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The move empowers the State Department to impose sanctions and other punitive measures on governments that hold Americans without justification.

Health officials have recorded at least 28 suspected cases amid the central African nation's 16th outbreak of the deadly disease.

The department accused Venezuela of trying to interfere with counternarcotics operations, days after the U.S. announced a deadly strike on an alleged drug vessel.

Heists of Jellycat figures, which have grown into an online craze, have plagued shopkeepers around the United Kingdom for months.

Moscow, which has interfered several times in Ukraine despite past agreements, said no security guarantees should be needed if a peace deal was signed.

Under Pope Francis, the Vatican approved an improbable LGBTQ+ pilgrimage, but the views of Leo XIV, on an issue that has long divided the Catholic church, are not yet clear.

The mountain retreats where Pakistanis go to escape the stifling summer heat have been inundated this year by floods, another product of climate change.

Public health experts say Yemen faces one of the world's worst cholera outbreaks amid damage to medical, water and transportation facilities.

The major shifts underway during Trump's second term are a source of strength, says Nigel Farage, for Reform U.K.

The remarks appeared to draw a line between governments that work with the U.S. to carry out its nascent counternarcotics strategy and those that don't.