International News

9:21 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Young Western social media users are embracing a “very Chinese time” of their lives, and China’s government is keen to use this moment to boost the country’s cultural influence worldwide

4:11 PM on Wednesday, April 15

The Trump administration is setting the stage to shift its war campaign toward a more economically focused effort aimed at choking Tehran into submission rather than relying on bombs alone

12:15 PM on Wednesday, April 15

The BBC plans to cut up to 2,000 jobs to save 10% of its annual budget

12:00 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Nearly 200 organizations are urging the Trump administration and Puerto Rico’s governor to restore $350 million in federal funding that was meant to finance the installation of rooftop solar and battery systems for 12,000 low-income families across the U.S. territory

11:40 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Palestinian schoolchildren trying to return to class this week for the first time since the Iran war started were blocked by an impromptu barbed wire fence erected overnight by Israeli settlers

11:19 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The World Health Organization says vaccination programs across Africa have saved more than 50 million lives over the past five decades, but progress is slowing in some countries

10:02 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Pope Leo XIV is again emphasizing the need for peace and dialogue despite criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump

7:20 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Dozens of boats carrying activists and aid for Palestinians in Gaza have set sail from the northeastern Spanish city of Barcelona

7:16 AM on Wednesday, April 15

A student has opened fire on two classrooms at a middle school in Turkey, killing nine people and wounding 13 others

7:00 AM on Wednesday, April 15

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Roelf Meyer as the country's ambassador to the United States

1:01 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The Guerreros Buscadores and dozens of other groups in Mexico scour the country for people who are missing

12:45 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Pakistan’s army chief is meeting with Iranian officials for talks in Tehran in the latest diplomatic move to ease tensions in the region and arrange a second round of negotiations between the United States and Iran

12:38 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Chinese President Xi Jinping has praised the stability and certainty of China-Russia relations, calling them precious in the face of an international landscape intertwined with changes and chaos

12:30 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The United Nations says at least 250 people including Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals are either feared dead or missing after a boat capsized in the Andaman Sea recently

8:35 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Two U.S. families have gone to Italy's highest court to challenge a law limiting citizenship claims to Italian descendants removed by more than two generations

7:49 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has suspended the fuel tax in response to the Iran war

6:10 AM on Tuesday, April 14

A Parisian art enthusiast has won a Pablo Picasso painting with a $117 raffle ticket

5:34 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Lebanon and Israel have held direct diplomatic talks for the first time in decades

4:25 AM on Tuesday, April 14

An assailant has opened fire at a high school in southeastern Turkey before killing himself

3:36 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Diplomats are working through back channels to arrange more talks between the United States and Iran