11:33 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Iran, the United States and Israel have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, an 11th-hour deal that headed off U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to unleash a bombing campaign that would destroy Iranian civilization

11:18 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Over the course of a single day, President Donald Trump went from threatening Iran with “annihilation” to proclaiming that Iran's leadership had presented a “workable” plan that led him to agree to a two-week ceasefire

11:14 PM on Tuesday, April 7

A ceasefire deal to pause the war in Iran appears to be hanging by a thread after the Islamic Republic closed the Strait of Hormuz again in response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon

10:17 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Oil prices plunged below $95 per barrel, and stock markets surged worldwide after President Donald Trump pulled back from his threat of devastating attacks against Iran

7:12 PM on Tuesday, April 7

South Korea’s military says it detected North Korea firing several short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea

12:54 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Hundreds of Cuban women have gathered in Havana to decry a U.S. energy embargo and other measures imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump that are strangling the Caribbean island

11:55 PM on Monday, April 6

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war

11:20 PM on Monday, April 6

U.S. President Donald Trump pulls back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran, swerving to deescalate the war less than two hours before the deadline he set for Tehran to capitulate