NATO secretary-general Mark Rutte has spent much of his tenure trying to keep the United States anchored to the world’s biggest military alliance, including taking steps to address President Donald Trump's burden-sharing concerns.

The death toll from the devastating June 24 earthquakes in Venezuela has risen to 3,342 while nearly 17,000 were injured, officials said Sunday.

Australia and Fiji have signed a new bilateral defense alliance in a second major diplomatic win within a year for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese against Chinese influence in the South Pacific.

Another Philippine senator was arrested on allegations of plunder Monday, becoming the latest member of the upper legislative chamber to be taken into custody in more than a month over suspicion of large-scale corruption.

Canada is expected Monday to choose between German and South Korean bids to build a multibillion-dollar fleet of 12 submarines. Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems and South Korea’s Hanwha

A resolution by the country’s cabinet escalated a long-running conflict between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s judiciary. A senior government official later walked that back.

French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Syria soon, Syrian state media said Sunday, making him the first Western leader to arrive in the country since the ouster of former President Bashar Assad in 2024.

The U.S. military suspended its search Sunday for a missing Naval aircrewman whose helicopter crash landed in the Arabian Sea on Wednesday.