The European Union has moved forward with an overhaul of its migration policy, aiming to ramp up deportations and build detention centers abroad. Critics compared the regulation to the immigration strategy of the Trump administration.

A record 13 people were killed by bears in Japan last year, and there has been a jump in sightings as the animals emerge hungry from hibernation.

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis have demonstrated across the country against mandatory military enlistment.

A U.S. soldier and a British servicemember died during military training in northern Iraq over the weekend, both militaries said.

Democratic Republic of Congo has re-opened the ‌airport in the capital city of the province hit hardest by the ongoing Ebola outbreak, a government statement said, reversing a move that some residents said had cut them off from critical supplies.

Hundreds of people gathered in Nanyuki, Kenya, to protest a U.S.-proposed Ebola quarantine center for American citizens exposed to the virus. Kenya does not have any suspected Ebola cases, but neighboring Uganda has reported nine and closed its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will remain in power for a third term to oversee fractured relations with the US after a breakthrough in record-long talks to form a coalition.

The most powerful shipping executives in the world are gathered in Athens, Greece this week for the annual International Shipping Exhibition. The hot topic: the Strait of Hormuz.