International News

9:07 PM on Thursday, April 9

BTS is back after a three-and-a-half year break, but their world tour is skipping China

5:53 PM on Thursday, April 9

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has told NBC News’ Meet the Press that he would not step down in his first interview with a U.S. network

5:39 PM on Thursday, April 9

Israel’s intense barrage of airstrikes on Wednesday hit without warning deep inside the Lebanese capital of Beirut, blowing buildings open to the elements and reducing apartment blocks to rubble in parts of the city that have traditionally escaped attack

5:11 PM on Thursday, April 9

Venezuelan lawmakers have approved a bill to regulate mining as the country seeks to attract leery foreign investors to a once-private industry that has long been exploited by criminal groups with ties to the government

4:30 PM on Thursday, April 9

An AP reporter describes how Israel's massive bombardment of Beirut stunned the city

3:37 PM on Thursday, April 9

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has declared a ceasefire in Ukraine over the Orthodox Easter

2:53 PM on Thursday, April 9

The ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah is part of a long-standing conflict

12:47 PM on Thursday, April 9

Nigeria's officials say that an army general and several soldiers have been killed during an attempt to raid a military base in the northeast

10:49 AM on Thursday, April 9

Argentina's Congress has approved a bill that eases glacier protections to boost mining investments

9:18 AM on Thursday, April 9

Lebanon is reeling after the deadliest day of renewed conflict between Israel and Hezbollah

8:12 AM on Thursday, April 9

Russia’s Supreme Court has effectively criminalized the activities of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning rights group Memorial, the latest step in an unrelenting crackdown on dissent and civil society organizations

6:39 AM on Thursday, April 9

French authorities say at least four people died while trying to board an inflatable boat for a dangerous sea crossing from northern France to the U.K. The prefect of the Pas-de-Calais region said Thursday that 38 others were rescued including one whose condition involved a medical emergency

6:17 AM on Thursday, April 9

Britain and Norway have conducted a weekslong operation to deter Russian spy submarines near undersea cables in the North Atlantic

3:29 AM on Thursday, April 9

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus is actually a nautilus relative

2:19 AM on Thursday, April 9

A viral photo of snow-capped Mount Fuji, a red pagoda and cherry blossoms has brought many tourists to a peaceful Japanese town

12:58 AM on Thursday, April 9

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the neighbors

12:17 AM on Thursday, April 9

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the neighbors

12:02 AM on Thursday, April 9

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is the rare European leader seeking President Donald Trump's approval

2:49 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Rescue teams rescued a miner trapped for 13 days after a collapse in Sinaloa, Mexico

8:27 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Lebanon’s health ministry says that Israeli strikes during the day killed 182 people, the highest single-day death toll in the Israel-Hezbollah war