President Donald Trump has justified the pending U.S. arms sale to Taiwan to Chinese President Xi Jinping by downplaying it as just one of many sales Washington makes around the world — even asking Xi if he’d be in the market for U.

South Korean troops reported seeing an object resembling a type of North Korean land mine near explosions that injured three officers in the DMZ last week, the military said Monday.

Finnish F/A-18 Hornets and Swedish Gripens scrambled jointly for the first time to intercept supersonic Russian military jets over the Gulf of Finland.

Mexican authorities urged residents ⁠of ⁠Baja California Sur to prepare ⁠for the imminent arrival of Hurricane Polo on Monday, warning ​of life-threatening winds and flash floods. Restaurant and store owners in the coastal cities of Loreto and ‌Ciudad Constitucion boarded up doors and ‌windows overnight to protect their businesses,

Crude prices push higher after U.S. President Trump rejected a conditional Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz - telling Axios he expects further negotiations this week. Dan Murphy reports

Bangkok was declared a disaster-affected area after nearly 12 inches rain fell over a 48-hour period, leading to severe flooding across the Thai capital. Bangkok is among 41 Thai provinces hit by floods in recent weeks that have killed at least eight people and damaged more than 500,

Three Australian appellate judges have rejected an activist’s landmark bid to prosecute Britain’s King Charles III over the alleged genocide of Indigenous people.

Seligman Investments has doubled ​the deployable capital of its venture arm to $1 billion less than a year after launching it, betting that ‌the physical bottlenecks of the artificial intelligence buildout will produce the next wave of large technology companies,