International News

Latest International Headlines

20 minutes ago

Sweden charges a woman with war crimes for allegedly torturing Yazidi women and children in Syria

Swedish authorities have charged a 52-year-old woman associated with the Islamic State group with genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes against Yazidi women and children in Syria — in the first such case of a person to be tried in th...
20 minutes ago
1 hour ago

Denmark's Queen Margrethe who abdicated earlier this year has been hospitalized

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II who stunningly abdicated earlier this year, has been admitted to a hospital after falling in her home
1 hour ago
Denmark's Queen Margrethe attends the Rungstedlund Prize 2024 at the Karen Blixen Museum in Rungsted, Denmark, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
1 hour ago

EU chief travels to Kyiv with promise of fresh energy funds to get Ukraine through winter

European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen is traveling to war-ravaged Ukraine with the promise of 160 million euros in fresh energy funds to get the nation through the winter
1 hour ago
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presents her new team for her next five-year tenure at the head of the bloc, during a press conference at the European Parliament, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, in Strasbourg. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)
1 hour ago

Hezbollah fires new volley at Israel as fears of greater war mount after electronic devices bombing

A new Hezbollah volley into northern Israel signals the group is keeping up its drumbeat of exchanges with the Israeli military
1 hour ago
Hezbollah fighters salute as they stand next to the coffins of four victims who were killed Tuesday after their handheld pagers exploded, during their funeral procession in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
1 hour ago

UK leader Starmer is facing flak for taking freebies. He says he's done nothing wrong

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was elected in July on a promise to restore trust in politics
1 hour ago
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to members of the media in Rome, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (Phil Noble/Pool Photo via AP)
1 hour ago

Israeli police, intelligence foil alleged $1 million plot to assassinate leaders

Israeli police and intelligence said Thursday they foiled an Iranian plot.
1 hour ago
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (R) attend a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct. 28, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP, File)
1 hour ago

Bank of England keeps its main interest rate on hold at 5% in wake of big US Fed rate cut

Bank of England keeps its main interest rate on hold at 5% in wake of big US Fed rate cut
1 hour ago
2 hours ago

A U.N.-chartered plane was damaged in an Islamist attack in Mali

A plane that was used for humanitarian work by the World Food Program was damaged during an Islamist attack in the capital of Mali, according to the South African aviation company that owns the plane
2 hours ago
2 hours ago

2 killed in restive New Caledonia during a French police operation

French media reports say two people have been killed in New Caledonia during a police intervention to apprehend activists, suspected of involvement in deadly unrest over attempts by Paris to amend the French constitution and change voting lists in the ...
2 hours ago
2 hours ago

Floods in Central Europe threaten new areas. Heavy rains also flood parts of Italy

A massive floodwave moving across Central Europe is threatening new areas and raising concerns among residents and leaders
2 hours ago
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban holds a news briefing on flood protection developments in the press room of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
2 hours ago

Python grabs Thai woman, squeezes her two hours before she can be freed

A 64-year-old woman was preparing to do her evening dishes at her home outside Bangkok when she felt a sharp pain in her thigh and looked down to see a huge python taking hold of her
2 hours ago
In this photo provided by Kunyakit Thanawtchaikun, a python coils itself around Arom Arunro's torso, squeezing her down to the floor of her kitchen in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Kunyakit Thanawtchaikun)
2 hours ago

Oktoberfest tightens security in wake of deadly knife attack in western Germany

Oktoberfest has tightened security around the beer festival in the wake of a deadly knife attack in western Germany last month
2 hours ago
Workers stand on a lifting platform during construction work on the Oktoberfest grounds at the main entrance, in Munich, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (Peter Kneffel/dpa via AP)
2 hours ago

Modi visits Indian-controlled Kashmir on local election campaign amid massive security

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting the main city in Himalayan Kashmir to campaign for his party in the staggered local election in a first such vote since New Delhi stripped the disputed region’s semi-autonomy in 2019
2 hours ago
Policemen and supporters of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi leave the venue after an election rally in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
3 hours ago

Faulty component could have caused "extensive damage" to jet, report finds

Hong Kong's air safety authority has found that a defect in an engine component of a Cathay Pacific Airways Airbus A350 that forced a Zurich-bound flight to return to Hong Kong could have caused “extensive damage” to the aircraft
3 hours ago
3 hours ago

Vatican gives green light to devotion at Bosnian site in Medjugorje where Virgin Mary is said to have appeared

Vatican gives green light to devotion at Bosnian site in Medjugorje where Virgin Mary is said to have appeared
3 hours ago
3 hours ago

Norway reports first cases of bluetongue disease in livestock since 2009

Norway has reported dozens of confirmed and suspected cases of bluetongue disease in livestock for the first time in the country since 2009
3 hours ago
FILE - Dairy cows gather at Sommerbjerggaard after being released from the stables, near Them, Denmark, Sunday April 19, 2020. (Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)
3 hours ago

Threat of Israel-Hezbollah war looms after Lebanon device explosions

Thirty-two Hezbollah members were killed this week, the group said.
3 hours ago
Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, Sept. 18, 2024.
3 hours ago

Bank of England widely expected to hold interest rates despite big US Fed cut

The Bank of England is keeping its main interest rate unchanged at 5% despite a big cut from the U.S. Federal Reserve, its first since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic more than four years ago
3 hours ago
FILE - The Bank of England is pictured in London, on Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)
4 hours ago

Fruit and seafood are the latest front in escalating Taiwan-China tensions

Taiwan says China’s ban on imports of its fruit, vegetables, seafood and other goods violate trade rules, in the latest ratcheting up of tensions between the self-governing island republic and its massive neighbor, which has vowed to annex Taiwan by force
4 hours ago
FILE - People buy fruit at a stall in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sept. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
4 hours ago

Spain arrests suspect in February speedboat crash that killed 2 police officers

Spanish authorities arrested a 32-year-old man for the death of two police officers in February when a speedboat suspected to belong to drug smugglers smashed into their patrol craft, Spain’s Civil Guard said Thursday
4 hours ago
4 hours ago

Lawyer for American charged in Japan's trial of ex-Nissan exec appeals for 'justice'

The six-year-old criminal case of Greg Kelly, an American ensnared in the scandal of Nissan’s former boss Carlos Ghosn has turned a page in a Japanese court, with the judge promising a verdict in February
4 hours ago
FILE - Former Nissan Motor Co. executive Greg Kelly speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Tokyo, on Aug. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
September 19

Malaysian police detain CEO and other leaders of Islamic group as probe into child sex abuse widens

Malaysian police on Thursday detained the CEO and other top leaders of an Islamic business group that is under investigation after hundreds of children believed to be sexually abused were rescued this month from welfare homes linked to the group
September 19
The headquarters of Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings (GISBH) in Rawang is seen on the outskirts of Selangor state, Malaysia, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
September 19

First people are sentenced under Hong Kong's tough new security law

A Hong Kong court has sentenced the first two people under a tough new Hong Kong national security law, including a man who was given 14 months in prison for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan
September 19
FILE - A protestor holds a flag that reads: "Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times" at a rally in Hong Kong, on Dec. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
September 19

At least 1000 people evacuated as flooding hits northern Italy

About a thousand residents were evacuated in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna after it was hit by torrential rains and severe flooding overnight, local media reported Thursday
September 19
September 19

Pygmy hippo Moo Deng is so adored she may get her own patent

Only a month after the adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable both domestically and internationally
September 19
Two-month-old baby hippo Moo Deng walks at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
September 19

Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel turns its focus north toward Lebanon and Hezbollah

Israel’s defense minister has declared the start of a “new phase” of the war as Israel turns its focus toward the northern front against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon
September 19
A poster of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is placed next to bouquets of flowers and Lebanese flag in front of the Lebanese Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
September 19

Vatican gives green light to devotion at Bosnia site in Medjugorje where Madonna reportedly appeared

The Vatican has given the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary
September 19
Pilgrims say their prayers inside the St. James Church in Medjugorje, Bosnia, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
September 19

Sri Lanka's presidential election a test for current leader, 2 years after its economy hit bottom

Sri Lankans who usually vote along religious and ethnic lines will be keeping another factor in mind when they vote Saturday on a new president
September 19
A man sits next to election posters of opposition leader Sajith Premadasa as he gets a shave from a roadside barber in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
September 19

Vietnamese real estate tycoon, already sentenced to death for fraud, faces trial on new charges

Vietnamese state media say the second trial for real estate tycoon Truong My Lan — who was sentenced to death for financial fraud in April — started on Thursday
September 19
Business woman Truong My Lan, a real estate tycoon sentenced to death for financial fraud, attends her second trial in Vietnam's largest fraud case in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (Thanh Tung/VnExpress via AP)
September 19

Adoption fraud separated generations of South Korean children from their families, AP finds

The South Korean government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to satiate intense demand for adoptable babies in the West, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means, a...
September 19
In this photo provided by Robert Calabretta, right, he and and his biological father, Lee Sung-soo, stand together for a photo while on a visit in Daegu, South Korea, in August of 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Courtesy Robert Calabretta via AP)
September 19

Rampant adoption fraud separated generations of South Korean children from their families, AP finds

The South Korean government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to satiate intense demand for adoptable babies in the West, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means, a...
September 19
Robert Calabretta holds his baby photo from before he was adopted out of South Korea to a family in the United States, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, at his apartment in New York. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
September 19

Why is Congo struggling to contain mpox?

