Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an exercise that critics say will neither restore the country's fragile democracy undone by a 2021 army takeover,

Tarique Rahman returned to Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka on Thursday, ending a 17-year exile in Britain, and is favored to become prime minister.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a national bravery award to honor those who confronted an antisemitic terror attack.

The Israeli military said on Thursday that its forces killed a member of Iran's Quds Force in Lebanon who had been involved in planning attacks from Syria and Lebanon. The military identified the man as Hussein Mahmoud Marshad al-Jawhari,

Poland scrambled fighter jets on Christmas morning after detecting a Russian reconnaissance aircraft near its airspace over the Baltic Sea.

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s defense in his biggest trial yet over 1MDB was roundly criticized by the presiding judge, who dismissed suggestions Najib was unaware of any wrongdoing and directly connected him with Jho Low,

Five people have died after a helicopter crashed on Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania. The accident Wednesday evening happened on one of the most popular tourist climbing routes,

Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday (December 25), in an unusually direct appeal during what is typically a spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus.