A lawyer for Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who accompanied Navalny’s mother last week as she fought to get authorities to hand over his body, was briefly detained in Moscow, Russian news media said.

Norway’s King Harald has been hospitalised in Malaysia with an infection, the Norwegian royal household said.

The number of babies born in Japan fell for an eighth straight year to a fresh record low in 2023.

The depth of Democratic Party anger over President Joe Biden’s handling of the Gaza war has caught his campaign off guard.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday there was no consensus on sending troops to Ukraine, but the subject could not be ruled out.

A U.S. Air Force airman who set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington in an apparent act of protest against the war in Gaza has died, the military and local police said.

Arab states urged international judges to rule the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories illegal and Turkey described the occupation as “the real obstacle to peace” on the final day of hearings in a case examining its legal status.

South Korean nurses have been given legal protection to perform some medical procedures normally conducted by doctors, the health minister said, as authorities seek to ease the burden on hospital staff caused by a walkout of trainee doctors.

The United States on cautioned Pacific Islands nations against assistance from Chinese security forces after Reuters reported that Chinese police are working in the remote atoll nation of Kiribati, a neighbor of Hawaii.

Denmark has dropped its investigation into the explosions in 2022 on the Nord Stream pipelines carrying Russian gas to Germany, police said, becoming the second nation to do so after Sweden closed its own inquiry.

Hungary’s parliament approved Sweden’s NATO accession, clearing the last hurdle before the historic step by the Nordic country whose neutrality lasted through two world wars and the simmering conflict of the Cold War.

Satellite images of the hotly disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea show a new floating barrier across its entrance.