Health authorities have struggled to contain outbreaks of mpox in Congo, a huge central African country where a myriad of existing problems makes stemming the spread particularly hard
September 19
A worker carries a shovel at the hospital in Kamituga, in South Kivu province in eastern Congo on Sept. 4, 2024. South Kivu is considered the epicenter of the world's latest outbreak of mpox. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
September 19

A gold mining town in Congo has become an mpox hot spot as a new strain spreads

Congo's South Kivu province is at the epicenter of the world’s latest mpox outbreak, in what the World Health Organization has called a global health emergency
September 19
A worker carries a shovel at the hospital in Kamituga, in South Kivu province in eastern Congo on Sept. 4, 2024. South Kivu is considered the epicenter of the world's latest outbreak of mpox. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
September 18

Colombia suspends peace talks with ELN rebel group after a deadly attack on the military

Colombia has suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, after blaming the rebel group for an attack that killed two soldiers and injured more than 20
September 18
FILE - Colombian President Gustavo Petro speaks after signing a law banning bullfighting, in La Plaza Santa Maria, Bogota, Colombia, on July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
September 18

A 10-year-old Japanese boy stabbed near his school in China has died

Officials in Tokyo say a 10-year-old Japanese student attending a Japanese school in southern China who was attacked the day before has died, asking Beijing to provide details of the stabbing and take preventive measures
September 18
Chinese authorities inspect the scene of a stabbing at the Shenzhen Japanese School in Shenzhen, China Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, after a 10-year-old Japanese student was attacked by a man. (Kyodo News via AP)
September 18

North Korea's Kim is bolstering nuclear and conventional weapons after testing 2 types of missiles

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has supervised successful tests of two types of missiles as he ordered officials to bolster up his country’s military capabilities to repel U.S.-led threats
September 18
A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
September 18

20 more dead, 450 injured as new round of explosions rocks Lebanon: Health officials

Israel was responsible for the pagers blowing up, sources told ABC News.
September 18
People react after a reported explosion occurred during the funeral of those killed when hundreds of paging devices exploded across Lebanon the previous day, in Beirut's southern suburbs on Sept. 18, 2024.
September 18

Reporter's Notebook: A walkie-talkie exploded at a funeral in Lebanon. Chaos ensued.

Another round of blasts occurred as ABC News was covering a funeral.
September 18
People attending a funeral for victims of Tuesday's pager attacks in Lebanon react after an explosion in a store, in southern Beirut, Sept. 18, 2024.
September 18

Mars 'spiders' were a decades-old mystery. Now NASA says they recreated them in a lab

The five-year study was conducted by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
September 18
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, acquired May 13, 2018, during winter at the South Pole of Mars, shows a carbon dioxide ice cap covering the region. As the sun returns in the spring, "spiders" begin to emerge from the landscape.
September 18

What we know about the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria

Israel's operation was six to 12 months in the making, a source told ABC News.
September 18
Police officers inspect a car inside of which a hand-held pager exploded, Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
September 18

Musk's X skirts Brazil ban and returns to some users with change to server access

Some Brazilian users have regained access to X despite a nationwide ban put in place by the country’s Supreme Court
September 18
FILE - A view of a laptop shows the Twitter sign-in page with their logo, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, July 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
September 18

Lawyers question whether a drugged French woman was truly unconscious during alleged rapes

Lawyers for some of the men accused of raping an unconscious French woman who had been drugged by her husband have asked her about her habits, personality and sex life, and even questioned whether she was truly unconscious during the encounters
September 18
Gisèle Pelicot arrives at the Avignon court house, in Avignon, southern France, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, where her ex-husband admitted in court that for nearly a decade, he repeatedly drugged his unwitting wife and invited dozens of men to rape her while she lay unconscious. (AP Photo/Diane Jantet)
September 18

Is Israel preparing for a war with Hezbollah?

The specter of all-out combat between Israel and Hezbollah seems closer than ever before
September 18
Mourners carry the coffin of Mohammed Mahdi, son of Hezbollah legislator Ali Ammar, who was killed Tuesday after his handheld pager exploded, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
September 18

Haiti creates a provisional electoral council to prepare for the first elections since 2016

Haiti’s government has created a provisional electoral council
September 18
People carry an empty coffin past a street food vendor into the shop that is buying it to repair and sell in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
September 18

Oversight board says it will help speed up projects to fix Puerto Rico's electric grid

A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances says it will step in to help speed up projects to fix the island’s crumbling power grid as widespread outages persist
September 18
FILE - People march along Las Americas Highway to protest the LUMA Energy company in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Oct. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, File)
September 18

Haiti creates provisional electoral council as country prepares to hold elections for the first time since 2016

Haiti creates provisional electoral council as country prepares to hold elections for the first time since 2016
September 18
September 18

Venezuela’s opposition ex-candidate says he was forced to sign letter that effectively admits defeat

Venezuela’s former opposition candidate says he was coerced into signing a letter effectively recognizing his defeat in July’s presidential election
September 18
FILE - Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez waves to supporters during a political event at a square in the Hatillo municipality of Caracas, Venezuela, June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
September 18

Mexican president calls on ex-security secretary to show proof of alleged cartel ties

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is demanding that former secretary of public security Genaro García Luna, who was convicted on drug trafficking charges in the United States last year, present evidence to support his accusations that the p...
September 18
Outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves after delivering his last State of the Union at the Zocalo, Mexico City's main square, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
September 18

Dominican and US officials crack down on regional drug trafficking ring

Officials from the U.S. and the Dominican Republic have arrested nearly a dozen suspects after they launched a joint operation to crack down on a regional drug trafficking ring
September 18
September 18

A rockfall triggered by a rainstorm kills a woman hiker in Greece

Greek authorities say a rockfall triggered by a sudden rainstorm has fatally injured a hiker in a popular national park on the island of Crete
September 18