International News

1:04 AM on Wednesday, April 8

A subsidiary of a Hong Kong-based conglomerate started arbitration proceedings against Danish logistics and port group Maersk, accusing the company of aligning with Panama and scheming to replace its port operation on the Central American country’s critical canal

12:33 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Iran, the United States, and Israel have reached a deal for a two-week ceasefire

12:18 AM on Wednesday, April 8

President Donald Trump over the course of a day went from threatening Iran with “annihilation” to proclaiming that the battered Islamic Republic’s leadership had presented a “workable” plan that led him to agree to a two-week ceasefire

12:14 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Iran, the United States and Israel reached a two-week ceasefire in the war that tore across the Middle East and disrupted the global energy market, with U_S_ President Donald Trump pulling back from his threats to destroy Iranian “civilization.”

11:17 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Asian shares are surging as oil prices plunged after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire that includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz

8:12 PM on Tuesday, April 7

South Korea’s military says it detected North Korea firing several ballistic missiles toward its eastern seas in its second launch event in two days

4:15 PM on Tuesday, April 7

President Donald Trump’s recent statements of intent about his administration’s plans for Iran have raised questions about international law

3:46 PM on Tuesday, April 7

A founder of one of Mexico’s most powerful and violent drug cartels has pleaded guilty in the U.S. to a federal narcotics conspiracy charge

2:28 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Tehran residents are rushing to stock up on bottled water and charge cellphones, flashlights and portable power banks as the hours tick down to Trump’s latest ultimatum for a deal in the war with Iran

1:54 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Hundreds of Cuban women have gathered in Havana to decry a U.S. energy embargo and other measures imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump that are strangling the Caribbean island

1:30 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Donald Trump Jr. has lashed out at the European Union

11:59 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Scam compounds have mushroomed across Southeast Asia since the pandemic

10:07 AM on Tuesday, April 7

The U.N. migration agency says that more than 80 migrants went missing after a boat that departed a Libyan coastal town capsized in the central Mediterranean

10:02 AM on Tuesday, April 7

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that American journalist Shelley Kittleson, who was kidnapped last week in Iraq, has been released

5:51 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Turkish officials say that gunmen attacked police outside a building housing the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul

3:49 AM on Tuesday, April 7

The British government has blocked the rapper formerly known as Kanye West from entering the U.K. as the controversy over his antisemitic statements led to calls for planned headline performances at a major music festival to be canceled

2:24 AM on Tuesday, April 7

U.S. Vice President JD Vance says he is in Hungary to support Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's reelection bid

12:55 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war

12:20 AM on Tuesday, April 7

U.S. President Donald Trump pulls back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran, swerving to deescalate the war less than two hours before the deadline he set for Tehran to capitulate

12:01 AM on Tuesday, April 7

President Donald Trump is suspending his threatened attack against Iran less than two hours before the deadline the president set for Tehran