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.

Saudi Arabia on Thursday called on Emirati-backed separatists in southern Yemen to withdraw from two governorates they now control, a move that has threatened to spark a confrontation within a fragile coalition that has been battling the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the country's north.

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

South Korea’s government says it plans to end the waning foreign adoptions of Korean children SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea’s government said it plans to end its waning foreign adoptions of Korean children,

Residents of Somalia's capital Mogadishu cast their ballots on Thursday (December 25) in municipal elections that marked a significant step toward the East African nation's first direct national polls in more than half a century.

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,

Jair Bolsonaro, who has been hospitalized since Wednesday, has been serving a 27-year prison sentence​ since November for an attempted coup.