Thousands of protesters blocked roads in Germany while trying to stop members of the far right Alternative fur Deutschland party from meeting.

After the pope's visit to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, the U.S. Embassy said the ambassador to the Holy See gave Leo a commemorative baseball, an apple pie and a U.S. World Cup jersey.

The Vatican has excommunicated the priesthood of a rebel Catholic faction. Many of the priests’ followers have refused to renounce them.

The shake-up is believed to be an effort to ensure the military's loyalty to the Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping.

Venezuela‘s official death toll from last week’s twin earthquakes rose to almost 3,000 on Saturday. Authorities reported 2,954 fatalities and 16,592 injuries in the latest government update, up from 2,

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised tests of a nuclear-capable cruise missile and other weapons aboard a new 5,000-ton destroyer, the Kang Kon, according to state media Sunday. The

Varias localidades del norte de Mali, incluidas Gao y Sévaré, fueron blanco de los rebeldes, indicó el sábado el ejército maliense en un comunicado emitido al tiempo que un grupo rebelde anunciaba una nueva ofensiva para capturar un poblado del norte del país.

But the goalposts keep shifting, raising the stakes ahead of this week’s summit in Turkey. Initially, it was about money. Trump has long railed against NATO allies for spending too small a fraction of their national budgets on defense.