A shipment of humanitarian aid sent by Mexico and Uruguay arrived in Cuba on Monday as the island faces a severe energy and economic crisis.

It has been more than four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It is a war that has been grinding on without major changes in battle lines, but the conflict may have reached a turning point.

Thirty years ago, a Cuban fighter jet shot down two civilian planes operated by Florida-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue, an incident that inflamed U.S.-Cuba relations.

Congo will open three Ebola treatment centers in the eastern Ituri province, and the World Health Organization is sending a team of experts to the country, following an outbreak of a rare type of the virus that has killed more than 110 people.

U.S. prosecutors charged Alex Saab, known as the “bag man” for former Venezuelan ​President Nicolas Maduro, with money laundering over ‌his alleged exploitation of a Venezuelan welfare plan, according to court filings unsealed on Monday.

The U.S. says it's pausing participation on a joint board with Canada for continental defense that dates to World War II. In announcing the pause Monday, the Pentagon accused Canada of failing

Stocks, bonds and oil prices seesawed on Monday as investors parsed the signals coming from Washington and Tehran about the future of their tenuous cease-fire. A peace deal has remained elusive, as has the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz,

A man holds a Venezuela national flag during a protest calling for justice for Carmen Navas the day after her death in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, May 18, 2026, a week after the g