US citizen Ryan Corbett was last week released from nearly 900 days in captivity after being taken hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan in August 2022.

The European Union has renewed sanctions against Russia after EU member state Hungary stopped blocking the move in return for a declaration on energy security, as it depends on Russian natural gas and oil supplies.

The White House declared late Sunday that President Donald Trump has decided against implementing tariffs and certain sanctions on Colombia following their agreement to accept deported migrants from the US on US military aircraft.

China’s new artificial intelligence (AI) model, DeepSeek, spooked investors Monday, sparking a $1 trillion withdrawal from stocks in the United States and Europe.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump still believes the U.S. would take control of Greenland, despite a “horrendous” call with Denmark’s prime minister and demands by Russia to split the world’s largest island.

A significant diplomatic clash unfolded over the weekend when Colombia rejected two planes carrying illegal immigrants from the United States. In response, U.S. President Trump threatened severe retaliatory actions. Moments after Trump made the announcement, Colombian President Gustavo Petro took action, using his own presidential plane to facilitate the “dignified return of Colombian nationals” to their home country.

Europe’s longest-serving leader, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, clinched his seventh straight election victory on Sunday and ordered the release of an American woman who had been held in the autocratically-ruled nation.

Newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump has re-designated the Iran-aligned Houthi Islamic militant group in Yemen as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, Reuters reports. Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden had dropped the terrorist designation Trump had given the Houthis in his first term because of humanitarian concerns in war-torn Yemen.

While Philippine authorities confirmed the detention of an alleged Chinese spy, the U.S. military moved Lyphon launchers – which can hit Chinese targets from Laoag airfield in the Philippines to another location on the island of Luzon, officials confirmed.

Stuffed animals and candles were seen at the site in southern Germany where a 2-year-old boy of Moroccan origin and a 41-year-old German man were killed in a knife attack that Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz called an “act of terror.”

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he is praying for those impacted by a railway tragedy in western India where at least 12 train passengers reportedly died after being struck by another train on an adjacent track.

The British government wants citizens to carry a digital version of their passport, driving license, social benefits account, and marriage and birth certificates on their smartphones “in tune with modern life.”

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has urged the European Union to cut the “Green Deal drastically,” saying the controversial environmental program would “bankrupt” the EU.

Continuing to raise the long-standing alarm that Iran is close to developing a nuclear bomb, the UN’s nuclear watchdog chief has announced that the Iranian regime is “pressing the gas pedal” on its enrichment of uranium to near weapons grade, Reuters reports.

Rescuers in Indonesia have recovered the bodies of dozens of people killed in flash floods or buried under tons of mud and rocks on the nation’s Java and Bali islands, with more heavy rain expected.