The leader of Moldova’s leftist opposition urged voters to boycott a referendum on backing the country’s drive to join the European Union, saying pro-European President Maia Sandu was using the plebiscite to help her win re-election.

India votes in the world’s largest election as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a historic third term in office on the back of growth, welfare, his personal popularity and Hindu nationalism.

The United States will vote against a Palestinian request for full United Nations membership, a U.S. official told Reuters, blocking the world body from effectively recognizing a Palestinian state.

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said his long-dominant ruling HDZ party will announce the name of a coalition partner “very soon”, after it won snap election but fell short of an outright majority.

Iran told the United Nations Security Council that Israel “must be compelled to stop any further military adventurism against our interests” as the U.N. secretary-general warned that the Middle East was in a “moment of maximum peril.”

Lawyers in Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial selected 12 jurors who will assess his guilt or innocence over the coming weeks in a case stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star.

A prominent Solomon Islands critic of China, the ousted former governor of Malaita province Daniel Suidani, has been reelected, local media reported.

Cuba is famous for its rum cocktails and evening below Havana’s iconic Morro Castle, guarding its bay, 400 people gathered to toast its best-known rum, Havana Club, but not with Cuba libres, mojitos and daiquiris in hand.

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape said he looked forward to visits by China’s foreign minister and Australia’s prime minister in the coming days.

Dubai, a city in the desert proud of its modern gloss, faced the towering task on Thursday of clearing its waterclogged roads and drying out flooded homes two days after a record storm saw a year’s rain fall in a day.

Indonesia shut a provincial airport and evacuated hundreds of people from the vicinity of the Ruang volcano after it belched explosive plumes of lava, rocks and ash for days, officials said on Thursday, declaring the highest alert on the situation.

Georgia’s parliament approved the first reading of a bill on “foreign agents” that the European Union said risked stifling freedoms and blocking the country’s path to membership.