International News

5:05 PM on Tuesday, May 19

The United Nations has lowered its forecast for global economic growth and raised the prospects for inflation in response to Middle East crises and rising oil prices

4:51 PM on Tuesday, May 19

The Senate has advanced legislation that seeks to force President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iran war

4:31 PM on Tuesday, May 19

Taiwanese author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King have won the International Booker Prize for “Taiwan Travelogue.”

3:26 PM on Tuesday, May 19

Argentine investigators searching for the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise last month were trapping rodents in the forests surrounding the southernmost city of Ushuaia

12:25 PM on Tuesday, May 19

A joint operation by the United States and Nigeria has killed 175 Islamic State fighters, Nigeria's military says

9:58 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Police in the UK are investigating two allegations of decades-old child sex abuse linked to Jeffrey Epstein

9:21 AM on Tuesday, May 19

The United Arab Emirates says drones that targeted its Barakah nuclear power plant came from Iraq

8:41 AM on Tuesday, May 19

A bomb outside a Defense Ministry building in the Syrian capital has killed one soldier and wounded about a dozen other people

8:18 AM on Tuesday, May 19

British police plan to ask prosecutors to consider charging 57 people and 20 organizations over the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London

8:05 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Both the old best and worst case future scenarios in the fight against climate change are being jettisoned by the world’s top scientists as they prepare the next series of huge United Nations reports

7:57 AM on Tuesday, May 19

The United Nations is reviewing Israel's plan to turn a former U.N. agency headquarters in east Jerusalem into a military complex

7:10 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Authorities say a NATO fighter jet shot down a Ukrainian drone over southern Estonia

5:35 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Channel 4 has pulled all episodes of “Married at First Sight UK” after three contestants claimed they were sexually assaulted by on-screen partners

3:40 AM on Tuesday, May 19

An Australian farmer has found a live frog in a bag of lettuce

3:30 AM on Tuesday, May 19

The World Health Organization director-general has expressed concern over the rapid spread of a rare type of Ebola in eastern Congo

2:15 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Divers have recovered the bodies of two Italian divers from an underwater cave in the Maldives

12:06 AM on Tuesday, May 19

Hungary's new prime minister, Péter Magyar, is visiting Poland, a traditional ally that can offer plenty of lessons on political transformation and restoring democratic norms

8:02 PM on Monday, May 18

Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in China for meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping

1:04 PM on Friday, May 15

The Justice Department is preparing to seek an indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro, three people familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press

12:06 AM on Friday, May 15

Millions of Palestinians are marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba