The US forces that led the coalition against the Islamic State group will complete their withdrawal from Syria within a month, three sources told AFP on Monday, as troops began leaving a major base.
Farmers' unions engaged a US lobbying firm late last year to raise their plight in Washington in the hopes of a funding breakthrough, according to a public disclosure filing.
The new Dutch government will be sworn in on Monday, with 38-year-old centrist Rob Jetten set to be the country's youngest-ever prime minister and the first openly gay one.
More than 200 Venezuelan political prisoners were on hunger strike on Sunday to demand their release under a new amnesty law that excludes many of them.