A vital U.S.-Canada border crossing began to return to normal Monday, but protests persist in Ottawa and beyond.

Poland is the largest European Union nation to border Ukraine and the government is making preparations to accept Ukrainian refugees in the event of another Russian attack on that country.

OSLO –  A vault built on an Arctic mountainside to preserve the world’s crop seeds from war, disease and other catastrophes will receive new deposits on Monday, including one from the first organisation that made a withdrawal from the facility.

LONDON – British defence minister Ben Wallace said on Sunday he was returning from a holiday in Europe after one day to deal with what he called the “worsening” crisis in Ukraine as he warned that Russia could invade any time.

Greek farmers say they are determined to shut down all the country’s major highways to protest rising energy costs.

Large sections of Spain are experiencing extreme or prolonged drought, with rainfall this winter at only one-third of the average in recent years.

The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) said on Saturday that it will temporarily rescind its withdrawal from the Pacific’s main political forum, as U.S. Secretary Antony Blinken paid a strategic visit to the Pacific Island region.

A particularly powerful eruption of Mount Etna has created a volcanic storm that sent bolts of lightning dramatically across the sky over eastern Sicily.

More countries have asked this week to join talks about the European Union’s complaint with the World Trade Organization accusing China of exerting economic pressure on Lithuania.

An annual report from the United Nations labor agency has highlighted the work conditions of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China’s western Xinjiang region.