International News

7:00 AM on Sunday, August 31

Mexico's first elected Supreme Court is set to be seated, and observers are watching to see if it will assert independence from the governing party

6:43 AM on Sunday, August 31

Many of Syria's Alawite minority are leaving a Damascus suburb after a pro-government armed faction raided the area

6:22 AM on Sunday, August 31

Oliver McCann, a British AI music creator, uses AI to produce songs across various genres

6:19 AM on Sunday, August 31

Lebanon’s parliament speaker has criticized Washington’s push to quickly to disarm the Hezbollah militant group, and called instead for a calm national dialogue to determine “the fate of those weapons.”

3:34 AM on Sunday, August 31

Pope Leo XIV has demanded an end to the “pandemic of arms” during a public prayer for victims of a shooting at a Catholic school Mass in the United States

9:11 PM on Saturday, August 30

French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state has angered Israel and the U.S. Macron wrote to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, emphasizing such a step would be key to Israel's security

7:10 AM on Saturday, August 30

The Iranian-backed Houthis say an Israeli airstrike has killed the prime minister of the rebel-controlled government in Yemen's capital

5:45 AM on Saturday, August 30

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ office is urging the U.S. to reverse its decision to revoke his visa

4:38 AM on Saturday, August 30

Russia has launched a large aerial attack on southern Ukraine, two days after an airstrike on central Kyiv killed 23 people

3:53 AM on Saturday, August 30

An official tells The Associated Press that Israel plans to slow or halt humanitarian aid in parts of northern Gaza as it expands its offensive against Hamas

1:46 AM on Saturday, August 30

An angry mob has set fire to a local parliament building in Indonesia, killing at least three people and injuring others

10:47 AM on Friday, August 29

Lebanon’s army chief says the military will soon carry out “sensitive missions,” in an apparent reference to the Lebanese government’s U.S.-backed plan to disarm the Hezbollah militant group by the end of the year

10:15 AM on Friday, August 29

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next month’s annual high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly

8:02 AM on Friday, August 29

Finland's air force is moving to remove swastikas from its flags, partly due to the awkwardness it creates with Western allies

4:07 AM on Friday, August 29

Israel says Gaza City is now considered a dangerous combat zone as it begins the initial stages of a planned offensive that has drawn international condemnation

2:58 AM on Friday, August 29

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian officials want to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump and European leaders next week to discuss recent developments in efforts to end the three-year war with Russia

2:45 AM on Friday, August 29

Protests erupted for a fifth day in Indonesia as tensions soar across the country a day after a delivery rider was allegedly run over by a police armored vehicle during clashes between riot police and students

1:55 AM on Friday, August 29

The Gaza Health Ministry says the death toll in Gaza has surpassed 63,000 as Palestinians face the start of Israel’s expanded offensive in Gaza City

1:52 AM on Friday, August 29

Thailand’s Constitutional Court has dismissed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra for violating ethics rules in a phone call with a Cambodian official

12:46 AM on Friday, August 29

European defense ministers have pledged to increase pressure on Russia after a meeting in Copenhagen on the war in Ukraine