Four years after seizing power in a dawn coup that ousted an elected civilian government, Myanmar’s embattled ruling generals are making their most concerted effort to gain legitimacy – by pushing to hold another election.

Chile’s Congress approved a reform to the country’s controversial private pension system, clearing the way for the bill to be signed by President Gabriel Boric.

German election frontrunner Friedrich Merz succeeded in getting a motion passed in parliament that calls for a migration crackdown including the rejection of asylum seekers at the country’s land borders.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met with Hamas leader Muhammad Ismail Darwish in Ankara, Erdogan’s office said in a statement.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was meeting in Jerusalem with U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Netanyahu said in a statement, amid the Gaza ceasefire and a regional diplomatic push.

U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to combat antisemitism and pledge to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests, a White House official said.

A small aircraft carrying oil workers in South Sudan’s Unity State crashed on takeoff from its oilfield airport, killing 20 people, the region’s information minister said.

Dozens of people were killed in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India as tens of millions of Hindus gathered to take a dip in sacred river waters on the most auspicious day of a six-week festival.

The Republican-led U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee advanced President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee Pam Bondi.

The U.S. Department of Education said on Tuesday it was investigating whether the Denver school system discriminated against women and girls by converting a female bathroom into one for all genders.

Raging bushfires at either end of a blaze-ravaged national park could merge as crews grapple with the rugged terrain and southerly winds.

The German Catholic and Protestant churches warned against the conservative opposition’s plan to crack down on immigration, which they said could break a convention against mainstream parties cooperating with the far-right.