International News

4:59 AM on Monday, August 31

Japan’s Defense Ministry has disclosed details of an 8.9 trillion yen ($55.6 billion) budget request for the next fiscal year that officials say will increase significantly after the government adopts new security and defense plans later in the year

1:13 AM on Monday, August 31

An election in eastern Germany on Sunday could produce the first far-right state governor in the country’s post-World War II history

11:41 PM on Sunday, August 30

Leaders from some of the world’s least populous states are gathering in Palau for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting

4:01 PM on Sunday, August 30

U.S. forces have struck Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz, marking their first military action in a month

10:57 AM on Sunday, August 30

Members of the Polish special forces are taking part in an exercise that simulates moving through enemy lines and launching a drone strike on a key enemy location

10:54 AM on Sunday, August 30

Some schoolchildren in Nepal have survived catastrophic floods by leaving their classrooms for lunch

8:45 AM on Sunday, August 30

The devastating flash floods in the Himalayan region swept so many people downstream that authorities in one Nepalese district have begun burying bodies in temporary graves before they can be identified

7:57 AM on Sunday, August 30

Iran’s supreme leader has called for Muslim countries to stand together against Israel and the United States

7:16 AM on Sunday, August 30

At least eight people have died after a ferry carrying nearly 270 passengers and crew capsized off the coast of the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus

6:11 AM on Sunday, August 30

Norway’s royal palace says the funeral of the late King Harald V will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 9

4:46 AM on Sunday, August 30

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the death toll from a Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv has risen to 38, with four people still missing

4:39 AM on Sunday, August 30

Iceland's voters have rejected a referendum to restart negotiations to join the European Union

3:05 AM on Sunday, August 30

Six months after the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran, the direst economic predictions haven't come true

2:30 AM on Sunday, August 30

Swiss police and media say that a shooting at a rave in the northern Swiss canton of Aargau has killed one person and left five injured

12:37 AM on Sunday, August 30

Authorities in Nepal are warning of potential fresh flooding as water levels rise in the Bhotekoshi River

3:33 PM on Saturday, August 29

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has responded to President Trump’s “Lake America” decree with a billboard declaring “Lake Ontario

11:52 AM on Saturday, August 29

Israel’s prime minister has spoken out after weeks of settler violence in the occupied West Bank and condemned the criminal actions of a “handful of rioters.”

5:26 AM on Saturday, August 29

Dozens of soldiers have been killed or arrested after a group of young soldiers attempted a mutiny in Niger’s capital of Niamey in what was seen as a major threat to the country’s ruling junta, according to a state television broadcast and analysts

5:01 AM on Saturday, August 29

Ukrainian officials say a Russian drone attack on a warehouse west of Kyiv killed at least 37 people, making it the deadliest attack in the war this year

12:02 AM on Saturday, August 29

Poor weather temporarily hampered aerial rescue operations in Nepal as the search for thousands of missing people in areas devastated by catastrophic flash floods along the border with China entered its fourth day