International News

3:17 PM on Tuesday, September 9

The United Nations chief is warning that soaring global military expenditures are reducing essential investments in health, education and job creation and don’t guarantee peace

3:03 PM on Tuesday, September 9

Israel has killed multiple senior officials with Hamas and its regional allies since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas-led militants in southern Israel that triggered the war in Gaza

12:36 PM on Tuesday, September 9

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency have signed an agreement in Cairo to open the way for resuming cooperation, including on ways of resuming inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities

12:00 PM on Tuesday, September 9

French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu as France’s new prime minister

10:01 AM on Tuesday, September 9

More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities in cases that date to the 1960s

7:26 AM on Tuesday, September 9

The United Nations is issuing an emergency appeal for nearly $140 million in desperately needed funding to help nearly half a million people affected by the devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan

7:12 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Israel launched a strike targeting Hamas’ leadership in Qatar as they considered a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip

6:23 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Ethiopia has inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam to produce more than 5,000 megawatts and boost the electric vehicle industry in a country that has banned the importation of gasoline-powered vehicles

5:31 AM on Tuesday, September 9

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is set to deliver a major state of the union speech on the challenges facing the world’s biggest trading bloc and laying out her vision for tackling them

3:30 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Rebels in eastern Congo affiliated with the Islamic State group have killed at least 60 people in an attack

1:56 AM on Tuesday, September 9

New Zealand's police say they will investigate how a father vanished into forest with his three children for years without detection, even as law enforcement expanded a search for them

1:39 AM on Tuesday, September 9

An international activist group aiming to deliver aid to Gaza says one of its boats was hit by a drone while docked in Tunisia

1:29 AM on Tuesday, September 9

Officials in Slovakia say they have evacuated parts of Bratislava after a World War II bomb was found during construction work

10:22 PM on Monday, September 8

Nepal’s crackdown on social media companies, which led to protests and police killing at least 19 people Monday, is part of a yearslong decline of internet freedoms around the world as even democracies seek to curtail online speech

10:14 PM on Monday, September 8

Authorities in Mexico say a train has collided with a double-decker bus northwest of Mexico City, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 50

8:16 PM on Monday, September 8

Experts say a ship likely cut cables in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Africa, Asia and the Middle East

8:00 PM on Monday, September 8

Protests against Nepal’s short-lived ban on social media grew increasingly violent as demonstrators set government buildings and politicians’ homes on fire and attacked some leaders

5:37 PM on Monday, September 8

North Korea says it conducted the final ground test of a solid-fuel rocket engine for a long-range ballistic missile in its latest advancement toward having an arsenal that could viably threaten the continental United States

11:00 AM on Monday, September 8

The Czech Republic’s counterintelligence agency says it has broken up a spy network being built by Belarus

2:26 AM on Monday, September 8

Pakistani officials say rescuers backed by troops have evacuated more than 25,000 people from a city in eastern Pakistan as rising rivers threatened to flood the region