International News

4:12 AM on Saturday, October 11

Visitors to Athens can now enjoy an unobstructed view of the Parthenon

11:12 PM on Friday, October 10

The most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader — Marwan Barghouti — is not among the prisoners Israel intends to free in exchange for hostages held by Hamas under the new Gaza ceasefire deal

10:05 AM on Friday, October 10

Tens of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza have started moving north toward their homes, or what remains of them, after a ceasefire agreement came into effect

8:17 AM on Friday, October 10

Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace efforts, despite not winning a Nobel prize, and voiced hope for securing an agreement to extend a pivotal nuclear arms pact with Washington for another year

7:38 AM on Friday, October 10

Dutch far right politician Geert Wilders says he’s suspending campaigning for national elections later this month amid reports that he was a possible target of a suspected plot in Belgium to kill politicians using a drone carrying explosives

5:06 AM on Friday, October 10

China has hit American-owned vessels docking in the country with tit-for-tat port fees

4:48 AM on Friday, October 10

The Taliban government accuses Pakistan of bombing Kabul and a market in eastern Afghanistan

4:17 AM on Friday, October 10

A ceasefire has taken effect in Gaza under a breakthrough deal

4:06 AM on Friday, October 10

Statistically, attending a weekly worship service is a remarkably safe thing to do

3:36 AM on Friday, October 10

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are starting to walk north to return to their homes after the Israeli military said the ceasefire agreement with Hamas came into effect at noon local time and that troops were withdrawing to the agreed-upon deployment lines

2:59 AM on Friday, October 10

Syria's foreign minister has arrived in Lebanon's capital, marking a potential breakthrough in relations between the two countries

2:31 AM on Friday, October 10

Tens of thousands of Palestinians headed back to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire came into effect on Friday

2:17 AM on Friday, October 10

The White House is responding bitterly to President Donald Trump being passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize despite efforts from Republicans and world leaders

1:55 AM on Friday, October 10

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction and more than half of bird species around the world are declining

11:47 PM on Thursday, October 9

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday re-appointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, to try again to form a government in a bid to end the country’s political deadlock

10:59 PM on Thursday, October 9

King Mohammed VI has urged Moroccan officials to address social injustices, framing issues raised by Morocco’s youth-led protesters as a question of poor governance, rather than of the country’s broader vision

10:17 PM on Thursday, October 9

Ukrainian authorities say that Russian drone and missile strikes wounded at least 20 people in Kyiv and damaged residential buildings and caused blackouts across swathes of Ukraine

10:01 PM on Thursday, October 9

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize

7:10 PM on Thursday, October 9

Philippine seismologists say that a new offshore earthquake with a preliminary 6.8 magnitude hit the same southern region struck earlier by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4

8:21 AM on Wednesday, October 8

This year’s Nobel Prize science winners got the good news from early morning phone calls and door knocks