International News

3:18 PM on Friday, September 26

Some call it a useless bureaucracy

2:36 PM on Friday, September 26

China’s second-in-command sounded his nation’s recurring alarm against aggressive and unilateral action in global politics in an address to world leaders

1:03 PM on Friday, September 26

Just back from a congressional delegation trip to Ukraine, a senior Republican says he’s more optimistic that the country can succeed in the war with Russia

8:59 AM on Friday, September 26

Chinese authorities have detained Zhang Yadi, a 22-year-old student, on suspicion of inciting separatism

8:42 AM on Friday, September 26

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a long history of turning to props and visual aids in his speeches to the U.N. But even by the Israeli leader’s elevated standards of showmanship, this year’s address took things to a new level

6:57 AM on Friday, September 26

Moldova’s electoral commission has barred two pro-Russian parties from participating in this weekend's parliamentary election

5:47 AM on Friday, September 26

Slovakia's parliament has passed a constitutional amendment recognizing only two sexes, male and female

5:02 AM on Friday, September 26

The United Nations has added 68 more companies to a blacklist of companies from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank

4:08 AM on Friday, September 26

Russia is selling military equipment and technology to China that could help Beijing prepare an airborne takeover of Taiwan, according to a UK-based defense forum

3:33 AM on Friday, September 26

Ukraine's top military commander says the front line in Ukraine created by Russia’s full-scale invasion has expanded to nearly 1,250 kilometers

2:02 AM on Friday, September 26

European defense ministers have agreed to develop a “drone wall” along their borders with Russia and Ukraine to better detect, track and intercept drones violating Europe’s airspace

12:47 AM on Friday, September 26

Eurovision Song Contest organizers say member countries will vote in November about whether Israel can participate in the musical extravaganza next year, as calls have mounted for the country to be excluded over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza

12:09 AM on Friday, September 26

India has retired its last fleet of MiG-21 fighter jets, closing a six-decade chapter with an aircraft once hailed for its combat prowess but later derided as a “flying coffin” due to frequent crashes

10:21 PM on Thursday, September 25

Behind the scenes at the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, key countries and regional organizations have been coordinating efforts to try to end the war in Sudan

9:26 PM on Thursday, September 25

A tropical storm has blown out of the Philippines and left at least 10 dead and prompted the evacuations of more than 430,000 people from landslide- and flood-prone villages

9:06 PM on Thursday, September 25

Intrusions into NATO’s airspace blamed on Russia have reached an unprecedented scale, raising questions about whether the Kremlin is trying to test the alliance’s willingness to respond to a direct attack or divert its attention and resources from the war in Ukraine

9:04 PM on Thursday, September 25

Health workers in Sumenep, Indonesia, are delivering measles vaccines to children

7:43 PM on Thursday, September 25

Hong Kong lawmakers have passed a bill to ban inadequate housing in subdivided apartments

4:28 PM on Thursday, September 25

President Donald Trump is putting import taxes of 100% on pharmaceutical drugs, 50% on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30% on upholstered furniture and 25% on heavy trucks starting on Oct. 1

6:46 AM on Thursday, September 25

A new exhibition in Germany called “Queer Modernism