International News

8:31 PM on Monday, April 20

Japan has endorsed scrapping a ban on lethal weapons exports, a major change of its postwar pacifist policy as the country seeks to build up its arms industry and deepen cooperation with defense partners

8:04 PM on Monday, April 20

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he survived a vote on his leadership among his own party’s lawmakers, after recent slumps in the polls prompted speculation he might be ousted

2:51 PM on Monday, April 20

Mexico's government says a Canadian tourist has been killed and six other people injured when a man with a gun opened fire at the historic Teotihuacán pyramids

1:36 PM on Monday, April 20

Seven years after U.S. citizen Kelly Knight was found dead in Medellín, Colombia, her family seeks international legal help, claiming the Colombian justice system has failed them

12:37 PM on Monday, April 20

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she was unaware of any collaboration between the U.S. and local authorities in Chihuahua after four officials died in an accident over the weekend

11:57 AM on Monday, April 20

Hungarian election winner Péter Magyar is announcing the first round of his incoming cabinet members following his party's landslide victory over Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

7:41 AM on Monday, April 20

There is a case to be made that Pope Leo XIV found his voice on his epic and ongoing trip through Africa

5:25 AM on Monday, April 20

Bulgaria's center-left coalition led by ex-president Rumen Radev has won the parliamentary election, according to the central electoral commission

3:47 AM on Monday, April 20

Europe is focusing on the Palestinians after Hungary's election defeat of Israel ally Viktor Orbán

3:19 AM on Monday, April 20

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake Monday off northern Japan sparked a short-lived tsunami alert and an advisory of a slightly higher risk of a possible megaquake

2:02 AM on Monday, April 20

U.S. President Donald Trump is giving mixed messages about the path ahead for the U.S. war with Iran

1:43 AM on Monday, April 20

President Donald Trump is defending his Iran war strategy, attacking critics and skeptics on Monday as “TRAITORS, ALL” after a second round of talks with Iran were thrown into doubt by the U.S. Navy’s seizure of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz

1:21 AM on Monday, April 20

The United States and the Philippines have kicked off one of their largest combat exercises, aimed at deterring aggression in Asia

12:03 AM on Monday, April 20

Elon Musk has been summoned to Paris as part of an investigation into alleged misconduct on the social media platform X

11:06 PM on Sunday, April 19

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer acknowledges he made a mistake appointing Peter Mandelson as U.K. ambassador to Washington

11:02 PM on Sunday, April 19

Four candidates to be the next secretary-general of the United Nations will audition for the job this week, far fewer than there were 10 years ago when António Guterres was selected as U.N. chief

6:00 PM on Sunday, April 19

Five months after Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades, thousands of displaced fire victims are beginning to return to see what remains of their homes and retrieve their belongings

2:00 PM on Sunday, April 19

A refund system for businesses that paid tariffs which the U.S. Supreme Court eventually struck down has launched

1:11 PM on Sunday, April 19

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada’s strong economic ties to the U.S. were once a strength but are now a weakness that must be corrected

11:47 PM on Saturday, April 18

President Donald Trump says the U.S. seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that tried to get around its naval blockade near the Strait of Hormuz