Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel this week to a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Sweden, where U.S. plans to reduce troop levels in Europe coupled with President Donald Trump’s often inconsistent stance on the alliance have created concern.

NATO’s top military officer says he doesn’t expect any more drawdowns of American troops from Europe — at least not anytime soon — beyond the 5,000 that U.S. President Donald Trump announced would leave the continent.

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

The body overseeing the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza plans to ask the United Nations Security Council to press Hamas to disarm.

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

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

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.

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

Malaysia's government is seeking $251 million in compensation from Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace AS after Norway revoked an export permit.

Israeli forces have intercepted the remaining vessels from an activist flotilla challenging Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza.

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

A Hong Kong court has concluded final arguments in a national security trial for two former organizers of vigils remembering the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.

Alex Saab, a close ally of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, has been charged in Miami with bribing officials for government contracts.

Followers of Bolivia’s ex-President Evo Morales have joined a massive protest movement against President Rodrigo Paz.

A ship carrying humanitarian aid from Mexico and Uruguay has arrived in Havana to help ease Cuba’s spiraling crises.

Pope Leo XIV and Anthropic's co-founder Christopher Olah are set to launch the pontiff’s first encyclical on May 25.

Italy’s Foreign Ministry says rescuers have found the bodies of four Italian divers inside an underwater cave in the Maldives.

Congo will open three treatment centers for the Ebola virus in the eastern Ituri province, and the World Health Organization is sending a team of experts to the country, following an outbreak that has killed nearly 120 people.

The World Health Organization has declared an Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern.

Venezuela’s government says it has deported a close ally of Nicolás Maduro to face judicial proceedings in the U.S. less than three years after the business owner was pardoned by President Joe Biden as part of a prisoner swap.

Recent outbreaks of hantavirus and norovirus on cruise ships are making headlines, but they’re unlikely to dim vacationers’ growing love of cruises.

Félicien Kabuga, accused of bankrolling the Rwandan genocide, died in a hospital in The Hague while in custody, a U.N. court said.

María Cabrera and her family fled into the night-cloaked mountains of central Mexico with only the clothes on their backs when bombs fell from the sky and bullets ricocheted off her concrete floors.

Authorities say at least 87 people have died in Congo’s new Ebola disease outbreak in the eastern Ituri province.