International News

1:01 AM on Saturday, August 23

Human rights activists say female political prisoners in Belarus are often singled out for abuse and humiliation, threatened with losing their children, and having medical problems ignored

6:44 PM on Friday, August 22

Principals in El Salvador have started greeting students at school gates to inspect haircuts and uniforms

11:10 AM on Friday, August 22

A leisure park manager in southern France has been detained for alleged religious discrimination

7:20 AM on Friday, August 22

Berlin’s newest panda twins have celebrated their first birthday with frozen vegetable treats and a candle made out of bamboo shoots

6:41 AM on Friday, August 22

Authorities in Kenya have exhumed five bodies from shallow graves near a site where over 400 bodies were found two years ago

5:55 AM on Friday, August 22

Sri Lankan police have arrested former President Ranil Wickremesinghe over allegations of misusing public funds

5:54 AM on Friday, August 22

President Donald Trump started the week declaring a diplomatic breakthrough in his bid to get Russia and Ukraine closer to making peace, announcing he had begun arranging for direct talks between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy

5:02 AM on Friday, August 22

The world's leading authority on food crises says the Gaza Strip’s largest city is gripped by famine, and that it is likely to spread without an immediate ceasefire and an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid

2:51 AM on Friday, August 22

Russia needs more workers, primarily due to its war in Ukraine

2:37 AM on Friday, August 22

Iran's foreign minister has spoken with his French, German, and British counterparts, trying to stop the reimposition of U.N. sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program

2:28 AM on Friday, August 22

The Israeli defense minister is warning that Gaza’s largest city could be destroyed unless Hamas yields to his country’s terms

12:06 AM on Friday, August 22

Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been acquitted of a royal defamation charge by a court in a case that could have sent him to prison for up to 15 years

12:06 AM on Friday, August 22

The United States Geological Survey reports a major, preliminary magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck in the South Atlantic Ocean

11:32 PM on Thursday, August 21

The Philippine defense chief has condemned China’s deployment of a swarm of armed coast guard forces, backed by a helicopter and a drone, closer to the Philippines' military outpost in a fiercely disputed atoll in the South China Sea

7:37 PM on Thursday, August 21

A car bomb and an attack on a police helicopter in Colombia have killed at least 17 people, including police officers

3:28 PM on Thursday, August 21

Authorities said heavy rains caused a landslide that struck homes in a rural community in Guinea and at least 11 people were dead

9:06 AM on Thursday, August 21

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will give final approval for the takeover of Gaza City while also restarting negotiations with Hamas aimed at returning all the remaining hostages and ending the war on Israel’s terms

3:16 AM on Thursday, August 21

Iran has held its first military exercise since its 12-day war with Israel

3:04 AM on Thursday, August 21

Russia has launched a rare drone and missile attack on western Ukraine, hitting an American-owned electronics plant among other targets and injecting further uncertainty into the U.S.-led efforts to end the 3-year-old war

7:01 PM on Wednesday, August 20

Chinese officials have showcased what they claim will be the world's largest solar farm on the Tibetan plateau