From jail cells, drug lords have turned what was once Latin America’s most peaceful country into a critical artery in the global cocaine trade.

The most fiscally responsible country in Europe is the one you’d least expect.

Beijing is deploying the world’s biggest intelligence-gathering operation to bolster its tech industry. U.S. officials worry Jensen Huang was ensnared.

The unprecedented three-way meeting will be held in China’s tech hub of Shenzhen.

The U.S. said it intercepted the drone strike, the first known attack on the Gulf country in two months.

Stellantis is offering to repay some of the money that Canada’s government wants to see returned for past support, but it won’t say if it’s prepared to defend in court the proposed sale of an Ontario plant.

The revamped flag marks a new effort by Kim to stamp his own identity on the country’s institutions.

Tehran intensifies its effort to cause pain in the physical world with attacks on lightly protected tankers and refrigerators.

Growing American fuel shipments are keeping Cuba afloat after Trump’s oil embargo pushed the island to the brink of a humanitarian crisis.

Oil prices rebounded from initial losses and closed higher after President Trump said the U.S. doesn’t need a deal with Iran, putting some risk premium back into the market.

A State Department report shows Caracas has received most of the revenue, while Trump says the U.S. has profited from the oil sales.

Kang Wei appeared to accept that his wife Alice Huang was in a romantic relationship and spoke openly of her closeness to the Nvidia chief.

The attack targeted Hamas militants, according to the Israeli military, and comes as progress on Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan is stalled.

Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV spent two decades ministering in Peru, where citizens are welcoming him with a 45-foot statue, murals and T-shirts bearing his likeness.

The Treasury secretary has led the administration’s economic pressure campaign against Tehran.

Plus, Democrats are pointing fingers after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth avoided impeachment, and United Airlines will ban AI bots from booking its flights.

Some countries, particularly in Asia, are seen as heavily exposed to the U.S. data-center build-out.

The Nvidia CEO’s affair has shaken Taiwan, his birthplace and a cornerstone of the AI chip industry he helped create.

Plus: Washington probes Waymo over school-bus safety and U.S. balks at China’s demand for tightly scripted Trump-Xi-Putin summit.

A more restrained chief would suit the chip giant well for the next phase of the AI boom.