International News

10:47 PM on Thursday, October 23

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in her first major policy speech on Friday, pledged to further accelerate Japan’s military buildup and spending, and an early upgrading of the country's security strategy to allow more offensive roles and arms exports as tensions rise with China, North Korea and Russia

9:48 PM on Thursday, October 23

Tropical Storm Melissa is plodding through the central Caribbean, with forecasters warning it could soon strengthen and brush past Jamaica as a powerful hurricane

7:52 PM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump says on social media that he is ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada because of recent television ads protesting U.S. tariffs, which he calles “egregious behavior” aimed at influencing U.S. court decisions

7:02 PM on Thursday, October 23

As U.S. President Donald Trump makes his first trip to Asia since his return to office, speculation is rife that he may seek to meet Kim again during his stop in South Korea

5:19 PM on Thursday, October 23

An official says the Canadian government is limiting how many vehicles Stellantis and GM can import tariff free after the automakers ended some production in Canada

12:33 PM on Thursday, October 23

A Florida family is urging U.S. leaders to help free a 16-year-old Palestinian-American held in an Israeli prison for eight months

11:06 AM on Thursday, October 23

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda says Russian military planes violated Lithuania’s airspace on Thursday evening

10:25 AM on Thursday, October 23

Judges at the International Criminal Court have rejected a challenge to jurisdiction in the case involving former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte

8:46 AM on Thursday, October 23

Authorities say Pakistan has banned a radical Islamist party behind recent violent protests that left at least one police officer and four civilians dead

8:11 AM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump is suggesting he could call on Israel to release imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, the most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader

4:12 AM on Thursday, October 23

Hundreds of thousands of Hungarians have filled the streets of Budapest in competing demonstrations

3:46 AM on Thursday, October 23

European Union leaders are seeking a more active role in Gaza and the occupied West Bank after being sidelined from a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

2:30 AM on Thursday, October 23

China's ruling Communist Party says it will focus on speeding up self-reliance in science and technology in the coming five years

2:04 AM on Thursday, October 23

King Charles III and Queen Camilla have visited the Vatican to pray with Pope Leo XIV

1:30 AM on Thursday, October 23

The European Union has heaped more economic sanctions on Russia, adding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s new punitive measures the previous day against the Russian oil industry

1:09 AM on Thursday, October 23

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation

12:53 AM on Thursday, October 23

European Union leaders have ordered the bloc’s executive branch to come up with options for meeting Ukraine’s pressing economic and military needs over the next two years

9:31 PM on Wednesday, October 22

A former British paratrooper who was the only soldier ever charged in the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland has been acquitted of murder charges

9:23 PM on Wednesday, October 22

Tropical Storm Melissa is lumbering through the Caribbean Sea and bringing a risk of dangerous landslides and life-threatening flooding to Jamaica and the southern part of the island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti

10:43 AM on Wednesday, October 22

The U.S. military has launched its ninth strike against an alleged drug-carrying vessel, killing three people in the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean