Traveling to Spain in June and France in September, Pope Leo XIV will find traditionally Catholic but now staunchly secular countries with an abundance of historic churches but few people in the pews.

The United States says it has bombed radar and drone sites in Iran after Tehran shot down an American drone over the weekend.

Ethiopians voted Monday in an election marked by insecurity, with the ruling Prosperity Party expected to secure a majority.

Police allege an Australian woman charged with joining the Islamic State group expressed views supporting terrorist acts and killing of non-believers, attempted to indoctrinate her children and recruited others to join her in Syria.

Malaysia has started enforcing rules to prevent children under 16 from having social media accounts.

Renowned Indigenous leader Brooklyn River, who spent years fighting for the rights of his community and was imprisoned by the government in September 2023, has died.

Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian man at a barrier separating the West Bank from Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

A blast on Sunday at a building in northeastern Myanmar has killed more than 45 people.

The U.S. military said it carried out another strike Saturday on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men in the fourth attack this week and putting the total death toll at 205.

The World Health Organization reports that five patients have recovered from a rare type of Ebola virus in eastern Congo.

Ukraine has launched strikes on Russian energy sites.

Heavy rains have threatened the search for two more people missing in a flooded cave in Laos.

Rescue workers in Laos have safely evacuated four villagers trapped in a flooded cave for 10 days.

For many in Congo and elsewhere in Central and West Africa, there is no shame in craving wild meat, a key part of the culture.

Former Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang has pleaded guilty to being an illegal agent of the Chinese government.

Russian intelligence agencies have grown more aggressive in their efforts to steal Western technology and defense secrets as sanctions squeeze the country’s wartime economy.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Washington remains committed to the Indo-Pacific region while softening past comments that described China as an imminent threat.

The Trump administration has extended protections shielding about 11,000 Lebanese from deportation, allowing them to stay and work in the U.S. for another six months and marking a rare reprieve to any of the people protected by temporary measures which have been harshly criticized by Republicans.

A court in Kenya has suspended a U.S. plan to establish a quarantine facility for Americans exposed to a rare Ebola virus in northeastern Congo.

President Vladimir Putin is facing a battlefield stalemate in Ukraine and growing war fatigue among Russians and appears ready to change the narrative around the conflict.

Romanian authorities say a Russian drone that was part of an overnight attack on Ukraine crashed into an apartment building in eastern Romania.

An annual United Nations report documenting sexual violence in conflicts worldwide has included Israeli forces for the first time since the review began more than 15 years ago for their treatment of Palestinian detainees.

The U.S. State Department says it will designate Brazil’s two biggest criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations early next month, a move that the South American nation’s government has repeatedly said it will interpret as undue interference in its politics.

Nearly 3 million Cubans are experiencing water shortages every day because of a severe oil shortage that government officials blame on a U.S. energy blockade.