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.

Duterte denies the charges, which include amassing unexplained wealth and publicly threatening to have the president assassinated.

A cargo ship has come under attack off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center reported the attack off Yemen on Sunday.

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

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

A pastor of a prominent underground church who was detained in China in October has been released, less than two months after U.S. President Donald Trump brought up his case when meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping.