Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida has amended a plan to overhaul how the federal government works after Democrats repeatedly seized on it to accuse Republicans of looking to cut Medicare and Social Security.

The Pentagon says the first class of 635 Ukrainian fighters has finished a five-week advanced U.S. training course in Germany on sophisticated combat skills and armored vehicles that will be critical in the coming spring offensive against the Russians.

A public commission says Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government met the “very high threshold” for invoking the Emergencies Act to quell the paralyzing protests by truckers and others angry over Canada’s COVID-19 restrictions last winter….

A director at Germany’s spy service was picked up on suspicion of passing intelligence to Russia. German officials and allies worry just how deep the problem goes.

Gunmen have wounded a provincial governor and killed four of his bodyguards in an ambush in a southern Philippine region with a long history of violent political rivalries and Muslim rebellion.

A Taliban spokesman says security forces have arrested a man allegedly behind the killing of Afghan female lawmaker Mursal Nabizada.

Nigeria’s top police official says at least 400,000 security forces are being deployed to ramp up safety across the West African nation ahead of its Feb. 25 presidential election.

Former leaders from Australia, Britain and Belgium have called for a tougher international approach to China to reduce the possibility of war over Taiwan and respond to human rights violations.

Two weeks after Tropical Cyclone Cheneso devastated Madagascar, leaving 30 dead, the Indian Ocean island nation and its neighbors are bracing for a more powerful Cyclone Freddy.

A North Sea storm has led to dozens of cancellations of train and ferry connections in northern Denmark and southern Norway, with the Danish Meteorological Institute saying some gusts could be hurricane force.