Using current U.S. State Department advisories, this list highlights Caribbean destinations where severe crime, detention risk, legal trouble, or weak emergency support make a low-stress American vacation much harder to justify right now.

With 267,570 islands—more than any other country in the world—dotted through the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia, Sweden certainly has an incredible selection of havens to choose from.

The defeat of the Chagos Islands deal represents a "humiliating defeat" for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

In the new declaration, Cook Islands pledged New Zealand would be its “partner of choice regarding defense and security matters,” apparently quashing the prospect, feared by Wellington, of China occupying the role.