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French police acknowledged major gaps in the Louvre's defenses on Wednesday - turning this month's dazzling daylight theft into a national reckoning over how France protects its treasures.

China has reportedly purchased its first shipments of soybeans from U.S. farmers this year, a major development for American growers on the cusp of President Trump's major sit-down with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

President Trump wanted South Korea to invest $350 billion in the American economy. So far, he's settling for a gold medal and a crown.

U.S. airstrikes have killed dozens of alleged drug runners aboard boats off the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of South America since September, but the Trump administration is sharing little information about how targets are being chosen.

Since becoming Italy's prime minister three years ago, Giorgia Meloni has rarely changed course. But the turmoil in Gaza -- and the massive wave of pro-Palestine protests it has sparked across Italy -- may be forcing her to recalibrate.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley is calling on three major tax-exempt groups to respond to reports as to whether their money have been funneled to the Chinese Communist Party.

The head of President Trump's "Golden Dome" missile defense program gave a classified briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that described the secretive architecture of the project, The Washington Times has learned.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he has ordered the army to immediately carry out "powerful strikes" in Gaza, a new test for the tenuous U.S.-brokered ceasefire.

Kenya's government said a number of its citizens found themselves drafted into the Russian army and sent to the front lines in Ukraine after they were recruited for what they thought were civilian jobs.

Cyclone Montha started making landfall along India's eastern coast, the weather office said late Tuesday, with the storm due to bring torrential rains and strong winds.