International News

Ukrainians are voting in local elections that are considered a test for President Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Turkey says it is extending a gas exploration mission in the eastern Mediterranean that has caused tensions with Greece in recent months

Lee Kun-Hee, the ailing Samsung Electronics chairman who transformed the small television maker into a global giant of consumer electronics, has died

Chileans are deciding whether to draft a new constitution to replace guiding principles imposed four decades ago under a military dictatorship

Samsung says Lee Kun-Hee, the ailing chairman of Samsung Electronics, has died.

Activist Leopoldo López has abandoned Spain’s embassy in Caracas.

Colombia reached 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Saturday, becoming the second country in Latin America to report that number in less than a week

Three waterspouts were spotted swirling simultaneously off the coast of Rhodes, Greece.

France has recalled its ambassador to Turkey after Erdogan's remarks.

Thousands of Israelis have demonstrated outside the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, demanding the Israeli leader’s resignation

Guinea’s electoral commission says President Alpha Conde has easily won a third term with 59% of the vote

They say government policy favors state companies in the energy market.

Egyptians have begun voting in the first stage of a parliamentary election, in a vote that is highly likely to produce a toothless lower chamber packed with supporters of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi

Days of unrest and demonstrations over police abuses have left 69 people dead.

A photographer captured time-lapse footage of the colorful northern lights over houses and mountains in Norway.

An operation to rescue three of its crew members is underway.

Afghanistan’s interior ministry says a suicide attack outside an educational center in the capital, Kabul, has killed at least 18 people and wounded 57 others, including students

Several hundred women have marched across the capital of Belarus in heavy rain.

The also wounded a dozen others after storming into a private school Saturday.

Prominent opposition activist Leopoldo Lopez has abandoned Spain’s embassy in Caracas and is leaving Venezuela: sources

Sudan’s former Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi has slammed an announcement by President Donald Trump that Sudan would start normalizing ties with Israel

A city government spokesman says the mayor of Istanbul has tested positive for COVID-19 and received treatment at a hospital

U.S. hosted Armenian and Azerbaijani diplomats for talks to settle the conflict.

Ethiopia is denouncing “belligerent threats” over the huge dam it has nearly completed on the Nile, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said downstream Egypt will “blow up” the project it calls an existential threat

Demonstrators dressed as chickens, a cow and President Donald Trump.

Afghan officials say bombing outside educational center in Kabul kills at least ten and wounds 20, including children

Authorities in Kyrgyzstan have called an early presidential election for January after the nation’s previous president was driven from power by protests triggered by a disputed vote

Bulgaria has joined other Balkan countries in signing an agreement with the U.S.

Iran’s supreme leader has urged authorities to prioritize public health above any economic or security concerns, amid the Mideast’s worst outbreak of the coronavirus

Guinea’s electoral commission says President Alpha Conde has won a third term with 59.49% of the vote.

Thailand’s government and the country’s pro-democracy movement appear no closer to resolving their differences, as the protesters’ Saturday night deadline for Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha to step down approaches

Winner faces a rapidly deteriorating public health sector and high unemployment.

The Morena party of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has finally chosen a leader after two failed, acrimonious tries

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim says he’s concerned about reports that the prime minister is seeking the declaration of a state of emergency to fight the coronavirus as an excuse to suspend Parliament so he can stymie bids to oust his government

Mexico's northern border state of Chihuahua has returned to the highest level of alert and lockdown after coronavirus cases jumped there and hospitals began to fill up

Brazil’s health regulator has authorized the import from China of a potential vaccine against the coronavirus, just days after President Jair Bolsonaro insisted he wouldn’t allow doses to be shipped from the Asian nation

Mexico's National Human Rights Commission says migrants are being held at some government facilities without proper sanitary measures, with migrants with COVID-19 mixed in with those without symptoms

The Pinheiros River that runs through the heart of Sao Paulo makes its pollution known with a miasma that wafts across city streets, choking rich and poor alike. It’s an unwelcome feature of the city that is also Brazil’s wealthiest and the financial heart of Latin America. Efforts to clean up the river have gathered momentum, with the state government working to make good on a pledge that past administrations have been unable to deliver on, at least as far as three decades back. While the Pinheiros River is bordered by symbols of Brazil’s haves — gleaming glass office towers, multi-story apartments in the sky and a private school that charges the nation’s highest tuition — it is also home to many of its have-nots. Some 3.3 million people live in the 16-mile river's basin, some in slums and homeless tent cities from which sewage flows into the waterway. “We have no money to live elsewhere,” said Adriana Maria, a 40-year-old maid who lives in the Americanopolis slum. “Politicians...

North Macedonia and Kosovo have signed an agreement with the United States on high-speed wireless network security aimed at excluding Chinese hardware providers

Officials say 283 migrants have arrived in four boats in Spain´s Canary Islands

Thousands of Hungarians have marched on the streets of the Hungarian capital to protest government steps that they claim strips one of the country’s most prestigious universities of its independence

Nigeria's leader says 51 civilians, 18 security forces were killed in unrest after peaceful protests over police abuses

Iraq's government is struggling to pay the salaries of its public sector employees, its coffers drained because of this year's plunge in oil prices

Danish aid workers stationed in the Balkans have collected testimonies from dozens of migrants alleging they were brutalized by Croatian law-enforcement officers when they tried to cross into the country, then summarily expelled

Sudanese officials have confirmed that a senior U.S.-Israeli delegation flew to Sudan on a private jet this week to wrap up a deal that would make Sudan the third Arab country to normalize ties with Israel this year

Israel says it will not oppose the U.S. sale of “certain weapon systems” to the United Arab Emirates following an agreement with Washington to upgrade its own capabilities in order to preserve its military edge in the Middle East

A looks at the week's top photos from around the globe.

An international watchdog says it will keep Pakistan on a list of countries who do not take full measures to combat money-laundering and terror financing

Heavy fighting is raging over Nagorno-Karabakh even as top diplomats from Armenia and Azerbaijan have traveled to Washington for negotiations on settling the neighboring countries’ decades-long conflict

The Palm Hotel in Dubai, UAE, set off a huge fireworks display to celebrate taking the world record for biggest fountain.