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The only woman in the leadership race for Japan's ruling party vowed Monday to improve the gender balance in her cabinet to "Nordic" levels and to ensure "peaceful" coexistence with foreigners.
France and other countries prepared to recognize a Palestinian state as the UN's centerpiece diplomatic week gets underway Monday, following a rash of Western governments in symbolicly endorsing statehood and sparking Israel's wrath.
Police in the Philippine capital arrested more than 200 people during clashes with masked protesters that erupted on a day of largely peaceful anti-corruption demonstrations, a spokeswoman said Monday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says he has "fond memories" of US President Donald Trump and is open to future talks with the United States -- if he can keep his nukes.
Seven years after moving to Ireland, Natalia Stirbu still goes home to Moldova to vote -- part of a powerful diaspora whose ballots could prove decisive in the small country's battle between Moscow and the West.
Moldovans will vote this week in tense parliamentary elections which its president has called the "most consequential" in the small country's history, as it teeters between its powerful neighbour Russia and the West.
After the bloody civil war in Sudan's Darfur region 20 years ago, the world said "never again."
Tens of thousands demonstrated Sunday in Budapest, accusing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of spending taxpayers' money on campaigns to mislead voters and inflame hatred for political gain.
Guineans flocked on Sunday to vote on a draft constitution that would pave the way for elections but also allow the junta leader who seized power four years ago to run for president.
Britain, Australia, Canada and Portugal on Sunday recognised the State of Palestine, a historic shift in decades of Western foreign policy that drew swift anger from Israel.
Thousands of Brazilians took to the streets Sunday in anger at moves by Congress to boost lawmakers' immunity and push for amnesty that could include far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro, convicted of trying to stage a coup.
As Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Britain's landmark decision to recognise the State of Palestine on Sunday, the small team in the Palestinian mission to the UK erupted in cheers of joy.
Guineans voted Sunday on a draft constitution that would pave the way for elections but also permit the junta leader who seized power four years ago to run for president.
An economist behind a wealth tax plan embraced by the French left on Sunday urged France's richest person, Bernard Arnault, to show "respect for the truth" after the luxury goods tycoon described him as a "pseudo-academic" who wanted to "destroy the French economy".
The top US Democratic senator warned Sunday that President Donald Trump's call for the Justice Department to take action against his enemies puts America on a path to dictatorship.
Left-wing figures in France on Sunday reacted with uproar after the country's richest man the luxury goods tycoon Bernard Arnault described an academic behind a wealth tax plan as a "far-left activist" who wanted to "destroy the French economy".
Britain, Australia and Canada on Sunday recognised a Palestinian state in a seismic shift in decades of western foreign policy, triggering swift Israeli anger.
Turkey's main opposition CHP re-elected its leader Ozgur Ozel at an extraordinary congress Sunday as the party fights off a barrage of what critics say are politically-motivated legal challenges.
Britain was set Sunday to recognise a Palestinian state with a landmark announcement due from Prime Minister Keir Starmer, as several nations were poised to follow at UN talks to pressure Israel over the Gaza war.
An Afghan government defence official said Sunday that a deal over Bagram air base was "not possible", after US President Donald Trump said he wanted the former US base back.
Guineans began casting ballots Sunday on a draft constitution that would pave the way for elections but also permit the junta leader who seized power four years ago to run for president, in a referendum boycotted by the opposition.
After losing his arms in an ordnance explosion, Syrian teenager Mohammed Hasram was fitted with prosthetic limbs funded by Saudi Arabia, which is leveraging major investments and aid to gain influence over Damascus.
Four years after the military seized power, Guineans will finally vote Sunday on a new draft constitution that would pave the way for elections but also permit the country's junta leader to run for president, in a referendum boycotted by the opposition.
Thousands of Filipinos gathered Sunday in Manila to express their anger over a ballooning scandal involving bogus flood-control projects believed to have cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
Venezuela on Saturday organized a day of military training for civilians in response to the US deployment in the Caribbean, and amid new threats from President Donald Trump.
A deal for the Chinese parent company of popular video-sharing app TikTok to sell its US operations would see the creation of a board dominated by Americans, the White House said Saturday.
US President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened Afghanistan with unspecified punishment if the Taliban-controlled country did not "give Bagram Airbase back."
An elderly British couple released by the Taliban authorities after almost eight months in detention in Afghanistan arrived back in the UK on Saturday, telling the press that they feared "we would never be released".
A project to build a facility to store highly radioactive nuclear waste in the French countryside drew a protest by hundreds of people on Saturday, with police firing tear gas to break up rowdy demonstrators.
The director of Al-Shifa hospital was on duty Saturday marshalling the facility's response to Israel's assault on Gaza City when two victims killed in a strike were delivered to the ward: his brother and his sister-in-law.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday he would meet US counterpart Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly next week as Russia intensified deadly strikes across his country.
An elderly British couple released by the Taliban authorities after almost eight months in detention in Afghanistan arrived back in the UK on Saturday.