International News

2:53 AM on Thursday, March 12

South Korean lawmakers have passed a law to implement a pledge of $350 billion in U.S. investments Seoul made last year to avoid the Trump administration’s highest tariffs

12:11 AM on Thursday, March 12

Cuba is grappling with a fast-growing wave of synthetic drug use that is hitting young people hard

12:07 AM on Thursday, March 12

U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have damaged at least four cultural and historical sites across Iran

8:12 PM on Wednesday, March 11

China has adopted a sweeping ethnic unity law that critics say tightens assimilation and weakens minority rights

2:11 PM on Wednesday, March 11

Ecuador's interior minister says the country is preparing a major crackdown on criminal groups set to begin this weekend with logistical support from the United States

12:50 PM on Wednesday, March 11

South Africa says the new U.S. ambassador has been summoned to explain his criticism of the country’s policies

12:00 PM on Wednesday, March 11

Cambodia says it is close to shutting down all online scam centers operating in the Southeast Asian country

7:21 AM on Wednesday, March 11

Britain is ending the centuries-old tradition of hereditary aristocrats sitting in Parliament’s House of Lords

7:13 AM on Wednesday, March 11

South Africa has deployed troops to the streets of the country's biggest city to help police fight gang violence and illegal mining

6:05 AM on Wednesday, March 11

A series of explosions attributed to drones has killed at least one person as the attack rocked downtown Goma in eastern Congo

5:00 AM on Wednesday, March 11

Documents released by the British government show officials believed there was a “reputational risk” in appointing Peter Mandelson as the U.S. ambassador because of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

4:33 AM on Wednesday, March 11

Japan is marking the 15th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on its northeastern coast as the government pushes for atomic energy use

3:37 AM on Wednesday, March 11

A man who doused himself in a flammable substance and set his body on fire killing himself and five others aboard a bus in Switzerland had previously been reported missing by his family and didn't appear to have any terror-related motive

1:01 AM on Wednesday, March 11

Iran targeted the world’s busiest international airport Wednesday and attacked commercial ships as U.S. and Israeli strikes rocked Tehran, while the United Nations’ most powerful body demanded a halt to the Islamic Republic’s strikes on its Gulf neighbors that threaten global oil supplies

1:00 AM on Wednesday, March 11

The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has become a test of who endures longer

12:54 AM on Wednesday, March 11

Far-right leader José Antonio Kast has been sworn in as Chile’s president in the nation’s most pronounced rightward shift since the return of democracy in 1990

12:50 AM on Wednesday, March 11

Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon are driving thousands of families to flee again, and some longtime Hezbollah supporters are now openly blaming the group

9:52 PM on Tuesday, March 10

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his teenage daughter have observed tests of strategic cruise missiles fired from a warship as North Korea threatened responses to U.S.-South Korean military drills

6:22 PM on Tuesday, March 10

Two more members of the Iranian women’s soccer team were granted asylum in Australia before their teammates departed, but one later changed her mind and will return to Iran

12:17 AM on Sunday, March 8

As the Iran war widens, experts say the Middle East’s real strategic weak point may be water — not oil