Concerns over the legitimacy of Venezuela's presidential election persist as the country’s opposition and its incumbent president both claimed victory on Monday.

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Russian forces are staging their heaviest assaults near the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv’s military said on Monday, threatening a key supply route.

Foreign ministers from Australia, India, Japan and the United States said they were seriously concerned about dangerous maneuvers in the South China Sea.

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Indonesian President Joko Widodo spent his first night in the palace of the country’s proposed new capital, Nusantara, amid fears about the beleaguered project.

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Venezuelans are getting ready to participate in what stands to be the most consequential presidential election the South American nation has seen in more than a decade.

A web designer, who won a Supreme Court ruling that said the right to free speech allows some businesses to refuse same-sex weddings services, wants legal fees paid.

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A video showing a British police officer kick and stamp on a man’s head during an arrest at Manchester Airport in northern England sparked a protest.

Flights have been suspended in South Korea by trash balloons floated over the border by North Korea.

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The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has had some success in curbing sky-high inflation, yet workers say their salaries have not caught up.

Delta canceled another 400 flights Tuesday as its troubles in the wake of the global CrowdStrike-Microsoft IT outage dragged on for the fifth consecutive day.

A Russian court has sentenced Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), to six-and-a-half years in prison for spreading false information about the Russian army, the court revealed on Monday.

Authorities in southern India’s Kerala state are taking preventive steps after the death of a 14-year-old boy from the Nipah virus.

A Brazilian conceptual artist swapped a historic British coin for a fake in the British Museum to highlight the large number of foreign objects it holds.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday that Russian warplanes prevented two U.S. strategic bombers from violating the state border over the Barents Sea.

Barcelona will raise the tourist tax for cruise passengers visiting the city for less than 12 hours, the mayor said in an interview published on Sunday.

North Korea on Sunday floated balloons carrying trash towards South Korea, South Korea’s military said, declaring it would respond with “full-scale” loudspeaker broadcasts.

Security experts said CrowdStrike’s routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, which caused clients’ computer systems to crash globally on Friday, apparently did not undergo adequate quality checks before it was deployed.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday a long-sought cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas was within sight, saying negotiators were “driving toward the goal line.”

Bangladesh soldiers patrolled Dhaka’s deserted streets on Saturday amid a curfew to quell deadly students-led protests against government job quotas that have killed at least 105 people this week.