The American founder of a private-equity firm detained this week in Moscow on fraud charges was formally arrested and is set to remain in custody for at least about two months.

U.S. military aircraft carrying aid for Venezuela arrived in Colombia on Saturday as the Trump administration steps up pressure to oust embattled President Nicolás Maduro.

The Vatican found Theodore McCarrick guilty of sexual abuse of minors and sexual misconduct with adults, and dismissed him from the priesthood, completing an astonishing fall from grace.

The top U.S. commander in the Middle East said he is moving forward with plans to pull forces out of Syria, but said the military has the flexibility to leave some troops there if President Trump decides to maintain a military presence.

The European Union reported a record trade surplus with the U.S. last year, a development that could weigh on slow-moving U.S.-EU trade talks and comes as the Trump administration prepares to deliberate hefty tariffs on European car imports.

Negotiators made progress on a memorandum of understanding that could serve as the basis for a deal that President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping could later finalize.

The U.S. sanctioned the head of Venezuela’s state-owned oil giant and five top intelligence and security officials and the Trump administration said it planned to deliver 200 tons of humanitarian aid to a border city in Colombia, intensifying its effort to ratchet up pressure on President Nicolás Maduro. .

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is embarking on a five-country sweep through Asia to improve ties with the East as the murder of a Saudi dissident and the Saudi-led war in Yemen continue to disrupt the kingdom’s relations with Western powers.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan began two days of meetings with NATO allies who are unsettled by President Trump’s mixed messages on the alliance and the breakdown of a Cold War-era nuclear treaty.

The bill is aimed at reining in tech giants and throwing a lifeline to news publishers. It is expected to be formally approved by mid-April, after which EU governments will have two years to include it in their national laws.

Thousands of Syrians fleeing a U.S.-backed battle against Islamic State have faced near-freezing temperature to find safety in a camp with too few tents; at least 35 children and newborns have died, mostly due to hypothermia, according to the United Nations.

Venezuela’s opposition and its U.S. backers figured President Nicolás Maduro’s regime would crumble quickly after Washington threw its support behind a plan to sap his military support and spur his exit. It hasn’t happened that way.

A former U.S. counterintelligence officer was accused of providing Iran with information about highly classified U.S. programs after defecting there.

The Pentagon’s most senior official met Iraq’s prime minister during a surprise stop in Baghdad, in what appeared to be an effort to smooth ties after remarks by President Trump provoked a backlash amongst Iraqis against the U.S. military presence in their country.

Angela Merkel’s ruling partners are reconsidering their support for a decadesold arrangement that puts Germany under the U.S. nuclear shield, a development that could further undermine the country’s relationship with the U.S.

With just over a month until the U.K. leaves the European Union, British Prime Minister Theresa May’s efforts to garner support for a Brexit deal will go down to the wire.

Chinese and U.S. negotiators are focusing on producing a broad outline of a trade deal for their presidents to clinch at a possible summit.

The foreign minister for the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro said his government is ready to negotiate with the opposition and that the country plans to increase its cooperation with U.N. agencies to improve the economy.

The Pentagon’s top official assured Afghan defense officials on Monday that the U.S. wouldn’t desert the country’s security forces, signaling support for the jittery Kabul government, Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry said.

Security officials are raising alarms over Chinese investment in Israeli technology companies, prompting the Israeli government to scrutinize the money flows and businesses to reconsider accepting Chinese funds.

Europe’s faltering economy and fractious politics are complicating the region’s biggest personnel question in years: Who will replace Mario Draghi as president of the European Central Bank?

President Hassan Rouhani and other Iranian leaders used mass celebrations of the 1979 revolution to lash out against the U.S. and reaffirm Tehran’s pledge to continue developing ballistic-missile systems.

A top Saudi official who was fired after being accused of playing a role in the killing of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi continues to serve as an informal royal adviser, and the U.S. is pressing the kingdom behind the scenes to hold him accountable, according to American and Saudi officials.

The Pentagon raised an alarm last year over what its officials deemed a troubling development in this ice-cloaked territory: China was looking to bankroll and build three airports that could give it a military foothold off Canada’s coast.

Governments in Europe’s east, which have been courted by Beijing and promised investments, debate whether or not to ban Chinese tech giant Huawei.

Vale had denied owning the sort of mine-waste dam that collapsed last month and killed at least 150 people at one of its old mines in Brazil, underscoring the industry’s reluctance to disclose information about such structures.

The U.S. and South Korea signed a one-year deal outlining the shared costs of their military alliance, removing a potential distraction ahead of the second summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un scheduled for late this month.

Gen. Joseph Votel, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East said the military is pulling equipment out of Syria in preparation for a troop withdrawal as the U.S.-led coalition has won a series of victories against Islamic State.

Brazilian officials are preparing to toughen mining safety rules following a deadly disaster last month that killed more than 150 people, the mining regulator’s top official said on Friday.

Saudi Arabia is seeking to build an international media empire to combat the kingdom’s rivals and remake its image in the West, and it sought a partnership with Vice Media as part of the project, according to people familiar with the efforts.

America’s Kurdish-led military ally in Syria has become an important supplier of crude oil to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, delivering crude to a broker that has been targeted by sanctions in the U.S. and European Union.

Zalmay Khalilzad, outlined two major sticking points between the U.S. and the Taliban, including the terms of a cease-fire and talks with the Afghan government.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, at a news conference interrupted by power outages in the crisis-hit nation, lashed out at U.S.-led plans to deliver humanitarian aid after the first cargo trucks with food and medical supplies arrived at the Colombian border.

Beneath a plot of land in southeastern Siberia lie vast stores of gold, according to Russia’s biggest gold producer, Polyus PJSC, and tapping them could provide the Russian central bank with a huge and nearly sanction-proof backstop for its currency.

An auditor of the Brazilian mining-waste dam whose collapse last month killed at least 150 people told police he felt pressured to attest to the safety of the dam.