The players and their coaching staff met with the country's royals, and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. An estimated crowd of almost 2 million was on hand to greet the squad through the streets of Madrid.

The U.S. State Department announced Monday that operations in three villages deemed part of a “pilot zone” had begun, expected to see Lebanese army troops confiscating Hezbollah’s weapons and phased withdrawals of Israeli troops.

The top diplomats of Russia and North Korea blamed the United States and its allies for the deteriorating security situation around the Korean Peninsula, Moscow's Foreign Ministry said.

The Israeli military is quietly but quickly building a giant earthen barrier separating the over 50% of the Gaza Strip it controls from the rest of the territory, according to satellite imagery, further entrenching the division of the tiny Palestinian enclave.

The death of a Moroccan man as he was detained by Italian police in Bologna has sparked anger and a formal investigation.

A Chinese destroyer conducted a machine gun test around 180 kilometers (111 miles) southwest of a Japanese island in the Pacific Ocean, Tokyo’s Defense Ministry said, a rare live-fire exercise by the Chinese navy while inside the exclusive economic zone of Japanese territory.

The Houthis said their decision to declare a maritime embargo was in response to what they called “an unjust and oppressive siege” imposed on Yemen by the Saudis.

The Philippine military accused China of beating and injuring a Philippine Navy sailor with a wooden baton in the latest seaborne confrontation.