International News

Buckingham Palace says Queen Camilla will miss another engagement as she recovers from a chest infection

German auto technology supplier Bosch to cut 5,500 jobs, citing stagnant demand for cars and new technology

Authorities in Norway say a Norwegian student in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia and Iran while working as a guard at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo

The Israel Defense Forces says it has “struck and dismantled more than 45 Hezbollah launchers in southern Lebanon.” ABC News’ Marcus Moore reports.

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.

Pro-Palestinian activists have told a Dutch court that the Netherlands is violating international law by selling weapons to Israel

Cyprus’ energy minister says ExxonMobil could partner up with a consortium composed of Eni of Italy and Total of France to jointly develop gas deposits they’ve discovered close to each other off the island nation’s southern coast

A special tribunal has rejected a legal claim against Britain’s domestic intelligence agency by more than 300 survivors of a bombing that killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in Manchester

Police say the body of a newborn baby who was reported missing from a neonatal ward at a hospital in Vienna has been found in a garbage container near the building

Hungarian officials say Bulgaria and Romania could become full members of Europe’s Schengen travel zone starting at the beginning of 2025

Residents in several cities and towns across Serbia blocked traffic and stood in silence for 15 minutes on Friday to commemorate the 15 victims of a roof collapse in the country’s north three weeks ago

The U.N. says rockets likely launched by Hezbollah or affiliated groups have hit a United Nations peacekeeping base in southern Lebanon

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she felt “sorrow” at Donald Trump’s return to power and recalls that every meeting with him was “a competition: you or me.”

London’s Gatwick Airport said it is reopening its South Terminal after police resolved a security alert triggered when a suspicious item was found in a passenger’s luggage

The package was subsequently destroyed in a controlled explosion, police said.

Funeral prayers were held for 42 Shiite Muslims who were ambushed and killed by gunmen a day earlier in Pakistan's restive northwest

The United Nations says more aid workers, health care staffers, delivery personnel and other humanitarians have been killed in 2024 than in any other single year

The U.S. Embassy in London has returned to normal operations after police carried out the controlled explosion of a suspicious package that was found in the area

NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks Tuesday after Russia attacked a central city with a hypersonic ballistic missile that escalated the nearly 33-month-old war

Japan has approved a $250 billion economic stimulus package centered around initiatives intended to boost incomes

China is going to expand visa-free entry to citizens of nine more countries as it seeks to boost tourism and business travel to help revive a sluggish economy

Two Australian teenagers and a British woman have died from suspected methanol poisoning after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te will visit the self-governing island’s allies in the South Pacific, where rival China has been seeking diplomatic inroads

Ketut Nita Wahyuni lifts her folded hands prayerfully to her forehead as a priest leads the temple gathering. The 11-year-old is preparing to perform the Rejang Dewa, a sacred Balinese dance. The rituals are part of the two-week-long Ngusaba Goreng, a thanksgiving festival for a rich harvest. “Ngusaba” means gathering of the gods and goddesses. There are various forms of rejang performed during different occasions and rituals in Bali. Wahyuni and her friends have an important role during the festival. Rejang Dewa and Rejang Pucuk, performed on two separate days, are reserved only for girls who have not yet attained puberty. “Being a rejang started when she lost her tooth until pre-puberty. We believe they are still pure to present dance to God during this time,” her father Nyoman Subrata says. As traditional chief of Geriana Kauh village, Subrata says he is proud to see his daughter participating in this ritual. Subrata is committed to the responsibilities of maintaining religious...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centrist Civic Coalition is holding a primary to choose a candidate who will run in the nation’s presidential election next year

As Iran faces increasing tensions with the West and turmoil at home, a new exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art is displaying Western artwork including pieces not seen by the public in at least a decade

An Australian Cabinet minister has rejected X Corp. owner Elon Musk’s allegation that the government intends to control all Australians' access to the internet through legislation that would ban young children from social media

Australian media: Second Australian teenager dies after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos

Romanians will vote Sunday in a presidential election that looks likely to pit a far-right nationalist party leader against the leftist prime minister in a runoff in two weeks

Germany’s popular defense minister has taken himself out of contention to become the country’s next leader

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says he will defy an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

A senior Chinese official says higher tariffs on Chinese exports will backfire by boosting prices paid by consumers

A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died, according to a family statement sent to Australian media

The Bahamas says it will refinance $300 million of its external debt to free up more than $120 million for marine conservation projects and climate change mitigation

A top South Korean official says Russia has supplied air defense missile systems to North Korea in exchange for Pyongyang sending troops

A top South Korean official says Russia has supplied anti-air missiles to North Korea in return for it sending troops

The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia has been released at sea 20 days after he waddled ashore on a popular tourist beach

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has announced that his government plans to retire all coal and other fossil fuel-powered power plants within 15 years, while drastically boosting renewable energy capacity

Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip are often eating just once a day, even in areas where aid groups have relatively more access than the isolated and heavily destroyed north

Police indicted Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people on Thursday for allegedly attempting a coup to keep the right-wing leader in office after his defeat in the 2022 elections

Nov. 15-21, 2024 Leaders of the Group of 20 nations gathered in Rio de Janeiro to discuss poverty, climate change and heightened global tensions. Victoria Kjær Theilvig of Denmark, an animal protection advocate who works in the diamond selling business, beat out Miss Nigeria to be crowned Miss Universe in the 73rd edition of the competition in Mexico City. Tropical Storm Sara formed in the western Caribbean Sea before making landfall on the northern coast of Honduras, dumping torrential rains in a slow weekend crawl across parts of Central America. Thousands attended Mexico’s three-day Corona Capital music festival, welcoming headliners Paul McCartney, Iggy Pop, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Green Day and Beck. The Tortuguías Foundation that seeks to protect sea turtles in the Central American country of Panama, which has coasts on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, carried out a release of dozens of turtles. The foundation has been working on sea turtle conservation for about 14 years and...

A look at the numbers behind the United Nations’ annual Climate Change Conference, known as COP29, and what nations, rich and poor, must accomplish to keep global temperatures from rising.

Military analyst Steve Ganyard discusses the possible impact of long-range nuclear missiles if targeted toward Ukraine, and the White House’s growing concern of Putin’s actions.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says past negotiations with the United States only confirmed Washington’s “unchangeable” hostility toward his country and described his nuclear buildup as the only way to counter external threats

A playful humpback whale came within feet of a boat in Norway, breaching right in front of the boaters who were almost able to reach out and touch it.

Officials in Kyiv initially said an ICBM had been launched toward Dnipro.

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been a target for investigations since his early days in office, and the swarm of cases since his failed reelection bid in 2022 has left him in ever-deeper legal jeopardy

Authorities in the Dominican Republic have arrested a colonel and nine officers accused of stealing weapons and ammunition from the police department’s armory and illegally selling them to people including criminals in neighboring Haiti, where violence...

Arrest warrants issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and a Hamas leader put them in a small group of leaders to be accused of crimes against humanity

The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board has condemned Iran for failing to cooperate fully with the agency, the second time it has done so in just five months