Twenty-two Cabinet ministers took their oaths Monday to join Spain's new coalition government, a first in a country dominated until recently  by two main parties taking turns in power.

Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz says he's optimistic that his new coalition government with the environmentalist Greens will last a full five-year term — something that the country's last two elected administrations failed to do.

War-torn South Sudan is "barreling toward a crisis" and could slide back into fighting, warned the International Crisis Group on Monday.