The political party backed by Myanmar’s ruling military claims it won a commanding lead in the initial round of the first general election in five years.

Power problems and a stuck train have interrupted rail traffic through the Channel Tunnel connecting the U.K. and continental Europe.

South Korea says it will end its dwindling yet much-criticized bear bile farming industry.

Leaders from Europe and Canada have held talks on U.S.-led peace efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Local authorities in France say Brigitte Bardot’s funeral is set for next week in the French Riviera resort of Saint-Tropez which she helped make famous.

China’s top diplomat has slammed a record U.S. military sale to Taiwan.

China's People's Liberation Army is conducting large-scale military drills around Taiwan as part of "Justice Mission 2025."

Police say an investigation that extended to the Philippines of two men accused of killing 15 people at a Sydney Jewish festival has found no evidence they were part of a “broader terrorist cell.”.

Saudi Arabia says it bombed Yemen’s port city of Mukalla over a shipment of weapons for a separatist force that arrived from the United Arab Emirates.

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has died at 80, her political party has announced Tuesday.

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the hottest years ever recorded.

A historic theater in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol has opened its doors more than three years after it was pummeled in a Russian airstrike that killed hundreds of civilians sheltering inside.

At least four people have been killed and dozens wounded in clashes on Syria’s coast.

French 1960s sex symbol Brigitte Bardot has died at age 91.

The Central African Republic voted on Sunday to elect a new president and federal lawmakers.

Guineans were voting to elect a new president in the country’s first election since a 2021 coup.

Voters in Myanmar have voted in the first phase of the country’s general election.

Barefoot children played on chilly sand as Gaza’s thousands of displaced people prepared threadbare tents for another round of winter rain.

Police say that two people have been killed and at least two more injured in northern Israel in a car-ramming and stabbing attack by a Palestinian man.

A bombing at a mosque in Homs, Syria, during Friday prayers has killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that he will meet on Sunday with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida.

Separatists in southern Yemen are accusing Saudi Arabia of targeting their forces with airstrikes.

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and must pay 13.5 billion ringgit ($3.3 billion) for his role in the 1MDB corruption scandal.

South Korea’s government says it plans to end the waning foreign adoptions of Korean children.