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.

Residents, construction experts and seismologists said for years that Venezuela’s public housing would be vulnerable in a natural disaster.

On Saturday, delegates at the national convention of the Alternative for Germany party overwhelmingly reelected the group's leaders, including Alice Weidel, as tens of thousands of protesters aimed to disrupt the meeting.

The incident was reported in one of the world's most crucial trade transit routes amid a fragile ceasefire between Iran and the U.S.

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 race for the World Cup quarterfinals is on, and Morocco became the first to qualify with a 3-0 win over Canada in Houston. Kylian Mbappé then led France past Paraguay 1-0 in Philadelphia to cap the opening day of the Round of 16.

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.

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