Since he started work as NATO secretary-general almost two years ago, Mark Rutte has spent much of his time trying to keep the United States anchored to the world’s biggest military alliance.

As Russia’s full-scale invasion enters its fifth year, a group of Ukrainian amateur climbers is trying to build something new: a climbing culture inspired by the sense of community surrounding California’s Yosemite National Park.

Iran’s top officials and brothers of the country’s new supreme leader have emerged into public view to attend the funeral prayers for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, signaling confidence in their safety as Iran pushes back on U.S. demands in negotiations to permanently end the war.

A pastor of a prominent underground church detained in China in October has been released, according to rights advocates.

Ukrainian drones have struck an oil terminal in St. Petersburg as Kyiv ramps up bombardment of Russia’s oil infrastructure.

Pope Leo XIV is spending the Fourth of July in the epicenter of Europe’s migration debate.

The funeral for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has started, months after his death in an airstrike on the first day of the war.

A dog walker in Buenos Aires has turned a pack of 13 pups into local celebrities by dressing them in Argentina jerseys.

A three-armed spacecraft is rushing to the rescue of a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth.

Interpol has identified a 39-year-old Ukrainian woman as the main suspect in a Monaco bombing that reportedly targeted a Ukrainian tycoon linked to Russia.

The far-right Alternative for Germany is in a buoyant mood as it holds a convention this weekend.

The rush is on across Venezuela’s north coast to identify loved ones before it’s too late.

Syria’s Health Ministry says an explosive device has detonated in a Damascus cafe, killing at least nine people and wounding 20 others.

Princess Kate met tennis fans lining up in Wimbledon’s famous Queue and sat next to Andy Murray in a day of rooting on British players at the grass-court Grand Slam.

Iran’s joint military command has warned that all oil tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz must use its approved routes or face a “forceful response.”.

Russia likely used shadow ships to launch drones over Europe that repeatedly disrupted civilian aviation, as it monitored military sites and tested the air defenses of NATO nations.

A young couple in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them of violating Islamic law by kissing during a TikTok livestream.

Officials in Thailand say an 11-year-old boy has crashed a pickup truck into Buddhist monks on a pilgrimage, killing 10 of them and injuring others.

Many Venezuelan earthquake survivors across northern La Guaira state, in Caracas and surrounding regions are asking the same question.

Hospitals in the Paris region are urgently upgrading their defenses against heat waves.

Turkey is implementing extensive security measures for the upcoming NATO summit, deploying thousands of police and banning public gatherings.

Lines are growing at Russian gas stations -- and so is the frustration and uncertainty as several months of Ukrainian attacks have set oil refineries ablaze and choked supplies for motorists across the vast country.

The Feb. 28 attack on a primary school in southeastern Iran was the deadliest reported strike in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.

A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances says it has offered a $3 billion settlement to bondholders in a new push to finally restructure more than $10 billion in debt held by the U.S. territory’s power company.