A majority of judges on a panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court voted on Friday to reject former President Jair Bolsonaro’s appeal challenging his 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup to remain in power after the 2022 presidential election.

Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad handed over the body of a deceased hostage on Friday as part of the Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appointed a new commander responsible for drone air defences, seen as a critical element in defending against the threat of Russian drones.

President Donald Trump said that no U.S. government official would attend the G20 summit in South Africa later this month.

The Polish lower house of parliament voted to strip a former justice minister of immunity, which opens the way for him to be arrested and charged with numerous crimes, including abuse of power and heading an organised criminal group.

At least five people died in Vietnam after Typhoon Kalmaegi pummelled coastal regions with destructive winds and heavy rain, officials said on Friday, following the storm’s deadly passage through the Philippines where it killed at least 188 people.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords to have normalized relations between Israel and Muslim-majority nations.

A 69-year-old British woman who was on death row in Indonesia on drug offences departed the country early after Jakarta and London reached a deal to repatriate her and another prisoner on humanitarian grounds.

Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as the powerful speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said that she will not run for reelection to Congress in 2026, ending the four-decade career of a progressive Democratic icon often vilified by the right.

The Israeli military carried out heavy airstrikes on southern Lebanon after issuing evacuation orders for several locations, saying Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was trying to rebuild its military capabilities there.

A worker has died and six remain trapped after the collapse of a large structure at a power station in South Korea that was being prepared for demolition, fire and rescue officials said.

The United Nations Security Council on Thursday will start negotiations on a U.S.-drafted resolution to endorse President Donald Trump’s Gazapeace plan, said a senior U.S. government official, and authorize a two-year mandate for a transitional governance body and international stabilization force.