Serbia's longtime nationalist leader Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat Sunday in snap parliamentary elections to a student-led opposition movement.

Exiled Nobel laureate María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela for the first time since December and is testing the U.S.-backed government.

Japanese prosecutors have indicted a US Marine on suspicion of murdering and robbing a woman in Okinawa earlier this month, multiple Japanese media outlets have reported, in a case that has prompted renewed outrage over the conduct of US troops in the country.

China's ruling ⁠Communist Party began ​its fifth plenum ‌on Monday in ‌Beijing, ⁠aiming ⁠to deliberate major issues about "sustained advancement ​of full and rigorous party ​self-governance", state television CCTV ⁠said.

Flash flooding has inundated several areas of Thailand's island of Phuket after heavy rain overnight. Officials say all three island districts, including its capital of Phuket City, were

Australia’s Parliament has resumed with enhanced security and paid tribute to a member who was injured last week in an alleged act of political violence.

Protests over inequality and living costs drew an estimated 410,000 people across France, with clashes in several cities for a second straight weekend.

The Bank of Japan ​will likely declare victory in a nearly 14-year battle to hit its 2% inflation target at its policy meeting on Friday and ‌emphasise the risks prices could overshoot, signaling the chance of a rate hike as soon as December.