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.

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.

The Philippine Senate, acting as an impeachment court, will open the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday in a politically volatile event that will unfold with the backdrop of her bitter political feud with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

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

A resolution by the country’s cabinet escalated a long-running conflict between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s judiciary. A senior government official later walked that back.

Just a few weeks into the war, one of the Persian Gulf’s top oil producers quietly began sneaking its crude out of the Strait of Hormuz. Before long, the covert project became so successful that the United Arab Emirates was already approaching its pre-war rate of flows through the waterway by the time the US and Iran signed their interim peace deal.

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

Marine Le Pen and other members of her National Rally party were found guilty of using money intended for parliamentary assistants to pay party staff between 2004 and 2016.