International News

1:15 PM on Friday, May 29

The Trump administration has extended protections shielding about 11,000 Lebanese from deportation, allowing them to stay and work in the U.S. for another six months and marking a rare reprieve to any of the people protected by temporary measures which have been harshly criticized by Republicans

9:57 AM on Friday, May 29

A Brazilian court has ruled that officials must restore and preserve Fordlandia

7:57 AM on Friday, May 29

Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after spending seven months in space

6:15 AM on Friday, May 29

Officials say the European Union will unlock 16.4 billion euros or around $19 billion in funds for Hungary after recently elected Prime Minister Péter Magyar enacted rapid reforms

6:05 AM on Friday, May 29

Authorities in Kenya say eight female students have been arrested on suspicion of arson after a fire destroyed a dormitory at a boarding school, killing 16 children and injuring dozens of others

4:42 AM on Friday, May 29

Residents in the East Java province of Indonesia have scattered flowers and paid their respects and prayed at the edge of a mud lake

4:25 AM on Friday, May 29

A Sudanese medical group says attacks in central Sudan have killed 27 people, including elderly individuals

4:07 AM on Friday, May 29

The head of the World Health Organization has arrived in Congo's capital, Kinshasa, to support efforts against an Ebola outbreak

2:52 AM on Friday, May 29

Rescue divers in Laos have safely evacuated the first of five villagers trapped in a cave for over a week due to floodwaters

2:36 AM on Friday, May 29

A court in Kenya has suspended a U.S. plan to establish a quarantine facility for Americans exposed to a rare Ebola virus in northeastern Congo

1:03 AM on Friday, May 29

President Vladimir Putin is facing a battlefield stalemate in Ukraine and growing war fatigue among Russians and appears ready to change the narrative around the conflict

5:06 PM on Thursday, May 28

The U.S. State Department says it will designate Brazil’s two biggest criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations early next month, a move that the South American nation’s government has repeatedly said it will interpret as undue interference in its politics

4:55 PM on Thursday, May 28

Nearly 3 million Cubans are experiencing water shortages every day because of a severe oil shortage that government officials blame on a U.S. energy blockade

12:33 PM on Thursday, May 28

Dozens of Palestinians in Gaza City gathered for funeral prayers for 10 people killed in Israeli strikes

8:49 AM on Thursday, May 28

Yemen's former President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has died at 80

8:07 AM on Thursday, May 28

Aid supplies have been rushed in to the center of Congo's Ebola outbreak where medical workers are struggling with equipment shortages, distrustful locals and armed groups

4:18 AM on Thursday, May 28

A man has stabbed and wounded three people at the train station in the Swiss city of Winterthur before being arrested

12:10 AM on Thursday, May 28

French lawmakers have voted to repeal a 17th-century law that governed enslaved people in France's colonies

11:53 PM on Wednesday, May 27

A fire has devastated a girls' boarding school in central Kenya, killing at least 16 students and injuring many more

10:22 PM on Wednesday, May 27

U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reached a tentative agreement to extend the ceasefire by 60 days and start a new round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program