Cambodia’s king has pardoned former opposition leader Kem Sokha for a treason conviction, just weeks ​after he lost an appeal to overturn that verdict, according to a ‌royal decree released on Monday.

Taiwan sent ships and fighter jets to monitor the second Chinese “joint combat readiness patrol” in a week near the island, as ​Taipei steps up its guard over Beijing’s activities.

Farmers across Sudan say the hike in global fuel and fertilizer costs resulting from the Iran conflict will force them to cut back on planting this summer, ​restricting food production in a country where war has caused acute hunger.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday ​that he asked Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt and Jordan to join the Abraham Accords en masse to normalize relations with ‌Israel as he tries to negotiate an agreement to end the war with Iran.

Catholic popes have been urging global leaders to address social justice issues for 135 ​years across some two dozen major documents that many of the world’s 1.4-billion-faithful can cite by their two- or three-word titles.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov advised U.S. Secretary ​of State Marco Rubio ‌on Monday of Moscow’s decision to launch strikes on sites ​in Kyiv linked ​to the Ukrainian military, the ⁠Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Wind farms and solar panels are producing more of Australia’s electricity than ever, but slow approvals and investment commitments could stall progress.

Russia pounded Kyiv and surrounding areas with hundreds of drones and missiles on Sunday in ​one of the heaviest bombardments of the city since the start of the four-year war, firing an Oreshnik hypersonic missile near the capital.

Australian activists detained by Israel while on a flotilla attempting to deliver aid to Gaza have returned home, ​with organisers alleging abuse, sexual assault, and beatings, that left some detainees ‌in hospital.

Rescuers pulled two people from the rubble of a collapsed building under ‌construction in the Philippines, bringing the death toll to three, officials said on Monday, as crews continued search and rescue operations after overnight scans detected signs of life beneath the debris.

U.S. President Donald Trump may have won just about every battle against Iran, but three months after attacking the Islamic Republic he now faces a bigger question: Is he losing the war?

China sent three astronauts to its space station on Sunday, one of whom will stay for a ​year, a record length for the country, enabling the study of long-duration human physiology in space as Beijing works towards its ambition of a crewed moon ‌landing by 2030.