A boat carrying people believed to be Haitian migrants capsized off the coast of the Bahamas early Sunday, killing at least 17 people, Bahamian officials said.
Driving the news: The boat capsized in rough seas seven miles off of New Providence, Bahamas, at about 1am on Sunday. Officials said they believe the boat was headed for Miami.
Moldova Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita told CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS” in an interview that aired Sunday her country, which borders Ukraine, fears a possible Russian invasion.
What they're saying: “We are worried, of course. This is a risk, it’s a hypothetical scenario for now, but if the military actions move further into the southwestern part of Ukraine and toward Odesa," Gavrilita said.
The U.S. identified two American volunteer soldiers killed recently in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region as Luke Lucyszyn and Bryan Young, CBS News reports.
The big picture: Lucyszyn and Young were part of a special operations force in the Ukrainian army that was stationed near Siversk, a town that has been the target for Russian forces, their Ukrainian commander, Ruslan Miroshnichenko, told Politico.
China's military has become significantly more aggressive and dangerous in the past five years, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley told reporters Sunday, AP reported.
Driving the news: Milley is currently on a trip to the Indo-Pacific to shore up the U.S.' alliances with nations in the region and act as a counterbalance to China. He was in Indonesia on Sunday and will head to Australia this week to meet with Indo-Pacific chiefs of defense, per AP.
Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian port city of Odesa on the Black Sea on Saturday, a day after officials heralded a new deal meant to resume grain exports from the country as Moscow's invasion reaches the 150-day mark, AP reports.
Why it matters: The strikes on Ukraine’s largest port cast a pall over the deal Ukrainian, Russian, United Nations and Turkish officials reached in an effort to help ease a global food crisis that’s deepened as the conflict has worn on.
The World Health Organization declared on Saturday that monkeypox, which has spread to more than 70 countries, is a global emergency.
Why it matters: The declaration by the U.N. health agency could lead to investment in treating the disease, but it could also lead to a shortage for already-scarce vaccines, AP writes.
