International News

9:02 PM on Thursday, January 8

K-pop is an inextricable force in global pop culture

8:18 PM on Thursday, January 8

A massive crowd of mostly barefoot Filipino Catholics is joining an annual procession of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ in the Philippine capital, with some using the gathering to express outrage over a corruption scandal involving influential legislators

6:00 PM on Thursday, January 8

Venezuela’s sudden release of detainees brought relief and guarded optimism to a country consumed by uncertainty

12:37 PM on Thursday, January 8

The Mexican government reports a sharp decline in homicide rates, claiming its security strategy is working

12:05 PM on Thursday, January 8

The top United Nations official says the United States has a “legal obligation” to keep paying its dues that fund U.N. agencies after the White House announced that it's withdrawing support from more than 30 initiatives operated by the world body

11:27 AM on Thursday, January 8

The House has passed legislation that extends expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act

10:33 AM on Thursday, January 8

Humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders says it is suspending services at a clinic in a violent neighborhood of Haiti’s capital given ongoing clashes between police and armed groups

7:42 AM on Thursday, January 8

The U.S. has seized a Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the North Atlantic, backed by British support

7:30 AM on Thursday, January 8

Somalia’s government is denying an allegation by the U.S. government that authorities in Mogadishu destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program

7:18 AM on Thursday, January 8

Russian drone strikes have knocked out power in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region and left over 600,000 households in Dnipropetrovsk without electricity

6:18 AM on Thursday, January 8

France's president says a political scholar from the country who was serving a three-year sentence in Russia and facing new charges of espionage has been freed in a prisoner swap with France

3:44 AM on Thursday, January 8

Britain is bracing for potentially life-threatening winds, rains and snowfall as a severe storm headed in from the southwest of England during what already has been one of the country’s worst cold snaps in years

3:00 AM on Thursday, January 8

Israel’s prime minister says a former U.N. Mideast envoy, Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov, has been chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace aimed at overseeing the peace process in Gaza

1:56 AM on Thursday, January 8

Iran’s government has cut off the country from the internet and international telephone calls

1:44 AM on Thursday, January 8

Syrian authorities have warned civilians to leave a contested area in Aleppo as clashes between government and Kurdish forces intensify

1:16 AM on Thursday, January 8

Dozens of angry farmers have demonstrated in France and Greece, halting traffic and blocking roads with tractors to protest European Union plans to move forward with a free trade deal with five South American nations

12:34 AM on Thursday, January 8

They’re at it again

11:38 PM on Wednesday, January 7

Lebanon's military says it has ended the first phase of its plan to deploy across southern Lebanon and disarm non-state groups, including Hezbollah

9:40 PM on Wednesday, January 7

Saudi Arabia says the United Arab Emirates has smuggled a wanted separatist leader out of Yemen

2:11 PM on Wednesday, January 7

The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.’s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations